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genesisoflegend

@genesisoflegend@dice.camp

Game designer, publisher, podcaster, and professional bureaucrat. Former wildlife biologist and current law geek with a passion for complex systems dynamics. My opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.

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So, if I am to understand things correctly, Spock's Nephew is a captain in the 32nd century? Neat!

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A new episode of the is up featuring @megueyb @lumpley discussing Powered by the Apocalypse games in 2023. It's fabulous and worth a listen.

https://genesisoflegend.podbean.com/e/episode-372-powered-by-the-apocalypse/

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I hope folks at #ukge24 are having a blast! Our games are available at UK Games Expo stand is 2-386 with our friends at Compose Dreams Games Marketplace

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Ran a demo of
@genesisoflegend's Sig: City of Blades last night at a gaming pub. Completely forgot half the rules, but with the city synched to Freedom, Dreams, and Wind, the chaos was expected, esp. with one PC deciding right away an assassination letter killed them (they got better)

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@Monte_Lin brilliant, glad the chaos ensued appropriately.

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I just finished devouring "Stealing the Throne" by the excellent @ickbat and it meets his usual high standards of quality game design. Let's unpack this giant mecha, shall we?

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Lumberjills is in spitting distance of funding. Spread the word and back it now over at kickstarter.games

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I think we ought to talk about Lumberjills, by the Mo Turkington of Unruly Designs. She led War Birds project, an award-winning anthology of games about women in World War II.

If you take a look at the project at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unrulydesigns/lumberjills-a-war-birds-game you will see that the kickstarter campaign page is brilliant. (THREAD)

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Do you want to help support indie creators, encourage positive stories of comradeship and support immunocomprimised designers? Now is your chance to spread the word.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unrulydesigns/lumberjills-a-war-birds-game

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The latest episode of the is all about Adapting Someone Else's Sandbox, where @ayvalentine and @boymonster discuss the challenges and triumphs of producing licensed RPGs! https://genesisoflegend.podbean.com/e/episode-371-adapting-someone-elses-sandbox/

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Conversation earlier today has me thinking a bit about the distinction between open and open source in RPGs (setting aside the topic of not-really-open RPGs).

There are plenty of open systems (that is, systems you can legitimately take and do whatever the heck you want with them) but a much smaller set of open source systems ( @malin keeps a nice list of them here - https://ttrpgs.com/post/foss_list - if you’re curious.)

It's a curious distinction.

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@masukomi @rdonoghue @malin I will add the additional licencing details for CC0 as well. Thanks!

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Friendly Reminder that the Spark RPG is fully in the public domain and there's a system reference guide to help you use it to create your own games. https://genesisoflegend.com/products/spark/spark-system-reference-guide/

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This post from the Indie Game Reading Club @Indiegamereadingclub is absolute gold and highlights that certain reoccuring elements of discourse online are more akin to koans or philosophy. https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/ten-unanswerable-evergreen-discourses/

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Nefertiti Overdrive 2.0 on Kickstarter is in the final 14 hours and is within tooth-spitting distance of funding! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1153118353/nefertiti-overdrive-20

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The latest episode of the is up, where @lumpley and @megueyb discuss their path in publishing indie RPGs for the long haul. Check it out and thanks to Meg & Vincent for the panel. https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-d9uku-15a7182

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An indie video game designer had her awesome-looking game drowned under the EA re-release of C&C on Steam. Check it out if this looks like your jam and spread the word! https://store.steampowered.com/app/378690/Potions_A_Curious_Tale/

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The Spark System Reference Guide, along with plaintext versions of the game itself, are now freely available on my website at https://genesisoflegend.com/products/spark/spark-system-reference-guide/ Spread the word!

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Our Planar Fantasy bundle on the Bundle of Holding is going strong and has a few days left. Spread the word! https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SigSpark

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If this sounds like your jam, you can pick up a copy from @comemartin itch page or grab a printed copy from our friends at @ipr
https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Broken-Cities-Print-PDF.html . /Fin

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The other day I took a moment to read through "Broken Cities" by @comemartin (comemartin.itch.io) who publishes RPGs in both French and English. There's a lot of clever stuff in this little game worth your attention. "Broken Cities" is identified as an Urban and Quixotic Roleplaying Game, and echoes things like Calvino's "Invisible or Evil Hat Production’s "Don't Rest your Head". It presents a group of travelers to a strange, otherworldly city that seems to run on dream logic.

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The Spark Systems Reference Guide has been successfully funded for nearly $2,000, so I am hard at work in writing some additional content. Thank you all for your support and for spreading the word.

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The latest Bundle of Holding offers a number of my games including Sig: Manual of the Primes and Sig: City of Blades at a great price. If this seems like your kind of thing, please consider checking it out and spreading the word. https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SigSpark

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I am very happy to share the Sig: Manual of the Primes Bundle of Holding from our friends at @BundleHolding is now up. You can pick up a ton of planar fantasy fun right now at a hefty discount. Spread the word! https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SigSpark

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We are in the home stretch for the Spark Systems Reference Guide Kickstarter. Thanks for your support! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide

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Just over two days left to back the Spark System Reference Guide. The more we fund, the more I write. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide

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This is the last weekend tp raise funds for the Spark System's Reference Guide. If you want me to increase the length of the guide, toss a coin to your designer... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide?ref=user_menu

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One week left to help fund the Spark Designer's Guide. If we got $100 a day more, we would hit the next goal and double the content. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide

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Two weeks left to raise funds for the Spark System Reference Guide! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide?ref=user_menu

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The latest episode of the RPG Design Panelcast is about the Narrative Voice, presented by @jdragsky and @ayvalentine at Metatopia 2023! https://genesisoflegend.podbean.com/e/episode-365-narrative-voice-in-rpgs/

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We are halfway through the Kickstarter campaign for the Spark System Reference Guide and it's going well. If you would be willing to toss in five dollars to support this initiative we could reach the next goal and expand the guide. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide?

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Just a friendly reminder we are currently crowdfunding to support the development of a Spark System Reference guide. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide

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My hot-take; you can actually do a surprisingly decent amount of layout with a basic word processing program these days if you know the techniques. This is what I could produce with word alone.

Page 4 of a sample layout
Page 1 of a sample layout

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Ok. It looks like we have hit the minimum funding goal for the Spark System Reference Guide and I will be continuing to write it. Now we get to see how long that guide should be. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide?

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The Spark System Reference Guide kickstarter is now live. If this little project funds I will be able to invest more time into creating a useful, free SRD with guidance on how folks can adapt the now public-domain Spark system to tell their own stories.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/spark-system-reference-guide?

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