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A fascinatingly disturbing take on the "Papers, Please" subgenre.

Much of the surrealist experience shines through with an oppressive atmosphere and uncanny art style, reminding me of similar artists like MeatCanyon. It is very clear this project was far more about the creator just having fun with a concept than actually trying to deliver a super polished experience, shown by the beautifully shocking and mutated character portraits (pre or post execution). Music choices and heavy use of dark colors very much emphasized the bleak and depressive setting. For the most part, artists of all types should feel compelled to enjoy their own work first, rather than focus on mainly appealing to audiences. 

There were moments of tonal inconsistency in the out of place humor (characters saying "lmao" or saying chronically online buzzwords), and some of the cases felt far more like they were left up to chance (evidence and testimony would show they're innocent but they'd still end up secretly guilty). Customization was a nice flare, however RPG Maker's engine did hold the game's UI back from being more engaging to use, as having to type out names became tedious without a dedicated keyboard support option.

I think for a proof of concept project this has a strong potential to remain evergreen, though it depends on what comes of the creator's future choices.

Well that was certainly a half hour of my life

I've actually never heard of OSR until this moment. I apologize that it more than likely won't function for OSR by the sound of things, however I do have plans in the future for a revamp of the system which acts as its own game disconnected from 5e. For the time being that is mainly an experiment, so Svellera has no current plans to move out of 5e.

You are welcome to join the devlog server to get in contact, however. I'll be interested to see what there is to offer.

Please visit the dev server if you have discord, and contact Loko K.O.

Correction: Absorbent Counterspell IS 5th level

Look into the Hyper condition in the "Expansion-based Conditions" section of the document. You'll find exactly what you're looking for.

The link has been fixed. I would ask to try it again.

Love the concept, I could honestly see this being a mod to Wii Sports Restort. You'd be able to walk around the island and when you get to a specific location a prompt will pop up to where you can select the sport associated with that location. Say you walk up to the basketball court and you can select to play a game. Kinda like Nintendo Land on Wii U, where you can swap between either using the menu to instantly choose the game or walking around the plaza and moving yourself there. If you plan to go further with development, definitely consider adding random miis scattered around doing their own thing. It could be as simple as just them doing a basic walk cycle in a set area, but it'll at least help players not feel alone.