Richard Iorio ✓

Work in progress.

Health and Gamehole Con 2025 In which I let people down.

The title says it all.

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Title page of Colonial Gothic’s first adventure for the new edition.

Final review and then to the printer. From there, the December release.

#colonial_gothic #preview #adventure #heart

What I find ironic is that it will happen around the same time both tumors were discovered. I started 2025 with a tumor and an operation. I am ending 2025 with a second operation.

I can't wait until this damn year is over.

It is scheduled to be released in either November or December. We will find out about the date in a week.

So I had my appointment today about the second tumor. It has grown since it was discovered last December. When it was found, it was 1.34 CM. According to the lab results and the doctor, it is now 1.9 cm.

I just got an email as well. It sounded fishy because they wanted 200 copies of my most expensive title. When they wanted payment through another billing service, it smelled worse.

“That’s a B. It’s the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your father.”

From Auntie Mame (1958)

#movies #quotes

Coming December 2025: A Heart in a Jar.

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Hey, where's my heart? A update, a haunted house, and what is going on

Hey, where's my heart?

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All sessions will be using Colonial Gothic Fourth Edition.

Saturday 10/18

The Winter's Teeth - 9 AM
Hunting the Hunter - 12 PM
The Angels of the Hill - 4 PM

Friday 10/17

Hunting the Hunter - 9 AM
The Angels of the Hill - 1 PM
The Winter's Teeth - 7 PM

Thursday 10/16

The Winter's Teeth - 9 AM
The Angels of the Hill - 1 PM
Hunting the Hunter - 5 PM

For those attending Gamehole (October 16-19, 2025), here is the schedule of the Colonial Gothic games I am running. Each session lasts two hours.

My sporadic posting here annoys me.

Well, I figured out my Saving Throw ruminations from yesterday. I think it's a nice fix.

#OSR #SecretProject #WhatLiesAhead

Or do you stick to tradition and force a game to conform? You could always side-step the change, yet would a change like this be accepted?

Is using ability names, such as Constitution instead of Breath Weapon, game-breaking and against the rules? Both could function in the same way and save against certain things.

When working on a game that is not fantasy-based, does using Saving Throws like Breath Weapon and Wand create a reality-suspending moment?

One of the things I try to balance is when to adhere to the OSE dogma on certain rule mechanics, or use those mechanics as inspiration to do something new. Saving Throws is the example.

Once Upon a Time, We Forgot to Save the Stories A call to memory, to preservation, and to the future of our shared world

The title says it all.

#WeWereThere #GamingVoices #StorytellersUnite #OurTableOurStories #PlayerHistories #CommunityArchive

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Here are the hardcover and softcover versions of both books. After all backers get their rewards, they will be available for sale at DriveThruRPG.

Retail will be hardcover for the Rulebook and softcover for the Guidebook.

I'll have news about the Kickstarter rewards soon.
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The editions of Colonial Gothic.

Here is history—2007 to 2025.

All five editions in a row.

How far it has come.

#ColonialGothic #RogueGames #2d12 #FourthEdition

I am finally relaxing. I will not fully relax until the books and dice are in your hands.

After it arrives, and hopefully there are no hiccups, the books will be sent to the warehouse via FedEx, and your order will begin to be assembled.

The boat left Shanghai last week and, according to the printer, might arrive in the US 5-6 weeks later.

We have...a finished book. Now, it's time to ship it out.

#ColonialGothic #FourthEdition #Kickstarter #Whew

Let's write about tariffs Yes, yes, I am still here.

I am back. My health is not 100%, but at least the first tumor has been removed. To celebrate my awesome return, I am writing about tariffs.

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Four weeks today, I was still in surgery getting the cancerous tumor removed from my right kidney. My surgery pain is gone, but I’m still dragging my ass. I guess the doctor was right; it will take me a while to get my energy back.