one playbook in, another still to go


Hi Reader,

Welcome! Please, come in. Sit down. We've got some cold fizzy water and some pizza from this place up the road. On the table and chairs there's an oiled bronze sword, a boiled leather shield, a skeleton key mottled in verdigris ... let me get all that out of the way.

There.

As you can tell by all the detritus—We're just a week and a half away from the end of the Defy the Gods Kickstarter! So far, we've unlocked an embroidered patch, a spot-gloss upgrade for the standard edition, a new adventure seed, and a new playbook.

That playbook is the Demigod. Imagine you're Perseus or Hercules, but you've told Zeus to take a hike and are doing your own thing with your power. Rae Nedjadi is writing it, and I couldn't be more excited. Working with Rae is a dream come true. He helped me make the game. And now I get to see what he does with it.

We're on our way to an adventure seed by Sebastian Yūe, another person I've wanted to work with for a while. Then I hope hope hope we can get to another new playbook—the Thief.

The Thief is an urban creature who knows all the City's dark corners. They're a kind of sword & sorcery I've wanted to explore more—gritty, like film noir.

But, because this is a a romance too, their passion for burgling extends to their relationships. They have terrible boundaries. I think we've all known someone like this, and some of us have dated them. As the Thief, you dance across the line, that line that the law or your lover says you absolutely must not cross. It's an even more transgressive playbook than the Sorcerer, because it means sometimes antagonizing the other adventurers.

How will it play? I can't wait to find out. But I can't even write it until we hit that stretch goal.

Thanks for helping us get there!

Cheers,
Chrys

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