Kelvin Green has a gift for summarizing things.

I don't know if there's anything that can be added to what Kelvin posted. 

I can only repeat it. 

So about gender representation

 Jeff Rients quoted this on his blog. 

And it got me thinking about stuff that we're playing.  

The Dragonlance campaign that we hacked is more or less over this issue, the elven princess has two brothers, there are male and female evil generals, dragons, gods, all of them have names. Switch them around and not much will change, although I like the idea of a female Death Knight lusting after an elven prince. 

There are not that many humans in All Dogs... and if you genderbend the bandit leader, she turns back into sort of Robin Hood (that was the pun about her name). 

I'm so progressive, aren't I. 

Gen Con Surprise!

If you're on Gen Con, check out this year's LotFP free catalog. Because there's something awesome in there. Let's hear from James E. Raggi IV. 

Oh look, we're silver.

 Thanks to everyone who bought All Dogs Go to Hell, it's now a silver bestseller on DTRPG. Yay! 

Yaaay.

To celebrate this, I'm going to make pizza. I'd invite y'all to have a slice but I don't have enough for everyone, sorry. Instead, I'm going to publish a little thing that I've been working on (with some vital help from my friends). I dunno if I'll make it a pay-what-you-want on DT or put it somewhere else, we'll see. It's fun and I think it's gonna be useful. Give me a week or two and I'll show it to you.

Once again, I want to thank all the 1087 people who downloaded All Dogs, especially those who paid real money for it. And James Raggi who thought I have a funny name, and hired me to write it. And the artists, and the editor, and the playtesters (they're all mentioned in the adventure, they're cool people). 

Now let's get back to work. Electrum bestseller is next.

Zak's new art book

So here's Zak's new book, collecting his artworks from 2000's and until today. Twenty years ago the Orange Revolution halted the totalitarian usurpation in Ukraine. Today things are quite horrible, but art is still art.

I've ordered it already, but it'll take some time to get it from Europe. 

Personally, I like this spread. 

Something in the colour scheme appeals to my Ukrainian patriotism. 

The cover looks cool, too. 

 It's discounted now, but soon will be sold at full price. 

You can get it here. 

Linda Tirado. Help if you can.

I never got to know Linda Tirado in person. I learned about her after she, a journalist, was shot by a cop. I read what she posted on Twitter back when it was still Twitter. I saw a fighter, a strong and loving person who knew what real evil was and despised it, and never stopped fighting against it.

She's dying. The rubber bullet shot by the policeman caused too much damage. 

The world will be a much worse, shittier place without Linda Tirado. 

So if you can help her in the few days that she has left, please do. She deserves it. 

Here's a link telling how you can help. 

https://lindatirado.substack.com/p/story-thirty-nine

Odds and Ends and Cartoon Frogs

I don't know the Pendragon games too well, all I know is that there's an interesting mass combat mechanic, and now there's this new edition of Pendragon and the mass combat is not there. Or it's not there yet, or it was never meant to be there, I dunno. People are strange. 

Genndy Tartakovsky plans to make an animated heist comedy about frog brothers. Sounds awesome - Genndy, animation, frogs, what's not to like? 

“This whole show came to me because of how quick media is getting. We’re all flicking through entertainment this quickly. And so asked myself: How can I do a show that’s fast and intense but is going to trap you so that you can’t click past it,” Tartakovsky said. 

Umm, Genndy, you already did it, it was Clone Wars and every episode was three minutes long and it was spectacular. 

But hey, the man's a genius, if he wants to go fast and intense, let him go fast and intense. 

Steven Pressfield's books on creativity are way to religious but if you skip past all that, they're surprisingly good. 

Gotta work on something. While I'm at it, did you know that more than a thousand people got All Dogs Go To Hell from LotFP? It's at 1020 right now, when there's 4 more, we'll have a kilobyte of people who either really love or really hate dogs. 

More to come.