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Anthropolitan
@anthropolitan.bsky.social
81 followers 320 following 36 posts
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The name's Tom
Aspiring writer, sometimes artist
Fueled by vintage fantasy and sci-fi
Yu-Gi-Oh! player (against my better judgement)
Lover of videogames, procrastination prone DM
Free Palestine + Congo + Sudan
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anthropolitan.bsky.social
Cosmos XII - Green Stranger And The Snake
August 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
@hecticelectron.bsky.social huge congratulations for reaching 500 backers
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
My discord account and personal email got hacked, what a start to the week
June 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
@hecticelectron.bsky.social congratulations on officially getting the funds for defy the gods
June 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
Happy Friday! We need just $1,150 more to reach our funding goal. So we might just do it today! If you haven’t pledged yet, _you_ can push us over the top. Ensure this book becomes a reality! Get some queerness in your sword & sorcery and vice versa.
The Sword character tries to pull the hypnotized Revenant out of the Underworld, toward the cave mouth and the sun.
June 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
Last push, the gods will fall
hecticelectron.bsky.social Hectic Electron @hecticelectron.bsky.social · Jun 13
Happy Friday! We need just $1,150 more to reach our funding goal. So we might just do it today! If you haven’t pledged yet, _you_ can push us over the top. Ensure this book becomes a reality! Get some queerness in your sword & sorcery and vice versa.
The Sword character tries to pull the hypnotized Revenant out of the Underworld, toward the cave mouth and the sun.
June 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
The Defy the Gods Kickstarter is live! Go back it now at www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...
Defy the Gods. Three adventurers face off against a giant goddess in a temple.
June 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
Can we get to 400 followers for the new Defy the Gods Kickstarter? Tell your friends, tell your enemies—it launches on Tuesday! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...
Images of five adventurers and five gods, including the Sorcerer, Vessel, Wolfling, Sword, Sailor, a cow-headed goddess of rivers, a blind moon god, a glaring sun goddess, and a hyena-headed god of war
June 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
Decided to get more stuff by Van Vogt since I'm reading The Beast and it's an interesting book.
May 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
I'm canceling the Kickstarter for Defy the Gods and planning a new one with a more modest funding goal. You can find the preview at www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec.... We'll get this awesome game made! ⚔️🏺❤️‍🔥
Coming soon: Defy the Gods RPG
Queer sword & sorcery tabletop role-playing
www.kickstarter.com
May 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
I can't help but wonder if I should be writing this novelette in English rather than Italian
May 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
The Queen of the Underworld and her courtiers in the sunless lands. Details from a killer illustration by @theveryworstthing.bsky.social. See more at www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...
⚔️❤️‍🔥💀
#bodyhorror #swordandsorcery #indiettrpg #underworld
Tusked demon in purple, pink and orange as if lit by black light Blue, faceless woman missing body parts, with masks floating above her head Shades of the dead floating in an enormous, black and purple cave Whale-headed demon in purple, pink and orange as if lit by black light
May 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
In Defy the Gods, you play a silver-tongued Sailor, chaos-loving Sorcerer, deadly Sword, fugitive Revenant, immortal-sworn Vessel or wild-raised Wolfling. Each has their own unique talents, flaws & arc of glorious doom. Read more about them here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...
Portraits of the six playbooks: Wolfling, Sailor, Sword, Revenant, Sorcerer, and Vessel
May 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
Me for the past week and a half
May 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
Dooms in 1 post: If you roll too high, you mark 🔥. Max out your Fire Track & likely get a Doom. Like Epithets, they describe who you are, but in your most severe aspect. Plus they overwrite your Epithets. When you eclipse all your Epithets w/ Dooms, your PC becomes an NPC. tinyurl.com/defy-the-gods
A woman stands in a room bathed in golden light, with her hand on the hilt of her sword. Her face is frozen in rage.
May 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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hessan-yongdi.itch.io
Today on #TTRPG Talk, we look at the #crowdfunding game, Defy the Gods from @hecticelectron.bsky.social.

This is a Bronze Age Sword and Sorcery PbtA game built around misfits defying the World Forces, trying to balance monstrous power and human relationships.

More links below

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TTRPG Talk - Defy the Gods
YouTube video by Hessan's County
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May 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
More wild creatures drawn by @sheydgarden.bsky.social—a richly decorated lamassu, a lesser sphinx (that little-known, lynx-sized animal w/ a monkey's face & dangerous wit) & a mushussu. Inspired by the zoological/ethnographic reports by @seandapon.bsky.social. See more at tinyurl.com/defy-the-gods!
May 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
Great review of Defy the Gods dropped today!
May 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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thefandomentals.bsky.social
Take on the forces of fate and the powers that be in Defy The Gods, a new PbtA title from @hecticelectron.bsky.social. @newsnerd.bsky.social checks out this unique take on "sword and sorcery" in his latest preview:

www.thefandomentals.com/fight-ancien...
Fight Ancient Deities and Tyrannical Society in the Queer TTRPG "Defy the Gods" - The Fandomentals
What does it take to go against the gods? That’s the prospect that faces a group of unconventional queer heroes in Hectic Electron’s new Kickstarter book Defy
www.thefandomentals.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
Great article on Defy the Gods at TTRPG Insider! www.ttrpginsider.news/p/defying-de...
Defying Deities in Ancient Sumer
How a new Powered By The Apocalypse game strives to provide a new take on Conan-esque "Sword and Sorcery" with a hint of queerness
www.ttrpginsider.news
May 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
Support this beautiful project
May 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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hecticelectron.bsky.social
Defy the Gods draws on folklore & myth of Mesopotamia. For Gilgamesh's bull of heaven, @theveryworstthing.bsky.social made lightning flash from his flanks. The manticore is from ancient Persia. Kanesha gave her tail both venomous spines & a scorpion's sting. See more at tinyurl.com/defy-the-gods
drawing of bull by Kanesha Bryant, with a star on his forehead and lightning flashing along his ribs drawing by Kanesha Bryant of a smiling, malevolent manticore with aspects of a Siamese cat, and a long, looping tail ending in a stinger and spines
May 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
The fact that this has not already been fully funded is absolutely criminal, this project needs all the love possible

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...
Defy the Gods
The smoldering queer sword & sorcery tabletop role-playing game
www.kickstarter.com
May 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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percypropa.bsky.social
Look at this sexy queer god punching delight

Back the fuck out of it!
hecticelectron.bsky.social Hectic Electron @hecticelectron.bsky.social · Apr 29
This thing I originally said I was Kickstarting on March 25? It started today! Get the pitch for why sword & sorcery is queer af at www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...
May 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
anthropolitan.bsky.social
This Kickstarter needs to succeed cause it's one of the coolest projects I've seen in a while
hecticelectron.bsky.social Hectic Electron @hecticelectron.bsky.social · Apr 29
This thing I originally said I was Kickstarting on March 25? It started today! Get the pitch for why sword & sorcery is queer af at www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...
May 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM