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Haha.. you can "chat" from behind the hole in the corn wall, if that makes more sense.

The Princess has questions about the walking chicken hut.

That sounds suspicious...

Although the cool vacation photos are from yesterday’s 28-mile bike ride, I wanted to share vacation photos that are Campaign-Relevant.

My daughters just discovered something that was common when I was their age… but I never knew Burger Time had a sequel.




My two older daughters saved the princesses by making burgers and throwing burgers at the king!

Hah, Wreck-It Ralph cameo on the machine, nice.
(Oooh, water, a lot of water. :O)

We never did try Fix-It Felix. My younger daughters played Aladdin, but then we ended up playing a weird beat-em-up called Crude Busters. It’s a game where you can pick up anything and hurl them at enemies—street signs, enemies, drum cans, the other player, overturned flaming cars…

@Alepous, I thought Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker would be a good game to rip-off I mean emulate for a Kurumi challenge. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a game where you are Michael Jackson and you defeat zombies by dancing with them. (I never played it, and have no idea how the game actually works.)



@FlyingSucculent, Sorry for treading that line (or did I step over it?) on good people being under bad guy control. I trusted the players not to harm the villagers. And I also had a plan so no one would have gotten hurt regardless of actions or unlucky dice, since my understanding is that you don’t want:
• good people (PC or NPC) being forced to do harm
• players trapped in a situation where you have to harm the innocent

It's alright. And your understanding is a little bit off, probably because two separate things got mixed up.

My problem with mind control is not mind control itself, but a very specific kind of mind control which makes the controlled feel positively about the controller. Love potions, switching sides while believing that you were always on that side, being physically brainwashed into loyalty. I don't think it applies to lycanthropy. Unless this whole pack business is a cult? That... would be indeed a little questionable.

As for the innocents and being forced to do harm, that's not a problem at all. You might be thinking of me mentioning that I don't like PCs attacking opponents unable to defend themselves, but that's just that. Doesn't matter if innocent or not, just no one-sided fights, please. Like if the enemy is disarmed, and a PC goes to kick them? That, I don't like that.

Oh good. I didn’t think standard werewolf stuff (but dogs) would be an issue, but I wanted to check.

Love potions and forced love won’t come up because I also hate that.

Bit late, and completely unrelated to the above, but I remember Moonwalker! I played that last year at the underground arcade I go to... really weird game but it plays super smoothly compared to most arcade games I'm used to. Unfortunately I didn't hear the music because the machine's speakers were broken.

Also the bike trail reminds me of the crossing to Lindasfarne island in Northumbria, since it's right on the North Sea and depending on what time of day you go the tide completely swallows the road (and you can't cross.) It's a beautiful place and if you ever find yourself in the North of the UK I recommend going. :3

I did a Kurumi concept, I like this one better than the AI. I need to work the face though.

More water photos! :O It's much... flatter... than I ever imagined UK.

And lovely art, Alepous! I especially like the outfit. <3

@Alepous
Yeah, I love the art! Not just Kurumi, but Fren and the blacksmith too in the other game. I feel inspired—I want to go back to my pencil/paper roots instead of fully digital.

@Tickettbror
Nice trail, too! I guess you need to be mindful of the tide if you want to make the return trip. Our 28-mile ride had a different risk: the Bike Ferry stops running at 5:00. We got there after 4:40, but there was a large crown and the boat can only take 20 passengers. My family was passengers #15-19, so the couple behind us was not so lucky.

The ride from ferry to bike-rental-place is 10 miles. Having to backtrack and take the bridge is almost 20 miles.

@FlyingSucculent
You ninja’d me! I added a small bit at the start of my megapost.

Princess Diamond is basically wearing the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders outfit except with a skirt.

I always get a kick out of Princess Diamond. I really wasn’t sure what anyone would do with Toony Girl, and she’s really like a playable Daphne.

My other ideas for what game to run were called "Cartoon Peril" and "Fairy Princess Crush." Princess Diamond is basically giving me a taste of both of the games I didn’t run!Also, @FlyingSucculent,@Dmbrainiac,@Alepous,@Tickettbror,@Ysolde, I wanted to take a moment to thank you all for playing. It’s always a risk (on the players’ end) joining a homebrew, and mine are consistently weird and experimental. Also, as we go, I’m documenting rules for a more structured (and simultaneously simpler) gameplay, should I ever do a second run.

I won’t implement any of the changes now, but they are ideas I could never have come up with without running this version with real players (and several times saying, "Bah •CENSORED•, I shoulda…!").

Whether I ever actually run the version I’m documenting or I move on to the next weird experiment, seriously, thank you all for being part of this and for the way you’re playing your characters!

I love joining homebrews, and I'm glad to be of help with refining the rules! Besides, it's a fun game, so thank you for running it too! <3

The only thing I'm really struggling with is the pacing, but I'm reserving my judgement on it until we finish Level 2. Plus it's just a preference either way! Although I do wish we had some situations where our characters could just talk to each other without something simultaneously happening around them (well, except some slight peril because Diamond :P).
Although this might just be me, since the games I play usually are much less action-packed.

I am really enjoying Diamond so thanks for running.

Yeah, I'm enjoying it! I do like homebrews and I love playing new systems, plus I prefer these kind of more imaginative games than the more standard fantasy you see most commonly. :3

Thanks! I do want to give you a chance to chat a bit between levels. I do have an idea, but I gotta run it by a player…

Both sound good to me, since the dialogue boxes during missions have been mentioned already a translation makes sense.