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Troika: Dagrun the Astronaut: "Damn it! I'm an astronaut , not an orc!"
From The Compendium by Axes and Orcs.

( "You are told you are an orc because you arrived here through a 'magical mishap.' No one believes that you aren't an orc, but are an astronaut of the most powerful nation on your world. Or maybe they simply don't care." )
Troika: a surreal science-fantasy roleplaying game where you and your cosmopolitan group of fellow travellers fly on mystic barges, help dying gods, solve confounding crimes, plunder dead worlds, and meet strange & wonderful people.

Mork Borg: Eldar the Forlorn Philosopher: "So many riddles..."
( You once thought that cold analysis might tame Fate itself, now that dream of reason has decayed to shifting madness and only the cold remains. )

Elegy: solo-first TTRPG where you play as a young vampire surviving in a big city

Perils & Princesses: a fantasy role-playing game of gritty and pretty fairy tale adventure

Exquisite Biome: A game of speculative biology

To make a rice tart. Take a quarter pound of rice and cook it in water and take a few almonds and pound it all together well and beat eggs into it. And when it is almost finished baking, then pour hot fat on top, then it will form a hard crust, so that it becomes good.

From: Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin (1553 Augsburg Germany)

The rivalry between the two rich book collectors in the town is legendary. They will stop at nothing to one up the others. Now one of them has just got a rare book and is about to show it off publictly. Their rival is hiring you to steal it, but trouble is brewing.

Characters:
1. The proud new book owner, your planned target
2. The rival book collector, your client.
3. Your target's assistant
4. Your client's valet
5. Your client's tired elder child
6. Your client's younger child

Complication:

1. ...is a cultist and wants to use that book to summon an otherword deity.
2. ... plans to elope with their forbidden lover... after taking a huge sum of money.
3. ...makes your job more difficult by making additional request/counter offer
4. ... is possessed by a rival deity and is trying to destroy the book and anyone in their way.

Come On In: "a role-playing game about a grisly murder case that rocks the small coastal Louisiana town of Bon Soleil and unravels a conspiracy that cuts into the depths of the night.". Inspired by True Detective

Nyx : "role-playing game, set in a darkened realm of sleep and dreams. It is an interpretive game, wherein the strange setting is only just barely glimpsed, like a dream half-remembered when one wakes from slumber. It is up to the players and the Dream Master (DM), to interpret the vague setting details as they see fit, and form a vision of Nyx wholly their own."

Left Coast: a role-playing game about a science fiction writer in California, who struggles as the weirdness from her novels spills into real life. One player is ‘the Author’. The other players control all the supporting characters in the Author’s life. Each of her friends, family, fans and nemeses has a secret that puts pressure on the Author. They might also be part of the conspiracy that's invented as you play.

My Daughter, Queen of France (link to the free pdf): a game where a character ("Shakespeare") asks his friends to help him figure out why he and his dauther had a falling out

You Will Die In This Place: a survival-horror tabletop dungeon crawl RPG framed as the reconstruction of a lost and unfinished indie game, pieced together from fragments of notes, design documents, and personal reflections.

Stille Nacht (Silent Night): a GMless game about a ghost played by the facilitator speaking with a group of villagers in 1720 Germany, one of which killed them. Free

Lacuna Part I. (second attempt): "Sinister secret agents with shadowy employers and mysterious pasts. A bizarre landscape built from six- billion human minds. Arachnid-headed beings that guard a war-torn borderzone. And all the worst that Mankind has to offer, stalking the alleys and crumbling buildings of a place called Blue City.

Is it a dream? Is it a nightmare? Or is it just a game? And are you already playing?"

Sea Dracula: where you play funny animal lawyers prosecuting case in the nonsensical Animal City’s highest court. Players dance off to resolve conflict,

Trapped In A Cabin With Lord Byron, the RPG exactly as the title says. Free

Don't Rest Your Head: where you play insomiacs which insomnia gives you superpower but also traps you in a dangerous surreal city

unless it’s made of stone.

لاجورد Lāzhward

migrating from Persia,

smuggled from Farsi

to Arabic & thrown

like a wingless bird

across the sky-dark sea

until its version

spills from English mouths.

Lapis lazuli.

O trap of beauty,

you are a fiction ...

Exhausted at day’s end

of an oven-summer

I duck out of the house

into the truth of twilight

blue: no other name

than azure, azure,

and no other home

the color of this sky

struck above this earth,

no path to heaven

except through this dirt.

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DINOCAR: A chaotic art-making game for all ages!

Paris Gondo - The Life-Saving Magic of Inventorying: A Play-Based Method in SIX STEPS to BANISH ENCUMBRANCE FOREVER!

Rebels of the Outlaw Wastes: A rock-n-roll retro-dystopian rpg fueled by stickers!

Anomaly Hunters: A Breathless Game of Reality TV and Monster Hunting

i'm sorry did you say street magic: we breathe life into this city together

Cut some slices of salmon into cutlets the right size for serving, make paper cases to fit them, then cover each slice with the following mixture: two tablespoonfuls of salad oil beaten with the yolk of an egg, one teaspoonful of parsley chopped, one shallot chopped, and one anchovy (all these must be chopped as finely as possible), a half-saltspoonful of salt, and a grain of cayenne; mix, spread on the fish, envelop each piece in a well-buttered case, fasten up (by pinching the paper well), and bake half an hour. Serve in the papers.

From Choice Cookery by Catherine Owen (1889 New York)

( Here I love you )

( In no way does he mean to hurt you. )

( Cut for the poem )

Misery by Stephen King: Paul Sheldon is a romantic novelist kept imprisoned by his deranged fan, and literally needed to write what she wanted to survive. His escalating fear and suffering felt very real to me. The book is haunting and suffocating.

The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler: Popular mystery writer Charles Latimer, stumbles into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers when he wants to reconsctruct the career of notorious Dimitrios. A classic tale of an ordinary man finding that he is out of his depth.

Drood by Dan Simmons: a psychological thriller, historical mystery and Gothic horror. Wilkie Collins, the pioneer of detective novels, is depicted to descrnd into destructive obsession when investigating the mysterious Drood

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( They didn't have much trouble / teaching the ape to write poems: )

The Carpenter

A homeowner hired a carpenter to install a locking bolt for his door. But the carpenter installed it on the outside of the door, rather than the inside, meaning anyone could open the lock and enter.

The homeowner: "You must be blind!"

The carpenter: “It’s you who are blind.”

The homeowner, now angry: “Me? Why am I blind?”

The carpenter: “Why would you have hired me otherwise?”

~From Xiao Lin Guang Ji

"John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a self taught English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes. He left behind no letters, journals, or papers." (Wikipedia)

( Cut for the painting )

( An anti-competitive moneylender )

Czechoslovakian artist Jaroslav Panuška 's dark mythological paintings are very inspiring as horror prompts:
CREEPING DEATH: THE DECADENT MYTHOLOGICAL ARTWORK OF JAROSLAV PANUŠKA
( Cut for painting )
Spirit of the Dead Mother, 1900

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30 Characters for 30 Tabletop RPG Challenge (Pt1)
Six for Sunday: Pink/purple books
Weekend Cooking: Rice Tart
One shot adventure: The Book Collector's Fury
List of tabletop RPG with unusual premises
Never Describe the Sky as Azure by Philip Metres
Music Monday: Loreen - Tattoo (Official Audio)
Six for Sunday: Blue/Green Books
Weekend Cooking: Salmon en Papillotes
Poem: Here I Love You by Pablo Neruda
Like Lazarus by Sherman Conrad
Song of the Open Road by WALT WHITMAN
Top Three Novels with Writer Protagonists
Music Monday: Build It Up by Ingrid Michaelson
Poem: Teaching the Ape to Write Poems by James Tate
An 18th century Chinese joke
Painting: Thro' the Wood by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
A 15th century Italian Joke
Creepy Dead: Jaroslav Panuška 's paintings
Top 5 Chinese BL Web Novel Authors I Love

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30 Characters for 30 Tabletop RPG Challenge (Pt1)

Six for Sunday: Pink/purple books

Weekend Cooking: Rice Tart

One shot adventure: The Book Collector's Fury

List of tabletop RPG with unusual premises

Never Describe the Sky as Azure by Philip Metres

Music Monday: Loreen - Tattoo (Official Audio)

Six for Sunday: Blue/Green Books

Weekend Cooking: Salmon en Papillotes

Poem: Here I Love You by Pablo Neruda

Like Lazarus by Sherman Conrad

Song of the Open Road by WALT WHITMAN

Top Three Novels with Writer Protagonists

Music Monday: Build It Up by Ingrid Michaelson

Poem: Teaching the Ape to Write Poems by James Tate

An 18th century Chinese joke

Painting: Thro' the Wood by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

A 15th century Italian Joke

Creepy Dead: Jaroslav Panuška 's paintings

Top 5 Chinese BL Web Novel Authors I Love