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Updates & Random Thoughts
- The D&D Review at The Death Cookie is almost finished! If I can review all the appendices in one post, two more installments and I'm done. Doing a ridiculously long review of a game that's been out for several years seemed like a funny idea at the time, but I'm ready to be done with it.
- GenCon went well and I believe I'm ready to pronounce the Cinemechanix rules set stable. The book itself is another story and is going to take a while to updated and reorganize, but we've got some ideas about how to deal with that. Look for an exciting announcement about future Hex Games releases sometime in the next month or so.
- We're currently working on the omnibus edition of American Artifacts, which will combine all three existing books into a single book with an expanded timeline and some new artifacts. We plan to have it finished in time to sell the print version at Archon in October.
- I enjoyed the new season of Luke Cage, but it took me a really long time to get through it. That was partially because I had a lot of other stuff going on, but mostly it was just one of those "watch an episode whenever I get an hour" things that I could put down and pick back up as time allowed.
- The first few episodes of the new season of Preacher moved too slow for my tastes, but it looks like it's starting to pick up the pace near the end.
Pig Palaces and Brisket Barns
The newest Brainfart Press release, Pig Palaces and Brisket Barns, is on sale now in print and Kindle format at Amazon. You can also get the PDF version on the Brainfart Press website. You may know all the famous barbecue joints of Kansas City and Memphis, but have you ever visited Amoral Abattoir? Pork By the Pound? UnderArby’s? Have you ever sampled the decadent delicacy known as the Bar-B-Cone? No, you haven’t, because technically they don’t exist; but no matter, because this guidebook will tell you everything you need to know about them, and other absurd, esoteric, and idiosyncratic barbecue joints across this great nation. Steve Johnson (Obscure Early Bluesmen Who Never Existed, So You’ve Decided To Run a Role-Playing Game) and Leighton Connor (The Rosamund Trap, The Flaxman’s Anomaly) have joined forces to lovingly craft this travelogue of imaginary barbecue joints that is frequently hilarious, usually dumb, and always entertaining.The MarmiCon Connundrum
In addition to co-authoring the barbecue book with me, Leighton Connor has released his newest Ross Fulton, Occult Detective story, a novella entitled The MarmiCon Conundrum, in which I appear briefly as a character. You can get it on Amazon as well.
In his most mind-blowing case yet, occult detective Ross Fulton and his assistant Ted have come to Indianapolis for MarmiCon, the largest gaming convention in the Midwest. Ross and Ted have to track down the elusive Franklin Fletcher, a game designer, con man, and Enochian mage, but they soon learn they’re not the only ones on his trail. Now Ross and Ted must outwit their rival, find Fletcher, and figure out why portals to other worlds are opening up throughout the convention. Plus, there’s the nagging question—what is Gotterdammerung Opus Maximus?
Word of the Week
Brainfart Press will eventually release a dictionary of words nobody particularly needs to know, tentatively titled (with apologies to Ambrose Bierce) "The Dumbass Dictionary." Here's one of those words:Introvert:
A self-diagnosed condition for people who don’t want to admit they’re an anti-social asshole.
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