🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
defiance all over
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Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. Have some fizzy water. The irises are blooming, and M put some in a silver pitcher. So much else is blooming, too, but we'll let them grow. It's taken me a while to do game night because I'm recovering from surgery. This has meant enforced lying around, and that's a great opportunity to just soak it all in. I recently listened to Quinns Smith's interview of Jeremy Strandberg, author of Stonetop. Stonetop's Dungeon World-based mechanics don't exactly sing to me, but I think I have to get it because of its rich Iron Age-inspired fairies and myths. Jeremy takes an anthropological approach to fantasy, connecting every element of his game to every other. You unlock its—overpowered, kind of terrifying—magic items by completing various actions, sometimes over weeks in the story. Recently, I released Defy the Gods on Itch.io and DriveThruRPG. I also opened up the physical version for sale on my website, and Plus One Exp has started selling it too. And I sent the standard edition to Indie Press Revolution, who will list it soon. It's everywhere! What's not everywhere: the 20-some copies of the gold foil-wrapped special edition not yet claimed. Get yours soon, or wait for the stars to align for a reprint. And looking at my bank account, those stars ain't gonna align for a while. If I have any left by the time Origins rolls around in late June, I expect to sell out of them there! If you backed the game and haven't gotten your book yet, please let me know! We've sent out everything except the drawings for top-tier backers and the PDF of our stretch goals. More soon! —Chrys |
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🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
Hi Reader, It's All-Raccoons Eve! Tomorrow at noon Eastern, assuming nothing wacky happens in the meantime, the Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter will launch! I've just finished (whew) the free Haunted House Map that goes to everyone who backs in the first 24 hours. I hope you'll be one of them! Here's a low-res screenshot from the first floor. There's a second floor, an attic and of course a basement. It has its own Disaster Track and over a hundred cursed items to steal! If you haven't...
Hi Reader, Imagine it's after dark on the eve of All Hallows. Your car broke down, and now you're tramping through the woods in search of shelter. Ice-cold rain soaks through your too-summery clothes and into your bones. A sudden shock: Lightning outlines a looming manor house. Deafening thunder—or is it the manse's baleful façade?—roots you to the spot. Brambles choke its walls. Mazy gables top narrow windows from which fell figures stare out. And then...like an ill omen...a Chevy Bluebird...
Hi Reader, Particle accelerator, but make it flowers. Please come in. Have some ice-cold fizzy water. Yesterday, I went to Yellow Springs, Ohio. From their creek, I brought back messy stalks of orange jewelweed. They're floating in a ceramic bowl of cool water on the table. Little gems. Lyla McBeath Fujiwara is brilliant. I recently read her Substack post about playtesting tactics. Lyla has worked at the mind-boggling scale of the Cosmere RPG. She generously shares that experience, with...