🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
getting up the mountain
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Hi Reader, How are you? Please, come in. Have a seat. I'll take your raincoat. The weather's been all over the place lately. These innocuous-looking white flowers on the table are bloodroot. Don't break the stems—the sap is poisonous. What a sword & sorcery flower. Last week, I went to GAMA Expo as a Horizons Fellow. "GAMA" is the Game Manufacturers' Association, and "GAMA Expo" is a professional conference of retailers, publishers, and distributors. The Horizons Fellowship is part of GAMA's DEI initiative. They kept saying "DEI" all the time, too, just to tick off people in Washington. It was pretty sweet. People celebrated us, I made friends, and GAMA covered most of our costs. I got to tell tons of people that Defy the Gods is coming soon. However, I think I have to push back the date of the Kickstarter, by about a month. There's just too much to do, and I'm running out of time.
It's been all Defy the Gods for me all the time. I've started a "megathread" on Blue Sky where I talk about it—the themes, the mechanics, and best of all, all the people who helped me make it. You can see it here. Next week, I'll be a special guest at Breakout Con in Toronto. I'm running Defy the Gods of course, but I'm also planning to playtest my Toronto Expansion for Raccoon Sky Pirates, with a raccoon-eye view of the city. It's a challenge to make raccoons in Toronto more over the top than they already are. My current idea is that the coyotes and seagulls band together to challenge the raccoons for control of Toronto. Should be a blast! If you're going to the con, I hope I see you there! Cheers, P.S. That sign-up page again: https://prelaunch.hecticelectron.com. Okay thanks! :) |
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. Sit down. We've got some cold fizzy water and some pizza from this place up the road. On the table and chairs there's an oiled bronze sword, a boiled leather shield, a skeleton key mottled in verdigris ... let me get all that out of the way. There. As you can tell by all the detritus—We're just a week and a half away from the end of the Defy the Gods Kickstarter! So far, we've unlocked an embroidered patch, a spot-gloss upgrade for the standard edition, a...
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...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in, make yourself at home. On the table, next to some humble, xeroxed character sheets, is a tiny ceramic pot holding a lush orchid. I've been thinking about the densely packed experience lately. Like movies. Even though they're today's prestige storytelling format, even a great movie is just two hours (okay, two and a half) of light and sound. But in that time, it takes you on a rollercoaster. When it drops you off at the end, you feel richer—not twenty...