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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. I put stalks of crown-pink in a jar on the table. If you can see them. Don't mind the smoke. The raccoons are in the back yard, getting their ship together. Tomorrow morning at 9 am Eastern, the Kickstarter for Raccoon Sky Pirates: Total Chaos Edition will finally launch. I made a hilarious video for it. I can't post it here, because it's too big. But you can see it on the Kickstarter page tomorrow morning. Yuri Lowenthal, the voice of Spider-Man, narrated...
Hi Reader, Whew! What a time it's been since we last got together. Unconscionably, I swiped a stalk of Lady's Gloves from a neighbor's hellstrip and put them in a milk bottle on the table. They look magical, but it's still theft. If you've been following along, you may think the Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter should have launched by now. Yesterday, even. But a Kickstarter is always more work than I remember, and let's be fair, I was pushing too hard in not enough time. So now the Dumpster...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. I had some flowers on the table, but this raccoon ate them. I call him Reggie. Careful, he bites. If you started coming to game night because you backed the original Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter, then this game night is especially for you. Because Raccoon Sky Pirates is coming back. The legendary box set, all black and white, that came in a little mailer box, will be available in the upcoming, imminent Kickstarter. It looked like this: But that's not...