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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 3h
theory fiction, game design thoughts, and a spoiler for the revised violence system known as KILL THE BUDDHA for 2.1 www.patreon.com/makapatag/po...
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let a million flowers bloom — spoilers for 10,000 swords against heaven | makapatag
below is theory fiction, updated lore, the greatest of sects—the heavenly sects—and a sneak peek into the revision-expansion of the combat s
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 3h
let a thousand flowers blossom 10,000 swords against heaven, the cultivation ttrpg
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
me writing characters for 10k swords: hmm yes, lesbian sword princess wasian hitler. who is in love with sapphic chinese marx. and engels was an alien xianxia cultivator. also che guevarra is jetstream sam. and lenin is a sexy black sorceress. and stalin is vajrapani
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
anyway important bit of self clarification: the Revolutionary is a Buddha
At it's core, 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is NOT about presenting xia, buddhas, bodhisattvas, demigods, semidevils, and other martial heroes and villains as revolutionary, but rather Revolutionaries and the united Working Class as xia, buddhas, bodhisattvas, demigods, semidevils, martial heroes, and villains.
The term for this time by almost every scholar and theorist and historian across the Trichiliocosm is a variation of the same thing: they call it the Red Kalpa.
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
like they see the title and the communism and think "this has to be ultra simulationist crunchy with hit locations and segmented armor and weapon types and rules for social disposition and leverages and so on" and im like yes youre so right actually this will be the greatest thing i ever write
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
before finding an audience i was afraid ive been spinning the sicko mode dial too much. now i know i haven't turned it enough. i need to break the sicko mode dial off its hinges
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
my favorite part abt writing 10,000 swords against heaven is finding out it attracts real freaks. like real sickos. not those tryhard silly sickos the real freaks who like multistep attack resolutions and bonus modifier stacking. and social mechanics
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
its like. it feels like a resident evil thing. like it feels like what playing a re game would
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
its like. it feels like a resident evil thing. like it feels like what playing a re game would
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the resident evil movie is actually kinda perfect
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the resident evil movie is actually kinda perfect
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
need a single long day where all i have to do is work on micrographics
MICROTEXT MICROGRAPHICS for some strange matter fabricator branding for 10k swords
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
thinking about the trichilicosm
I think with both the aesthetic design and the written world building im tryna go for a whole hog critique of minimalism as capitalist capitulation even in writing there is the whole western "remove what doesnt fit the plot" and "show dont tell" etc etc and like that feels like the blade of capitalism shearing and shaping what is literary expression into digestible mass-consumption for a (bourgeois ideology poisoned) masses
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
applying democratic centralism to ttrpgs
## Ludodemocratic Centralism

In general, should the table find a situation not covered by the Systems of the game—and you will, for the Trichiliocosm is vast and infinite—then the entire table can debate as to how to solve it according to the Principles of the Game and the already existing systems. This can even lead the Table to create new Systems and new Mechanics, which are encouraged.

However, once an entire table settles on a System, and the Intercessor employs it upon the game, then the entire table must side with the decision. The Intercessor is the instrument that carries out the decision of the council that is the table, but it is also the arbitrator and protector of the decision of the table. Once a decision has been made, everyone on the table must perform in adherence to this, especially during play.

Concessions and Dissents are welcome but only outside of table-play, so as to not halt or ruin the flow of the World. Again, this should invite debate across the entire table. This also assumes that all entities on the table are versed in the Systems and Principles of a ROMANCE OF THE LOTUS THRONE game.
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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 11/09/2026
Inevitable is our Doomed Arthurian Western #TTRPG where your party of disastrously sad cowboy knights try (and fail) to stop the apocalypse. soulmuppet-store.co.uk/products/ine...
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i like to call 10,000 swords against heaven marxist xianxia bc that's got three x's and that makes us cool and sexy
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i'll make sure of it once i have everything done!
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
maybe i can cap off the final rulebook of 10k swords as my big epic ttrpg magnum opus. an excessively simulationist immersionist game in the now lost tradition of Artesia or Fading Suns or even Vampire: The Masquerade. then i can just go back to writing webnovels/flashfics/poems
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
as someone who has made three streamlined procedure focused game-first games and continues to play those kinds of games
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
wouldn't it be funny if i did a ttrpg that was super crunchy simulationist in opposition to the streamlined procedure focused game-first design of modern ttrpgs
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
true
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i think the people in the vid and theyre enjoyment of dnd are real just a shallow understanding of capitalism and a weird liberal application of it to ttrpg
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
in real life 21st century human beings (homo sapiens sapiens) actually have multiple "forms" akin to saiyajin super modes. they are as follows: goblin mode (submode gremlin mode) -> beast mode -> demon mode -> god mode -> sicko mode
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
marx's concept of general intellect really is enamoring. knowledge becomes a productive force. the collective knowledge of all of humanity...
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
another big tip: when the IP completely dominates the majority of a hobby to the point that a video about it acts like its a different hobby completely from its parent hobby (which, from a market standpoint, it is) then that's another capitalism win. the endpoint of capitalism is monopoly
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
big tip: capitalism isn't just when "big corporations benefit!!" even just by selling your hobby as a commodity is doing capitalism. hell living in capitalism means you're doing capitalism, that's how world systems work
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
one of the most horribly libslop ttrpg videos you'll ever find. they argue that dnd beat capitalism by establishing a monopoly! this is also when you can really feel that people in the global north can ideologically think of capitalism as separate from reality
how d&d accidentally broke capitalism video on youtube pls dont search it up
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
cookin and bricklayin for 10k swords and RotLT
- **Category 3** or **CAT 3** are **Immortal Civilizations.** These are the most powerful of civilizations and in truth are heirs to much older, much more despotic universal kingdoms that gained their power through millennia of violent conquest. There are only 6 Immortal Civilizations, each one governed by an **Immortal Demiurge Bourgeois** (as called by the Communists and Revolutionaries). The Six Supreme Souls have attained the highest attainment of Cultivation for themselves, that is: **Unsurpassable Universe Soul.** They have complete control of themselves and have a myriad of unsurpassable martial arts and magicks. If they were so powerful, why would they need intricate kingdoms and societies and connections? That is because Ten Thousand Swords will still rip them apart.
    - **Metanarrative:** The world today is split into a handful of megacorporations and their monopolies. These are the supranational entities that influence even the workings of the state, though their relationship is dialectically symbiotic, with the various Celestial Civilizations reifying the Immortal Civilizations’ legitimacy by repeating their realities, and the Immortal Civilizations granting these Celestial Civilizations the funding and resources needed to expand.
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Chew @doll-pasture.pluraldolls.gay · 06/08/2026
someone can make the coolest ttrpg system youve ever seen and people will still bitch and moan at the mere concept of playing anything that isnt 5e or pf2e
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TTRPG Wiki @ttrpgwiki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New on the Wiki: 10,000 Swords Against Heaven by JK Saavedra Cultivators confront gods and capital in a ruined science-fantasy archipelago No initiative order: anyone can interrupt a declared action; cascades resolve last-in, first-out. #TTRPG #ttrpgwiki #tabletop #rpg #indie
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10,000 Swords Against Heaven — Fantasy RPG Overview | TTRPG Wiki
Cultivators confront gods and capital in a ruined science-fantasy archipelago. Best for Groups seeking cultivation campaigns with reactive tactical combat...
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
the world of darkness meme subreddit had a post that was just werewolf but lancer and im getting really bad ideas
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
incredibly, 10ksah is now on THE ttrpg wiki ttrpgwiki.com/systems/10-0...
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10,000 Swords Against Heaven — Fantasy RPG Overview | TTRPG Wiki
Cultivators confront gods and capital in a ruined science-fantasy archipelago. Best for Groups seeking cultivation campaigns with reactive tactical combat...
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
wrote some bandit adversaries for 10,000 swords against heaven the cultivation rpg www.patreon.com/makapatag/po...
bandits cover for 10000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
wrote some bandit adversaries for 10,000 swords against heaven the cultivation rpg www.patreon.com/makapatag/po...
bandits cover for 10000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
after life naturally comes death. in russian cosmism, one of the ultimate goals is the annihilation of death, or rather, the end of death as an obstacle. if the communists do not do this, then if given the chance, the capitalists will. the bourgeoisie consider nothing sacred
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
no combo more elite than JJK x Filipino Rap Music
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the most literate people in this space are people outside of america who have english as their second fucking language
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
for such a reading focused hobby its weird to see that ttrpgs are now filled w people that can't read
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
also inspired by my recent-ish foray into cosmism and its parallels with indian cultivation towards sagehood/buddhahood, burmese cultivation towards wizardhood, and chinese cultivation towards xianhood, all dealing with immortality in one form or another
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ACROSS THE HEAVENS THERE IS NO GOD BUT THE PROLETARIAT TECHGNOSTIC OCCULTISM TROPICAL BAROQUE COSMISM 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN, THE CULTIVATION RPG cultivate SIDHI to unlock LUCIFER CONSCIOUSNESS, organize under REVOLUTIONARY SECTS and learn SUPERNATURAL MARTIAL ARTS
10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN ALT COVER featuring multiple quotes from Marx's writing
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
experimenting on an [alt cover] UNTIL ALL THE HELLS ARE EMPTY [COMPLETELY FREE] DRIVETHRU: drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... ITCH: makapatag.itch.io/10000-swords...
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ACROSS THE HEAVENS THERE IS NO GOD BUT THE PROLETARIAT TECHGNOSTIC OCCULTISM TROPICAL BAROQUE COSMISM 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN, THE CULTIVATION RPG cultivate SIDHI to unlock LUCIFER CONSCIOUSNESS, organize under REVOLUTIONARY SECTS and learn SUPERNATURAL MARTIAL ARTS
10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN ALT COVER featuring multiple quotes from Marx's writing
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN—the cultivation rpg cultivate your SIDHI, benefit from being organized under revolutionary SECTS, learn countless supernatural MAGICKS and TECHNICKS to strike a blow against the Heavenly Bourgeoisie that has stripped the masses of Cultivation.
10K SWORDS COVER
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i love microtextslop discord if u want: discord.gg/EnS7bDKJuK
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
drivethru: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... itch: makapatag.itch.io/10000-swords...
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN—the cultivation rpg cultivate your SIDHI, benefit from being organized under revolutionary SECTS, learn countless supernatural MAGICKS and TECHNICKS to strike a blow against the Heavenly Bourgeoisie that has stripped the masses of Cultivation.
10K SWORDS COVER
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
true violence destroys u just as much as it destroys the other. to destroy the colonizer is to destroy the colonized. to destroy the man is to destroy the woman. to destroy the bourgeoisie is to destroy the proletariat. autophagous violence is the only path to the next world
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
THE DEN OF DEVILS is a demonpunk action survival horror minidungeon built for one- or two-shots for 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN. It's inspired by THE RAID, THE NIGHT COMES FOR US, and the Shinjuku Medical Center portion of SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI III: NOCTURNE.
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
you can't vote with your wallet. there is no pro-consumer capitalist. the capitalists dont give a fuck about that. they'd rather kill you first
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
gen AI is a symptom of capitalism and not the other way around. its an easy and cheap way to generate content for a world society that is hooked onto digital opium as a way to persist wihin worsening conditions under capitalism. its a commodity fetish printer
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