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27 Aug, 11 tweets, 4 min read

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This is a @micaholism appreciation thread!

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The first Micah adventure I ever saw was Carnelian Riddle, which has one of the best adventure pitches, ever:

You are commissioned to rob a Sphinx
Infiltrating his garden party
Meandering through a semi-hostile demiplane segregated from the flow of time

micah-anderson.itch.io/carnelian-ridd…

It was during the WSCA jam that I was really blown away, though. Not only is Acid Fantasy dope, but for my money this is where Micah's design chops REALLY started to shine.

micah-anderson.itch.io/whats-so-weird…

Micah is a master of brevity in their writing, something I'm intensely envious of. What would take me a page, they can do in a sentence. Pair that with their design chops and you've got a formula for one of the best game designers on the scene right now.

micah-anderson.itch.io/wretch

Micah also does a LOT of collaboration work and is wonderfully unpretentious about it.
"Hey Nic - wanna write for There's Something In The Ice?"
"Hey, can I write a hexcrawl for [whatever]?"
An absolute joy to work with and always has fun ideas.

micah-anderson.itch.io/theres-somethi…

It's amazing what they can do with a few short sentences and some commercial art.

micah-anderson.itch.io/dancers-in-the…

Not every Micah game is a tiny pamphlet, though: Roustabouts is a whole city full of life, people, flavor, and adventure.

micah-anderson.itch.io/roustabout

It's the sheer breadth of STYLES that gets me. Doesn't matter if its fantasy, sword & sorcery or sci fi, its in Micah's bag.

micah-anderson.itch.io/hexdrive

Have you seen Bastards. yet? You should (the period is important!)

micah-anderson.itch.io/bastards

A Simple Dungeon didn't win an Ennie, but the Sweeties are way more prestigious:

micah-anderson.itch.io/a-simple-dunge…

What's your favorite Micah game?

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Oh, look, we're playing THIS game again, where TTRPG luminaries descend from the heavens to offer myopic and *wrong* information with an authoritative voice. These people think they have all the answers and they absolutely do not.
#RealGameIndustry.

There are literal billions of dollars spent on RPGs every year. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn't know any better or is willfully ignorant because they have a stake in maintaining status quo.

Modiphius' entire business model is on licensed RPGs. Free League has both the One Ring and the Aliens RPG. Magpie is currently running the largest RPG Kickstarter of all time. These products ship in bulk, and the cost of goods on bulk products is literal pennies.

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🚨🚨 ITS HERE 🚨🚨

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I said I'd print it after I hit $1k, and we hit $1k, so here we are!

KANABO is a d100-based rules-lite adventure game set loosely in Tokugawa-era Japan (1600–1868) and based on iconic sword-fighting movies. James Mendez Hodes (@LulaVampiro) did the cultural consulting on it!

in the 17-page Player's Handbook:
-Tools for safe play
-A lightweight, easy-to-run d100 system with four stats
-A randomized character system that provides compelling starting points for your adventurer
-Hirelings, tools, clothes, provisions, and weaponsp

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Some thoughts on game design.

I've been cooking all my life, and professionally so about two decades. One of the things you'll see inexperienced cooks do when they're working on a dish is add as many high-end ingredients as possible to the dish. Surely that makes it good, right?

But when you throw lobster, truffles, foie gras, jamon iberico and saffron all together, you're gonna get something that tastes like none of it. The flavors don't compliment, they clash.

Same with game mechanics.

I'm a big fan of two things: brevity, and purposeful design. You could make a solid argument to say those things are the same thing, but not always.

First off: ALL OF US could write shorter, and should. Everyone. Even you.

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Nobody is "jealous of your marginal success."

You incited targeted harassment against multiple people on both discord and twitter for criticizing your aggressive self-promotion and then re-framed it as you yourself beinf harassed.

I wasn't going to directly name-drop this particular person because of the disparity in following size but they continue to be an actively harmful individual, focused entirely on building as large a platform as possible with which to silence & harass people they don't like.

Taylor is gaslighting, manipulative, weaponizes their identity against criticism, and incites harassment against people critical of their sales tactics. They're a harmful person that I wouldn't trust with the limited following they have, let alone the larger one they want.

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