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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · Sep 13

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · Sep 13

in some cool news MAHARLIKA RPG, a Filipino technomystic mecha warfare in a neofeudal galactic future is out on DrivethruRPG! EXCEED THE HORIZON AND LONG LIVE, MAHARLIKA!

#ttrpg #mecha #rpg #gamedev

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 2d

severed roots thirst for answers in a world
drenched in godsblood and revolution.
sword in one hand. sutra in the other. cut a path
through the heaven-ruin. may you attain
violence.

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA—keris-and-talisman dark fantasy. maoist wuxia. a free web epic. 🔗⬇️

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 2d

may they all make it out alive.

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 2d

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

God Obliterating Vajra [Sagepunk Dark Cultivation Fantasy]

Updates every WEDNESDAY, on 10:08 PM UTC +08:00 The world ended after the Second World Revolution failed. The Utter Islands is nothing but a divine corpse; humanity its festering maggots. But in an an...

www.royalroad.com

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 2d

severed roots thirst for answers in a world
drenched in godsblood and revolution.
sword in one hand. sutra in the other. cut a path
through the heaven-ruin. may you attain
violence.

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA—keris-and-talisman dark fantasy. maoist wuxia. a free web epic. 🔗⬇️

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 2d

forgot i had one of these as a royal road ad

large sintra kennin in front of akazha

with the text

BROTHER LOOK AT ME

GOTH WITCHES ARE TEMPORARY

DRAGON BUDDHAHOOD IS ETERNAL

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 2d

did you guys know that for the majority of the book i'd statted out characters here using a devil mishmash of exalted 3e + d&d 4e + artesia body hit location and hit location armor rules that only i could really decipher and thats why raxri almost died at chapter 5

red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · Jul 14

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA is a Buddhapunk Dark Fantasy Wuxia web serial set in the Utter Islands: the last island continent of the planet, built upon the body of a tortured god. Demons have escaped hell, ghosts refuse to be reincarnated, and demon chakravartins rule.

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

Akazha beating down Raxri for BOOK 2 OF GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA: THE GLOAM EXORCIST

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 3d

the only good paladin archetype is the Kamen Rider™️

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 5d

Awakened with no memory in a world built on a god's corpse. Raxri's past is a murder mystery. Their future is a revolution.

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA is a gritty blend of mud-and-lotus philosophy and kris-and-talisman action.

Poppy War X Cradle X The Blade

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 4d

check out some neat southeast asian dark fantasy wuxia

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

God Obliterating Vajra [Dark Esoteric Progression Fantasy]

HELL RISES TO TEAR YOU APART. HEAVEN CONSPIRES TO MURDER YOU. DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD. KILL THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD.UNTIL ALL BEINGS ARE FREE. The world ended after the Second World Revol...

www.royalroad.com

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 4d

the fundaments of whorl's cosmology

the black circle is the masses—masses of interdependent, intercrossing, contingent phenomena that are Real. it is black because it is Nothing. some call it God or Love

the white rectangle—the throne. it is empty. Nothing sits atop it.

a rectangle beneath a filled circle. the words: REACH VIOLENCE. NO MUD NO LOTUS.

and NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN above the circle.

this is the truth of the whorl

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 4d

check out some neat southeast asian dark fantasy wuxia

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

God Obliterating Vajra [Dark Esoteric Progression Fantasy]

HELL RISES TO TEAR YOU APART. HEAVEN CONSPIRES TO MURDER YOU. DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD. KILL THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD.UNTIL ALL BEINGS ARE FREE. The world ended after the Second World Revol...

www.royalroad.com

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 4d

the fundaments of whorl's cosmology

the black circle is the masses—masses of interdependent, intercrossing, contingent phenomena that are Real. it is black because it is Nothing. some call it God or Love

the white rectangle—the throne. it is empty. Nothing sits atop it.

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 5d

idk what batshit divine madness shit i was trying to cook up in canva

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 5d

Awakened with no memory in a world built on a god's corpse. Raxri's past is a murder mystery. Their future is a revolution.

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA is a gritty blend of mud-and-lotus philosophy and kris-and-talisman action.

Poppy War X Cradle X The Blade

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · Jul 14

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA is a Buddhapunk Dark Fantasy Wuxia web serial set in the Utter Islands: the last island continent of the planet, built upon the body of a tortured god. Demons have escaped hell, ghosts refuse to be reincarnated, and demon chakravartins rule.

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 5d

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA is kinda like if you did a vengeance wuxia story but in a maoist southeast asian lens instead of the usual imperial era lens and also if the world was suspiciously like our world in post-capitalism

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 5d

SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is kinda like disco elysium + final fantasy tactics + exalted (mortal) + early levels d&d 4e + nsr + kingdom death monster + early game elden ring + maoist wuxia it makes sense when you see it i promise

www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 5d

GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA is kinda like if you did a vengeance wuxia story but in a maoist southeast asian lens instead of the usual imperial era lens and also if the world was suspiciously like our world in post-capitalism

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1044...

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 5d

SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is kinda like disco elysium + final fantasy tactics + exalted (mortal) + early levels d&d 4e + nsr + kingdom death monster + early game elden ring + maoist wuxia it makes sense when you see it i promise

www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 6d

"can u explain this gap in your resume?" of course you see that's the rupture in my symbolic order where i briefly touched the Real

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KOKOTÖNA is LIVE on Kickstarter 📌 | E💀C @elchupalabras.itch.io · 6d

We close the day with more followers than those we lost, fantastic!

We're almost three quarters to our 200 followers goal before the #Kickstarter for #KOKOTÖNA goes live on Oct. 12th

Thanks #TTRPG folks for all your help, more surprises coming soon!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/elc...

#RPGLatAm

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 7d

of course, the ability to slot in multiple passives and to change Cultivations easily is stolen from the Job System of Final Fantasy Tactics

read the whole rules text here:

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the dark fantasy maoist wuxia world of whorl

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red holy fool 👺 @makapatag.bsky.social · 7d

for SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN, the mud-and-lotus, kris-and-talisman "gritty wuxia tactics" ttrpg, more 4e dna comes thru in the Cultivations (diegetic classes, only available to those that seek it). split into the Cultivation's "Grounds" (what is cultivated/4e Power Source) and "Duty" (their Role)

# V - Cultivations

***THIS IS HOW YOU WILL BREAK THE WORLD.***

Do you understand?

Cowards scramble for the power immanent

in the brave and the bold.

***Cultivations*** are the disciplines, traditions, sects, schools, initiations, mandalas, martial arts, and so on of the whorl. There are many of them.

They are the paths for cultivating power. But the better among us cultivate for enlightenment.

The best among us cultivate for compassion.

The unsurpassable among us cultivate for violence.

You choose one cultivation as your **embodied** **cultivation.

You get the **empowerments*** **of that cultivation.

* Passive effects. Always happening as long as you embody it. The privilege of suffering.

The cultivations here are also the most common ones used

during the first and second world revolutions.

Cultivations used to be highly guarded secrets. Once privy only to the priestly caste

or the princely caste. Or the new capitalist caste. And now, in post-capital,

the ruling caste.

But the revolutions split that apart. Now any being, according to their want, can

choose to walk down the royal road of cultivation.

To cultivate power. Or enlightenment. Or benevolence. Or violence.

# Grounds

Each Cultivation also has a **Grounds.** This is explicitly ***what the Cultivation cultivates.*** All Cultivations cultivate some form of power and enlightenment. But how this is expressed *or* what is Cultivated alongside power and enlightenment and benevolence is different per Cultivation.

There are **Four Cultivation Grounds.** There will be more**—**

**Physical Cultivations** focus on cultivating the physical abilities and prowesses. To the point of superhuman capability. Enlightenment through Perfection.

**Magick Cultivations** focus on cultivating the magick skill and ability. To tap the Reality past Unreality. Enlightenment through Rituals.

**Spirit Cultivations** focus on cultivating the ability to deal with inhuman entities as well as the ability to visualize, manifest, and contend with beings greater than one’s own. Enlightenment through Reverrence.

**Psychic Cultivations** focus on cultivating one’s Mind to glean greater mysteries and smash the barriers of Enlightenment. Enlightenment through Meditation.

In this rules manual, there are sixteen cultivations. There will be more, eventually:

The **Damagers** are: Blade Devil, Eschatonist, Fusilwitch, Monsoon Dancer

The **Protectors** are: Adamant Body, Glaresage, Merciful Shield, Vajra Boxer

The **Controllers** are: Charnelseer, Exorcist, Machinist, Smirking Devil

The **Leaders** are: Astrologian, Firebrand, Magochemist, Physicker

# Duties

The Revolution split all cultivations according to ***Duty*** to the **Party.** **There are four duties:

***Damagers*** struck down the machines, soldiers, and weapons of reaction. Skirmishers, assassins, artillery.

***Protectors*** stayed in the front lines and kept everyone safe. Soldiers. Fighters. VanGuards.

***Controllers*** changed the battlefield, sabotaged the world, and handled tactics. Saboteurs, adepts, tacticians.

***Leaders*** conducted the mass line—healing, enabling, bolstering the ranks. Healers, force-multipliers, strategists.

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