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GM Joe
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Joe Kiewra - TTRPG designer, video maker, distillery owner, ADHD haver, dinosaur lover, improviser, socialist, Pittsburgher He/Him
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/children-with-wands/children-with-wands
Context, it was a first printing hard cover copy of the prisoner of askban. That hurt, on a variety of levels. Still the right thing to do.
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I found my old copies of a few Harry Potter books when cleaning up my office. It hurt a bit to do so but I thew them out. I don't want any part of that franchise that I used to love in my house anymore
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
And leave those profits on the table? No, better to make your product worse for those who would normally enjoy it. This will never have any negative consequences on our business. We are very smart.
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This Canada sounds like a truly magical land
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
That did help
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We are going to give this guy $100,000 if he can spend 3 days in the belly of a whale
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
With r/rpg only 1/10 th of your posts can be self promotion. That is a huge commitment for very little return, and that is the point.

Reddit often has the attitude “how dare you show me something I may be interested in”
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Reddit is tricky, I did get one sale of Children With Wands from posting about it on r/rpg but also a ton of nasty comments. Reddit is often allergic to self promotion unless you are already successful and will only allow it if you are a member of that community. 1/2
November 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
God damnit, the absolute commitment to making everything just suck so badly would be commendable, except that the goal is to make everything suck
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
My favorite Gail Simone style poster would be a 18 by 24 inch poster of Green Arrow punching a racist while saying Zelda is the boy.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Communism
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
And taking a very long time to do so
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
What always bothered me is that is nowhere near enough gazpacho for everyone.

Lisa doesn’t understand portion sizes.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Honestly they should just be the same word
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Does it ever bother you that the Muppets made 2 movies about classic literature and then just stopped doing that?
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The Princess Bride, up until that point I had never read something that meta. It opened my eyes to what was possible when bending the conventions of the media you are working in.

It was already my favorite movie but the book let me have a deeper appreciation for it.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Fishing mini games

Even the fishing games
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Anti-intellectualism is a hell of a drug
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM