What Is This Thing

me when i find out a game has object physics

this one

this one understands

thing i noticed

so the ips-n blackbeard has that bulky torso and those evil shoulder vents

you know the ones.

so basically, what i noticed is that, despite being the mech with The Big Greatsword, as far as i can tell the blackbeard completely lacks the range of motion required to perform complex swordfighting maneuvers (especially ones with a heavy blade such as the nanocarbon sword (although i'm not John Swordfighting so don't quote me on that))

so it's probably less used like a sword and more like a sharp tire iron or perhaps a lawnmower blade that you gave a wildly-swinging maniac. which. i mean it, is the blackbeard.

i’m like if a writer did not write and did other things instead

Btw don't shut up you're not annoying

too cringe to talk to my mutuals so i just like their posts

happy Thursday the 20th

Eureka: The Fanservice Files adds a Trait to the game for your investigator having huge boobs.

This Mundane Trait, called “Well Endowed,” is for investigators with huge boobs.

It has two benefits and two downsides. The first is obvious, a +1 Contextual bonus to the Seduce Skill, always active. The second is a bit more situational. It makes your investigator’s cleavage function as a storage space, which, now that I’m writing it out, I think that that might be one of the features of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy that i haven’t explained on social media at all.

So now this post is about the Wealth Skill too.

In Eureka, you don’t track individual dollars, your investigators have a Wealth Skill Rating. This is essentially their social/economic class, and it serves dual purpose. Firstly, it can be rolled for knowledge of high-class society, and the modifier can be reversed when rolling for knowledge of lower class society.

This also acts as a modifier for WP roll, which i have already covered in a previous post.

During gameplay, though, Wealth can also be rolled to purchase useful items at stores. With a Full Success, they can find and buy just what they’re looking for. With a Partial Success, they may be able to find something slightly worse than what they need, or they can buy what they need but they lose Composure from financial stress.

Wealth rolls like this are not only made at stores though, they can be made at the investigator’s house, vehicle, or backpack, usually with a negative modifier, to determine if they already had what they needed tucked away in the closet or trunk or something. (Fairies in particular have a bit of a hammerspace thing going on with these, and can pull much more out of places than one would expect them to be able to hold.)

The “Well Endowed” Trait extends this ability to your investigator’s cleavage. It has a low modifier, but at any time they can try to produce a useful item from between their breasts. The snoop illustration for this isn’t ready yet, but it will feature a snoop and a well-endowed snoopette both tied up with padlocked chains; and the snoopette is wiggling a set of lock picks out from between her breasts for the snoop to take and free them both.

(The hammerspace features of fairies’ storage also extends to “Well Endowed” if they have it. A well-endowed fairy could even hide a person in there, in a pinch, with onlookers none the wiser.)

Now for the downsides of Well Endowed. If a well-endowed investigator is ever trying to squeeze through a very small gap, they run the risk of getting stuck thanks to their enormous breasts. Secondly, any time a well-endowed investigator starts moving on-foot at a rate that would require the Speed rules to come into play, they must make a small Composure roll, because ouch, their back!

Download Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy and its April Fools add-on Eureka: The Fanservice Files from itchio now, or get them from out patreon! They’re free on itchio, but we could really use the money if you can spare it!

One really fun thing about Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy (by @anim-ttrpgs) is that every character is a little bit weird, but they can still be weird in commonplace and normal ways. The system of Traits and Truths means that effectively every character will have a different combination of qualities that make them good at some things and very bad at others, but in a lot of cases those qualities can be super true to life. There’s no such thing as an “average” person, but the game understands the ways that “normal” people are weird.

Like, yeah, some people just have bad social skills. Some people work better under pressure. Some people are shape shifting man eating aliens. These are normal, comprehensible, commonplace ways to be a freak, and Eureka lets you represent that in your characters.

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