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Star Crossed, my two-player game of forbidden love, is now available for everyone, everywhere! Thank you so much to everyone who made this dream come true. 

My new super-accessible, card-based storytelling game is going to be published next year by Evil Hat Productions! I am so stoked to share it with everyone!!! Click here to learn more about For the Queen!

We’re set to ship from our warehouses in November 2018, and we’ll still be taking pre-orders until then. So reserve your copy today! 

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I’m the ~Guest of Honour~ at Ropecon, a convention I once only dreamed of going to. Life is wild. If you’re in or near Helsinki, Finland, next weekend, come here me give a long and meandering talk about making Star Crossed and tearing down the concept of “design.” It’ll be cool. 

Oh and YES that is Jess Fink’s amazing artwork. 

A wonderful interview to get you hype for tomorrow’s Kickstarter launch! (That’s right friends - you can back Star Crossed on Kickstarter on April 10th!)  We also talk about trying larp, iterative game design, and rolling down the line.

Steffie de Vaan and I wrote this supplement to Liz Chaipraditkul’s WITCH: Fated Souls, a dark fantasy RPG where you play a member of the Fated – a witch or warlock who has sold their soul to a demon for power. WITCH rules, and this is a great resource for anyone running a modern-world fantasy campaign. I wrote about the snake orgy pits of Manitoba. Nothin’ witchier than that.

Liz Chaipraditkul is an independent RPG publishing badass, and a game designer with some seriously great advice. I learned a lot during this interview. Also we talked about Hello Kitty and creepy dolls and, you know, giggle a lot. Enjoy <3 

I did another interview on the Bully Pulpit Games blog! It was great to chat with Jennifer about her work adapting the retail model into an intentional community space. Check it out!

Game designer and interactive media writer Clio Yun-su Davis talks podcasting, immersive theatre, and the beauty of K-Pop.

Coming to Kickstarter April 10th

I was on Daniel Kwan’s podcast Curiosity in Focus recently, talking about romantic games, two-player games, and designing consent. You can listen to it here. 

Larpwright, librarian, and community organizer (Larp Shack co-founder!) Kate Hill on welcoming newbies, character theme songs, and making sure that people are more important than the game.

Designer of the groundbreaking indie RPG, Steal Away Jordan, Julia Ellingboe shares her thoughts on designing from the margins, expanding inclusion, and role-playing via playlists and packages.