Ask Me Anything: FlyingSucculent

That sounds very intriguing! Think I can get a link to it? :D Or at least a summary of gameplay?

What's a game you've always wanted to play, but haven't?

1. Did you edit an image that you use as an Avatar and send it bowlofspinach for this occasion or was it spinach's own doing?

2. If you find a group of people to play in person, which system would you use? Would you prefer to run it or play it? And in what language?

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Playing out the romance scenes are the banes of my existence.
Can relate, this hobby of ours is not exactly popular in Post-Soviet countries.
Space Rangers is the game that got me interested in Space themed media.

I am not creative/artistic enough to have done that myself. It's all Flying's doing!

Video game or board game? :D

For board games, I've been eyeing Kingdom Death: Monster for good three years - but I can't justify buying it for $420 (and shipping) when I'm not even that interested in the miniatures, the main cause of its price. But darn, I like what I've seen of the gameplay and of its horror setting... Wish they made a lite version or something. (Erm, if you do look up the game, keep in mind it has 18+ elements.) Tabletop Simulator version isn't quite the same - and probably not official.

Also, I wish I had an RPG-loving Russian-speaking friend to play DnD in person with. Or even any TTRPG. I want to roll some non-digital dice, but alas, these people resist my attempts at temptation. :0

As for video games... Hmm, I'm not sure, I think I played most of what I was interested in. I wish I had played earlier Fire Emblem games when they were around, since I think my younger self would've loved them. Maybe I'll get to it someday later when I feel like bothering with emulators. XD

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I drew it! Loved the chance to draw Succulent again. I think my favorite part is making its leaves glittery. XD
If I ever find a group, they'll probably be Russian-speaking since I can't actually speak English (well, I can, in theory; with a horrible, horrible accent). And for Russians the choice of official translations is slightly narrower, so it will probably be DnD - it released in Russia in 2019, and I've been thinking about maybe trying to rope someone into checking it out. Plus I know it the best.

I'll also probably prefer to be a player. I used to think that I would be a good GM when I first discovered TTRPGs, but my confidence in that kinda dissipated over the years as I realized that I'm really bad at public speaking. In person I'll be just too nervous to run a game, but I can probably handle playing in one - as long as it is a wallflower character. :D
Maybe it'll pick up now that there are more books being translated? Well, once the world situation is better for in-person games.
We do have a club here in the city, organized by HobbyWorld, but I don't think they ever played any RPGs. It's all Warhammer tournaments and Magic: The Gathering over there. XD
Yay, more Space Rangers love! :D I adore these games. What's your favorite alien in them? Mine's probably Gaal...

Are you ever going to revive the Ravenwraith game again?

I swear it's still alive! :D This autumn just... wasn't very great for inspiration, I struggled to get back into the flow. But I was thinking of doing the next part around this month or next, if stars align! (Tried to poke CESN recently, but I think the poke was missed. I'll return for him with my poking fork eventually.)

I'm up for returning again if nobody else wants to. Though I might know too much ooc

It's definitely that, especially considering that I have the same case for Russian too (results of having a lisp which I'm yet to defeat, despite multiple attempts). Plus I just don't have a decent mic on my PC, though that might be an excuse. :D
Steampunk for aesthetics, Fantasy for variety, Sci-Fi for its futuristic vibe and imaginative aliens - I like them all! But if I had to pick a favorite it would probably be steampunk with fantasy elements: dwarves on zeppelins, mages who use revolvers, locomotives powered by magical crystals. I love the settings in which technology and magic co-exist.

Although if I had to pick between Low-Magic and High-Magic, it'll probably still be High-Magic - at least for games. Although I do like a good pagan/folklore magic setting, which will probably be low magic...
I haven't, but I remember seeing it on the store during the recent sale and thinking "oooh, reminds me of Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader" (gotta love these blue and red mana/health bars). Do you recommend it? :D

What is you favorite opening to a story? Can be any type: RPG campaign, song, folk tale, film.
What countries have you been to, but only in the airport?
If you could have anything you own sent into space and brought back to you, what would you pick?

Favorite opening... Favorites are hard to pick. I like exposition openings in general, where it's just a lengthy description of the world or its backstory. Lord of The Rings movie, for example, works great for me in setting the tone. Same with books: one of my old favoritre book series, The Edge Chronicles, always has a world description as a prologue. It changes slightly depending on the trilogy the book is from, reflecting global changes in the books' world - like destroyed cities or technological advancements.

I also want to mention Owlboy opening; it made me immediately sympathize with the main character, which is great for an adventure game. (Plus Owlboy just has great characters.)
None, I'm not too fond of tourism - don't even have a passport I'd need for international travel (I tried to find how it's called in English, and Wikipedia just calls it Russian passport). I was in Kazakhstan a few times visiting my grandma, but that wasn't just the airport. And I prefer trains! :D
If I knew in advance, I'd make a figurine of a space-related character of mine. Would be fitting to send a space pilot or an alien into space!
And if not that... Probably something that I use, like a favorite stylus? For luck?

I've only just started playing and I like it so far. Arcanum is a magical world that goes through industrial revolution, so there is both magic and steampunk tech, however, the two don't mix together. If you are too magically attuned than tech will not work around/on you, which will result in some shops refusing service and you won't be allowed on the trains (one of the fast travel options), however, your magic items and spells would be very powerful. If you are too technically incline, then there will be an opposite reaction and magical shops will refuse their services and magical items won't work. It is made by Troika Games, so it is very atmospheric but fairly old.

Have any games on the horizon that you are thinking of running here on GP? Or any games you've desperately wanted to be a player in that you're hoping someone else might run one day?

Sounds intriguing, I'll keep it on my radar! Thanks for bringing my attention to it. :D
I don't have time for running more games right this moment, but if I ever do... I wanted to run something with antropomorphic animals! You know I like my raccoon thieves. :D

I have a book for The Warren RPG which is inspired by Watership Down and based on Apocalypse World, but I only played it a little bit with my family. Might be interesting to try something from it with more RP-oriented people! Although I'll probably cut on the more, erm, violent parts of these types of stories. Maybe something about a group of abandoned pet rabbits lost in the city and trying to get to the wilderness outside while escaping all the dangers of the urban environment...
What inspired me to come to this site was Vampire: The Masquerade RP podcast, LA by Night. I wanted to try my hand at VtM too, but although I joined one game of it soon after it didn't go on for too long. I still love the characters I made for it, but it wasn't actually trying the system, and I still eye every VtM recuitment call with interest. The problem is that I don't feel like doing darker stuff anymore, so I'd want something a bit more light-hearted, but VtM doesn't exactly inspire light-heartedness. And these calls are rare enough as they are...

And no one ever offered to play something like this, but I deeply want to play a non-present, voice-only character. I had this idea for an airport announcer trapped in their office during an apocalypse scenario and guiding a group of survivors through the place using announcement system. The character can't do anything but talk, so they're technically not a character but almost an NPC controlled by a player who knows just a little bit more about the layout of the place. Egg
Or it could be a game fully set in a chat log format! :0 Or even an asynchronous game with chat-log being how players communicate - it might work wonders for a horror.
..I simply enjoy writing dialogue-only pieces.

This gave me an idea... It will require a lot of planning and careful thought... I might present something in March or April (I hope I will have time to dedicate to running a game then). But don't get your hopes up for my future is very uncertain.

Consider this my application ! :D

Absolutely let me know if you run something like this later, you'd have me running after you with a petition to join right away! :D

How the tables have turned, the guinea pig will test on the mad scientist, mwahahaha!*Cough* Noted.
Definitely.

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Now back to the interrogation questions:
5. There was no food question yet (I think), what is your favorite food? What meal you always wanted to try (both from real world and fictional one)?

is the answer is russian, what is your favourite non-russian food? Just to make it harder 😅