🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
after origins, getting oriented
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Hi Reader, Whew! Please come in, out of that gale. Here at the table, there's a tranquil bunch of violets and some herbal tea. Those winds are Origins Game Fair blowing through Columbus like a hurricane. Also—related—Defy the Gods blowing past its second stretch goal. This week has bowled me over. I sold out of all my raccoon dice and enamel pins. I sold over fifty Quick Starts for Defy the Gods. Several people also backed the Kickstarter right there at the booth. Since I don't have a finished game to sell, I wouldn't even have exhibited without the Horizons Fellowship giving me a free booth. If you're a publisher or retailer, or you want to be, and you're from a "historically underrepresented" community—including women!—you should apply. It's opened so many doors for me. Plus you'll get a roster of helpful alumni, like me. Also at Origins, enough people asked about the raccoon game that I'm convinced I can't dally after Defy the Gods. I have to press on and make the new Raccoon Sky Pirates. I'm already getting excited for this. It's gonna have cardboard play mats. Disaster cards that you place on a boiler gauge, pushing it up into the red zone. A ship all the raccoons contribute to. And tokens ... but should they be little raccoon minis, or bottle caps with character-related designs on them? 🤔 Getting carried away by raccoons ... But! One thing at a time. First, I want to make Defy the Gods the best queer adventure it can be. I can't wait to finish it. Compared to Raccoon Sky Pirates, it's a niche game. It's so personal. And I had to make it, for me. But it ended up being for you and so many others. I'm thrilled at all the people who're responding to it. Thanks for being one of them! Cheers, P.S. We unlocked Kevin Kulp's stretch goal for Defy the Gods! An adventure seed about wonders and horrors from a past age, coming to light. From the award-winning designer of Swords of the Serpentine. P.P.S. If you haven't backed the Kickstarter yet, you can help it get to its next stretch goal! Let's see what Rae Nedjadi does with the Demigod playbook! |
Everlasting, Neverending Game Night
🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. Have some fizzy water. I brought back a tall hollyhock stalk from Sweden and put it in a glass carafe on the table. Don't mind the stray leptons shooting around. The particle accelerator in the basement has lost focus again. I'd tune it, but the leptons show the hollyhock in such a nice light. This past weekend was Gen Con! And I wasn’t there! Instead, I went to the town of Visby, on the island of Gotland in Sweden, to see two dear friends get married....
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in, into the A/C. On the table, I've put bunches of honeysuckle in a jam jar. We used to pull the flowers apart and suck the juice from them. Today, in the most Raccoon Sky Pirates result possible, the ship carrying the Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter exploded before making it halfway to its destination. That is, I canceled the campaign. s.If you backed it, thank you! And I'm sorry I had to cancel. If you didn't back it, no worries. I'll retool and come back...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. I put stalks of crown-pink in a jar on the table. If you can see them. Don't mind the smoke. The raccoons are in the back yard, getting their ship together. Tomorrow morning at 9 am Eastern, the Kickstarter for Raccoon Sky Pirates: Total Chaos Edition will finally launch. I made a hilarious video for it. I can't post it here, because it's too big. But you can see it on the Kickstarter page tomorrow morning. Yuri Lowenthal, the voice of Spider-Man, narrated...