#22: It's a New Year Newsletter!
Oh, ring the bells, the year is dead.
And fetch the thorny crown for our new year’s head.
Hello dear readers!
Despite the Gregorian calendar for 2020 turning its last page, it’s still Tiny Letter season here at the Indie RPG Newsletter. But I should be finally done with my manuscript this week and we will get back to our regular programming from the next edition.
I hope you’re all safe and relieved and have some hope for the future.
Warmly,
Thomas
Links of the Week
Articles
Brandon of Swordsfall writes a review of 2020, listing all the stuff that’s come out of that universe.
On the Gauntlet blog, a write-up on combining long term play and an open table policy.
Four Years of Cannibal Halfling Gaming: A round-up of the CHG’s articles in 2020, listing all their most popular articles of the year and a small mention of me!
The Bundle of Holding blog published their end-of-year review. Overall, they raised more than $100k for charity, which translates into about a $1 million in total sales. There’s no money in what?
Wired magazine did a big story on D&D’s diversity problem with some jaw-dropping quotes from Orion D Black on WOTC’s terrible company culture.
Listen / Watch
John Wick’s 31 day Character Challenge is over, sadly. Lot of good videos came out of it, including this nice one about Ars Magica.
The Gauntlet also published their end of year podcast with all their favourite games from the year. Lot of games mentioned. Very jealous of people who played hundreds of games last year!
News / Resources
Rook’s Press is a new small RPG retailer in the UK. Not much on there yet but hopefully they’ll be all stocked-up soon!
DungeonScrawl is a dungeon-mapping tool that looks really nice and comes with a license to use the maps in commercial products.
As usual, this newsletter is written by me, Thomas Manuel. I’m half-man, half-beast, half-journalist, half-game designer.
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