My first Art Fight attack for this year! I’ve got a bit of a backlog to post so keep an eye out for more.

What I love about tabletop RPGs is that it's not just a hobby or a business. It's a community.

Right now, one of indie TTRPG design's luminaries, Rae Nedjadi, is going through it. He's been terribly ill, hospitalized and got out. Now the work begins: he has to learn how to breathe on his own and walk again.

And Evil Hat Productions, who published Rae's game Apocalypse Keys, is pulling out all the stops to give Rae the support he needs.

They've bundled more than 20 amazing PDFs over on DriveThru RPG. $25 gets you $250+ worth of fun. Two games in there are Defy the Gods and Raccoon Sky Pirates!

Here's the lowdown:

Defy the Gods is a queer sword & sorcery adventure-romance set in fantasy ancient Mesopotamia. It's full of messy romance and cursed power.

Raccoon Sky Pirates is a raucous, GM-less story game where you play raccoons flying a ship made of trash. You raid a suburban house until the lights come on, then try to make it back home without exploding. But things keep going wrong. Because you're raccoons.

Go grab those games. Even if you have half of them, which I bet you don't. Get them for the fun, the fascinating ideas, the value! But most of all to show it's not just about the money. Show how we can come together for someone who's given so much to our community. Solidarity.

Rae's the genius who wrote:

Balikbayan: enslaved elementals in a cyberpunk future return to Earth and rise up in revolt.

Our Haunt: dead ghosts recover their memories in slices of life.

Once More into the Void: a shattered starship crew reunites to save the galaxy one last time.

and of course Apocalypse Keys: a team of Hellboy-like monsters solve mysteries to save the world from even worse monsters than them.

Rae mentored me through Defy the Gods, and you can see his ideas all over it. No kidding—after you get the bundle, skim Apocalypse Keys and Defy the Gods, and you'll see a conversation between designers: messy love, found family, monstrosity, the hunger for world-shattering power ... and all the shit you can stir when you finally get it.

Each book is over 300 beautiful pages. Hell, that's a bargain right there.

Go help Rae recover. And pick up Raccoon Sky Pirates and Defy the Gods while you do!

Art Fight descriptions have been written for my Apocalypse Keys crewwwww check em out here

more savory than innocence, more intimate than love // i really want to hurt you, but that won’t be enough

picture of a normal* human** man***