Metamorphosis Alpha (or Gamma World 0e)

I just read the rules to Metamorphosis Alpha and I was genuinely surprised at how well these rules were written for a game in the 70s.

It’s only 2 years older than D&D but it’s much easier to understand overall, even with some of the strange quirks such as attack matrices.

The setting is a colossal spaceship with multiple ecosystems on the inside. We’re a small continent’s worth of land, complete with forests, swamps, greenery of any kind. There’s a disaster and the passengers and crew fall into barbarism, forgetting about the technology and perhaps even the fact they were on a ship to begin with.

Players play as humans or mutants who are exploring this space, fighting monsters and collecting ancient technology as treasure. Eventually gaining access to other levels of the ship that may contain more natural settings, ship control areas, or even whole cities.

There’s a good variety of mutations on offer, both physical and mental. Anything from enhanced, strength, wings or even shapeshifting. The mental mutations range from small enhancements to basically high level D&D spells (Time Travel, Planar Portals, Weather Control etc.)

It’s shocking to me that this came out before AD&D, a game that is a little bloated in it’s text, to say the least.

This game accomplished it all in 40 pages and that includes errata that the author came back to write in 2007.

This isn’t so much of a review as I have not yet had a chance to play this game, but after reading it, I would certainly like to. This isn’t a recommendation either, you’ll have to judge for yourself if you should play it or not.

haya pal!

i noticed that you like to post wobbledogs stuff to so, if its ok with you, imma dump some codes.

TINY- smaller than a pebble, polite as an angel, but eats like Beelzabub, 3-dot eyes

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<<VAMPIRE>>- WINGS! TINY! ALWAYS ONE SMALL INCONVINANCE AWAY FROM A BREAK DOWN!

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-----------and now the best for last---------

-------<GODS MISSTAKE>--------

wings, 6 legs, and wide. if you want to see a creature live in ceaseless agony, have a seizure and cry; this is the dog for you.

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SOME OF YOUR DOGS??? FOR ME TO PLAY WITH?? I'D LOVE TO!

First one! Since you referred to the little one as Beelzebub, I named him Beez <3

SO SMALL. immediately began barking up a storm when i brought him into the fun zone (my pen)

adore him. take care of him. forfeit all earthly possessions to him. <3

VAMPIRE!!! the game-given name was stephen and i felt it fit so i kept it.

WE HAVE LIFTOFF. flaps their wings a lot, so fucking adorable. i think i just get cute aggression from the SMAL ones but god they're just so cherishable, you're an amazing little guy creator!

JERSEY DEVIL JERSEY DEVIL JERSEY DEVIL

felt like i dropped them in and their first thought was

what is this? a playpen for ants??

also trained it to bark a lot. because the sound is as horrifying as ever. will probably cry when it howls for the first time.

plays v nice with the others, wish i could pet. still, love it. also, big fan of large tails so the fact it's as long as its actual body made me stupid happy.

and finally....large man.....

OH CHRIST WHERE DID THE LITTLE ONES GO

he can barely shake his head when he's playing with toys. still, looks proudly at me whenever he does it. i will love him, seizures and all.

thank you again for sending these!! i love your guys sm!!!

the fuck d-0es a mutie like y-0u have a bl-0g f-0r? if i were y-0u i'd turn myself in t-0 the dr-0nes. that's the m-0st w-0rth y-0ur filth c-0uld have t-0 the empire.

your display of caste is ill befitting of the lack of class you display. do you not have anything better to do.

0E and BECMI also had pretty detailed rules for travel and naval combat and siege and faux-feudal politics and such. And while 5E PHB doesn't have them, yes, but it's not that focused on dungeons either.

I agree that ultimately it's action game but I feel like saying that it's inherently about adventures in uncharted lands when out of the box it very much can be about hard-boiled detectives or some kind of military leaders (including revolutionary rebels) is too reductive.

It's trashy heroic fantasy that shouldn't be used for like romcom but it's equally suited for all stock heroic fantasy plots

I mean, I disagree to an extent, but it's an issue of can vs should. D&D can be about hard-boiled detectives: should you use D&D to run a game of hard-boiled detectives when the game has barely any systemic support for investigation beyond "do you find the trap/secret door?" D&D can be about military leaders: should you use D&D to run a military game when the game provides absolutely nothing in the way of systemic support for leading a military and when its combat system is fine-tuned towards small skirmishes?

I very much think that RPGs are about what their systems are about. D&D 5e's system is concerned, beyond resource management, with:

How well characters can see in dark places.

Specific movement rates for measuring movement very granularly, and once you go into the DMG you find that the map scales start with "Dungeon" and go up from there.

Interacting with a variety of traps and hazards.

Now to be fair, when I talk about D&D being a dungeon game I don't mean it's good for just dungeons, but that it's good for Dungeons. A dungeon is a scary underground place with monsters, a Dungeon is a gameplay construct which is a part of the fictional world where Characters Can Start Shit In. But D&D is very clearly a Dungeon Game in that in addition to having rules for dungeons, it very much assumes Dungeons as part of its gameplay.

Also I emphatically disagree that D&D is equally suited for all heroic fantasy plots: D&D is a genre almost of its very own that is often conflated with heroic fantasy as a whole because of D&D's status, but it is inaccurate of D&D as a whole. Most editions of D&D, due to their obsession with depletion in a way that actually resists narrative convention (and the games themselves tell you that the point of the games is to deplete character resources!), are extremely poorly suited to heroic fantasy! In fact, the best edition for heroic fantasy, 4e, is the one whose design was explicitly rejected by 5e. (4e is still very much a dungeon game in my opinion, but it is the closest D&D has ever been to a pure heroic fantasy action game than a dungeon-crawling resource management game).

Anyway, D&D is not only poorly suited to many types of stories, the game itself actually suffers when bent to stories it doesn't have the mechanics for supporting. That's why I'm very much D&D as a challenge-focused dungeon game advocate: D&D is really good for that particular genre! Even D&D 5e, despite the fact that it has some instances of very unfocused design. D&D by its very shape resists conventional narrative structure and is more interested in telling stories about a bunch of assholes getting their heads kicked in in a hole in the ground, and it's actually really good for that type of story.

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PicoMace: a 1015 byte demake of PARTICLE MACE

Very pleased with my entry for #Pico1k Jam 2023!

Pico Mace is a 1015 byte demake of my own game, PARTICLE MACE made in PICO-8.

You can play and post your scores here: https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2023/rate/2284825

It has: ☄️ Asteroids & Enemies ✨ PARTICLES! 👷‍♀️ Screenshake 🧮 A lot of little effects I thought I'd have to cut

If you are curious about the source code, you can see the compressed code here and a thoroughly commented version here.

Full src:

c=-1::i::d=1t=0e=198f={e=99,f=99,o=0,d=0,r=.9,i=15,t=12,h=3}i={f}h=0p=0r=1g=0for n=0,30do add(i,{e=rnd(e),f=rnd(e),i=4,t=5,h=4})if n<6then add(i,{e=90+n,f=90,o=0,d=0,r=.97,i=8,t=12,h=2})end end::e::l=rnd()if t%40<d then add(i,{e=99+cos(l)*e,f=99+sin(l)*e,i=1,t=8,h=4})end if t%8<1then add(i,{e=99+cos(l)*e,f=99+sin(l)*e,r=1,o=1-rnd(2),d=1-rnd(2),i=0,g=600,t=10,h=5})end t+=1if btn(0)then f.o-=.3end if btn(1)then f.o+=.3end if btn(2)then f.d-=.3end if btn(3)then f.d+=.3end camera(f.e-64+rnd(h),f.f-64+rnd(h))h=max(h-.7,0)g-=.02if g<0then r=1end for n in all(i)do a=1o=0if n.o then n.e+=n.o n.f+=n.d n.o*=n.r n.d*=n.r o=atan2(n.o,n.d)end if n.i<1then a,o=7,t/99end if n.i>8then a=4end if n.i==8then b=f.e-n.e v=f.f-n.f n.o+=b/50n.d+=v/50n.t=12if abs(n.o)+abs(n.d)<3then n.t=1end for e in all(i)do if e.i>7and abs(n.e-e.e)+abs(n.f-e.f)<e.i then b=n.e-e.e v=n.f-e.f n.o+=b/9n.d+=v/9end end end if n.i==1then o=atan2(f.e-n.e,f.f-n.f)n.e+=cos(o)*d n.f+=sin(o)*d a=4end if n.i<2then for e in all(i)do if e.i>7and e.t>9and abs(e.e-n.e)+abs(e.f-n.f)<8and d>0then if e==f then goto n else w=r h=4if n.i>0then r,g,h,w=min(10,r+1),1,8,r*10end p+=w s=n add(i,{e=n.e,f=n.f,r=1,o=.2,d=-.5,i=6,g=60,h=0,a=w})del(i,n)goto f end end end end if n.g then n.g-=1if n.g<0then del(i,n)end end line()for e=0,n.h do m=o+e/n.h line(n.e+cos(m)*a,n.f+sin(m)*a,n.t)end if n.a then?"+"..n.a,n.e,n.f,6 end end rect(0,0,e,e,6)if d>0and(abs(f.e-99)>99or abs(f.f-99)>99)then goto n end camera(0,0)n="score:"..p if g>0then n=n.."\n𝘹"..r end if d<1then n=n.."\n high:"..c end?n,50-d*47,3,7 if g>0then line(3,1,3+122*g,1)end if d<1then?"press ❎ to believe",27,99 for n=2,0,-2do o=t/50?"⁶w⁶tpico\nmace",50+sin(o)*n,46+cos(o)*n,7-n end if btn(5)then goto i end end if c<0then goto n end flip()cls()goto e::n::s=f del(i,f)d=0h=9c=max(c,p)goto f::f::j=5+s.i*2for n=0,j do o=n/j k=rnd(3)add(i,{e=s.e,f=s.f,o=sin(o)*k,d=cos(o)*k,r=1,i=5,t=s.t,h=2,g=15})end goto e

thoughts on him his Omen from Valorant

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/valorant/images/0/0e/Omen_Artwork_Full.png/revision/latest?cb=20220810202807

OPH MY G O D

POSITIVE THOUGHTS ONLY I APPROVE IT

Gen 12!

Swishy

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Shipping Box

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⚙️ Octane ⚙️

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⚙️ Thundercracker ⚙️

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Cotton

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FUCKIN' WIMDY

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O que é OSR e por onde começar

OSR (Old School Renaissance ou Old School Revival) é um movimento moderno dentro das comunidades de RPG que busca recuperar o estilo de jogo dos primeiros jogos de D&D (Dungeons & Dragons). Ele surge da busca de certas características que eram prioridade nos jogos de antigamente e que foram sendo substituídas ou obscurecidas por tendências mais atuais, de forma simular uma experiência de jogo mais próxima da originalmente projetada por Gary Gygax e Dave Arneson (criadores originais do D&D).

Exemplos das tendências desses jogos:

O movimento começou a tomar forma através do uso do OGL (Open Game License) do D&D 3e colocado pela WotC (Wizards of the Coast) que alguns autores utilizaram para publicar suas próprias revistas e livros revisitando OD&D (Original Dungeons & Dragons), que embora revolucionário, tem a escrita bem nebulosa e confusa. Aos sistemas nascidos da reescrita dos D&D clássicos é dado o nome de Retroclones.

Mais do que a reescrita das regras antigas, o movimento do OSR busca a filosofia e estilo de jogo que esses sistemas e forma com que eram escritos preconizavam.

Características do estilo

Foco em exploração e campanhas sandbox, reforçado por regras como XP por ouro conquistado, direcionando os jogadores a buscar por si mesmos os mistérios do mundo fantástico que habitam.

Foco em imersão e solução de problemas através de ideias criativas, onde o jogador que deve sugerir soluções para os desafios.

Preocupação muito menor com equilíbrio na dificuldade. É encorajado o uso de monstros e armadilhas coerentes com o ambiente, independente do nível dos jogadores, e que devem ser enfrentados de forma inteligente ou evitados.

Alta letalidade advinda da vida de aventureiro em um mundo perigoso, apoiada por sistemas de criação de personagens agilizadas, fichas mais coesas e com menos informações.

Foco na narrativa emergente do jogo, ao invés de personagens com histórias e antecedentes completos.

Foco em homebrew, adaptação de regras e desconstrução de sistemas e ambientações. O cenário OSR cresceu a partir de jogadores e escritores que decidiram ser autores de uma nova linha de jogos paralela ao crescimento dos jogos de D&D moderno (D&D 3e em diante). É como se tivessem pegado OD&D e AD&D (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) e feito suas próprias continuações. Os próprios sistemas de OSR são escritos esperando que os jogadores adicionem suas próprias regras e conteúdos

Por onde começar

Se essa forma de se jogar parece interessante para você, pode buscar alguns dos seguintes jogos gratuitos:

Basic Fantasy RPG: adaptação open source com anos de conteúdo desenvolvido por uma crescente comunidade.

Delving Deeper: retroclone de Chainmail (conhecido como 0e ou Edição Original) de 1974, que reorganiza e emula o sistema que viria a se tornar base da primeira edição de D&D.

For Gold & Glory: Retroclone de D&D 2e, com toda sua complexidade e riqueza em tabelas e customização reescrita.

Mausritter: OSR com regras mais leves e livro menor, com muitas ferramentas para homebrew.

Ah, cursed scrolls...

You saw that right. Upon reading a cursed scroll in OD&D (1974), there’s a 12.5% chance that you are sent to another planet.

Giving you the codes to my two favorite wobbledogs <3

first we have Big Goth Girl. Or Gothy, as i've taken to calling her. Polite, loves to fling herself around the room:

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and FPTU(feed poop to u). little jerk!! Steals food and buries it!! Bites a lot!! Loves to bite!!!:

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more lil guys???

unfortunately, FPTU was an invalid dog code, but i had fun with your goth girl. at least, for as long as she survived in my care since she was so, so old </3

i started calling her after my fave sisters of mercy song, as was appropriate!! ancient as the ocean herself :,0

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