🌈🚀 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! 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. So close you can taste it 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...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. Make yourself comfortable. On the table, I've put a pint glass with bugleweed and butterweed blooms. They'll take over your garden if you don't get them out—especially the butterweed. But they're cheery for all that. As the Defy the Gods Kickstarter continues, life here has returned to normal. Sort of. There's a rhythm. I'm posting to social media every day about Defy the Gods, which is its own kind of discipline/fun. I get to share details from the...
Hi Reader, It's good to see you again. Please, sit down—let me move these stacks of paper. And these. I'll put them—somewhere. On the sofa. As you can see, this place has been a hive of activity since the Kickstarter launched on Tuesday. I meant to get together with you before now, but there's just been so much to do. Oh hey, didn't I tell you? The Kickstarter is live! If you haven't already, please go check it out—including all the art I'm showing off there. Yesterday, Jay Dragon released a...