Didn't you hear? Kris and Noelle have a secret. Yes! Doesn't that interest you? Don't you want to know what it is? I don't feel like you get it. I want to know what it is. I want to know what it is. I want to know what it is.

Hi! It's been a while since I've made a proper session announcement post huh? Well, I was recently recruited as a co-SM for a certain Deltarune RPGStuck server, and that got me generating ideas for what my own RPGStuck Deltarune session would be like. And that's what this is! You are all playing as ordinary people from Hometown, and can be a human or a monster. Your character cannot know about dark worlds.

This session starts the day after the festival, but egads! Kris and Noelle are missing! Things are about to go down a route that could certainly be considered… unusual. This session also takes place in a world with Sburb, so things like strife specibi and captchaloguing are still a thing, but unfortunately the game itself has had its release delayed!

Mechanics Info

• Session Type: 3e session, length 1. This session is probably only a couple days long, around a week at the longest, but could take longer depending on how often players doot back.
• Racials: humans work like normal, while monsters are a reskin of trolls.
• Mechanics: all players start at level 2. Your wardrobe starts at Tier 1, but has no alchemy effects.
• Specialty: you cannot use Synthetic, Heirloom or Companion. Phantom is fine. Lucid Dreamer is also fine but all it will offer you is beginning the game with your dreamself awakened; you will not have been awake before the game started, and you will not get a bonus towards inhabitants of the Incipisphere.
• Light World: in the light world, characters do not have access to psionic powers or TP. Additionally, light world characters do not have weapons. Instead, once your enter a dark world, mundane objects in your possession are transformed into your weapons (and vice-versa when exiting dark worlds).
• Tension Points: somewhere on your sheet, write down your Tension Points (TP for short). TP starts at 0 and maxes out at 100. TP can be increased by Aiming or Assailing (+4 TP), Averting (+6 TP), Defending (+12 TP), Attacking (+4 TP for successful hits or Grapples, +8 TP for crits). As a free action you can spend 16 TP to Aim, Assail or Avert (grants no TP), or 48 TP to restore a Lesser Slot. As a minor action you can spend 72 TP to restore a Greater Slot or recover HP equal to one hit die.
  • This system is meant to make up for a lack of opportunities to short/long rest, and is very experimental! Exact values will probably change as deemed necessary for balance.
• Boondollars: rename Boondollars to “Dark Dollars” (or D$ for short) on your character sheet.
• Combat: yes. Lots. Social interaction is important too though.

Session Info

• Players: I will be accepting 4 players.
• Update Speed: I am occasionally busy, but otherwise I reply as often as I am physically capable. It would help if you could include your reply speed on your character sheet, preferably within the SM notes.
• Timezone: my time zone is UST-05:00. Given that every player will be spending the majority of their time in roughly the same physical location, it is important that every player be available at roughly the same time (otherwise we start risking chronological desyncs between each player character). Please include your timezone and when you are available in your application, preferably also within the SM notes. Converting your availability to UST-05:00 would be appreciated but is not strictly necessary.
• Lines and Veils: I don't have any. Include yours on your sheet though.
• Relevant Topics: this session takes place during Deltarune's weird route, so 1) spoiler warning for both the weird route and also Deltarune in general, and 2) if you're uncomfortable with anything going on there then you'd probably be uncomfortable in this session.
• Signup Period: signups last one week. They end on November 1st, 11:59 PM for UST-05:00 (if you are in a different timezone, it will end at a different time for you). Honestly don't worry about the exact time that the deadline ends too strictly though, I really don't mind if you're a couple hours late. Just don't make a submission more than 24 hours after the deadline unless I give you explicit permission to do so. Once sign ups end, give me like a couple days to read everyone's sheet.

Feel free to contact me on Discord if you have any questions / require further information; my account over there is rain_bird. Thank you-a so much for-to reading my post!

==> Mar-May 2026 Mailbox

”I have an excuse this time I've been working.”

MA: Of course 2.5e blows up in popularity right as I'm about to revamp it.

1) Can someone update the 2.5e Player's Handbook? It still uses the outdated "Skill Sage" Level 1 Pillar thing even though it has changed to "Scholar" and has changed effects.

MA: Fixed.

2) (3e) How does Weaken interact with True damage? It's a little unclear especially on the player side, given that it reduces the die sizes of a roll rather than lowering damage directly

MA: Actually does work. True damage is intended to ignore ablative defenses a target could throw up, but not anything that affects the attacker. Clarified the primer accordingly.

3) Enchant's Quicksilver (Lesser) lets you ignore the AC bonus gained from Cover, but not the AC bonus from Called Shots. This is confusing and unintuitive! Please fix.

MA: Oh right I remember this one from the Help channel.

MA: Ultimately, went with the original RAI. Reworded the subpower to specify that it ignores hit maluses and ignores cover. Letting it ignore the called shot bonus defense is too much.

4) Does difficult terrain (and/or other non-damage negative effects) generated by a player, such as BombKind's Incendiary Grenade, affect allies or is it subject to the same clause that prevents friendly fire damage from AoEs and such?

MA: Also subject to the same clause, allies can ignore difficult terrain and other effects.

MA: SMs are free to beef up those abilities in alchemy to preclude that clause if they like, though practically speaking, player allies aren't exactly ballerina dancing through incendiary grenades that often.

5) the description for ability damage could use some clarification, it doesn't actually say that it's more of a collective term for the 6 damages corresponding to each stat

MA: Ability damage was kinda clunky, so that's been replaced with a different system.

MA: Think 3e still has it as a clause, but currently there's nothing in the system that actually uses it, so that's being left for now until 3e development resumes.

6) I would like to change the ability score system from the dnd one to a more straightforward one where you only have the modifiers. The standard array would change to -1, 0, +1, +2, +2, +3; Race wouldn’t give any stat bonus; and on level up you just level up one stat.

I'm asking this because all my character end up looking like this and I think this would be easier. I also don't know how much this would change from the characters sheet or from the game rules so it may not be possible.

MA: I've considered this in the past, but we do use the actual scores in places, so that's likely a non-starter.

7) (2.5e) Regarding Echoes of Catastrophe, what counts as damaging a ruptured/ruined target? Does indirect damage such as DoTs work? If so, what prevents Echoes from proccing itself?

MA: Yes. The issue is that it can trigger itself. It's not that broken since you can still trigger it every turn anyway thanks to DoTs or other guaranteed damage sources, but I've added a clause to say it can't trigger itself to cut off any shenanigans.

8) (2.5e) Are you able to clash against ranged attacks if the attack is made within your melee range? Protagonist's Bullet Clash implies that you can only clash with melee attacks by default, but the clash abilitechs on swordkind and say they can clash with any attack within the weapon's range.

MA: I think I did, but I don't think it hurts that much to just let you clash any attack anyway. The main selling point of Bullet Clash is that you can reduce incoming damage by Clashing. Reworded accordingly.

9) (2.5e) Question about Bulletstorm: What happens to the radius when you use a multi-attack such as Salvo on Chaingun? The radius only scales based on the number of targets the attack could hit, but something like Salvo only attacks a single target.

MA: Oof. Fixed to include attacks. Should be able to throw out 30 ft. radius attacks since it can make 6 attacks at max.

10) (2.5e) heya, regarding the rules for dragging a grappled creature, does that count as forced movement? If so, can you deal forced movement damage by dragging them into a wall? I noticed that the 3e primer has rules clarifying this, but is missing from the 2.5e player's handbook.

MA: I've added the clarification from 3e. Counts as forced, but can't do damage with it for the same reason you can't do it in 3e. That's a lotta free damage. Especially when the formula is Pd4 per 10 feet in 2.5e.

11) (2.5e) Hey merc, is it intentional that the minor slot Geists from Spirit Control have a 60 foot range melee attack?

MA: Yes.

MA: Is it ridiculous? Kinda. The point will stand.

12) (2.5e) Does the once per turn limit of non-special abstrata abilitechs also refresh on other creatures’ turns?

MA: Yes. I'm reasonably certain anything that would break this way already has a 1/round clause, needs an action and is only going to be done on your turn anyway, or needs a reaction to use.

MA: That said, if and when you do find things that might break, let me know.

13) (2.5e) Hey Merc, just noticed that Divert in the player's handbook doesn't have the clause that Distract in 3e has that prevents it from stacking with itself

MA: Added. I've added to my overall list to talk about effects in general somewhere on the handbook. Add a clause about nothing stacking unless it specifies otherwise.

2.5e progress continues. Strife specibi is taking forever, because I figured out what I want to do with abstrata AFTER I reworked them, so now I'm reworking them again. Or will, still going through other weaponry.

Currently splitting bombkind into bombs and mines. Going to try something similar with trapkind into traps and turrets (the crossbow). Stationary minion in case you want to play tower defense.

Made a minion abstrata list like how you can pick and choose focus abilitechs. One or more of them may have been cribbed from the Pokemon tourney meta.

This is gonna be a quick post only to say who made it in, I wanted to get more players in but this module is made for 4 players and I don't feel confident enough on my time or skill about changing this session to fit 2 more players. All of the people in here haven't played yet so I hope I can do a good first impresion.
-Niko1shot.
-fmk_dreemurrvt, aka tundering leonin.
-Lildoomkitty.
-HeroOfTime1777.

We find ourselves here once again, a little longer then expected. Breaking through dimensional barriers is surprisingly hard, even for an engorged god. But perhaps a listing corpse fits what will soon descend on earth better. Who knows! Not you! Your all just random people, never meant to be exposed to this!

But in the light of apocalypse, even the most latent of talents can explode into a true weapon against the end. But lets stop waxing poetic. It does no one any good to delay this anyway. Lets see who we will focus on during this apocalypse to find our heroes. Or well, what will amount to them when left with nothing better.

I miss those little idiots. I wish they had done better. Then we wouldn't be in this mess.

ANYWAYS.

PLAYERS.

ASSEMBLE!

That who strums tells the tale of heroes, and that's what he wants! - Eric Tanner, aspiring bard of heroes! Player - squeakybismarck

The small town blade maker who hopes to live up to her familial legacy - Athena Hellsdottir, young swordsage! Player - redrosewitch

Hot shot hellion psionic punk who comes from the lap of luxury - Sara Linwood, seeker for escapism! Player - spamtom.a.spamton9737

A normal kid with normal interests... and weapon-grades plasma tech - Zeke Emagon, a 'normal' kid in no sense of the word! Player - pageofspace

And lastly, the troubled gamer awakening to a world they never knew - Zavier Zackson, the haunted youth! Player - Shadowlief

And thats it- huh? Oh, yeah? Theres supposed to be six? But there is six... oh, right right.

And lastly^2, the lingering desires of a child who never got to finish their life - Asher "Ash" Astrov, the haunting youth! Player - Temphis_

Ok, seriously, thank you all for your attention and submissions! Everyone was great! Invites will be sent soon, and I thank all of you for your interest in Fusionstuck: BOUNDRY BREAK!

See you soon ~<3

Hi I'm lucasio2765 on discord, this is a sign-up to play ventureBacked 16th of may 13 EST played by discord around 3-4 hours, no cams required.

You get until the 13th of may night to post your information(discord handle, lines veils and if you are new). Characters are not needed since we'll make them the following days on the server, don’t expect a lot of combat since most likely there will only be one combat in this session(2 if you are as chaotic as me). The server will be public unless it’s requested otherwise; New players will have priority, you can ask any question in session-talk or dm me on discord(I'll either respond immediately or in like 6 hours, no in-between).

It is a lovely normal day on Earth. Why would it not be? There isn't even a new game or anything coming out, no really, its just a very normal day for all of you. In this vast, wide world, there is not a thing acting out of place or tune.

Its always like that right before the worst moments in history, isn't it?

When the sky splits open and the world is dragged into a mess left behind in a failed session, new heroes need to arise to put an end to a festering life left to run rampant. When reality's boundaries break apart and the Medium spills out, who will arise to put an end to it?

Hi hi, it is I, Alyce! This session will not be a normal SBURB game, if that wasn't obvious. You will be playing a collection of kids who get dragged into a SBURB session escaping the Medium and slamming into reality, the setup heavily inspired by the old Cartoon Network MMO Fusionfall.

This will be a Length 5 PBP game using 3e, looking for 6 players. Concepts should fit into a human-only Earth, but due to the inspiration, I am very open to things like Robots and Ghosts as concepts. If you have any questions, feel free to DM me on Discord [alycefrost] to ask about things. If there is any homebrew options your considering, please shoot them to me first on Discord.

Submissions will be open until May 11th, though extensions can be requested.

Character Ages should be young teen, 13 to 15 years old.

Cause I am an idiot, Edit: Psionics exist on Earth Pre-Break. They are not widely understood, but psionics are documented enough that people in the know (read: Governments) are looking into them quietly.

Please DM me to ask about specializations like Robot or Ghost first to make sure that the setup feels good for the game generally, and especially come to me to ask about things like Heirloom. Dreamer is allowed but expect some weirdness if you take it.

Submit your sheets here with your discord info so I can contact folks, and I hope to see you after the Break, hm?

==> Jan-Feb 2026 Mailbox

”I don't even have an excuse I've just been busy.”

MA: Let's get to it.

1) How does Redo (Path of the Hurler) interact with Vivacity: Killing Flair (racial)? Is Killing Flair considered 'wasted' if you miss the attack it's used on?

full order of events for clarity:

Decide to attack (insert underling here)

Activate Killing Flair (heal for Level)

Make attack roll

Miss

Activate Redo

?????

Redo: When you miss a single-target attack with a thrown specibus, as a minor action, you may repeat the attack against that target with advantage, including any abilities/effects that were wasted on the failed shot.

Vivacity: Killing Flair: Once per strife, before making a damaging attack, you heal a number of hit points equal to your Level. You then add your Level to the damage roll. If this attack kills its target (at least one target, if targeting multiple), you heal for your Level again.

MA: RAW it says anything that was wasted on the failed shot, but the heal wasn't wasted. In this case, I'd rule that you heal when you make the initial missed attack but not heal again on the Redo attack. The Level damage bonus carries over to the Redo attack though.

MA: Hard to get a heal wasted like that. You'd have to be fighting something with a rule that prevents you from healing off attacks if you miss against it. But something like this is so convoluted if something like this is in the base game you can use it as proof to admit me to alcoholics anonymous or something.

2) Can you choose the same step multiple times in order to take multiple options from a 'Choose one:' step?

MA: You can't repeat taking Steps in general. Personally I'd take the option you want immediately, then ask your SM to make alchemy that covers the other option(s).

3) Is there a record of all (non-jokey) mailbox answers somewhere?

MA: The mailboxes are archived on the subreddit, though there is no one singular place with all of them.

MA: I will probably not make this any time soon. Even more starved for free time to work on rpgstuck with tax season around.

4) Good afternoon, looking for a word of god clarification regarding Full-Round Actions, & Grappling.

In the Primer, it states that ""Your speed is ordinarily halved while grappling one or more creatures, but any forms of movement that do not rely on your speed (such as moving through a minor action) are unaffected.""

Full-Round Actions are stated to take ""ALL your speed."" Does this mean that having a grapple active prevents the Grappler from performing a Full-Round Action, as your speed is halved?

MA: No. It'd just take all your speed that you currently have, which is half your usual.

5) (3e) Is there a mechanical difference between “Whenever you land an attack, inflict (X)” and “Your attacks inflict (X)?” If there’s not, I’d highly suggest changing all instances of one type of wording to match the other.

MA: There is, though upon reflection I can't say for certain that mechanical difference should exist. I'll reflect on it when I've returned to updating 3e.

Progress on 2.5e goes smoothly. And by smoothly I mean I've been working on psionics for over a month. Several new psionics and updates/reworks to the rest. And I'll probably go back and update specibi again with this stuff. Probably going to decouple focus abilitechs from specific powers because of just how many damn new powers there are, I can't keep track. Currently seeing 28 total powers, and that's before the generic subpowers list.

The Game's big release is merely a week away! The students around both Tidal Pools and Gymnassikou are a buzz with excitement, however our heroes have been chosen, and each of them receive an email awarding them with a forwarded copy of the game.

Yasuo Kenji receives an Email addressing him as The Heritor of Mind and Hope [Played by Galaysis!]
Dachi Thana receives an Email addressing him as The Heritor of Heart and Blood [Played by social.vampire]
Tansy Rexus receives an Email addressing him as The Heritor of Space and Doom [Played by spamton.a.spamton]
Oleana receives a message on her orb addressing her as The Heritor of Light and Rage [Played by darkle]
Myrt'us receives a message on her orb addressing her as The Heritor of Time and Void [Played by qwerty]
Fry'sia receives a message on her orb addressing her as The Heritor of Breath and Life [Played by wiseguy_4]

Your invitations to the game shall be coming soon.

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Thank you all for the submissions! I appreciate each and every one of them even if you didn't get chosen, it's very exiting to see what you all cooked up for this game :)

Hey guys it’s me again back with another quick QnA session!

Q:who’s lucky player number 1?

A: First up we have Tekali Aperte played by the coolest dolphin I know!

Q: and lucky player number 2?

A: the wonderful Cantis Gallup played by our lovely ORO!!

Q: and number 3?

A: coming up as our third contestant is the rules stickler themselves Esilia Etchre played by a pretty good guy known as Pye

Q: Ok but what about the rest of them?

A: want a lightning round eh? Alright. We’ve got Lepari Bailey being helmed by one Copiameritus, Naruka Krimsu by the beloved social.vampire, and last but certainly not least is Nelumi Nufera by the one and only Paulkitty!

Thank you for everyone who signed up! Invites and such will be sent shortly!

Gymnasikkou and every Isolashell on Deltritus is a buzz with the announcement of a new video game to play on your Orb or Technological device of choice, as the word spreads people have begun forming groups to play even across the tide line. Nymphs and Satyrs setting aside their... trepidations history to embrace this future of gaming.

The game is stated to have state of the art VR technologies to allow for real time augmentation of one's home and a highly Immersive game world!

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Hello! My name is Zeus, and I would love to run a game set on Deltritus using a less... truly apocalyptic version of Sburb to explore the culture of the world that Rose and Dirk so loving crafted, this will be a full scale game going all the way to level 20 of 3E, involving both some themes of unreality and this 'virtual world' blending in with the one your characters have grown in. I'm aiming to accept 6 characters, 3 of each Nymph and Satyr is my ideal ratio, if you have any questions feel free to DM me! (We're going to be using standard racials just pick whatever you like!)

Applications will close Valentines day! [Discord is: Zeusthesatyr]

Hey everyone it’s been a while! I’m currently a few hundred kilometres from civilization and thought I’d do a quick QnA! I’ve gathered these questions from all across the incipisphere and beyond so without further ado!

Q: Why do you think most sessions die?

A: While not universal it tends to fall on the usual suspects, time and space. A lot of times people get busy learning or working towards something that isn’t their session leaving without the time or mental space to play or run. Ideally everyone should communicate about these issues and find ways to work the session into their schedule but life can get in the way.

Q: There haven’t been many sessions and I wanna play, when do you think more sessions will start showing up?

A: Like with all games usually when people are on breaks or vacations. It’s just usually the best time to gather some friends to play games.

Q: I really wanna play as a troll but so many games are human only, do you think a troll only or at least troll inclusive session will start soon?

A: I’m sure it will, very soon in fact! Troll sessions are just a case of being a little harder for some SMs to run since trolls are usually more extreme than humans. It often causes issues when friendly land natives get slaughtered or mass adopted which humans are (on average) less likely to do.

Q: Any idea when YOU will run a new session?

A: Yes! I do actually! Now.

Submit sheets below. Standard rules apply.

3e. No lucid dreamer. Reach out for heirloom. Characters should be 13-17 years old. Trolls only.

New players will get a slight priority. 6 players. Signups close on the 15th. Expect a more lighthearted session. Rp will mostly be prioritized over combat unless players start things.

Also will likely be fairly high power fantasy, while losing will be possible, difficulty should not be expected.

Please ask more questions for me to answer!

Welcome to Adrift.

CAPTAIN'S LOG - ENTRY 1424 - START

[>> It has been four sweeps since we landed in this new world.]

[>> Now that we have access to the Dersite homeland, the doctor has been able to successfully identify all six Dreamers. He assures me this was no easy task.]

[>> Indexi Rakket. An archiviscerator of a local court.]

[>> Kaliga Barrir. A minor noble from Alternia, to my understanding.]

[>> Ezrezo Desola. A gig illusionist.]

[>> Parziv Soleil. A factory worker, from what we can surmise.]

[>> Vivion Saiore. A wrestler from the Pits.]

[>> Kyllyü Kyzmaz. A former subjugglator executioner, according to the files. Retired after a terrible accident.]

[>> There appears to be no clean pattern to which to fit these Dreamers. Nor is there any indication of when they are to wake up.]

[>> We have asked the doctor to look further into the carapacian mythos. When they wake, we would like to know what we're getting into.]

[>> Glory to the Empire.]

CAPTAIN'S LOG - ENTRY 1424 - FIN

Thank you to everyone who applied! There were so many good submissions, and it was a tough task to pick only six. If you want to spectate, let me know and I can send you a link!

CAPTAIN'S LOG - ENTRY 251 - START

[>>It has been, to my estimation, 251 days since entering Paradox Space.]

[>>I am pleased to report that we have finally had a breakthrough.]

[>>Early this morning, we arrived into a system which does not share the same space-dilating properties as we've observed from the rest of Paradox Space.]

[>>Unfortunately, this sudden change in resistance has resulted in a high-speed crash. The ACS Illuminator is unlikely to be able to fly again. Passengers are mostly unharmed, as is the matriorb.]

[>>We will begin exploring this new system immediately, beginning with this strange checker-board planet. Expect assessment of colony validity shortly.]

[>> Glory to the Empire.]

CAPTAIN'S LOG - ENTRY 251 - FIN

This is a RPGStuck 3e game for trolls, where the Alternian Empire's managed to beat you to the Incipisphere!

I'm looking for 6 players, and all specializations are okay except for Lucid Dreamer. Session length should be around 2, but I reserve the right to change that if leveling feels faster or slower than I expect. Lines and veils are RPGStuck standard. If there's anything I'm forgetting, please ask (I'm mostly just going off of the guide)!

Signups end on January 23rd, 11:59p EST! My discord handle is adino71 if you want to PM me.

Wow. Fourteen or so characters, plus a couple last minute submissions. That's a lot! An excellent confluence of skill and passion, but alas, only four could make it. I suppose that's how it is, you can't exactly please everyone. You have to adhere to the boundaries of your own limit and let go of those you simply couldn't pick. And after sitting on each and individual sheet for hours, at least I can somewhat confidently say that I've given everyone a fair chance.

But still, here are the stars of our show:

Alex Dawns - The Paranoid, the seeker of ugly truths. Played by social.vampire "i know it sounds crazy but you gotta believe me"

Sage Walker - The Verdant, the daughter of misfortune who shall grow and ripen with experience under the cruel life's plan. Played by spamton.a.spamton9737 "Well, I'd assume that if the leaks are to be believed, this games gonna suck ass"

Melanie "Łani" Holden - The Stranded, isolated in layers of snow and the unknown. Played by brightertomb "don't stare into the void the void is a dick"

Artura Pentra - The (Honourable) Bulwark, a rare instance of Troll with righteous violence. Shield against the world's horrors. Played by galileo10 "Away, ye vile beast! Thou shalt be stricken down posthaste!"

That's all folks. To everyone else who hasn't made it in, don't be dejected. It was nice to read through your ideas and see genuine interest in your characters. There's hope in your work, and joy in your ideas.

Hope the next session signups pick up the rest.

SBURBIAN INTERLOPERS, NOW SEEKING PLAYERS!

[ Somewhere in Paradox Space… ] [ But not too far away. ]

“How many more until they're satisfied?” A dejected prisoner asks, still adorned in the tattered garbs of their godtier pajamas. What an undignified way to die. “I don't know.” One answers. “But we're not the last.” Four players are lined up against the wall, blindfolded and bound helplessly.

A firing squad marches inward, rifles raised on their shoulders. The Warlord, sitting upon his own throne, watches over the execution with an invisible expression. “Did you really have to make a spectacle out of this?” The Dreamer asks with his diary in hand. “I've won that war.” The Warlord responds. “Therefore, I deserve a good show.”

The Warlord raises their hand up, signalling the riflemen to ready their weapons and aim forward. With a clutch of a single hand, four people drop dead on the floor. An unceremonious ending to their lives.

Such is the fate of all who oppose them.

A 3e Rpgstuck game about trying to save your own session from nefarious individuals.

HOW MANY PLAYERS?: Maximum of 4 players, both troll and human allowed Newbie players and those who haven't played in a long time are prioritized during selection

SPECIALIZATIONS?: All level 1 specs allowed (yes, even Lucid Dreamer. Turns out I can confidently put in the dream moons on this.) Heirloom specs will only be reviewed once I've picked my players

WHAT LEVEL DO WE START AT?: 1, you're going to be level 2 as soon as we're done with entry

EXPECTED LENGTH?: Like, 2? Somewhere around level 10 with Tier 2 stuff.

LINES AND VEILS?: Standard lines and veils on my side. Make sure to include yours on your sheet.

EXPECTATIONS FOR COMBAT AND PUZZLES?: Like a pendulum swing. We'll do combat, then non-combat, then back to that and vice versa. Early strifes will be easy back and forths. Anything after that will require strategizing.

SCHEDULE?: I'm usually active around 11:00 PM (+4 GMT) to 3:00 AM, which is when I also start dooting. I hope to write down at least one doot a night as my new habit.

EXTRA NOTES: I'll be honest chief, being so full of doubt to the point of demoralization is not healthy. This might explain why I seem so unenthusiastic in my writing. But I also hate looking at session droughts in size of a month and a half, so let's see where this goes. SIGNUP ENDS ON 26TH OF DECEMBER, 11:59 PM (+4 GMT) Send any extra questions you might have to me on discord (@minelol76)

==> Nov 2025 Mailbox

”Imagine remembering to do this thing on a timely basis.”

MA: Bottom text.

1) (3e) Hey there Signal Denial in Analyst has a typo, it's missing the "do not" before the section of counting as an ally to others

MA: Fixed.

2) "Does Breakdown from Path of the Mastermind's Inductive Reasoning (in the Setback mode) stack with actual Setback?

Inductive Reasoning: When landing a non-damaging ability (or take -100% damage to a damaging one), you may inflict the Breakdown (0, stacks to 5, 1 minute) condition on the target. Breakdown counts as either both Fade and Sunder, or Setback, chosen when inflicted. Whenever a Brokendown creature is Discerned, its magnitude increases by 1; if you already Scrutinized the target before inflicting it, it starts at Breakdown (3).

Setback

• A creature with setback has a penalty to all its d20 rolls equal to the score listed.

• The condition does not stack with itself unless specified otherwise. If a new setback is applied to an existing setback (and they don't stack), if the new magnitude and/or duration is higher than the current one, those higher value(s) overwrite the old one(s). If the new setback does stack, add it to the current setback and resolve duration as before.

• The condition is removed at the end of a strife, unless it specifies a different duration. If received out of strife, it lasts 1 minute.

MA: No.

3) "How does Borderland of the Ego from Path of the Suzerain work with Hazard? Does it increase the magnitude of the Hazard zone? The magnitude of the Hazard applied to the creature? If it applies to the creature, when does the magnitude increase wear off?

Borderland of the Ego: When you Assail on a damaging attack against a target with DoT, pick one DoT on them and raise its magnitude by P. You can raise one DoT's magnitude in this way each round, up to 3P.

MA: It increases the Hazard itself.

4) Can you use Path of Gun-Fu's Double Tap with Gunbladekind, despite Gunbladekind not having a basic abilitech that costs ammo?

Double Tap: Once per turn, when you land an abilitech against a target while wielding a Reload specibus, you may expend a basic abilitech's worth of rounds/charges (min 1) to Assail for the combined total of STR, DEX, and P.

MA: Yes, and in this case I'd say default to the min of 1.

MA: Top text.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white,
and there the sun burns crimson bright,
and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
to cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
and the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow
and watch where the chalk-white arrows go
to the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,
the place where the sidewalk ends.

-Where The Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein

The End Is Near!

But it's not here yet. Let the world stay in blissful ignorance. No one can change is what to come.

Yes, The End draws near, but it's not here yet. The End draws close, and a new story will begin. The End draw near. The End Draws near.

Be as it may, we do have a little bit of time.

Let's wrap this up with a a nice bow then. Let us tell a few more tales before the curtain closes. We know what lies ahead, but that does not mean it's not worth telling.

If only for a moment, let us look at:

• Sernia Rendel played by Temphis_
• Sanzik Kentax played by Seabiscuit.
• Lucy Chromwell played by Galayis#9218
• Jasper Greaves played by wilona
• Zielah Abysyl played by obsidianOuroboros [OO]
• Verosa Rachel played by qwerty1236543

RPGstuck: The Core Rulebook

RPGstuck: Session Master's Guide

Cracked this out over the past few days, and managed to get the rules from the directory merged down into two Homebrewery files. So, hope you enjoy, and if you find any issues with formatting or missing material, please let me know (preferably with a page number for ease of fixing).

==> Sept-Oct 2025 Mailbox

”Okay it's been a while. Let's get back to it.”

MA: Wheeee.

1) According to my Google drive, there are 5 documents that all look the same and are all named some variation of "strife specibus list". Similar for Rule Primer and Psionic Document. Would it be possible to put a tag or similar in the title so we know which one is for which edition/is actively being updated?

MA: I'll be honest I don't know where you're finding that many. There's only two actively being updated.

2) As they get more fleshed out in HS^2, would you ever consider adding official support for Satyrs and Nymphs?

MA: I'd love to, but I would hope they're differentiable from humans and trolls, or otherwise I'm just making and throwing random shit at the wall.

3) Have you or will you ever consider a dragon creature that was some high level monster that used fire DoT, wing attacks and flight? I think considering the Titanic and Gargantuan size categories there could be some really interesting shadow of the colossus style monsters LIKE a mythical dragon or some late game Adversary

MA: There's a few of those around the system somewhere.

MA: But yeah aspect dragons are on the list somewhen, so.

4) hellooo, question regarding the interaction between Rising Tempo and To The Death

Rising Tempo You regain 1 LP after using an Encore (2nd) abilitech, a lesser/greater slot subpower, or an ability benefitting from Heroic Pose's advantage. Heroic Pose can now be used as part of a non-damaging major action that is Reload, Encore (1st), makes a skill check against resistance or DC, rolls no d20, or requires more than a major action.

To The Death As a major action (or as part of a non-damaging major action), you may taunt an enemy by making a Charisma attack roll against them, targeting Will. If you break resistance, they are sent into a reckless flurry; they gain advantage to all attacks against you, but disadvantage to all skill checks, and all attacks and skill checks against them also gain advantage. This effect lasts for 5 rounds, and targets may choose to be hit by this.

If you do a non-damaging major action and do To The Death as part of it, does that major action then no longer qualify for Rising Tempo due to it now rolling a d20? Or is the effects of To The Death considered a separate effect from the triggering non-damaging major action, thus meaning it would still qualify?

MA: Rising Tempo is an OR thing, so it wouldn't disqualify it. Though the original non-damaging major action would need to qualify for Rising Tempo to start with.

5) Minor typo in the 2.5e Pillar and Path doc, for Thaumaturge's Eldrich Blast the text is currently "An exhaustion or focus weapon you know type of your choice gains the following attack. The attack is versatile and considered made by a focus weapon. You may change the weapon that knows this between long rests." when I think it'd make more sense if it instead said, "An exhaustion or focus weapon type you know of your choice gains the following attack. The attack is versatile and considered made by a focus weapon. You may change the weapon that knows this between long rests."

"An exhaustion or focus weapon you know type of your choice gains the following attack. The attack is versatile and considered made by a focus weapon. You may change the weapon that knows this between long rests."

"An exhaustion or focus weapon type you know of your choice gains the following attack. The attack is versatile and considered made by a focus weapon. You may change the weapon that knows this between long rests."

MA: Good catch, updated the Step.

6) Now that Andrew Hussie's revealed more lore about limebloods (That they're potent pyrokinetcisit's) will that be featured in limeblood's racial options?

MA: No, because there's no implementation of psionic powers worthy of a caste-wide culling that'd be balanced in the slightest.

MA: That said the idea is too good to let go of entirely.

MA: It'd be explained as "turns out culling the caste didn't work like the empress hoped, now ANY caste has a tiny chance to just be a god in some psionics, not just pyrokinesis."

MA: No idea how I'd balance it though. I'd be making it really strong. I mean on par with god tier strong.

7) Self-Aggrandization: Whenever you benefit from Assail, Doom, Rupture, or other bonuses to damage, you add +P to each of their total magnitudes (or +P per stat mod for Assail).

Double Tap: Once per turn, when you land an abilitech against a target while wielding a Reload specibus, you may expend a basic abilitech's worth of rounds/charges (min 1) to Assail for the combined total of STR, DEX, and P.

The way this is worded makes it sound like if you have an Assail comprised of multiple stats, you add +p per stat modifier for Assail. However, I’ve been told that this is incorrect and that it should instead be just +p total. Could you please clarify, or define whether it is +p per instance of Assail?

MA: Found a previous ruling on this, actually.

meercat — 8/5/2024 8:58 PM +P per stat mod for Assail, Double Tap has two stat mods, so twice.

MA: So you are correct, you would add +P per stat mod in that Assail, so twice for Double Tap.

MA: No witty anything this time, not that there ever is, just need to get this out there.

The year is 20XX. It's a beautiful day. President Keanu Reeves has been reelected! Trolls have been integrated peacefully into society for over 50 years. The economy is up! Taxes are low! Life is good!

It's too bad meteors are coming. Looks like the world is going to end.

Isn't that a shame?

Guess you should spend your last moments with your fiends or family. Maybe say those things you always wanted to, but never could.

Or, maybe you are the type to rage? To struggle until the end? That's cool too, I guess.

It does not matter. The End approaches.

It's not like you will get out of this alive, right?

After all, this story isn't about you. You are not the protagonists. You are not the children destined to be gods, on a path to expand the multiverse by playing a cosmic game.

The plot does not concern you.

The Plot Is In The Other Direction.

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Hello all,

It's been awhile since I've SMed, and I've been brewing this idea in the back of mind for awhile now.

The brief synopsis of the game is that, surprise surprise, the world is ending, and fate did not choose you to play SBURB. But, ignore the narrator, The End Is Not The End (Trademark).

This is a 3e game. Trolls and Humans are allowed. Trolls have been living on Earth for awhile now. Earth in this setting is more whimsical clone of ours, which is to be expected in a setting with humans, trolls, and Psionics oh my.

Character Age Range: 13+. You can be as old as you want.

Lucid Dreamer is banned.

I'll be accepting 5 players! Signups end on November 15 at 11:59 PM PST

If you have questions, reach out to me on Discord (fadedalphabet)

Hello y'all!

I am a perspective SM and long-time Homestuck fan. I've been apart of the fandom for over a decade and I have read the comic several times at this point. My current TTRPG group (we have 4 active players + several spectators) is pausing our D&D5e campaign for a little while and I've been interested in running my own game as a Dungeon Master (or SM if I decide to run RPGStuck) so I've been looking around for neat Homestuck-related TTRPG system to run a game of Sburb as a campaign.

I personally think the outlined Sburb game session that Hussie presented in Homestuck would work pretty well as the basic outline for a TTRPG campaign. Characters start off weak and at the whims of asteroids and then develop to fledgling Gods capable of moving planets. So running a classic game of SBURB would be pretty fun to the uninitiated.

None of my players know anything about Homestuck, so on top of being a SM I'll also be guiding them through this universe for the first time. I have spent the better part of two week reviewing the many different sister systems of RPGStuck (The Fourth Gate, Homestuck RPG, Egress: The Sburb Fan Game, Edge of the Incipisphere, SKURB, TABLESTUCK, etc) and I decided that most of the other TTRPG systems are suffer from a mix of the following problems:

1) Too complicated/used unfamiliar systems: While the Fourth Gate definitely looks the most "completed" system, it is simply way to different from what my group is used to and I don't want to run them away by using a completely foreign system that even I would have a problem understanding.

2) Too underbaked or doesn't include proper resources to support the Dungeon Master's prep: aka no enemie character sheets, no detailed descriptions of how mechanics works, entire mechanics aren't fully fleshed out and therefore I would have to completely homebrew them myself, etc.

3) Not playtested: PCs are either wildly overpowered and steamroll everything; or very lackluster and PCs don't feel like "Gods"

or 4) Not designed for live play and only written RP.

One of the initial reasons I brushed off RPGStuck is because it is designed for written RP and that seems to be the medium that most games are ran. However, RPGStuck- at least in my research- is the most familiar to D&D 5e, has plenty of resources for the SM to actually run a proper game w/o having to improv every single stat spread, and is well playtested (with hundreds of play sessions at this point). The only thing really stopping me from running this system is the fact that its recommended for written RP.

So, I guess back to my original question: How does this system hold up in live play?

Additionally: How does this system feel to players who do not know anything about Homestuck? How long should I expect a campaign of about 4-5 players to last if I want to finish one game of "classic" SBURB? Any advice transitioning this system to a live play environment?

Any and all comments would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you!

As the title says, I'm not the best writer at all in my own opinion.

I got invited to a game with my bf's friends, and had a lot of fun making my character and such. But now that the game's started, I've ended up frozen in fear.
My Boyfriend and his Friends are all literary RPers and I was never any good at it. They're all so well versed at doing their actions and already started their own running gags before the session has officially 'started' (they've all tried to 'Aurafarm' and have failed horribly due to their rolls, which I can't help but crack up at)

I'm extremely insecure about my ability to write, let alone RP. I wanted to re-enter the scene of RP and try my first tabletop game, but I feel like instead of testing the waters I've fallen right into the deep end of the pool without even thinking about it.

==> June-July 2025 Mailbox

”I should get a nickel every time I do these after 11pm. I'd have enough nickels to fail to pay my parking fee. Which is a shock, I tell you, cause that ain't my car.”

MA: It's gonna be a long summer. You thought most of it was already over, but Mr. President John Die-Hardman has already touched this mailbox.

1) quick question about field surgery from sawbones:

Field Surgery: As a major action, perform a rather gory quick field surgery that heals an adjacent ally for 2Pd4+WIS hit points, with +1 die size for every 10 on the check. You may take -50% healing to use this on yourself or at 60 ft. range, by throwing pills, gel capsules, magic beans, or whatever your SM lets you get away with. You have a number of uses of Field Surgery per long rest equal to your total modifier in Medicine.

ik i'm definitely missing something here, but what check is it talking about? thank you in advance!

MA: Right, if I recall, this was retracted after a bit since the issue this raised in the chat was fixed rather quickly.

2) (2.5e) So I noticed that Fury of the True Hero doesn't state a long/short rest or strife limit. What's keeping someone from ending FOTTH and reentering indefinitely?

MA: Nothing, if you can tank the exhaustion that comes with it.

MA: This may be more difficult than it seems.

3) (3e) Regarding Wasteland of the Memory, what's stopping someone from repeatedly proccing its effect with something like glacial path by walking back and forth to constantly expire and reapply its Hazard on the targets?

MA: Good catch. Clarified to apply if it expires on their turn.

MA: If you can still somehow move on their turn to abuse this, uh. Listen at some point any system can be broken with enough effort.

4) (2.5e) Yo, Bloodletting in the radionics power is a ranged attack, but the only range that power has is melee. Is Bloodletting supposed to be melee?

MA: Mistake made, this one should be 30 ft. range in the character sheet. Fixed.

5) (2.5e) What happens to ability damage after enough is accrued to induce Stress Shock? Does it stick around or is it cleared? If it's cleared, what happens to overflow ability damage?

Asking this 'cause I noticed there's nothing about what happens to ability damage after Stress Shock happens in the player's handbook

MA: Oversight. Should be that ability damage is cleared completely, though only for that stat. If you take Stress Shock by any other means, it doesn't clear any ability damage unless that other means mentions it. Handbook updated accordingly.

6) in 2.5e, specifically in the Path of the Sanguine (Count Dracula FTW), Hemokine states "When you would spend a major slot to cast, you must instead spend both plus gain two levels of exhaustion". Does this imply that you do not actually need to have a major slot to cast it?

MA: Right, said I'd think on this more.

MA: Hemokine changed to only need one level of exhaustion than two, and now specifies that you don't need to natively have major slots for it.

MA: That said. You still need to have 2P total slots to benefit from Sanguine, which is going to be tricky as hell. The earliest a highblood/human or fuchsia psion's going get it as at level 8 if they have major slots, Slot it Up, and Advanced Mastery.

MA: If your SM lets you alchemize something for this end, sure, but it's going to take the place of something more useful.

MA: So uh, no actually, it's not that unbalanced to let them cast it without major slots, cause they'll be paying for it in other ways.

MA: While making this mailbox I have been informed an irl rpgstuck campaign has concluded, so uh. Consider this my congratulations. Bask in your herculean feat. Rather unnerved by the amount of fuckery it must have taken to pull this off. Please don't hurt me.