🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
after the frenzy, what's left?
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Hi Reader, Welcome! Please come in. It's rainy and blowy outside, and someone said we could get snow. But it's toasty in here. On the table, we have a pile of decorative gourds. I marked numbers on them with a Sharpie so you can roll them like dice. After months of frenzied work on Defy the Gods, I'm suddenly left with nothing to do. The text is complete, the book is laid out. We're waiting on the index and the last four pieces of art—out of 75! Sometime in the next 10 days, we'll submit the book to the printer. And some small, unfamiliar thing in me says it’s past time to pick up my old practices again. Weed the yard, exercise, and get back in touch with old friends. Let Me Tell You About ItIt's been an exciting time since I last sent you anything. Here's just a little of the amazing new art we've commissioned: It's gonna be such a beautiful book. I can't wait for you to see it. To that end, I'm raising the cover price. The price of RPGs has gone up steeply since a year ago, and the book is longer than I expected—over 300 pages!—with a lot more art. It'll include two chapters that we got as stretch goals: the guide to fantasy ancient Sumer and Ryan Khan's supper recipe. They felt important enough to the overall experience to include them in the book. For the GM, the book has scene ideas for several places your adventurers may go and trouble they may get into. All of which is to say—the book will be 50% more expensive than the Kickstarter price. if you want to get it at a steep discount, head to the pre-order page! In Other News: RaccoonsI’m startled to find that, if I want the new Raccoon Sky Pirates to be ready for Christmas season 2026—and I do—I need to plan the Kickstarter now. In fact, I'm already behind. It's been fun to work on prototypes for the new game. I have this idea that all the components should look like they were stolen from somewhere else—magazines, other games—and thrown in the box. But it's all coming up so soon! Things are never gonna calm down. Not if I’m lucky. Guess I’d better get back to all those things I was putting off. Talk to you soon! May your gourd ever roll high, |
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🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please come in, sit down. Have some cold fizzy water—it's way too hot out there. On the table are echinacea blooms—they're back! Since the Defy the Gods Kickstarter wrapped, I've been keeping a low profile. Writing the text, fixing things, finishing sections that were rough. I mean, that's what I'm doing now. At first, I just took the weekend off. Went to a movie. I found myself working on an old card game idea—a fast-paced sword duel played in real time instead of turns....
Hi Reader, What began as a silent shaking in the earth has grown to thunderous, resounding hoofbeats. The armies of Doom approach. Time to draw steel. That is—the Defy the Gods Kickstarter ends on Thursday! If you haven't read my emails for the last year, or I just didn't tell you, Defy the Gods is a queer sword & sorcery tabletop role-playing game set in fantasy ancient Mesopotamia—a game full of daring adventure, messy romance, and cursed power. It's a game where a single sword stroke or...
Hi Reader, It's good to see you. Please, have a seat. Have some iced tea. On the table is a little succulent called, I shit you not, goblin fingers. Other name, for real: Gollum jade. It's the most tabletop role-playing game plant I've ever met. The Defy the Gods Kickstarter ends on Thursday. It's been a roller coaster. In these last four days, I need to tell as many people as possible about it. Expect a few more emails from me this week. If you don't want to get them, you can opt out here....