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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 3h

That's a distinct possibility

Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 5h

4/4: Join us in the final run, we'll see you across the finish line! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

Glatisant: A Two-player Arthurian TTRPG

A duet game of purpose, pursuit, and guidance

www.kickstarter.com

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 5h

3/4: We've already far exceeded my hopes for this campaign. And we've gathered a core audience of people, in truly humbling numbers, who believe in this kind of storytelling. The way I see it, we're walking with them on a new quest as Graftbound grows into new projects. Everything else is gravy.

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 5h

2/4: The central question of Glatisant is how can a dream care for its dreamer? It's a parable for an object of faith, so rare in this life, that loves you back as much or more than you love it. And this baffling moment in the campaign feels like it could have walked out of the mists of this book.

A screen capture of the Glatisant Kickstarter page, showing $9,491 pledged by 280 backers with 3 hours to go.

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 5h

1/4: I didn’t expect these last few hours to be so tense! It feels like we’re racing the clock to $10K by 4 pm 🕓. That last stretch goal and the five-figure threshold are tantalizingly close, an absolute joy if we make it! Even if we don't, though, I'll be more than content. Here's why:

A poster image in the style of Glatisant with the text "How can a dream care for its dreamer?"

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole @tabletopbookshelf.com · 18h

Experience a lifelong quest through Arthurian myth as the heroic Knight Errant and the Questing Beast they pursue.

Glatisant from @graftbound.bsky.social is a GM-less, asymmetrical table-top roleplaying game for two players.

A few hours left to back it ⚔️
tinyurl.com/yc6ws339

Glatisant: A Two-player Arthurian TTRPG

A duet game of purpose, pursuit, and guidance

tinyurl.com

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 1d

Is that Dashboard Confessional I hear in the background?

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great idea, Especially if you've just covered Thomas Malory, T.H. White, or Sir Walter Scott!

Seeing how each student picks from the limited character creation options and builds from the same prompts would tell you a lot about them, I think.

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 6d

This, to me, is the number that matters - always has been. If you're part of that number you are certainly my people, and I have gifts for you.

Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · 6d

Wow we're so honored to have gotten this far with our Kickstarter, 200 people supporting us is amazing! Thanks to all backers and people who've shared our posts and our page!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 10d

Hey. Hey. That game I wrote? It's going a little bonkers. Just a little.

Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · 10d

Your consistent support has let us really dream big for this project, because we’re adding two new stretch goals!

At $8k, we’ll switch from soft enamel to hard enamel pins.

At $10K, we'll upgrade the cover finish to matte anti-scuff lamination

Read more details on the KS tinyurl.com/bd949nbv

Graphic with text describing the stretch goals at 8k of enamel pin upgrades and at 10k the cover upgrades.

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 14d

No Mercy for Monsters is an easy comparison to Glatisant, but if I made a Brad Bird movie then Jess made a Ridley Scott. Check it out for a darker take on Hunter and Beast!

Underground Oracle Publishing @undergroundoracle.com · 14d

New from our imprint Unplaytested Presents, No Mercy For Monsters is now live!

Grab this Wretched & Alone #ttrpg of familial oaths, dark obsessions, and the toxic bond shared between mortal rivals below.

Site: undergroundoracle.co...
Itch: unplaytested-present...
Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com...

No Mercy For Monsters title card from Unplaytested Presents.

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 18d

Nice.

Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 23d

Our first week gave us the confidence to dream bigger for Glatisant

Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · 23d

Glatisant is getting a stretch goal! If we reach $6K we’ll add journaling stickers and print & play, tent-style miniatures to the game. These will add value to the experience without affecting our production and delivery timelines! Check it out in the latest update: tinyurl.com/bd949nbv

Stretch Goal Graphic showing a sticker sheet with small icons of the resources in Glatisant; Mind, Body, Spirit, Tracks, as well as icons for the Beast and the Knight. These are labeled "journaling stickers". Next to the sticker sheet are two tent like paper standees, featuring art of the Questing Beast and The Knight, these are labeled "Print & Play Tokens" the stretch goal is set at $6,000.

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 27d

Much faster than I anticipated! Thank you for believing in this game.

Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · 29d

11 hours! Thanks gang for a great first day! we're going to bed. See you tomorrow!

A screenshot of the Glatisant Kickstarter page showing $2000/$2000 reached

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Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · 29d

11 hours! Thanks gang for a great first day! we're going to bed. See you tomorrow!

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you, that means so much to me!

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Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · 28d

This deal ends in 3 hours! Back the book before noon EST to get the limited edition print for no extra cost.

There’s a good chance Emily gets so sick of pulling this print she never does it again so secure your art today!

Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · Sep 16

Glatisant is live on Kickstarter! 🛡🦌🌿 Your adventure awaits. Back in the first 48 hours and you’ll get a free linocut print of the sword and branch design, handpulled by @oddsandents.bsky.social. Help make this game a physical reality! tinyurl.com/bd949nbv

A graphic reading “Back within 48 hours to get this limited edition print!” with an arrow pointing to a print design featuring a sword with a ribbon tied to the hilt and a branch with several leaves and berries growing from it.

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · Sep 16

Quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · Sep 16

Thanks for the space, I had a great time!

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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · Sep 16

New episode out!

Ryan sits down with Emily and Lucas of @graftbound.bsky.social to discuss their current project coming to Kickstarter: GLATISANT, a gm-less, asymmetrical ttrpg where you and a friend quest through Arthurian myth as the heroic Knight Errant and the Questing Beast they pursue.

EP 283 | We Interview GRAFTBOUND PRESS

YouTube video by The Weekly Scroll

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · Sep 16

Thank you, this means a lot!

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · Sep 16

It starts today!

Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · Sep 16

Glatisant is live on Kickstarter! 🛡🦌🌿 Your adventure awaits. Back in the first 48 hours and you’ll get a free linocut print of the sword and branch design, handpulled by @oddsandents.bsky.social. Help make this game a physical reality! tinyurl.com/bd949nbv

Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · Sep 15

Did not expect this much interest in this idea 🤣
I may publish this game later with @graftbound.bsky.social, so follow me there for updates!

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · Sep 15

I try to add something to the conversation with every game I write - here are 3 games that were already part of that conversation:

Graftbound Press @graftbound.bsky.social · Sep 15

1/7: Glatisant launches tomorrow! This isn’t the first indie TTRPG about relating to the monstrous. If you love monsters in fiction, the high drama of sworn enemies, or if you see yourself in the stranger and the alien, here are a few games you should check out and what Glatisant adds to the story.

A cozy, sample set up for Glatisant. Miniature models of a knight and a wolf are placed on a grid of playing cards. The Knight has crossed three cards, the only ones face up. Three piles of tokens are visible to the left of the table, the direction of the Knight's origin. A coffee mug and candle flank the spread.

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Lucas Zellers 🚀 Glatisant @lucaszellers.bsky.social · Sep 12

These two figure in Korean folk art from the Joseon dynasty as satire of a feudal class system. I could write this game, but I want a Korean voice to tell the story.

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