David J Prokopetz
@prokopetz.bsky.social
Main site at https://prokopetz.net
There've been some questions lately regarding what the expected tone of Eat God (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) is, so for the next draft we've put together a discussion of the topic. This will, of course, do nothing to prevent disagreements at the table, but let it not be said I didn't try!
February 9, 2026 at 3:28 AM
There've been some questions lately regarding what the expected tone of Eat God (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) is, so for the next draft we've put together a discussion of the topic. This will, of course, do nothing to prevent disagreements at the table, but let it not be said I didn't try!
Catching up on the latest "Girl Genius":
February 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Catching up on the latest "Girl Genius":
"Eat God" on Rule Zero.
January 27, 2026 at 4:31 AM
"Eat God" on Rule Zero.
Some previews of the expanded random inventory tables from the forthcoming revision 0.7 of "Eat God" (penguinking.itch.io/eat-god). As these screenshots are a little too text-heavy to fully describe in the ALT tags, their full text is provided at the link below:
penguinking.games/files/eat-go...
penguinking.games/files/eat-go...
January 16, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Some previews of the expanded random inventory tables from the forthcoming revision 0.7 of "Eat God" (penguinking.itch.io/eat-god). As these screenshots are a little too text-heavy to fully describe in the ALT tags, their full text is provided at the link below:
penguinking.games/files/eat-go...
penguinking.games/files/eat-go...
If she seems unusually relaxed for ostensibly being terribly wounded, she's also on powerful drugs right now.
January 7, 2026 at 9:31 PM
If she seems unusually relaxed for ostensibly being terribly wounded, she's also on powerful drugs right now.
Go home, itch, you're drunk.
January 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Go home, itch, you're drunk.
Boring: Determining whether the player successfully comforts the grieving widow by making them select one of three dialogue options on a timer.
Not Boring:
Not Boring:
December 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Boring: Determining whether the player successfully comforts the grieving widow by making them select one of three dialogue options on a timer.
Not Boring:
Not Boring:
A frequent request for the next revision of "Eat God" has been a bit more guidance for dealing with those stat blocks some playsets throw at you which represent large groups of NPCs. Thus:
![Excerpt of page 129 from revision 0.7.0 of "Eat God":
[begin heading] Group NPCs [end heading]
Some NPCs will be flagged as “group” NPCs. This indicates that the given statistics represent a group of characters who – while they may be given individual names and motivations as needed – are more or less identical for rules purposes and typically act in concert.
A group NPC is treated as a single large NPC whose listed qualities already include the advantage of numbers. If the God-eaters can arrange a situation where a group NPC is unable to bring those numbers to bear, its effective Threat rating is reduced by one point, or by two points if the God-eaters manage to catch a member of the group alone.
The God-eaters' own actions are similarly hindered: efforts to inflict Stress upon a group NPC suffer −1 impact if the action affects only a small part of the group, or −2 impact when harassing a single group member. Stress inflicted in this way is marked against the group as a whole, not against individual group members, even when only a single member is targeted.
This reduction is a normal impact penalty, and can be mitigated in all the usual ways, such as by spending Obstinacy on a test or tagging a mitigating Form. For example, effortful use of [begin keyword] Hundred-handed [end keyword] might allow a God-eater to wrestle a group NPC without penalty. Cooperative tests (p. 79) may also offset such penalties, as might any action which would logically be effective at dealing with a large group, such as giving a speech to a mob.
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Group NPCs do not represent a specific number of individuals, and it is not necessary to pick off every member of a group NPC in order to cause it to Stress Out – group morale can be a fragile thing. At the player's option, Stressing Out a group NPC by targeting one of its members might be described as the group beating a tactical retreat, fleeing in disarray, or simply suffering a breakdown of coordination.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
A frequent request for the next revision of "Eat God" has been a bit more guidance for dealing with those stat blocks some playsets throw at you which represent large groups of NPCs. Thus:
The Penguin King Winter Sale is on! All games are 50% off, including "Costume Fairy Adventures" (a game of dress-up and shenanigans) and @zachrpg.bsky.social's "Cerebos: The Crystal City" (a surreal travelogue RPG about an allegorical train bound for a mythical destination).
itch.io/s/176871/pen...
itch.io/s/176871/pen...
December 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The Penguin King Winter Sale is on! All games are 50% off, including "Costume Fairy Adventures" (a game of dress-up and shenanigans) and @zachrpg.bsky.social's "Cerebos: The Crystal City" (a surreal travelogue RPG about an allegorical train bound for a mythical destination).
itch.io/s/176871/pen...
itch.io/s/176871/pen...
New Steam trading card just popped into my inventory and I'm not gonna lie, "surprised" is not the emotion I'd intuitively read here.
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
New Steam trading card just popped into my inventory and I'm not gonna lie, "surprised" is not the emotion I'd intuitively read here.
You might think 5 is oddly specific, and you'd be right, but monster writeups where the author has clearly been deep diving about mushrooms are genuinely a recurring pattern in fantasy TTRPGs. To pose a fairly early example, consider this entry from the AD&D2E Monstrous Manual (1993) for "Fungus":
December 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You might think 5 is oddly specific, and you'd be right, but monster writeups where the author has clearly been deep diving about mushrooms are genuinely a recurring pattern in fantasy TTRPGs. To pose a fairly early example, consider this entry from the AD&D2E Monstrous Manual (1993) for "Fungus":
Tabletop RPG where the character playbooks include Child With a Knife, Monkey With a Gun, Cat That Can Just Do That, and Rat That Makes All of The Rules.
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Tabletop RPG where the character playbooks include Child With a Knife, Monkey With a Gun, Cat That Can Just Do That, and Rat That Makes All of The Rules.
The Youtube algorithm's ongoing struggle to figure out what the fuck my advertising demographic is is going great.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The Youtube algorithm's ongoing struggle to figure out what the fuck my advertising demographic is is going great.
A frequent comment in playtesting "Eat God" (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) is that character creation is a bit wall-of-texty. In draft 0.7, it's been given an editing pass for added breathing room. Also pictured: a preview of the new chapter layout, courtesy of @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A frequent comment in playtesting "Eat God" (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) is that character creation is a bit wall-of-texty. In draft 0.7, it's been given an editing pass for added breathing room. Also pictured: a preview of the new chapter layout, courtesy of @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social.
Not that kind of blog, I'm afraid.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Not that kind of blog, I'm afraid.
Plugging away at a second set of random inventory tables for "Eat God" (penguinking.itch.io/eat-god), if anyone has any useful suggestions to offer and/or dumb references they're dying to see included.
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Plugging away at a second set of random inventory tables for "Eat God" (penguinking.itch.io/eat-god), if anyone has any useful suggestions to offer and/or dumb references they're dying to see included.
PS2-era JRPGs where the dialogue portrait is wearing an expression of exquisitely wrought anguish, and then the character's actual 3D model in the background is just
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
PS2-era JRPGs where the dialogue portrait is wearing an expression of exquisitely wrought anguish, and then the character's actual 3D model in the background is just
A sneak peek of the revised "Random Creeds" table from the forthcoming playtest draft 0.7.0 of "Eat God" (penguinking.itch.io/eat-god).
Text version for screen reader users here: penguinking.games/files/eat-go...
Text version for screen reader users here: penguinking.games/files/eat-go...
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A sneak peek of the revised "Random Creeds" table from the forthcoming playtest draft 0.7.0 of "Eat God" (penguinking.itch.io/eat-god).
Text version for screen reader users here: penguinking.games/files/eat-go...
Text version for screen reader users here: penguinking.games/files/eat-go...
Lest I be accused of speaking of that which I know not of.
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Lest I be accused of speaking of that which I know not of.
Some interesting questions have come in the course of playtesting Eat God lately.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Some interesting questions have come in the course of playtesting Eat God lately.
Look, I'm not saying the mechsploitation meme's relationship with its ostensible source media is beyond critique, but when folks go so far as to assert that the "fucked up combat doll with an inappropriate relationship with their handler" bit has NO basis in the genre's canon whatever, I'm just like
October 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Look, I'm not saying the mechsploitation meme's relationship with its ostensible source media is beyond critique, but when folks go so far as to assert that the "fucked up combat doll with an inappropriate relationship with their handler" bit has NO basis in the genre's canon whatever, I'm just like
"Eat God" has been in playtesting for over a year and this morning is the first time that anyone has ever pointed out that Fluttering Flight doesn't actually define what "short range" means. Let's fix that!
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Eat God" has been in playtesting for over a year and this morning is the first time that anyone has ever pointed out that Fluttering Flight doesn't actually define what "short range" means. Let's fix that!
Me, half-joking: If we're REALLY committed to accessibility, the alt text for erotica ought to be just as horny as the visuals.
Art blog I saw just now: *describes its posts in the flustered idiom of DeviantArt softcore circa 2005, complete with referring to penises as "peens"*
The monkey's paw:
Art blog I saw just now: *describes its posts in the flustered idiom of DeviantArt softcore circa 2005, complete with referring to penises as "peens"*
The monkey's paw:
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Me, half-joking: If we're REALLY committed to accessibility, the alt text for erotica ought to be just as horny as the visuals.
Art blog I saw just now: *describes its posts in the flustered idiom of DeviantArt softcore circa 2005, complete with referring to penises as "peens"*
The monkey's paw:
Art blog I saw just now: *describes its posts in the flustered idiom of DeviantArt softcore circa 2005, complete with referring to penises as "peens"*
The monkey's paw:
1st try: Vastly overestimated interest; only hit first goal of a long ladder at the very end of the campaign.
2nd try: Vastly underestimated interest; blew through entire stretch ladder on day 1, had to scramble to recruit more guest writers while the campaign was still running (fun).
3rd try: ???
2nd try: Vastly underestimated interest; blew through entire stretch ladder on day 1, had to scramble to recruit more guest writers while the campaign was still running (fun).
3rd try: ???
October 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
1st try: Vastly overestimated interest; only hit first goal of a long ladder at the very end of the campaign.
2nd try: Vastly underestimated interest; blew through entire stretch ladder on day 1, had to scramble to recruit more guest writers while the campaign was still running (fun).
3rd try: ???
2nd try: Vastly underestimated interest; blew through entire stretch ladder on day 1, had to scramble to recruit more guest writers while the campaign was still running (fun).
3rd try: ???
This is one of my favourite magic items from the era of D&D before they figured out how to do keywording, partly for the list of modifiers as long as your arm, but mostly because, okay, +2 versus regenerators and +4 versus undead make some thematic sense, but then it's randomly +3 against birds?
![An excerpt from the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition" Dungeon Master's Guide, reading: "Sword +1, flame tongue, +2 vs. regenerating creatures, +3 vs. cold-using, inflammable, or avian creatures, +4 vs. undead: This sheds light when its possessor speaks a command [...]" (the sentence is cut off by the end of the text column)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2eo6pqby4dzwy4lz2f44p53x/bafkreifc5uxtf4fivq6e445luwbdlbzn5iygmlwppii2h3otuihfmoxf5e@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This is one of my favourite magic items from the era of D&D before they figured out how to do keywording, partly for the list of modifiers as long as your arm, but mostly because, okay, +2 versus regenerators and +4 versus undead make some thematic sense, but then it's randomly +3 against birds?