🌈🚀 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 a seat. The snow is finally starting to melt around here. On the table, we have a tin of shortbread cookies, and in the kitchen, your choice of tea, coffee or hot cocoa. So hey, a few weeks ago I got a little preachy about promises and contracts. Although I wasn’t talking mainly about Jay Dragon, I did imply she'd done some things, or failed to, based on conclusions I drew from the Rascal article I mentioned. I was too hasty. The Rascal piece was more...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. On the table, I have a bowl of kiwis—the indie game designer of fruits. They're hard to peel, but I swear it’s worth it. (If you’re into OSR, just beast it and bite right through the fuzzy skin.) I know this talented up-and-coming game designer named Faye Weaver. Faye is a Horizons Fellow this year, like I was last year. And she’s been getting frustrated about, well, the crickets. I think everyone who puts a game out there feels this way sometimes, so I...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in, out of that snow. My it's cold out there—winter is biting down. But it's cozy in here. Have some hot cocoa. I made it with warm milk this time. Did you read the Rascal article about Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast? It's the kind of cautionary tale that keeps me up at night. If you don't have a Rascal subscription, do get one. But for now, here's my best sum-up: Possum Creek Games, led by Jay Dragon, made some big promises to the writers and artists who helped...