Spent the afternoon on layout edits for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook.

Basically, we were fiddling with the new text for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook (that’s the preorder link) to make it fit on the page properly. Said text are mostly quotes from various people mentioned in the book, including a couple that I wanted to add on my own. We are pretty close to having all the work done! It is most exciting.

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Pelgrane Press’s call for playtesters (Boundary of the Darkness).

Thinking about it, thinking about it:

Pelgrane Press seeks playtesters for Boundary of the Darkness, the Trail of Cthulhu sourcebook of dread investigation during England’s age of Enlightenment.

It presents two exciting campaign frames, ripped from the broadsheets of the 1770s:

Via Ken Hite on Facebook. The limiting factor here is time, as in “I have a lot of projects to work on, including my own adventure for the Fermi Resolution Worldbook.” (That’s the preorder link!) I’d like to playtest, but I also like to sleep, and see my kids.

Still… thinking about it, thinking about it.

Kind of mixed feelings, right now.

On the one hand, I dislike tariffs*. On the other hand, I don’t like how the gaming and independent fiction industries talked themselves into using products and services from the People’s Republic of China, despite the fact that the PRC’s supply chain is corrupt and unreliable at best, uses wink-and-a-nudge slave labor at worst, is run by people who are ideologically opposed to several core principles of Western society, and is about as ecologically friendly as a guy spraying out chlorofluorocarbons from his extra-leaded gasoline-powered mobile throne while directing a Soviet-era hydroelectric project.

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My one exception to April Fools Day shenanigans.

When somebody comes up with a joke product that would actually work. That’s always cool.

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