Yea, AND:
I would 100% of the way let some mini games be board like: Here's a but of worker placement, there's a push your luck game.
I mean, I read it as "They used the breach as a way to cancel it after seeing the embarrassingly bad content; if it had been good, it probably wouldn't have been a big deal."
But that is a reading, not a set of facts.
RIGHT?
Every word of this is correct.
License withdrawn, followed by a whine post from the guys who had been making the RPG.
Chaser:
bsky.app/profile/farm...
Shot:
bsky.app/profile/wyrd...
The argument I held on to the longest was "good looks way different from a timeless, testing-souls-for-eternity perspective", until I arrived at "Yeah, but that's no different from God being completely alien to the point that calling it good is a complete hash to begin with".
Might be my screen, which is huge and long-since adjusted to give me good contrast...
I didn't think I was particularly good at colour recognition, but, huh?
It's kind of amazing, innit?
My other half, who is only semi-geeky, thinks the series is a lot of fun. Not... Any other descriptor. Just that.
So I'm pretty firmly on the side of "They should definitely exist" but also "I'm just not that interested".
I mean, I'm a big fan of 3d6 roll-under, but I started in GURPS.
The reasons are basically "Geekify took a very long time and what they had to show was a badly-reskinned 5e D&D combat-centric half-a-draft."
As to refunds, "We already spent the money" is a pretty solid lock on it not being there to give back, but still, hardly fair to backers.
...Though they'd need to WANT to wade into that snarl and fix shit, which the gods know would be horrible.
I'm just saying, if a game company with a good kickstarter track record wanted to pick up the NeoPets license in the current fallout, there's a whole bunch of art they could potentially pick up fairly cheap-ish, ideally with an eye for that money to go to refund some people somewhere...
(I enjoyed the more recent movie plenty, but the old one... Completely batshit B-Movie majesty.)
Ah, yes, the tale of Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
There's a thought!
Upcoming Branding Zine: Methods for shaking loose a good title.
Is there an online thesaurus that includes weird, outdated, and obscure words?
Dictionaries, yes. Thesaurus, though?
#ttrpg fam! My latest release is live on Itch and DTRPG! I had a lot of fun working in the Mörk Borg space for this one.
The version up now is a bare-bones document, but I'm already working on expanding it.
2ndlevelbard.itch.io/the-dreadful...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Digital version in app, not PDF, has huge "One day, your book might stop working" energy.
Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, probably will go wrong.
Trump's Law: Anything that could be Trump's fault, probably is Trump's fault.
Plus it can be used to introduce the English to full-contact Cricket.
There we go.
Hell, I'm CERTAIN that if I tried to professionalize my stuff (consistent branding, stronger sales copy, actually keeping to a marketing plan), I could double those numbers. And I'm moving slowly towards that, but on an "I found a method that's easy for me" basis; it's not like there's money in it.
I *think* if I was focused on D&D freebies, those numbers would be multiplied by something. x2? x5? x10? No idea.
Sales numbers on "copies sold" of books are always interesting to me.
I'm pretty experienced in free-stuff land, and here, 3K downloads is something I could pull off trivially (Itch + Drivethru + mailing list + spreading the announcement around). 10K takes work. My biggest sits at ~30K.
