🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
defy the gods is dead. Long live defy the gods
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Hi Reader, Welcome! It's good to see you again. Please, sit down. All the irises are in bloom, so I've put a few in a cut-glass vase. Spring is in its full glory. It's on a beautiful day like today that I had to cancel the original Defy the Gods Kickstarter. It just wasn't going to hit its goal. Not the way I'd set it up. Valiant backers (like you) kept pledging, even as it became clear it wasn't going to clear the tree-line. I admit it, I got cocky. My raccoon empire made me proud. I imagined printing a lot more copies of Defy the Gods than I really needed to. So I'm relaunching soon—probably in about three weeks, but as soon as I practically can—with a more modest funding goal. I know we'll hit it. Especially if you and the other backers come back. Can you tell how much I want this game of queer sword & sorcery adventure and romance to become a reality? How much I want to put it in your hands? Canceling is tough, but it's all about the experience you can have with the game. I want you to get to play it. So. We're going to finish it. The new Kickstarter page is at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hecticelectron/defy-the-gods-rpg. Please sign up now so you don't miss out! Cheers, P.S. Last Monday, I sold my last copy of the Raccoon Sky Pirates box set! All physical raccoons are away—the end of an era. But you can still get the complete PDF! P.P.S. The new home for the Defy the Gods Kickstarter is here—go check it out! |
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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. 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...
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...