🍁 Levi Kornelsen

Look, I'm just saying, in older editions at least, violin AND bow, because any "attack a shit-load of times" build also wants to go two-handed.

(I like this approach to target audience best because it doubles up neatly with "Empathize with you audience" stuff.)

"I mean, it's for me?"

"And people like you?"

"Yeah!"

"Like you in what way SPECIFICALLY? Height? Prior media diet? Sharing a specific take on games? Completely fried by design*?"

*This one's mine.

For sure!

Phil, my pencil's giving me a funny look.

Style guides and game colour palettes are branding, for example.

(They're also graphic design, and, and, and. But they're branding too.)

Ah, shit, I kinda want to do "Branding" as a thing to apply to games next, if only because I know way more about it than I enjoy actually doing, and hacking out a zine on it might be, like, therapeutic.

"As someone who lives in a sunless universe beyond moral comprehension, I took that seriously."

Last draft page, other than the introduction; gonna be looking for feedback readers by the end of the day!

Also, you can take the carrots out of the carrot cake recipe! It's allowed! I do shit like that all the time!

But you do not then get to whinge that it isn't moist.

The analogy of RPG to recipe book is fine, but you do need to specify if it's cooking (change all sorts of shit! It's cool!), baking (you can add some stuff, but watch that temperature and time, or you're in trouble!), or pastry (If you change ONE item here, you will have soggy or charred lumps).

Okay, so.

That looks very nice.

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I'm still not great at it! But it's stylized enough to squeak by!

I learned to draw just to have okay art in my stuff for free!

Maybe two or three thousand if you include people doing D&D fan-merch, which has real margins.

But probably five times that in creators that are aspiring to full-time independence, slowly burning out because it's not working, and salty about it.

Ask me why my stuff is almost all free.

Wait, I tell a lie. There are some forums that are fully septic where I've seen hints of this when I wandered by. So I guess it started festering there.

It never made a major impact on the letters column of Dragon magazine, onto Bulletin Board systems, USEnet, or forums. So, new to social media, though probably only in the sense of "Conditions were not right for it to fester from individual bullshit into scene bullshit"

Ditto.

And show me your draft!

Ehn; there is no path through any Extremely Online hobby that won't make somebody angry, so far as I can tell, and you are getting fully plugged in to the Extremely Online branch of this one.

Block early, block often, all that jazz.

There's a particular stripe of grungy indie folks who basically get really jealous and mad if anyone shows up to the scene with money already in their pockets.

I don't understand this at all; those are ready customers for your weird shit, but *shrug*

They decided that capital attracts capital, and that was the cause of his launch success, and made up whole-cloth a story about him buying good reviews (entirely bullshit); just complete Crab Bucket clout-chaser trash.

Yeah; this one hurts.

'Evil Dead' Icon Bruce Campbell Reveals Cancer Diagnosis, Cancels Future Fan Events Bruce Campbell revealed Monday that he has been diagnosed with an incurable but "treatable" cancer.

Well, fuck.

www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

*Snort*

The warning:

There may not ever be any more *for* the game. A crew of bitter jackasses hounded the creator off social media because, basically, he had a really good job (editor for a tech website), and that bothered them a lot. So it's gone cold.

And main book is free in PDF, so no worries there.

Home Quest is a thrilling adventure with your friends that you won't forget. Get the game and join the fun.

Not on usual sites:

www.adventure.game

It's a light, mostly traditional game, but it's got a lot of little "You need to actually say your battlecry to use the battlecry ability" kinds of things. It prompts you to ham it up, the way a streamer would.