Fred Hicks

(It aired 9 years ago, during the first full year of T-bag's 1st administration and I experienced it going in cold, and it yielded much-needed joy I am not in a hurry to surrender to the time that's elapsed since! But I fully get how it might not hit like that for everyone.)

It’s easy to have a jaundiced view of it when you already know what you’re about to watch. There are better targets.

"Canada is America if its parents had loved it" -- Jess Salomon

GM's Day Sale ends in 5 days!

My #TTRPGs & scenarios are up to 40% off on @drivethrurpg.com:

bit.ly/SpotlessDice-DTRPG

Includes Ringmaster & my two best-selling Fate of Cthulhu timelines, now available in a gorgeous hardcover or PDF (requires Fate of Cthulhu #ttrpg by @evilhat.bsky.social).

Alright, fine, take my money!

Yeah, BOOOO, dude who was in the director’s chair for INSIDE OUT, thd most therapy-informed kids’ film ever, and UP, the first fifteen minutes of which broke all of us

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.

If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

Apocalypse World is to be inducted into the Academy of Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame at Origins this year!

Congratulations to @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social (who I've known longer than a bunch of you little punks have been alive 😘)!

A single man has not wrought this. We, as a society who put that man in power, have done this. Forgiveness would be a blessing we do not deserve nor, I hazard, will be bestowed.

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

The new TMNT Unmatched Adventures from Restoration Games is in the wild and I happy to say that I worked on the Technodrome battlefield map and a few of the alternate art cards!

Updated our convention list to include 6 in Canada including Breakout Con in Toronto March 19-22.

www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Conven...

Getting you at that table was a huge highlight for me even if it never did turn into a lucrative lay-up to get you onto CR et al 🤣

Weird way to say you’re a hero but okayyyy

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Fate Core getting play on Tabletop with Wil, Felicia, and @johnrogers.bsky.social — run by the terribly talented Ryan Macklin — was a big, earlier highlight for me as well, not the least because I got to be on set while I happened. And for us, yeah, it also helped make a distributor connection or 2.

That said,

2) I'm a big ol' Dropout dork and if Dimension 20 ever took a swing with one of our games instead of D&D or their various Kids on Bikes hacks, I'd be so far over the moon I'd be the first manned mission to Mars by default.

Over on :Dropout they played a one-shot of Thirsty Sword Lesbians on an episode of Parlour Room, which was a delight, but I don't feel like I've seen much of a sales transformation from that event, possibly due to nobody looking for an RPG episode on a mostly boardgames show, or other stuff.

1. I think (among other things) a Shut Up & Sit Down blog review of Blades in the Dark gave that game a real boost, as have some other incidents I recall less well. For Monster of the Week it was The Adventure Zone, as you know.

Quick questions for TTRPG publishers that I’ve asked privately but it’s been a bit:

1. If a form of coverage (AP/review/other) has transformed your sales overnight, what was it?

2. If you could wave a wand & have one creator/creative/media outlet praise or play your TTRPG, what would you wish for?

Always happy to supply :)

I would not have guessed dice towers were this old

Last day of GAMA Expo! Defy the Gods is out for sale in May.
- Queer sword & sorcery.
- Adventure & romance in the Bronze Age
- Inspired by Clash of the Titans.
- Messy romance & cursed power.
Retailers, we’re taking pre-orders today: 5% off 5 copies, 10% off 10. Come see the advance copies!

It’s important to remember that billionaires are parasites with a vested interest in persuading you they are predators.

Simple embroidery in a frame, resting on doilies, with these words in green thread: "Due to personal reasons fuck this."

Needlework is soothing

Designers & Dragons Origins - $24719.92 spend with ROAS of 3.53, Raised $87232.39, Billable $46987 = +$7048.05 spend = $31767.97 total spend, EROAS 2.75

Blades 68 (so far) - $34230.63 spend w/ ROAS of 3.28, Raised $112171.08, Billable $64259.50 = +$9638.93 spend = $43869.56 total spend, EROAS 2.56

MOTW SSK/HJ - $11892.61 spend with ROAS of 3.48, Raised $41404.73, Billable $21457.50 = +$3218.63 spend = $15111.24 total spend, EROAS 2.74

Deep Cuts - $23197.52 spend with ROAS of 3.19, Raised $74078.13, Billable $42289 = +$6343.35 spend = $29540.87 total spend, EROAS 2.51

DMI - $8319.16 spend with ROAS of 3.46, Raised $28818, Billable $13345 = +$2001.75 spend = $10320.91 total spend, EROAS 2.79

Stewpot - $19572.98 spend with ROAS of 3.3, Raised $64682.50, Billable $33722.50 = +$5058.38 spend = $24631.36 total spend, EROAS 2.63

Girl By Moonlight - Spend of $12956.60 with calculated ROAS of 3.77, raising $49818 of which $18719 was "billable", meaning they get a 15% cut of that part, which would be additional spend of $2807.85, total spend therefore $15764.45 making "effective" ROAS (EROAS) 3.16.

TSL, Apocalypse Keys, Codex of Worlds - These were early test drives... We used their services but it looks like the spend data expired so I don't have an ROAS figure on these.

TLDR - After we test drove we settled on giving BK a ROAS target of 3 or so and they try to do at least that well.