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‘Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.’

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, The Police

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The Lead & Chrome: a Post-Apocalyptic Tabletop RPG Backerkit.

Looks like we’re going to be doing a Backerkit cross-collaboration. Basically, Backerkit looks at their projects and matches up the ones that might be a good fit. In this case, Lead & Chrome is also a post-apocalyptic TTRPG, although it is considerably more grimdark than my Fermi Resolution Worldbook. Think ‘Mad Max and mutants’ and you’re on the right path.

I figure it should be fun. We’ll need to work out some mutual rewards, though. Fortunately, I have a couple of Fermi Resolution stories that can be put in a sampler…

I have removed my book from consideration from the SPSFC.

Not that I expected it to advance beyond the first stage anyway. The very short version: people objected to somebody advancing that they did not like (note that the person in question very much did not like them back), the mods tried to keep the peace, the peace was not kept, and eventually the mob bullied the mods into removing the offending author. That was the point where I politely informed the group to remove my book from consideration, and then I left the Discord server.

Now, honesty requires me to note here that the odds were not that great that it would have been my turn next, if only because I was pretty sure that being cut from the contest was only a matter of time anyway. Ideological brawls like these are often a two-side affair, and I suspect that the tossed individual will be more than happy to drive sales from the incident.

But I cannot abide weakness in site moderators. If you do not rule over your forums, they will rule over you. Taking four or five of the proto-mob and metaphorically casting them out into the outer darkness would have taught the rest to shut up when they’ve been told that the subject is closed. Giving way once simply encourages more bullying. The only bullies in a discussion forum should be the site moderators themselves.

Moe Lane

PS: And never write down the rules where people can see them! If they can see the rules, they know how and where to push the envelope! Don’t be a dick is the only public-facing rules you need to have!

The Backerkit is live! [UPDATE: And funded!]

Check it out here.

The FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS teaser trailer.

It looks fine. Which is a hell of a thing to say about a Marvel movie, but we live in a bleak age. Also: we as a people are very, very bad at making Fantastic Four movies. Having something that’s maybe pretty okay is arguably an important milestone in our cultural development.

The Fermi Resolution Backerkit starts tomorrow!

The Fermi Resolution Worldbook drops tomorrow. Fantasy post-apocalypse tabletop roleplaying! Explore the enigmatic ruins of the Old Americans, or oppose the last-ditch machinations of an evil empire! Uses the GUMSHOE rules. Sign up here for the launch!

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/068559fc-efff-4805-b0a7-5344d785eca9/landing

I picked a bad time to get hammered by this cold.

By now 75% of the house has it, and we’re worried about the fourth one. I’m feeling better than last night, although I probably worried my wife something fierce for a moment there. Lots of best rest and fluids for me today…

Well, at least it isn’t Covid.

Just a cold of some kind. Which is hitting me like a hammer, so now that I’ve gotten some soup in me, I’m going back to bed. Nothing like simple and greasy Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup for a situation like this…

Patreon Microfiction: Keeping Our Distance.

100WS-Keeping Our DistanceDownload

‘Keeping Our Distance:’ Yeah, there’s a reason why nobody in the Fermi Resolution is messing with sending people to the moon again. They’re not sure what’s up there, and they have… more important things to worry about, anyway. Maybe when the Dominion’s dead and buried/

‘Voodoo Child.’

Voodoo Child, Jimi Hendrix

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