#142: Excuses, excuses!
I. Dear Reader,
I've been traveling these last few days so this week's newsletter is just some links. This will be the case next week also, so some advance warning. But should be back after that!
See you then,
Thomas
II. Media of the Week
Nothing this week!
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III. Links of the Week
News
The Diana Jones Awards have released their list of nominees for the Emerging Designer award. It’s a very interesting line-up of new designers.
Critical Role have announced they’re publishing original new RPGs.
Into the Motherlands, the afro-futurist RPG from Tanya DePass, B Dave Walters among many others, that was dropped by Andrews McNeel is now going to be published by Green Ronin.
Articles
The Mary Sue, a pop culture site, speaks to designer Andrew Gillis about Girl by Moonlight: “I wanted to make a game that was to Blades in the Dark what Monsterhearts was to Apocalypse World—a game that takes two seemingly incompatible ideas and synthesizes them into a compelling and unexpected outcome.”
The Dispatch newsletter has a nice explanation of the different type of crawls: hexcrawls, point crawls, and depth crawls.
On the Campaign Mastery site, lots of little ideas about how medieval economics should work in your game.
Resources
Two fun twitter finds:
tinywoodsman has released a free, unofficial Star Wars sourcebook for Andor.
4illeen releases an annotated directory of various sources of public domain art.
IV. Small Ads
All links in the newsletter are completely based on my own interest. But to help support my work, this section contains sponsored links and advertisements. If you’d like your products to appear here, read the submission form.
Mitosis is a Mothership pamphlet adventure and in-universe board game. Back now on Kickstarter to get your own copy of the “family friendly” game of biological warfare.
The Wanderer's Companion is a Create-a-Portrait sticker book with 600+ stickers to help you create your next TTRPG character - Out now on Kickstarter!
After a long break, the gonzo Genesys fantasy Actual Play Dungeon Majeure has returned for season 2! Find it wherever you get your podcasts!
This newsletter is currently sponsored by the Bundle of Holding.
Very cool big bundle of everything for Fellowship 2e, a maximalist take on the Lord of the Rings genre.
GM’s Apprentice is a bundle of idea-generating cards for fantasy, sci-fi, and more.
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