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I looked at the Old Internet today. The world as-it-is produces a profound repulsion (in the magnetic sense) pushing you away and awhen, making such RPBourgeoisie
It’s that time of year again, three months since the last crowdfunding campaign. I’m listening to Creeping of the Gods by The Intangible. It doesn’t Make a system every six months
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Whatever you do, do not invest in the future. As a publisher, you must go and find someone who is too sensible to engage in Kickstarters or handling An Ounce of Frustration
When you stop to look at this business you might struggle not to panic. All the young prospective publishers, and people looking to leave a job Time To Be Sticky
Business is a brutality to creative work. The apple tree has to hike up its roots to walk itself to market to sell the apples; the pig walks to the Only Kickstarter
Times have changed since the pandemic ‘ended’. Before then, everyone felt confident and rich, during it people were scared and bored, after it Why Try Just Die
It is self evident that being poor is expensive, and also that this can be applied quite broadly. The process of not being time poor, energy poor, Love me love you
What is the feeling of finishing a book/film/series? Post partum depression? Separation anxiety? Le petite morte? Plain grief? Pain at the loss raw How to make PDFs accessible
There is nothing the roleplaying book industry loves more than a good oxymoron. Concerns over accessible PDFs, for example, have been batted around How to be a Writer
Pay for things. Including: Warehousing (separate fulfilment and storage locations because they both work on different cost structures) Editing All my friends are winners
You silly sillies threw chum (made books that are sincere and resonate) in the water (the rpg industry) and now the sharks (companies that don’t Is it now? Is this the time? When you just be?
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Imagine you and I are in a pub having lunch, talking about the things we care about. We’re in the middle of the room so people often walk past and How to review reviews of roleplaying games
Go down the list. The first thing that appears determines their review review score. 0/10 if they talk about: Page count Cost The absence or Audience of Zero
“Seek zero audience” is a mantra, used shakily at first but eventually wholeheartedly taken up after. For every kind, observant, critical, Belly Talking Goes
Synchronicity continues to pile up. Think with the gut, the passage of the gut, katabolism/anabolism, belly talk, death wailers, direct divinity, Happy Little Games
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If, as a GM, you approach horror by pushing towards it you will misdirect tension, the uncontrolled point will divert. You must pull. Think of IMG 20210605 000934
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1.If objective reality cannot be confirmed then one must behave as though it was. 2.Game is Ritual with ritualistic aspirations to numinous ascent, Pdfs and the halving of the soul
Pdfs are not books. A picture of a cat is no more a pet than it is a piece of garden furniture. While I don’t begrudge people buying their postcards A cure for kindness
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Roleplaying games are too concerned with community, customers, with being in conversation with gross matter. They do not stand apart but rather pettifogging
Placing undue focus on trivial details Mazes
I spend a lot of time worrying about the escape route. You’re stuck in this place so you think “what’s the fastest way out?” or “how do i get to the Microcosmic
Perhaps European fantasy is distinguished (from North American) by being interested in the microcosm. No matter how far you travel or how deep you Talking
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Neither talking nor concealing but giving indications by signs “Abstraction is difficult.
If you approach a narrative work and you can’t derive any value from it then maybe there is no value for you in that work. But if you go up to an V.I.T.R.I.O.L
I’m dwelling on social media and marvel films. They’ve been making me unhappy for a while, even as little appendages of a larger monster. They are Gods save us from critics
Because the rpg world is small in stature it allows itself to be small in expectations. We are a medium finding its feet, there are no rules and no Stepping away from the reader
The position of role playing books in relation to their readers is very close. We are talking in the same room with a writer who wants to be A case for the hermitage
I controlled my social load. It doesn’t look it, but I did. Continual, free access to me and others has been a measurable burden to my ability to Approachable Loci of Capital
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Statement: Dying in games is fun. All hp and health and resources and whatnot is just a song and dance around the fact that you don’t want to be Death and Dying and Saying No
I’ve died, you say, and that’s that. Well. What if I didn’t? What if instead I got back up like Wile E. Coyote and “oopsy daisy”ed the whole thing The Comfort of Chaos
Examining the media I feel most comfortable in reveals a pattern of confusion. Nothing is fixed or safe, characters plot etc can change drop and Gods of Negation
Moving beyond the Monad and the Demiurge is fractured and full of false equivalencies. Take light and dark, for instance; it is fair to say that on Spots of light
A game is a series of islands, those islands might be scenes, rooms, events, conversations, but they are separate. Between is dark and we imagine Odd I Win Tails You Lose
Roll an odd number and that’s that, your friend is dead sorry bud. The extra steps add to it though. I could make up an RPG on the spot, odds and God Boss
Writing RPGs is strange because you are expected to somewhat moderate the reader’s interaction with the work. This might be true, or even valid, but