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Captain Zenscuel is Writing Starlight Journals
@captainzenscuel.bsky.social
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Making a far future sci-fi TTRPG named Starlight Journals. Also general life updates. My game development has no "AI" elements to it. Everything is either my work or commissioned.

35 Male-Cis Autism Spectrum Asexual. 18+
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Sounds like fun time. @hegamonia.bsky.social Possible!
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November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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What's it like inside your head?
Wayne from Hylics 2 face down in the sand.
October 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Not dead, just been busy with life and writing. Figure I should update folks so they know I'm not dead! #ttrpg Working on grenades atm, a thing I'm trying to get people to actually use since they are replaceable.
List of base grenades: Assault, Defensive, Flashbang, Smoke, Frag Disc (Tiberium Sun), Glue Grenade, Hydro-Bomb, Anti-Tank, Chaff, Psi-Chaff, Plasma, Vortex Bomb, E/M, Inferno Bomb, RAT, Rad, Whiteout, Distortion, Hatred, Pulse, Inferno Disc, Anti-Matter Bomb, Grunt, Eater Nectar, Sand-Swarm
October 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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#gamedev #TTRPG #worldbuilding

I cast "Your Limbs Feel Numb." Also bonus points to anyone who can figure out what inspired this school as a whole.
Static Snow school. It involves knowing 2 other schools and allows for doing powers that are more situational. Illusory rooms, a hostile gate power, a power that hurts and heals, turning yourself into TV static. The final 4 powers are a bit weird with the ability to gain more turn, a new weapon, limb numbing, and a mind war.
August 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Guess we're doing this.

Not much of an Otaku though. More of a booker.
Core quiz. Master Planner but tends to overthink things or get distracted.
August 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Finished a Tomb Prince (Mostly) might clean up the head dress some.

#warhammerfantasy #miniaturepainting #Warhammer
Wearing a golden and bronze collar, a golden khopesh, this red painted skin of the tomb princess with light blue paint on his staff and coloration of his pants. A purple cloak robes him while he stands atop a rock and ordering his troops to greater vigor in battle. Wearing a golden and bronze collar, a golden khopesh, this red painted skin of the tomb princess with light blue paint on his staff and coloration of his pants. A purple cloak robes him while he stands atop a rock and ordering his troops to greater vigor in battle. This is the back, offering a better view of his purple cape.
July 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Got a lovely piece of an Issidore Warrior of the Harmonic Federation for Starlight Journals from @chocori.bsky.social . Commissioned of course! Also provided the background as part of the price.
Background of a large city surrounded by a wall, with large pillars with glowing words on them topped by a circular symbol. Issidore warrior in an orange-yellow jacket and covered in a minimal shield armor, with the primary shield showing on the arm. A staff hangs behind their hood, while orange feathers coat their head, neck, and arms. A small eye piece provides a hud. Issidores are a bit akin to bipedal raptors, though have plantigrade feet for climbing rather than digitgrade for running.
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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#TTRPG

I cast "I want that Twink Obliterated!"
2 of the new tree: Director's Command. THey are I Want Them Obliterated!-improves attacks against a single target Priority Filter- Clean out issues to keep people focused on combat.
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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#ttrpg
One thing I've always wanted more of are abilities that help counteract damage and destruction. Or perhaps empower you as your allies are hurt. Being a Chosen Fury can help with that.
Chosen Fury is a Voice's will psychic ability that must be used on someone else. It acts to empower them as their allies take damage, giving them more resilience to damage as well as dealing more. There is a description of how this ability was foundational in a particular war between the Harmonic Federation, that invented this power, and the Farethi Confederacy.
July 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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#TTRPG

Since I've been sitting on them, here's the Paladin powers! I was feeling down when I completed them so I didn't share, but here they are!

I should rename immortalism but I have no good ideas.
Paladin Training with Light Forged Armory (Generic attack power) and Sheltering Light (Improved Cover power) "The term we use for ourselves is taken from media, which itself distorted earlier media and so on and so forth. But we embody those depictions of the righteous fighting against the dark, not the king’s guard or companions of some great conqueror the name comes from." Six powers: Merciful Light (Turns attacks non-lethal on both sides) Celestial Light (Constant Healing), Reality Lock (Anti-Teleportation power), Guardian Psycho-Formic Shards (Summon Shards of bright glass to parry attacks and hurt), Light Wreath (Temp HP power), Supernova (Sacrifice your stamina and powers to do a massive burst of damage) Two powers: Prism (Split in two) and Immortalism (Regenerate heavily, reduce damage, and ignore death once per day)
July 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#TTRPG

Finished the Materialization tree. I'll probably do a secondary run through to clean up some of the science language because my brain hasn't been cooperating that well.
Materialization. "We live in a world of material and matter. It is wise to know how to manipulate it to your purposes" This has Material Adaption, Ionic Phasing, Information Gate, Inorganic Regeneration as the powers on this page. The last six powers: Protective Motes, Metal Fatigue, Like Chimeras, Slipstream, Stellar Pillars, and Atom Smasher.
July 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Is the wrong answer or the right answer?
The Ramtasm from Cassette Beasts, an Astral style creature. Has fluffy wool, a loop back horns, and a paintbrush style ghost tail and two small wings. INcludes a solid halo as well. Primarily white with black around the neck fluff and horns, with light purple-blue highlights.
June 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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It's Done. Finally done. Argh. Feel like I've been working on this for nine years. It was closer to 15 days but still. #TTRPG #selfpromosaturday The Meta-Psionic School.
The first six powers along with a writing on echoes. Echoes, in Brief Echoes are phantasmal beings that do not entirely exist in r-space to being entirely subsumed into n-space. They are fragments broken off from anima during periods of high trauma. Many people have wisp echoes that surround them that serve as reminders of their trauma and past pains, but these do not linger in the place that caused them the way full echoes do. Most echoes form while the person they came from was alive, but may become more pronounced if the pain in this place was exceptionally extreme or multiple events happened in the same space. A lingering connection, like an echo trapped in a family home that is inhabited for generations, may also cause echoes to occasionally flit into r-space. Normally though it takes a psychic to unearth them, either through various ritual abilities or when echo swarm is active. Echo swarms use personal Echo wisps made manifest rather than relying on the much less reliable option of finding echoes out in the world. Uninhabited places tend to have a dearth of them. Seeking Answers in Echoes Echoes are not usually particularly useful: Their fragmentary nature means they usually just repeating some action or event over and over. Some can be questioned but most are so lost and minor as to have nothing relevant to say. Stronger echoes, ones caused by deeper traumatic events, tend to be a bit more cogent. Not that a lack of these echoes is a sign of no trauma. The fact the making of echoes tends to be random makes them less useful tools. Archaeologists sometimes use them though to glean cultural notes of the civilization they are studying. The last 4 powers, with Denial, Retribution, and Avarice being the stand outs as psychic denial powers to act to disrupt enemy psychics.
June 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Finished my Liche Priest. Mortuary style. Kind of went with "Old Man with a Stick" look for him with some changes to him.
Mummified individual with a walking stick, a partially melted face, and a golden calves and neck dress. There is a horn part on the ground of mud. Mummified individual with a walking stick, a partially melted face, and a golden calves and neck dress. There is a horn part on the ground of mud. Back view.
June 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Some tomb guard, finished six more. #warhammer #miniaturepainting #hobby
6 tomb guard arranged in a row with halberds. Each one has a different pose with dirty brown bases and bronze shields and crowns. They have blue for their clothing and highlight colors, though have dirty bandages.
June 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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With illness fading into nothing, finally got to get some work done again. In this case, the quantum psychic school. It talks about stuff like Mesons, which are real, and many other things that are not real.
First set of Quantum powers, including the Meson Blade. It also includes the rules of the random variance rolls that can assist the GM in making those decisions. Well, the smaller, player facing version of those rules that make it clear how it works and its limits. The powers are Meson Blade, Integrate, Anti-Mater Bomb, Tunnel Gate, Disintrgrative Evaporation, and Disruptive Field. Here are the last 4 of the 10 powers. Starlight Blade, Starlight Gate, Distortion Driver, and Gravity Shift.
May 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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If you see this, post your green art! 💚
A cadre Fireblade from Warhammer with a zaku head as their head. THey are painted light blue with a dark green core and black highlights. The cape is read behind it. Dirty snow liters the base of dirty rocks.
May 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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#ttrpg #gamedev #worldbuilding

Got the kinetics power rework done. This school proved really bad and most of the powers got a complete rework. I think redirect and Kinesis hand were the only ones not significantly changed.
Kinetics first page has Force Wreathed Fists, Psycho-formic barrier, Kinesis Hand, and Force Crush. Has a quote about kinetics as well. The second page has Force Blast, Force Spike, and Force Quake for the Force line. Redirect, Kinetic Armor Reinforcement, and Whisper Blade on the buff line.
May 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Silence powers are done. I spent all morning feeling like I didn't want to write but I did 6 of these in like 40 minutes while pushing through it. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but they FEEL correct. Oh right going to add illegal to memory wipe.
#gamedev #worldbuilding #TTRPG
8 Silence powers with the header of Silence and a small phrase attributed to the Silence Monks (Soesh Kosh). "Words whispered, yet never spoken. Sights seen, but no light to reveal them. In the silence, we achieve balance. In balance, peace. " Most of the powers revolve around playing with perception or attempting to manipulate understanding, including a memory wipe and clones. These are the last two powers: One where you can create a weak clone of yourself while the other allows creation of powerful terror weapons.
May 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Oh it's Mermay? #mermay? Might need to get more of the space eel, Koshi

Is it mer? They look mer. But also not quite since snake like. But eels are like snakes of the sea.
Commissioned art work for my game. Koshi Rostik, an Orochi, eel like space creatures. He features water filters on his from the back at the bottom of his blue tunic. He is pulling back a nano-sand bow while his scales are primarily red with orange and yellow filtered in. Beige is along the bottom.
May 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Oh boy, I do love the Jegan actually.
The light green Jegan, a GM style mobile suit with the usual configuration of a humanoid mech with a visor style helmet rather than the mono-eye. Chest cockpit. Has missile pods on the hips.
April 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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What I arrived to bluesky in.
A delta forwards wing space fighter with two guns on each wing, a centered cockpit, two large thrusters on the back, and tall side wings above the main wings. The Pyro-GX.
April 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Kind of thinking of getting more CEF minis because I like their color scheme so I want an excuse to use it more.
#heavygear #minipainting #wargaming
Four CEF mechs and a CEF tank from heavy gear. Two are painted in bright red-yellow mixture like Milagro from Metal Fatigue, while the other two are Purple-Green to represent STEALTH. The tank is white-blue. All color schemes inspired by Metal Fatigue.
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Beginning to start into Psychic powers. Going to try to keep them organized, but the fact their cards will be of some unequal length might be an issue. I'm going to think if I want to standardize their size but that might be impossible at this moment.
Psychic cards setup on one side, showing the Minor Powers. On the left side is an anchor list in Affinity Publisher. Includes 6 powers: Mind Voice, Push/Pull, Light, Leaking Power, Mind Assault, and Dart.
April 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Congrats on the 500! I'll throw my usual guy into the ring with Koshi.
Red scaled eel with raised pointed ridges, yellow and orange stripes. A beige underside. Holding a bow pulled back with sand forming its arrow and the bow itself with only a small physical guide for the nano sand. Wearing a blue tunic. Large hair of black and green with a crown of red shells.
April 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM