🌈🚀 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, 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...
Hi Reader, Whew! What a time it's been since we last got together. Unconscionably, I swiped a stalk of Lady's Gloves from a neighbor's hellstrip and put them in a milk bottle on the table. They look magical, but it's still theft. If you've been following along, you may think the Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter should have launched by now. Yesterday, even. But a Kickstarter is always more work than I remember, and let's be fair, I was pushing too hard in not enough time. So now the Dumpster...