Great Warrior Is Pretty Much The Best.

Great Warrior is pretty much the best.

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(Pardon the terrible scan. This is just the rough pencil, anyway. I'll post better once these are finished.)

The character creation rules for SexyTime Adventures are intentionally sexist. When it comes to choosing your looks, you only get one choice: various flavors of boobular. And then I started thinking - oh god. What if character creation was putting together paper dolls where your only choices sexualized your character?

And then this happened.

I tried to draw her more broken, but this is as bad as I could make myself draw it. I also originally wanted to have every head have the exact same face, but then I decided that I could have my feminist satire and show some diversity too.

AUGH!!! NO! JUST NO! DO NOT WANT.

Vince submitted:

Lightning from the Final Fantasy series has always been a female character I liked in video games. Good news is she is returning in a third game featuring her. That is awesome! It looks like you play dress up with her for combat, that could be cool, I guess - kinda weird, but I’ll go with it. Also weird is that the game director and character modeling designer wanted to ‘enhance’ her appeal. AND YES! THEY WILL JIGGLE! 

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/07/27/more-information-on-lightnings-boob-job-in-lightning-returns-ffxiii-emerge-yes-theyll-jiggle/

Q: Is it true you said you wanted Lightning-san’s size from a C cup to a D cup?

Nobuhiro Goto (Character Modeling Designer): Toriyama-san said “I want it bigger” so…

Motomu Toriyama (Director): [What a] cop-out! (laughs)

Goto: Yes, it was enlarged.

Q: Was it a C cup until now? Does it even jiggle this time?

Goto: Yes!

Toriyama: It’s determined by clothing, like the so-called corrective underwear. (laughs)

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Dengeki Online‘s report of the Q&A provides further details:

Q: I heard that the chest Jiggles?

Goto: Yes, her chest jiggles. Since everyone can decide what costume she’ll wear, you can make sure it does (laughs). By the way, since Lightning swings her arm when you change her weapon in the menu screen, that’s a recommended action for sure-fire jiggling! To see it even better it could be useful to equip a small shield. Look forward to it!

Geez…

I’m super upset by this.

Nice to know where their priorities are for re-designing her, and that they’re really excited about how you can dress her in specific clothing to watch her boobs jiggle when she fights.

God dammit. I've already hacked Polaris once. Do I need to hack my hack now to write a Silver Millenium version?

This has generally been a non-professional tumblr but … how to say it? Maybe I’m reconsidering that.

Anyway I write tabletop role-playing games. This is my company site. My games are designed to be simple and easy for beginners to get into. Some of them (Beatrice, SKEW, Clover) support internet play very well and some of them (Beloved) you can play by yourself.

You can buy the games in eBook form for any price, even zero, through a handy instant-gratification delivery system.

Here is a handy guide to games you might be interested in.

I am on tumblr for: Politics. The Drifter’s Escape, a game about America, homelessness, and the Devil.

I am on tumblr for: Slash. Hot Guys Making Out, because that’s what it’s for.

I am on tumblr for: Adorable Animal Pictures. Clover, because it is adorable.

I am on tumblr for: mental health blogging. SKEW is a game written by a crazy person (me!) about crazy author science fiction (ala PKD). See also: Beloved, Witch House. Both games I wrote as healing mechanisms. See also: my entire corpus.

I am on tumblr for: Homestuck. Try Bliss Stage. It draws on a lot of the same source material, and the player/server dynamic has an interesting mirror. Also, if you like “people struggling to save a doomed world:" Polaris.

I am on tumblr for: Homestuck, but really just the porn. Hot Guys Making Out. Does what it says on the tin. It has guidelines for hacking it so you can Solkat to your heart’s content. Also has characters who might reasonably be construed as Morail / Auspisitice / Kismesis.

I am on tumblr for: Steampunk. Being a role-playing game on the topic of the High-Flying adventures of Beatrice Henrietta Bristol-Smythe, DBE, daring Aviatrix and accomplished Exploratrix, and her Gentleman Companion, who for a Modest Fee, accompanies Beatrice Henrietta Bristol- Smythe, DBE, when the Occasion warrants her an Escort.

I am on tumblr for: Anime. Bliss Stage is in many ways Gunbuster the RPG. Clover is in many ways Yotsuba& the RPG. Hot Guys Making Out is in every way a yaoi manga RPG.

I am on tumblr for: fame and followers and fortune. XXXXtreme STREET luge.

This past weekend I was lucky enough to go to GenCon. Among the many, amazing games that I got to play, I was lucky enough to participate in a long-form game of Apocalypse World, which is only the best tabletop roleplaying game in the history of forever. Yes, better than mine, by a factor of one million.

This game gave me, like, all the feels. So I might be bombarding you with drawings that I haven't been able to get out of my head, over the next little while. I also took a lot of photos, of things both good and bad, and might post links to my blogging exploits elsewhere. Sadly, a playtest of SexyTime Adventures did not happen. But that's okay. You can't have everything.

(Speaking of art...)

We went to the beach yesterday with my daughter, who is 11 months old. Afterwards we stopped at Crabby Joe's which has brown craft paper on the tables and free crayons, so I drew my daughter in her watermelon swimsuit. Yes, that's as cute as it sounds.