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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 Gods—or you're just mad about the cake—click 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 goal—$20K—and 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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🌈🚀 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. 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...
Hi Reader, It's good to see you. Please, have a seat. Have some iced tea. On the table is a little succulent called, I shit you not, goblin fingers. Other name, for real: Gollum jade. It's the most tabletop role-playing game plant I've ever met. The Defy the Gods Kickstarter ends on Thursday. It's been a roller coaster. In these last four days, I need to tell as many people as possible about it. Expect a few more emails from me this week. If you don't want to get them, you can opt out here....