Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

[Complicity]

I'm surprised something named "Queerpunk" doesn't exist yet.

[ebin namefag]

I'm surprised something named "Queerpunk" doesn't exist yet.

It probably does.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I'm surprised something named "Queerpunk" doesn't exist yet.

It is assumed. All of these "-punk" games have you play as queermo antifas, anyways.

[Kugelfisch]

And it will be even funnier to see how easy it is to replace "The Fash" with some precious minority.

Not difficult. Those have to be defined as vaguely as possible, lest they sound primo cool compared to the wishy-washy champagne communist protagonist faction.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Behold:
Why We Fight - a solarpunk narrative TTRPG

Featuring a Lara Croft cosplayer, apparentlyShow

I can already tell that the fascists have better ideas for names. I mean, really? The "Community Alliance"?

Some endorsement by the Coyote & Crow guyShow

I feel you, Coyote & Crow guy. This game also makes me want to indulge in senseless violence, though probably for different reasons.

So it's like the post-apocalypse I think, and you play eco-punks fighting for dominion against evil white people.
Why solarpunk, though? I could get wind- and waterpunk because that's shit you can harness with pre-industrial tech. Where the fuck are you yokels gonna get new solar cells from?
You guys don't wanna miss out on your Current Year creature comforts or something? Then come help me burn literal trash to power our makeshift generator.
Oh, but you don't wanna hurt Mother Nature any more? Then have fucking fun going back to the Neolithic.

But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's let the press release explain shit:

In Why We Fight you will each build a Crew of 4 characters from the Community Alliance, a growing movement of eco-punk communities creating a more just and compassionate world.

So everyone controls multiple characters? What is this, Ars Magica? I guess it's to make playing this solo easier or something.
And I've seen those "autonomous zones". There is no justice or compassion to be found.

You'll learn who they are and what they care about as you discover vibrant communities, and a natural world untamed. Travel through rewilding lands, safe-guard people and nature, and push back against the White Fist, a fascist militia trying to force people back into their dystopian society.

Sounds to me you're lazy fucks who don't want to cut weed.

Deep.

And let's take a look at the solarpunk utopia, shall we?


You think that small hobby rooftop garden will sustain you guys? You better start turning that lush greenery on the ground into farmland if you want that ginger kid to survive.
Also your logo is dangerously close to the one from Creative Assembly.

Community Alliance hubs have bloomed across the land, safe havens for all who need us, and any willing to stand up for our humanity.

As long as you're wearing SocJus shirts and pins.

Whether it's building community gardens or solar energy grids, rewilding golf courses or caring for those who need us, we're building the world we wanted from the start. A world where nobody has to "earn" their right to live. Where "how do I get by?" is replaced with "how do we make it better?". We’ve spread through cities and forests alike, putting the means to thrive into any hands willing to hold it, to nurture the spark of this brighter future.

Smash those golf courses, you guys. And where do you get the stuff needed for this fancy solar energy grid?
Also I've seen how good the guys in CHAZ were at farming. You guys are fucked.

Together we are creating a network of safety for all, because the idea that there isn’t enough to go around is a fallacy spewed to keep us hungry. We might not be able to have it all, but we can make sure all have enough.

Have fun fending off those other Community Alliance hubs when winter comes and everyone's running out of food.

As you play, you will learn more about your crew, but they start off as strangers even to you. Each crew member has a name, two descriptors, and a skill they specialise in. One of them will have the reason they're fighting. As you travel together and push back the white fist, you will uncover more about these characters, discovering their pasts, passions and fears, while you help shape their future.

So everyone controls 4 guys who are all a one-trick pony. Cool.
And here comes the narrative nonsense. You can't just go "Hey Spoony, what's your fucking deal here, anyways?" and have him tell you that he's searching for his lost dremel. Oh no, Sir. You have to earn the right to unlock his dremel story.

And here are the bad guys:

Hedge-fund backed fascist militia.
How the fuck do hedge or really any kind of funds work in the fucking apocalypse?

These paramilitary brutes strike vibrant, prosperous communities, burning crops and stealing precious supplies, bodies left in their wake. The spectres of starvation and sickness plague the recovering lands. People are becoming desperate.

Sure. The only reason people are struggling to survive is because the nazis ruin everything for fun

Yet how much food is your labour worth? Whose labour is worth the better homes, the few luxuries they import in? When is someone worth the medical care to save them? The Guiding Hand, proclaiming itself limited by those anarchic scavengers outside the walls, control their people with the very scarcity they've created. All the while, the goods their workers make depart across the oceans in boats and planes to grease the palms of those in charge.

The post-apocalypse would be all sunshine and lollipops if White Man didn't make everything shit on purpose
Also where are they sending those goods to? International trade's still a thing or something? Well I guess it must because those solar cells don't grow on trees.

Here's a look at the amazing example characters:


Man, HRT is so not working for John Locke. And the only way this black chick could be any more tumblr is if she was morbidly obese and sitting in a wheelchair.

Now what about the actual system? This will have to wait until I crack open the free preview book, but apparently it's a Powered by the Apocalypse fork with tactical combat.


(Also there better be more lore, or I'll have to reflavor this into the eco-fascist Sonnenreich fending off the bloodthirsty neo-bushmen from the Wakanda Autonomous Zone.)

[Kugelfisch]

It's just as I thought. It couldn't read more like shit written by some coastal burger trust fund idiot if it tried.
>no questioning how to get by
>rooftop gardening
I have seen CHAZ. These morons wondered why eight lettuce seedlings in one centimetre of dirt on top of plastic foil wouldn't grow, let alone sustain anyone.
These are the kind of morons that are so profoundly ignorant about producing anything, they think all it takes to support a community is thirty minutes of casual gardening and the rest is just 80 hours a week of slave labour for 1% hedge fund manager salary.

They don't even know what a hedge fund is or does. It just kinda sounds evil, I guess.
All written by morons that haven't worked a single day in their lives, wondering why anyone would do so or invest when the monthly 5k cheque from that trust fund comes all automatically.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

They don't even know what a hedge fund is or does. It just kinda sounds evil, I guess.

It's something capitalistic, so it must be evil.

[wulfenlord]

Featuring a Lara Croft cosplayer, apparently

That's a pretty bad bow posture, xer would do well with some top surgery to complete the amazon-style

Some dick-slobbering by the Coyote & Crow guy

What's that guy up to anyways?

WORDSWORDSWORDSShow

https://coyoteandcrow.net/2024/09/16/th ... row-games/
https://coyoteandcrow.net/2024/11/21/a- ... eelancers/
https://coyoteandcrow.net/2025/01/22/so ... w-in-2025/
https://coyoteandcrow.net/2025/02/03/wh ... m-i-doing/

Oof, that's some high-grade whining, not bothering with it on a weekday, maybe I'll get to it later with more alcohol.

a growing movement of eco-punk communities creating a more just and compassionate world

Ah yes, sustaining on soft skills and emotional intelligence in a post-apocalyptic world. Your compassion will surely do wonders against wild animals and gangrene.

discover vibrant communities

Discover how those tranny polycules die out after turning cannibal during the first winter

safe havens for all who need us, and any willing to stand up for our humanity

So noone. Somehow my head-canon is nothing but le evil fascist White Hand defending themselves against wannabe Che Guevara's wanting to impose their humanity on everyone else.

Whether it's building community gardens or solar energy grids, rewilding golf courses

How in the McGuyver are they going to build solar energy grids out of sticks? Wouldn't that need specialized factories? And wouldn't golf courses be better used as farmland or plots for the solar panels instead of makig it a habitat for potentially poisonous and predatory animals?

the idea that there isn’t enough to go around is a fallacy spewed to keep us hungry. We might not be able to have it all, but we can make sure all have enough.

A real communist utopia has never been...

Hedge-fund backed fascist militia

Sure, Jen Stabilzing society against anarchist freaks is fascist how? And stop appropriating the triskelion in your power fantasy, come up with your own heraldry.

Orchestrated by the manipulative Guiding Hand, they've set up 'Protectorates', steel walled compounds that opened their doors and promised food, clothes, shelter, medical care, and the safety of law and order… all for the price of labour.

That bespectacled male feminist is either going to be Piggy from Lord of the flies, or the first one to snap and rape everyone in their happy commune.



I suppose its this fella



5 Reichsmark that this guy fag didn't even read his copy.

Meet the team :3

Rob Ingle - Graphic Design & Illustration
I'm a bearded oaf and proud father. Daydreamer, doodler and card carrying luddite. Draws things. Paints things. Thinks things. When not doing one or several of these, I'll be found hanging with my amazing daughter, my lovely lady or various chums

Ah, yes, a bio consisting of maker of things But you don't fool anyone with your alibi wife.

Rhi Saunders - Developer and socials
I'm a queer, neurodivergent, disabled and chronically ill nerd whose connective tissue was tragically replaced with silly string... Not only am I the social media menace at SDR, I also help write and develop the games we make! When this meatsuit of mine lets me, I love getting out into nature, curling up with a good book and my fuzzy dog, or creating art. Above all else, I adore exploring stories!
I have a degree Creative Writing and a Masters in Animal Behaviour which legally gives me the power to rename any animal. Got suggestions? Drop them to me at the socials below!

Nothing like flourishing grammatical errors when boasting your literary skills. Also the fat fuck isn't kidding, she's sperging out on their Kikebook page deleting any and all criticism.

Laurie Blake - Lead designer
I'm an AuDHD multi-disciplinary creator who's games all wind up being anti-capitalist. Even if I really try! So it's not surprising that I'm also a grass-roots solarpunk anarchist who loves how games create community and shared experiences.

Google search on AuDHDShow

AuDHD refers to having both autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

It's all so tiresome.avi

One of their hack guestwriters:

SpoilerShow

@floaker.bsky.social‬
Hello all, time for a #TTRPGIntro!

I'm an award-winning game designer currently based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. I create games from a queer anarchist communist perspective, help organize Edinburgh Indie Gamers, and actively build spaces to promote new creators.
Links in 🧵 below.

Strange, I don't see what award you won.

[Complicity]

Those "White Fist" guys look cool, i think i'll roleplay as one of them.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

There are more cool pictures of them in the preview PDF, so stay tuned.

That's a pretty bad bow posture, xer would do well with some top surgery to complete the amazon-style

I think the implication is that she has Marzgurl-style arms.
I also noticed that pretty much all of the bows the anarchists are using have been looted from some sports shop. There's maybe one guy in the preview PDF who might have a self-made medieval-style bow, but it's hard to tell since it's a front shot and he has the bow strapped on his back (with the bow strung, of course, because that's totally not gonna fuck things up).

Oof, that's some high-grade whining, not bothering with it on a weekday, maybe I'll get to it later with more alcohol.

Seems like he's still salty for mismanaging the whole Kickstarter, leaving him with no profit despite raking in a million or so.

How in the McGuyver are they going to build solar energy grids out of sticks? Wouldn't that need specialized factories? And wouldn't golf courses be better used as farmland or plots for the solar panels instead of makig it a habitat for potentially poisonous and predatory animals?

That's why I suggested windpunk. They need to set up fucking windmills and farmland on those golf courses.

Sure, Jen Stabilzing society against anarchist freaks is fascist how? And stop appropriating the triskelion in your power fantasy, come up with your own heraldry.

Probably figured it looked close enough to a swastika without being too on the nose.

5 Reichsmark that this guy fag didn't even read his copy.

That's my feeling as well. It's written like he barely glanced over the pages.
Also WTF is that itch.io page of his? JFC.

Meet the team :3

Thanks for the hard work. I kinda forgot doing that myself.
Probably because I saw that pink-haired creature.