Trick's Tales

Welcome to Marja, the city of roots. Please enjoy your stay. Still Life (2025). Collage by me. 

Patrick Stuart of False Machine infamy has a Kickstarter out! The Doom of the Dark, a real-time, high-concept adventure for Tunnels & Trolls.  It's now in stretch goal mode for the next week. I asked him some questions about it!

You are the weakest and least loved of your clan. You have been betrayed and driven out of your ancestral herding lands by your former brethren, the cursed Shü Ebsö. It is only by the will of the sky god Dusassu and the host of lesser spirit-gods of grain, wolf, and copper that you all will survive the misty Endless Plains with no herd save the horses you escaped on. But you are the Rodnu Ebsö, and you will survive. A sandbox steppecrawl game of religion, survival, and discovery inspired by Genghis Khan's early life.   Starlight (2024). Collage by me.

This poetry isn't new. Most of it is years old, in fact. But hey, who cares, let's have a poetry break. I'm working on a secret project for other game designers right now, so I don't have any progress to report from designing Dusassu or energy to make other blog posts. So let's have ourselves a little poetry break!

I have been very kindly granted the Sunshine Blogger Award by my good pal xaosseed of the excellent  Seed of Worlds  blog. This is an award of "peer recognition to bloggers who bring positivity, joy, and creative content to the blogging world," in this case, granted to me for my Seven Part Pact review . Yay, thank you! I love peer recognition! And positivity, joy, and creative content! And the blogging world!