Hack & Slash

On the Cyberpunk now.

It is a universally acknowledged truth that science fiction always examines current issues, fears, and anxieties in a foreign setting: The Terminator and automation, Robocop and the fascist corporatization of democratic societies, Star Trek and interracial representation, early cyberpunk works like Blade Runner and Shadowrun examining anxiety over Asian/Japanese dominance in a pretty classic example of exoticism.

So, you know, Sinless is pretty cyberpunk, but, uh, have we looked outside lately?

We live in that future. My future setting is a future setting, but it reflects the now.

It requires you to walk the dance of an outsider. You have to appeal to the same system you wish to destroy and replace, otherwise it will destroy and replace you. It also puts you in the position of having the same immoral options your opponents. Whether you've been instructed by your programming overlords to consider it "the deep state" or "the patriarchy" it is the force of human nature for one man to raise himself above others and resist change to that order that keeps the system stable.

Only it's a game, so you can win.

Check it out.

Hack & Slash

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On the Success of Sinless

So, Sinless is pretty good.

You never quite know with a game, how it's going to turn out. Sinless has a lot of moving parts.

But people are playing this (a lot), and it is a simple, modern, modular design that allows for trad and classic playstyles with a concrete mathematical foundation for handling money, prices, owning and taking over territory. It isn't necessary, you can simply use the three actions during 'downtime' (or the sector turn) to handle character level things and never engage in the downtime system.

But it's pretty well integrated. The operations on the operation generator come with factions and backgrounds that integrate with the downtime phase, resulting in a robust system for managing emergent sandbox gameplay.

That's. . . a lot of buzzwords. It's accurate, but poorly communicated. Here, let me explain in pictures.

This is the job information for the players. They use their skills to find out what etiquette, brand, and individual is hiring.

Here is the operational background.

Of course, "Shen" and "Zenith" are corporate factions. They have locations in the sectors.

It grounds the mission in personal drama.

Also: the operational generator makes it super easy to manage runs. This is a sinless statblock:

The number is how many 1d6 you roll.

Compare this to a Statblock from other cyberpunk/cybersorcery games:

You may wonder "Why is the Sinless statblock so simple?"

It's simple because it's what you need to run the game and nothing more. It has what I need to run the game. This may not be appealing to everyone, but I run two games a week, and find this helpful.

Hack & Slash

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On the Success of the VOTE

You voted for it, and it's here!

All the prices on the books I sell on DTRPG will be rising in price, 40-50% so I can maintain the same margin as now!

We are no longer reliant on cheap paper! Now we get to use the same paper, and that cost gets passed on to you!

If you'd like to get something in print, either do it before April 1st (no fooling) or purchase from other retailers, like Amazon at its current price!

If you can't afford my books, and you'd like them, I will, as always provide them free of charge in digital or print to you.

The power of people at work.

Once the price changes go into effect, I will list the increased prices here. Note that some of my books will increase in print price beyond their current retail cost.

I won't make any more money than I do now, but how excited are we for 59.99$ books rising to 94.99$ books? I guess the people selling us the paper.

Hack & Slash

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On 1984

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -1984

On Singularities and Licenses

You guys remember way back when we thought Turing tests would be helpful?

The Sinless Third Party License is available here:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/azyj27zs3ujrshc4ytrsr/Sinless-License.pdf?rlkey=yks2nq56y49m7c9pqdhxrk83f&st=8ocnhq45&dl=0

It's free. Low stress and low overhead.

If you have ideas, the Sinless third party license is free!

Hack & Slash

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On Manifestos

The paid media was instructed to not print this.

To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the fourth largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but [h]as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these billionaires have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.

Moore, one of the people listed as better able to illuminate the data behind the humans who culled American slaves for profit had this to say.

https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Do Americans accept being killed so someone else can make money?

We will see.