I like DriveThruRPG generally, but their approval process needs more obvious benchmarks. I think it’ll be available by Monday, but I can’t really confirm it yet. Guess we’ll see.
I’m mildly pleased with the cover, though. It’s the best clip art no money whatsoever can buy make himself!
Dark History should be available there if you have a paid subscription. I’m going to give it another look-see tonight or tomorrow and then put it up on DriveThruRPG. Lemme know the typos I missed. I know that I missed some, because you always do. By now it doesn’t even bother me.
Normally it would be ‘done by Saturday,’ but Saturday is the MD Renn Faire. I’ve got most of the illustrations made, and… yeah. There’s a reason this sucker’s only going to be 99 cents. I’m not saying they’re wretched, but I’m leaning heavily on manipulating the public domain clip art; and brothers and sisters, but it shows.
Tentative cover art:
Again, not wretched, but… I am a writer, not an artist.
Some of it is not entirely awful. Note that I’m modifying clip art, not drawing it myself. I do not have that skill set. Believe me, if I could afford to have other people do it, I would.
Anyway, that was what I was doing tonight. It’s not really great, but it’s oddly soothing.
My schedule got thoroughly horked today, thanks to a doctor’s appointment that should have been over by 10 AM, but instead started then and stretched all the way to lunch. Good news came from it – my eyes are not oxidizing any faster than is normal for mortal humans – but I was hoping for more time to do things today. So I decided to finish laying out the text for DARK HISTORY instead. Tomorrow I start making charmingly authentic clip art for it. Hopefully I can have it ready by the middle of the month, because I should have done all of this in August.
Continue reading Another DARK HISTORY page.The image needs to be recentered, a bit. And some editing is required. But I’ve had a rotten day, so I needed to show that I did something creative today.
(My other homebrew RPG stuff can be found here.
Constant Reader Luke mentioned this in comments earlier, and I was meaning to bring it up, myself. Ken Hite’s bundling up a bunch of his Cthulhu stuff for Bundle Of Holding; I have everything except the Tarot already, and everything I already have is worth the fifteen bucks, all on its own. Getting the whole thing for that price is an absolute no-brainer.
DARK HISTORY was my proof-of-concept where I took a bunch of spooky stuff and threw it together as an RPG supplement. Non-commercial, and I got a good idea of what that kind of project entailed. Now I’m going to work on an expanded version of it, to put up on DriveThruRPG. I need to edit and use some clip art to make it, but that’s okay. It’s something to do when I’m not doing stories.
Moe Lane
PS: Check out my other RPG stuff here. Assume a similar price.
As everyone who is interested already knows, the Fermi Resolution RPG is mostly done. A buddy of mine in the TTRPG space may know a couple of people who would be interested in doing the layout work necessary to make it into something sellable. If I do that, the tentative plan then would be to funding it by trying out Backerkit’s crowdfunding platform, and see how that goes. I’ve heard really good stuff from people who have used it for direct crowdfunding, and certainly Backerkit’s customer service is excellent.
So keep watching the skies!
Welp. This could prove expensive. Worth it, but expensive. On the gripping hand, TRAIL OF CTHULHU is a great game and a second edition is justifiable. GUMSHOE as a system has adapted a bit since the game came out and some updating seems reasonable. Can’t wait!
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— Kenneth Hite (@kennethhite) September 24, 2024
