Author of Dragons

As an editor, I can tell you this is a big thing in the writer community. Some people get precious about one idea and ruminate it on it for 10+ years. Instead of really learning how to write first through trial and error.
Not that you can’t learn through revision, but the returns are diminishing.

Everyone contacting me about Root as an animated property: That's cool and all but I still think it would be much more niche and way cooler if we did it with creepy puppets like the Dark Crystal.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

One thing you can’t do with rectangular tiles or irregular connection points is rotate tiles. Which is a shame because it’s a cool mechanic in games like Mechanical Beast , where the players are moving around inside the belly of a giant robot.

It only works if you flip on the same axis each time so it’s a much easier mechanic to implement with a rectangle than a square.

I also use a variety of rules that affect how pieces can be connected. Sometimes the player is allowed to choose, other times they are forced.
I use the same cards for a variety of cross compatible games. So far none of those adds a dungeon crawling element.

Thanks for sharing. Cool article and I had not seen those original TSR tiles.
One thing that I have done with mine that isn’t mentioned in the article is all my cards are two sided.
But when flipped the connection points remain the same, so segments of the dungeon can be modified/upgraded by flip

Super cool! I’m bookmarking it so I can read it tonight.

Thanks, I’ve been designing a series of cross-compatible games around the same base cards.
In some of them, monsters can cross over the negative space, depending on how close the cards are together.

Still working out the kinks with scoring. But the basics are there. #boardgamedesign #boardgamesky #boardgames #cardgames #walletgames #soloboardgaming #solitaire #gamedesign #tabletop

Exactly! I did want a cozy game. But this wasn’t what I had in mind.

Playtesting ran into a bit of a snag. #boardgamesky #boardgames #cardgames #walletgames #soloboardgaming #solitaire #gamedesign #tabletop

My thinking was instead of designing expansions for the original, I’ll design new games that use the original like an expansion.

Neat! Happy to meet someone who likes the game. This is basically a new game, simpler and easier to learn, with new win conditions and a scoring track.

But it is cross compatible so you can shuffle the two games together and add the scoring track on top of your original game.

A pile of cards with drawings of tunnels and gnomes.

Still playtesting the new solitaire pocket game but the cards look great. #boardgamesky #boardgames #cardgames #walletgames #soloboardgaming #solitaire #edc

You gotta slow down, bub, I only just got Oath.

T-Rex: There are now easily enough books that you could never read them all in a single lifetime! But surely, you say, we can fall back to genres? T-Rex: NO! There's plenty of SCIFI books to last a lifetime too!

T-Rex: We're even at the point where genres WITHIN genres are at saturation! Single modifiers have fallen, as there are for example enough TIME-TRAVEL scifi books to last 100+ years of reading. T-Rex: And very soon we will be at a point where DOUBLE modifiers are filled, with multiple lifetimes worth of romance time-travel scifi books!

Utahraptor: Surely THREE adjectives is safe though? T-Rex: Only for the moment - and more books come every day! T-Rex: Very soon we will NO LONGER run out of travelogue romance time-travel scifi tales. Our only chance is to buttress with even MORE adjectives, in the hopes that we might one day actually finish reading every m/m travelogue enemies-to-lovers romance time-travel scifi tale and - AT LAST - be free.

Narrator: LATER, SOMEONE WRITES ANOTHER M/M TRAVELOGUE ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS ROMANCE TIME-TRAVEL SCIFI STORY: T-Rex: Aw, who am I kidding?? I LOVE THIS STUFF

can you truly call yourself a fan of a genre if you haven't read every single instance of it across all of recorded history??

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Learning French alongside my toddler has been so much simpler than in a classroom.

We aren’t getting hung up on conjugation etc. Just collecting words to express ourselves and polishing up the grammar as we go.

I had to put it on hold last year, so these illustrations have just been sitting there waiting to go.

Card game is coming along nicely.

I’m still sitting on stuff from 2009. I publish regularly though.

when I was a kid I read a lot of Star Trek novels, and the ones he wrote were a step above everything else. He was the first author whose name and works I intentionally sought out because they were so good ❤️

Star Pepper: A Spicy Adventure in Interstellar Capitalism Amazon.com: Star Pepper: A Spicy Adventure in Interstellar Capitalism eBook : Candelaria, Matthew: Tienda Kindle

Not sure how much that’s worth coming from the someone whose favorite part of Moby Dick was the whale processing chapters. 😆 Here’s the link btw. www.amazon.com/dp/B099PMXL4T

@orlandospurioso.bsky.social I’m finally starting Star Pepper, albeit a few years late. Right off the bat, the MC toiling inside the star pepper tree is fascinating stuff.

Unfortunately, no. We have talked about expanding to other platforms, but haven’t done it yet.

An illustrated dungeons map made from cards.

My little have drawn indie game is a part of TGC’s Cinco de Mayo sale! Today’s the last day so go check out Mind the Mushrooms. 🍄‍🟫 Great card games really are everywhere! www.thegamecrafter.com/cinco-de-mayo

I think you nailed it! My only regret is that for as much fantastical underground travel as they did, there wasn’t nearly as much caving as I had hoped for. But I’d already scratched the caving itch with book 2 of my LitRPG series.

Book cover for The Dragon’s Breath by Dustin Porta snd D.K. Holmberg. A dragon stands behind an assassin holding a sword on the deck of ship.

Book launch day!

D.K. Holmberg and I just released #5 in our Shadow’s Dragon series. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CZ...

Today’s world book day? And nobody told me.

There’s also Chief White Eyes, (aka. Koquethagechton) who very nearly got the Lenape(Delaware) nation admitted as the 14th US state, if not for his suspicious death just before the treaty was presented to Congress. Not a book but a paper. journals.psu.edu/phj/article/... The wiki is good too.