Greetings! Just a few announcements for now. Hopefully I’ll have more game recaps and design thoughts ready for you later in the month.
Gen Con events
For anyone planning to attend Gen Con this summer—Cloven Pine Games will be there! If you'd like to play our games, here are three opportunities. If you want to make sure you get in, act fast! Tomorrow is the day to submit your event wish lists for processing and find out what you're playing.
Thursday, August 4th, 1pm—I'll be running The Great Soul Train Robbery, our game of Desperados robbing the train to Hell. Learn more and add it to your wishlist/sign up here.
Friday, August 5th, 1pm—I'll be running Back Again from the Broken Land, our game of small adventurers sharing stories on the long walk home. Learn more and add it to your wishlist/sign up here.
Saturday, August 6th, 1pm—I'll be running Vow of the Knight-Aspirants, our in-development game of squires questing to prove themselves worthy of knighthood. Learn more and add it to your wishlist/sign up here.
Hope to see and play with some of you at GenCon!
Brindlewood Bay Stretch Goal
I am contributing a stretch goal to the Brindlewood Bay Kickstarter!
This is a game about elderly women solving cozy murder mysteries in a quaint New England—and eventually confronting the dark, occult conspiracy behind all those murders. It describes itself as Murder She Wrote meets The Shadow Over Innsmouth. If the campaign reaches $315,000, I will create a murder mystery titled “A Throng of Vice and Liars.”
Here’s my pitch for the mystery: Herb L.L. Paxton has written some of the most well-loved books in fantasy: A Tome of Bones, A Crash of Crowns, The Scourge of Scorn, The Beast of Brass, and The Glance of Gryphons. His next book, The Augurs of Autumn, has been in the works for a decade now, prompting speculation and impatience in his dedicated base of readers. When the author is slain backstage at a book-signing with a replica of the dire-sword from his series, the Mavens spring into action to find the killer—and a missing manuscript?!
As for any resemblance here to any real-world fantasy authors or series—well, I plead the fifth.
Gamefully yours,
Alexi