I've come too far for this to be far enough
Godslingers, PSYCHODUNGEON, This is Your Lifepath. Busted open, the hard way.
I’m writing this in the middle of packing up the last Terminal orders. I’ll be taking them to the post office later today. I live on a hill, the closest post office is at the bottom of a hill but that’s closed today so I’ve gotta go deeper into town. Also there’s a motorbike in my communal hallway that takes up two thirds of the space so I need to lift all the packages over it entirely. If this fulfilment kills me remember me as I was: funny.
Contents:
Godslingers: Out Now
PSYCHODUNGEON: Coming Soon
This is Your Lifepath: Coming Sooner
Rat Wave at IPR: Out Now
Godslingers
I ended up making tweaks to the release schedule I talked about last week. Ritual Magic for Besties is basically finished but I’m just waiting for an all clear on it. So before then I decided to release Godslingers at the start of the month.
In Godslingers you hold the power of a long dead god in your hands. This power will gradually change you and one day destroy you. You could put it down and walk away at any moment. But you haven’t. You still hold on. This a game about answering why you do that.
Get Godslingers here or in a Fourth Galaxy Bundle along with Old Gods & Young Guns and Thirty Foes OR Once again, we are defeated.
I mentioned in a previous newsletter idly thoughts about getting it printed. I think in theory it could do well at cons. But that’s not going to be happening. Unless it really blows up online and I use that money for a print run. I’m no longer in a position where I can front print runs outside of crowdfunding campaigns basically. I suppose the outside shot would be exploring something like a pre-order system on my website, but that’s maybe time and energy I can’t spare right now.
Anyway, please check out Godslingers, shill it your friends.
PSYCHODUNGEON (coming soon)
With Terminal fulfilment virtually finished I’m hoping to have a pre-launch for a new Kickstarter up soon. I’d like to launch sometime in May but that also depends on how much lead time I have and other stuff. I will probably do a little mini email when the pre-launch is up, sorrry. I have talked about PSYCHODUNGEON here before but as well as this swanky mock-up I figured I’d include the low down.
PSYCHODUNGEON is a fantasy workplace action drama, played using No Dice and No Masters. It's a tabletop roleplaying game set in a world of mobile phones and magic spells, mass transit and malevolent demons, the supernatural intermingled with the everyday. It's a strange world but one all too familiar.
In Glyndain when peoples trauma hits a breaking point their troubles manifest physically as a psychodungeon full of monstrous nightmares. Plumbers are called in to clean out the dungeons and close them off. It’s difficult work. Dangerous. The kind that follows you home. Part adventurer, part handyman, part therapist. Still, it’s a living. You’ve got bills to pay and rent to make. It’s time to go down, down into the PSYCHODUNGEON.
PSYCHODUNGEON is a post-dungeon fantasy concerning a group of poor cityfolk acting as psychoplumbers. Within an individual delving job there are three asymmetric roles in the game; the Dungeon itself, the Client it hass manifested from, and any number of Psychoplumbers who will delve down. The game uses a token-based system built on the Belonging outside Belonging framework, and suits 3-7 players. Players work together to shape the world, set the mood and tone, create trouble and look for solutions.
(On Tumblr/the blog I’ll probably do some posts on what PSYCHODUNGEON is “about” because it’s about lots of things. A lot of it is about surviving under late-stage capitalism, feeling like you’re losing yourself to a job that is important and worthwhile, but that sense of purpose won’t stop it from killing you.)
(Also… I’d like this to do well. Ok obviously I’d like everything to do well, no duh. But there’s a level of well that PSYCHODUNGEON could do where I feel a bit more confident about surviving. There’s also a further level of well that PSYCHODUNGEON could do where I feel empowered to go all out on Transgender Deathmatch Legend II rather than having to go in on it as a zero-budget solo operator. None of this is your problem obviously. You should back the game cause you think it looks sick. But I think it’s worth being honest that this feels a bit make or break for me on a personal level.)
This is Your Lifepath Season 2 (coming sooner)
Yes that is probably the logo I’m going with. Yes it does look a lot like old Doctor Who intros. Yes I do consider myself a serious podcaster.
I’ve really been enjoying the conversations I’ve been having as part of recording Lifepath Season 2. I have just a few more to schedule/record then I have a twelve episode season with some exciting guests locked and loaded.
I was planning to include a launch date in this newsletter but fulfilment has taken up enough of my time that wasn’t feasible. I think it’s gonna launch by the end of the month or maybe the start of next month (I wanna have a trailer to put out and things as well).
Subscribe to the show on the podcatcher of your choice so you’ll be the first to know when I return to the interview zone. Here’s the RSS link.
Speaking of podcasts I think this weekends Game Soup is really solid episode and also Chloe has a fun new intro gag so keep an eye out for that.
Rat Wave at IPR
I recently shipped some more books to Indie Press Revolution and they’re now available on the store. Tell your local game store if you’d like them to get some Rat Wave books in stock. Let IPR know if you want them to bring Swamp Creature to conventions.
Here’s a link. I need to update some sections on my website soon but remember as well as various outlets you can get my books from you can also get some direct from me, Kayla, in my bedroom/living room/only room.
Until next time
I’ll hopefully come to you next month with more on PSYCHODUNGEON and Lifepath S2 and hopefully feel less exhausted.
PS: The British Labour Party is a transphobic, genocide-enabling right wing party and it’s been said that Kier Starmer should choke on bees