FestiveNinja

Festive Ninja: Return to the Stars, 2020 Indie Groundbreaker nominee and the Stellar Beacon 'zine.

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[FestiveNinja @ninja_festive]

Return to the Stars, a tabletop science fiction role playing game, helps players create their own stories in an optimistic space opera setting. Pop culture collides with political machinations to determine the fate of the galaxy!

#hopepunk

https://t.co/gjg0tAidC0

[FestiveNinja @ninja_festive]

In ancient times: Most religions developed concept or myth of the before-times when life was easy and perfect for everyone, free from sin.

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#fanfic

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He's a shameless flirt, and seems to have a girl in every spaceport.

Read the full article: Character example: Gamal Bolívar Elnecash
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#GamilBolivar #StarshipEngineer #BigWrench #FixThings #GreatOutdoors #ShamelessFlirt #Starport3Survival

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To the extent his powers become public knowledge, scientists and reporters might be drawn to “discredit” him.

Read the full article: Compels and Aspects
▸ https://t.co/3gW6bVuhF8

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Humankind soon spread through the solar system: terraforming Mars and Venus, and modifying and enhancing life to thrive in varied environments.

Read the full article: The setting of Return to the Stars!
▸ https://t.co/9RC3fncc2Y

#PlanetaryEngineeringTechniques

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Starships of the original merchants were fitted out for raiding, and a scourge of pirates set out to prey on an unprepared galaxy.

Read the full article: The Dank Lords of Gulch
▸ https://t.co/3uhg9ytIDo

#UnpreparedGalaxy

[FestiveNinja @ninja_festive]

So we’ll also count the Wikipedia referrals as driven by people who “wanted to know more about this hopepunk thing” after reading the article.

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#ttrpg

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It can be helpful to assign your major players a card during the character build process.

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#TarotCards

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Hopepunk says that kindness and softness doesn’t equal weakness, and that in this world of brutal cynicism and nihilism, being kind is a political act.

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#hopepunk

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While she values the quality of this luxury experience, and her company see this as a way helping their highest performers lean in, her husband, a botanist, is very dubious about technology replacing nature.

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#SfFilmRecommendations

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At the same time Illustrations from my game were the first two pieces of art for the article, and was the graphic presented on the Polygon home page.

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#ttrpg

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This chart show this the referrals this generated to my website, either directly from Polygon, or because people (presumably because of the article) are Googling the name of my game.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/2kIREOZtuE

#ttrpg

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[Behdet] Cryo-sleep pods are being jury-rigged into ad-hoc morgues, as the planet-wide strike by the professional mourners guild enters its third week.

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As of Monday, it is available on the site, and visible from the tabletop gaming section, but no longer “above the fold” or immediately visible on the front page of Polygon.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/idIFpUJWu8

#ttrpg

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Diodati] Digital computers can't survive hyperspace, so the Convention Scout Service has developed the "Bootstap Box" a complete solution enabling low tech worlds to achieve self-replicating computation in little over a decade.

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[Nirage] The repressive government of this planet consolidated power by instituting massive surveillance in an attempt to protect themselves from an onslaught of forged holovideos showing them committing crimes, adultery, and other acts.

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<Skagerak Orbital Base> Station-link is a abuzz with rumors as to why Zero-Gee Water polo star Mia Raheem has abandoned her sport.

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Running the numbers: What happens when a tiny indie RPG hits the front page of Polygon?
▸ https://t.co/KzPzSg9Rkz

#ttrpg

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<Pop Culture Parade> Fashion week highlights include cosplay uniform design for the Isicathamiya choral filking competition.

[FestiveNinja @ninja_festive]

While she values the quality of this luxury experience, and her company see this as a way helping their highest performers lean in, her husband, a botanist, is very dubious about technology replacing nature.

▸ https://t.co/ItSXEmGfB7

#SfFilmRecommendations