Side Quest Books & Games ➡️ PAX East

A screenshot of an email from an ad agency to Evil Hat Marketing: Hey Evil Hat team, Promised this is the last time you’ll hear from me. We are wrapping up generating content on the house. The AI studio is starting to get fully booked with our paying clients, and I have strict orders to stop promoting this come the weekend. I figured Evil Hat might as well get some work out of us at no cost while you can. Want in before we close it up? Best, [redacted] And then our reply: Hi [redacted], We will never use AI for our games or for our marketing. It's toxic to our customer audience and it's an ethical violation of the hard work put in by the human artists we hire to illustrate our books and the human writers who design our games. In short, it's not "free work" it's theft. Feel free to take me off your mailing list. Hope you turn around your business model because frankly, your current approach sucks shit. -Tom

sometimes you have to be clear about your values

Done! 🙌

i know people are intentionally lumping things like spell check in with AI to make opposition feel ridiculous but honestly don't push me. i'd strangle clippy with my bare hands if it meant getting rid of AI

WAR PIGS: A GMless TTRPG of Chaos and Goblins WAR PIGS is a two-stat tabletop RPG for 1-4 players. Escape from behind elvish enemy lines using some d6s, dumb luck, and your WAR PIG.

Next up is War Pigs by @sidequestbooks.bsky.social!

We're fans of goblin-centric games and horrible little guys™, so this one caught our eye right away! Escape from behind elvish lines with your goblin buddies on your trusty WAR PIG. So much cute gobbo art!

🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sid...

Woooosee you there!

Thanks for the WAR PIGS shoutout!

Come play the forbidden “Everyone Is Seaguls with us at Pax East

Featuring
@missysteak.bsky.social
@officialpax.bsky.social
@brianliberge.bsky.social

Game designed by
@gshowitt.bsky.social
Game produced by @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

I love you fucked up indie TTRPGs

Thanks friend!! 💚

WAR PIGS IS FULLY FUNDED, INCLUDING ALL STRETCH GOALS! From here on out, $50 out of every $100 goes to an immigrant justice organization. From the bottoms of our green goblin hearts: thanks, y’all 💚

To back or add the sweet supplement add-on, go here:
bit.ly/3LRStEF

AND WE SMASHED THROUGH ALL OUR STRETCH GOALS AND WE’RE ADDING MORE GET ON THIS RIDE IT’S A WILD ONE 💚

#zinequest #ttrpg #indiegame

Thanks for the shaaaare!! 🥹

UHHHHHHHHHH

okay okay okay caroline okay DON’T PANIC

I… guess we go for the stretch goals now??

(Thanks for getting us to goal so quickly, fam! We don’t know what to say!!)

We’re already over halfway to goal?? What is happening?? Is this what it means to sow seeds of positivity and support in a community you love and to then offer up a piece of your silly little heart and have that community want to support you in return?? Is that what this is??

🥹

WAR PIGS, the #TTRPG we (Caroline, Lara and Morgan) made, has OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED ON KICKSTARTER! We’re officially part of #ZineQuest and everything! So! Official!

Back us here (don’t miss the add-on Morgan made me include for 13 coloring pages of goblins 💚) bit.ly/3LRStEF

Also: team goblinsonas 🥹

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Ooh, just saw “without Asimov there would be no science fiction,” and no, you stale crouton, you waterlogged saltine, without Mary Shelley—harassed by her husband and Lord Byron—there would be no science fiction.

You’re confusing fandom for canon.

Yessss come hang out at my other job with an incredible group of folx before #PaxEast ❤️

me coded characters

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GOB! LIN! GAMES!

In Boston on the Wednesday before PAX? Join us for our annual Pre-PAX TTRPG Industry Meetup! Free RSVP here: bit.ly/3M7eAXI

Appreciate you, friend!!

The artist isn’t on bsky but their name is Morgan and they’re @gildedgrackledesigns on IG and they’re my friend and they’re AWESOME

SO! GORGEOUS! Preorder with us by 2/10 for swag 😏 bit.ly/49juA1z

@gilarpgs.bsky.social GOB! 👏 LIN! 👏 GAMES! 👏

Coming soon: WAR PIGS: A GMless TTRPG of Chaos and Goblins WAR PIGS is a two-stat tabletop RPG for 1-4 players. Escape from behind elvish enemy lines using some d6s, dumb luck, and your WAR PIG.

THE GOBLIN GAME HAS LEFT THE GROUP CHAT!
@laralarks.bsky.social, Morgan and I made a chaotic, GMless Honey Heist hack where your band of goblins must escape from behind elvish enemy lines using some d6s, dumb luck, and — you guessed it — your WAR PIGS! #zinemonth
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sid...