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Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. I'll put the kettle on ... you're an hour early, aren't you? No? It's me? I'm an hour behind? I'm still tripping over the time change. Last week, I went to GAMA Expo, the business con for tabletop games. I got to show off the advance copies of Defy the Gods and collect pre-orders. I also got to tell people a new version of Raccoon Sky Pirates is coming! I drove down with Faye of Goblin Door Games, a Horizons Fellows this year who I've mentioned before. Her anti-cosmic horror game Before the Worms got a fantastic response! Road trips are a wonderful, intense experience in a moving bubble. We eat snacks. We talk about deep stuff, with hours to kill. Avery Alder's Ribbon Drive captures the big feelings and infinite possibility of the open highway. Defy the Gods is on its own road trip, across the Pacific. I'm so excited to share it with you! Everyone at GAMA cooed over the art. Queer sword & sorcery never looked so good! It'll go out in May. The enormity of what we've made is starting to hit me. It's got so much: a sourcebook for the setting; creatures and enemies; scene ideas; a one-shot scenario starter; and a cursed arc of doom for each adventurer to travel. It's. Just. I mean, it's a lot. You'll see for yourself soon, when you get to hold it in your hands! Meanwhile, we're banging away on Raccoon Sky Pirates. So many raccoons to stuff in the box!
It's so trashy. And so luxe. Luxurious trash! We're currently planning to launch the Kickstarter in May. It depends how fast we can get the prototype together. Sign up here to be notified when it goes live! A retailer friend at the Expo advised me to re-issue the original mailer box version too. What do you think? "Total Chaos Edition" and "Classic Janky Edition"? I want to price it the same as it was, but I still have to get quotes and see. The price of paper's gone up since five years ago! But it'd definitely be a lot cheaper than the Total Chaos Edition. Otherwise there's no point. More soon! xoxoxo P.S. At GAMA Expo, I also talked up Cole's work as a project manager. If you're making an ambitious game, you need a project manager. Cole's a good one. P.P.S. Get excited for Raccoon Sky Pirates! Sign up to be notified here! |
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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. Have some fizzy water. The irises are blooming, and M put some in a silver pitcher. So much else is blooming, too, but we'll let them grow. It's taken me a while to do game night because I'm recovering from surgery. This has meant enforced lying around, and that's a great opportunity to just soak it all in. I recently listened to Quinns Smith's interview of Jeremy Strandberg, author of Stonetop. Stonetop's Dungeon World-based mechanics don't exactly sing...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. Isn't it beautiful out? Let's sit on the back porch today with some fizzy water and lol at all the dandelions. They get so tall when they’re ready to let go. I got some great games recently in the mail: Zhenya's Wonder Tales by Jason Morningstar and Last Train to Bremen by Caro Asercion. Slavic folk tales, cozy tragedy, liar's dice and a deal with the Devil! This is my favorite part of crowdfunding campaigns—when a little box of magic arrives at your door....
Hi Reader, Welcome! The daffodils are blooming in the front yard. They look good in this metal pitcher, don't you think? Defy the Gods is at the distributor's warehouse, at Plus One Exp in Philadelphia. I had a great talk with Tony last week, sorting out how distribution is going to work. They're a well organized team—they got this. Plus One Exp also brought a couple display copies of Defy the Gods to PAX East last weekend. Maybe I didn't print enough of the special edition! Tony said people...