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Every morning, you curate history. You scroll through news feeds, deciding which stories deserve your attention. You share articles that feel important, ignore others that don't. You bookmark tweets that capture something true, screenshot conversations that might matter later. You choose which voices to amplify and which to

TiGGR in Moominvalley: Values We Carry Forward

A note on approaching Tove Jansson's world with the care it deserves When we adapt beloved worlds for tabletop play, we're not just borrowing characters and settings - we're inheriting responsibility. Moominvalley isn't neutral creative territory. It's the life'

TiGGR: As the Residents of Moominvalley

Playable Folktales from the Margins of Paradise Tove Jansson's Moominvalley has always been a place for the quietly different - a refuge where melancholy and joy intertwine, where radical hospitality meets productive solitude, where chosen families bloom in the spaces between seasons. While the novels follow the adventures

TiGGR: Snow White's Seven

Touchstone: Snow White meets Ocean's Eleven - fairy tale heist with a crew of specialists and one big score Scene: The Queen's Palace, three days before she returns from her "diplomatic mission" to the neighboring kingdom. The royal treasury contains not just gold, but

Gundam as Military Child Labor Horror

How a Franchise Built on Anti-War Trauma Became a Celebration of the Very War Machine It Condemned I. The Tomino Contradiction Yoshiyuki Tomino didn’t want you to love war. He wanted you to fear it. The original Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) wasn’t a power fantasy. It was a

Mothership Wreck of the Week: The Marlowe Balaam Echo

A derelict exploration vessel drifting silent in the void, its crew transformed by their own hubris Ship Overview * Name: The Marlowe Balaam Echo * Type: Exploration Vessel * Condition: Habitable (Functioning) * Crew Status: No survivors; complex series of events * Systems: Stable reactor, thrusters, and jump drive all operational * Cargo: 1d10 cryopods, computer

Anakin Skywalker: Maniac Pixie Dream Villain

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) trope describes a whimsical, emotionally intense, often female character who exists primarily to jolt a brooding male protagonist out of his funk and into some version of self-discovery. But what if we flip that lens—not to a love interest, but to a villain?

The Slow Signal: A Mothership RPG Hulk Crawl

Overview: The USCS Peregrine, a J1C-II Freighter, drifts in a decaying orbit, 14 hours from colliding with an orbital refinery hub. Its distress signal loops: “They are not in their bodies anymore.” Your crew is contracted to board the derelict, secure its blackbox, recover its data core, and confirm the

BJÖRN BORG: Serve the Flesh

A MÖRK BORG Grindcore Tennis Mini-RPG This is no mere match. This is sacred carnage. You are not athletes—you are instruments of ruin, swinging the racket of prophecy across the cracked court of gods. Character Creation Name: Combine something Nordic + violent. Example: Ulf Deathgrip, Astrid Malice-Volley Stats Assign -3

MÖRK BORG: The Gallowpyre of Dregr

"No bell tolls. No burial rites. Just the bone chime of those who dared descend." A ten-room MÖRK BORG dungeon for 3–5 characters. Expect body horror, traps, spiteful corpses, and one cursed decision after another. Atop a hill of graves stands the Gallowpyre, a half-sunken ziggurat of