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Spike Bones
@spikebones.bsky.social
A multimedia artist, Gaming Webzine Coordinator and North Carolina Liason for XUndergroundChi.com, journalist in training, aspiring historian and preservationist of Tsalagi (Cherokee) culture and language, and most importantly; allegedly a chill person.
This is like buying Halo CE on e-bay and it's completely normal but this is the cover:
October 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is amazing idc if I bought something else this is better
October 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I feel like it's slightly more acceptable bc with the white shirt and blue suit it makes the colors of the Chicago Bears.
October 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is how I picture you writing this:
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Alt: DiemArchive "Rage Baited" gif. A stick figure sticks out and wiggles his tongue.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Because of how I like to tell stories, there'd have to be a combat system (so that in the worst cases you can punch a Nazi), but by fleshing out social and economic systems more and making them easier than the combat, violence is disincentivized.
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Tbh the rules would probably be simple like an OSR game, but instead of being an adventuring party who looks for things to kill, the mechanics would be focused around building a community, with more discission of foraging and farming than death and colonization.
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
OH also I'd like to clarify that I said something *like* the BÖRG systems. I probably would not just give my kids any of those books (except *maybe* MORK ORG? It's set in an office, I imagine it's much less overtly violent than the others) unless I was there and an adult I know was running the game.
September 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It also doesn't help that I haven't been able to branch out very much yet. Hell, I only have the BORG systems because a buddy of mine had the PDFs.
September 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
it gets pretty ugly for them pretty quick.

I also almost never play vanilla settings tbh. Even settings I really like, I homebrew in a way that makes them unrecognizable and bakes the lessons I'm trying to teach into the context the players find themselves in - like you said earlier.
September 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
That's fair. I'm so used to the industry standard of "You decide the nuance of violence in your world" that I haven't seen/thought about systems where the mechanics are designed to take a side. I also am a big fan of TTRPGs as consequence simulators, so if someone misuses violence in my games...
September 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
That's why I love the BÖRG systems so much- despite the aesthetic of rot and medieval violence (or cowboys, or spave pirates, etc.) they actually are built to subvert the worst tropes of the genres
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Also, MÖRK BÖRG and the resulting systems go out of their way to tell you that your real enemies are just as often if not more often your rich questgivers than whatever youcwere sent to deal with (NOTE: Deal with, not kill. Diplomatic solutions work too, and so does telling the king to fuck off)
September 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
*child not Chile
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ALT: a picture of the earth with the words " major spelling mistake " below it
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September 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Also, yes system complexity is an issue. I was a hyperliterate chile and could not understand TTPRGs for most of my life. If you are starting your kids on something, it should be simple enough that they don't have to do homework or listen to a lecture before starting their first game (imo).
September 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM