Before I say anything else here, I need to let you know that I’m having a spring sale over on Loot The Room. If you use the code MARCH30 you’ll get 30% off almost everything on the site. (Some of you received a test email about it by accident yesterday and I wasn’t able to reply to everyone who let me know they’d got it, but I appreciated you letting me know!)
It’s hard to believe it’s March already. I feel I’ve been sick for this entire year. I started January with a firm plan for how I was going to get on top of all my outstanding work by mid-February and it simply Has Not Happened due to constant illness. Frankly I’m bored of it now. I’d like to not be ill and to have finished everything I need to finish. But it is what it is, and we can only do what we can.
Despite the illnesses, I still have some fun stuff to tell you about this month!
What’s new with me?
Adventure Tourism is back! The first episode is one I recorded two years ago with Joe DeSimone talking about T1: The Village of Hommlet. I thought that the recording had been lost but I managed to recover it, and I’m very happy about that. Episode 2 comes out later this month, in which I talk to Quinns (of Shut Up & Sit Down fame) about Mothership adventure Another Bug Hunt. Patrons can listen to some outtakes from that episode, and will get the full episode a week early.
Speaking of Patreon, I’ve just begun taking the first steps in writing a massive hex crawl for A Dungeon Game inspired by Luke Gearing’s Wolves Upon The Coast. The first post is publicly available here. I won’t be doing any meaningful work on this until Down In Yongardy is over the finish line, but it’s something I’m very excited about.
Writing a hex crawl means A Dungeon Game needs rules for wilderness exploration. So I wrote some.
As I mentioned above, I’m having a Spring sale. Use the code MARCH30 at checkout to get 30% off and get some cool books in the post.
What’s new with other people?
Chant Evans released a new Wretched & Alone game called This Wretched House. It’s a creepy gothic horror game about a very personal haunting. I’m delighted that people are continuing to write games using this framework.
Sivad’s Sanctum has put out a salty islandcrawl called The Parent of Fear; or, Ignorance. It’s roughly analogous to the New England coast during the height of whaling, detailing a lonely island and its surrounding waters.
Trollish Delver Games has released Nightblade, a very small pay what you want distillation of D&D 4e into just four pages. It’s very cool.
Appendix N
I discovered The Rise of Science and they’re all I’ve been listening to for the past week.
I’m part-way through reading The Book Of Taliesin and thoroughly enjoying basically everything about it.