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Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. Make yourself comfortable. On the table, we have peonies and sheet cake. I'm celebrating (re)launching the Defy the Gods Kickstarter! Sorry I already ate half the cake. I lost control at 2 a.m. after I uploaded the last assets to the Kickstarter campaign. (If you're sick of hearing about Defy the Godsāor you're just mad about the cakeāclick here. I haven't tried it before, but my email service should take you off the list.) To make it up to you about the cake, I've posted a new video for Defy the Gods. You can see it on https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hecticelectron/defy-the-gods-rpg. Swoon to the amazing art and Yuri's voiceover! See how much better I've gotten with After Effects! (and how much better I need to get!) It's flawed, sometimes crudely made, and beautiful. The eagle-eyed will also notice this Kickstarter has a reasonable funding goalā$20Kāand no duplicate pledge tiers! God willing, I can make it through the campaign without any similar rookie mistakes. But enough about me! If we hit the funding level in the first two days, and you pledge at a physical-book tier, you'll get a free Defy the Gods patch! Put it on your trucker cap, jeans jacket or backpack, and you'll turn heads and topple crowns in one fell swoop. And the stretch goals! So far, Kevin Kulp, Rae Nedjadi, Sebastian Yue and Superdillin have all agreed to contribute stuff. Extra playbooks, adventure seeds, and creatures. I want to work with all these people so badly. Let's make it happen! On this sleep-deprived Tuesday, I'm cautiously optimistic that, a month from now, I'll be saddled with the delightful task of having to put Defy the Gods in a book you can read and play. Plunk that on my to-do list by clicking here and backing the game! Cheers, P.S. It's all been leading up to this. Click here to see the brand-spanking-new video and back the Kickstarter. P.P.S. At least it was just virtual cake. |
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šš Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
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 richerānot twenty...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. I've put some pink daylilies in a vase for Pride month. Dayliliesāpretty, but impossible to kill. We're all saying "Happy Pride!" with extra daylily-determination this year. It's a happy Pride, but with grit. Before it was a party, Pride was a protest. sorcerer discovering the occult properties of the rainbow And 5,000 years before that, in a land you build at the table, it was a battlecry against the gods! If you can't tell, I'm pumped to be re-launching...
Hi Reader, Welcome to my regular newsletter! It's a cheery place where we can talk about games and good vibes. I land in your inbox somewhere between once a week and once a month. Please, come in. Sit down. I've put a bunch of garden stars-of-Bethlehem in a bowl of cold water. There's a bowl of dice next to them. Don't put your hand in the wrong one! Tuesday, June 10th is my target date to relaunch Defy the Gods on Kickstarter. That gives us two weeks. With that ramping up, I'm getting into...