I've always taken myself to be a pretty ordinary person but my friends & enemies alike persuaded me that I should believe in myself more & accept that I may have unique contributions to the world. I think I'm best at making games & worlds & the fascinating friction that occurs between same.
That is the plan. My goal is to make a functional & unique ruleset & setting that are perpetually free for all to use as public domain offerings. It will be electronically available but I'll print copies as I'm able & will probably produce something that is print on demand. I may explain how that goes when I get to that too.
I saw that dungeons & dragons movie - the good one. And what I remember about it most vividly is that Hasbro threw their name right up there, like Bob Kane or Walt Disney. IP hoarding, making these ideas & promoting them into the world so that they have a value of their own that can be marketed & remarketed forever. It seems so unsavory to me. And genuinely villainous to not have put "By Gygax & Arneson" It genuinely antagonized me. So I want to point out how superfluous the realm of IP Franchises are by making my own. For free. One Man's Cry In The Wilderness is what I should call it. Don't let these companies define your dreams, instead - here are some tools to help you dream better ones, bigger ones.
Okay - to make this clearer, I'll attempt to lead you on a path & try to make the points clearer. I walk everywhere. I stopped having a car in '09 & haven't looked back. I walk everywhere & commonly put down 20-30,000 steps a day. I walk a lot. Now, I'm an anti-car activist & so on, but I think about what if everyone also walked. I imagine to myself that I'd always be in the middle of the pack of walking ability, though by most standards I am a few standard deviations off. But I assume that I'm regular. It's apparently a failing of mine which I'm trying to correct. To that end, I make a lot of books, I run a lot of D&D & other games, & I build a lot of worlds & make a lot of associated texts. Texts in the very broad academic sense. I do a lot of that & I do assume that in that realm, I assume I have an ordinary imagination. The people who know me well seem to think that this isn't the case. I'm told that I am unique & that I have unique things to contribute. So to make sense of it, I'm going to spend the summer of '23 putting together & producing a new game & it's own associated setting & I intend to explain how I do this as I do it.
The blog documents my process, my process is Totalizing & Holistic. This means it isn't ever going to be sequential, it's instead, a mass of threads that intersect & weave together at odd intervals. It will be messy but it will be informative too. If you're only after complete projects - I've got some of those you might like too.
a fair amount too.
Besides Drive Thru - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/198872/The-Book-of-Ten-Trillion-Things
& Lulu - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/198872/The-Book-of-Ten-Trillion-Things
& Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/Kingtycoon
& Society6 - https://society6.com/kingtycoon
I have some T-shirts - https://teespring.com/design-launcher/congratulations
And you can always get in touch if you want to hire me to DM. Prices are negotiable, a good time is not.
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