Introducing: SV's Picks of the Month!

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December Picks of the Month

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Pick of the Month in Quests
Operation Weihnachtswunder (A CK2 Style Quest to Save Christmas!) by @Novus Ordo Mundi

THE NORTH POLE HAS FALLEN.

Amazon stands triumphant over the smoking ruins of Santa's workshop. Corporate greed stands poised to snuff out the last glimmers of hope and generosity. The shadows grow dark.

Your name is Ebenezer Scrooge, and you are Saint Nicholas' designated successor. Lead the fightback against greed, and save the spirit of Christmas, just as Christmas once saved you.

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Pick of the Month in User Fiction
The Two Of Us: a toxic yuri thriller by @BiopunkOtrera

Twin Sisters Marie and Alice were raised in a school for assassins, Alice was rescued, Marie was not.

Years later, the sisters encounter one another on the battlefield, and find themselves tied up both in sinister conspiracies and their feelings for one another.

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Pick of the Month in Debates & Discussion
Combat Doctrine and Army Composition for Merfolk by @Muhkat Lomorki

Have you ever watched The Little Mermaid and pondered the film's important themes?

Namely, how would King Triton be able to raise an army? Would it sustain itself in wartime by foraging in enemy fishing grounds? What would a "bronze age" Merfolk society look like, and would they use metal at all?

These are the questions that Sufficient Velocity exists to answer!

 

[Skippy]

January is often a month of recharging batteries after the festivities of Christmas, New Year's resolutions, and looking ahead to the year to come. So it gives me great pleasure to see that already 2025 is off to a fine start, with an amazingly imaginative new WH40K quest from @Cetashwayo, and a new novel from from @open_sketch! Not to mention we're still getting our proper quota of "nerd out and argue about RPG settings from the 2000s" provided by the wonderful @DragonCobolt as he reads through one of the more interesting tie-in supplements for a game you may never have heard of before.

Let's have a great 2025, and watch out soon for some fun events coming in February!

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January Picks of the Month

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Pick of the Month in Quests
Last Light of a Dark Age (Warhammer 29K/Disco Elysium) by @Cetashwayo

In a ruined wonderland preserving ancient innovations evil and divine, enter the splintered, Disco Elysium-esque psyche of a malfunctioning posthuman - and wander through the splendid wreck of mankind's golden future. You are a doll, a clone, a blank, a witch - and completely, and objectively, normal.

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Pick of the Month in User Fiction
🦋 Team Butterfly Forever 🦋 by @open_sketch

14-year old Eve Nakamura was told by a talking cat that she and her friends were inheritors of an ancient magical legacy, sworn to battle against the Forces of Darkness. 24-year old Eve Nakamura is a mundane college student, battling against student loans and relationship woes. But when a visitor from her past returns to warn her of the Dark Queen's resurrection...

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Pick of the Month in Let's Reads
LET'S READ: Wild Talents: Progenitor (Watchmen for TTRPGs) by @DragonCobolt

Delve into a grim alt-history of choice and consequence by Greg Stolze! Infectious superpowers transform the Vietnam War and the second half of the 20th century into a surreal, beautiful, and horrifying vision that is shaped by you, the player! Meet Dragon Cobolt's Favorite Blorbos!

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User Picks of the Month
Hour of the Wolf by @prometheus110

 

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Fuck it, gonna be dangerously sincere (and largely copy something I wrote on Discord):

Cetash, DC, and Erika all getting Picks of the Month is very well deserved. They're definitely some of the best and more interesting writers on the site and each of them does something unique with regards to subject, tone, and/or theme. I think they demonstrate some of the best that SV has to offer.

 

[Skippy]

Fuck it, gonna be dangerously sincere (and largely copy something I wrote on Discord):

Cetash, DC, and Erika all getting Picks of the Month is very well deserved. They're definitely some of the best and more interesting writers on the site and each of them does something unique with regards to subject, tone, and/or theme. I think they demonstrate some of the best that SV has to offer.

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Yeah, it was a complete accident in terms of when threads started, but it does feel strangely appropriate to start the year off with a PotM roster full of some of SV's heavy hitters. There are more than a few names I would add to the list if I were assembling SV's "Dream Team" so to speak, but it's a good representation of the forum at its best.

Honestly I've noticed that there have been a bunch of interesting new Quests starting recently, so much so that we might have to seriously consider running two Quests Picks for February. Perhaps it's because it's the New Year effect in play, and authors decide to start new projects around now? Either way it's a good problem to have, so I'm not complaining!