Some creative types have celestial muses to inspire their art. I had one, but she took some time to find herself and never came back. Instead, I have a director of self-promotion. His name is Moe. He’s bald, chews an unlit cigar, and smells like garlic when he sweats, which is all the time. He appears over my shoulder every few weeks, hovering on ridiculously undersized angel wings. He’s hovering there now.
“Hey, doofus,” he says, pointing at me with his cigar. “You should tell the people about the things.”
I blink at him. I’m sort of zoned out from working on the spreadsheet in front of me. What people? What things?
Moe groans and rolls his eyes.
“Tell your audience–the four people who read your blog and the six who follow you on Twitter or whatever–about the products that just came out. You’re over here tellin’ ’em you’re this writer and game designer, but then when stuff that you wrote and designed gets released, you don’t even say nothing. You should point to that stuff.” (He jabbed at me with his cigar for emphasis.) “Point to it hard and say, ‘I made this. I’m not just talking over here, I can execute, too. See?’ Or else how they gonna know?”
Oh. Right. Something like this?
Pinnacle Entertainment Group has announced that Lankhmar: City of Thieves is now available for PDF order and print pre-order. This RPG book lets you play in the sword and sorcery world of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser using the Savage Worlds game system. The tome includes not only everything you need to embark on a gaming career of thieving and skullduggery, but a couple of adventures written by yours truly as well. The Pinnacle team are knocking the Lankhmar property out of the park, and I’m thrilled to be part of it.
Over the card game side of things, the past weekend saw the pre-release of Absolute Discord, the latest set of cards I helped design for the My Little Pony CCG. This set features that top agent of chaos, Discord, and the craziness he brings whenever he shows up in an episode. Some of the cards in the set are really quite insane, and it was a lot of fun watching my social feeds blow up with people asking each other, “Is this even a real card? How could such a thing exist?” The theme decks were released last week, and the boosters are scheduled to drop next week, so be sure to hit up your Friendly Local Game Store and demand your ponies!
“Yeah,” says Moe after a pause. “Something like that. But maybe not so ham-fisted.”
