Updated Longwinter PDFs
Added 2021-02-26 23:27:08 +0000 UTCDear heroes,
This is a short, and slightly unplanned, post. I hope you will forgive me this abuse of your email inboces.
When I finally released Longwinter in December of 2020, I included a mention of the band Iced Earth in the musical appendix. I had forgotten that I had also included a quote from their lyrics in the referee book.
I was never a big fan of the band, but along with Blind Guardian (of which I am a big fan), it was one of the bands I listened to in the mid 90s when I discovered heavy metal. I listened to them again in and around 2010 when I stopped pretending I would grow out of heavy metal and accepted that tastes don't define a person. Where they a major influence on Longwinter? I wouldn't say so. I would admit to including them out of a sense of completionism and thematic resonance.
On January 6th of this year, the singer of that band was one of the insurrectionists storming the US capitol in that day's pro-Trump coup attempt. I never have, nor will ever have, anything but disgust and condemnation for right-wing fascistoid assholes.
I removed the references from the music appendix, but missed the quote in the book itself. Hence why I had to update the Referee's Book twice on itch and dtrpg, and now here. Let that be a lesson: Ctrl+F exists for a reason.
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As a bonus, both books have also passed a once-over at the eyes of your fellow hero-typohunters, which has caught several gremlins left over in the process.
Finally, I've added new hi-resolution wallpaper for your delectation.
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Finally, it's not the perfect time to mention it, but still: wow, 599 folks here! Welcome! Wonderful! If someone had told me we could achieve something like that back when I started with patreon, well. I'd have hardly believed them.
Thank you for your heroic support.
And thank you for understanding the Frozen Soil debacle.
โLukamon
(Pocketdemon, special edition)
Comments
First, I'm really glad you enjoyed reading it. It was fun writing it, and I do try to add at least ... a significant nod to the folks reading rpg books, not just playing them (I think that's quite a big proportion, to be honest). As for studies, well, I'd been interested in history and civilizations since I was little. At university I studied international relations with a side of religious and cultural studies, and did my thesis on the religious violence (or lack thereof) in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. I then did my readings for an MSc in anthropology, but after a falling out with the thesis commission and a thesis advisor I wasn't fond of ... I dropped out after a couple of years of trying to reconcile finishing a thesis that would net me 0 income while putting up with working for a person I couldn't stand. So, that's the studies side. Though I suspect it was personal readings and experiences aside from that, which had as much impact ... if not more. Probably more.
WizardThiefFighter
2021-02-28 10:37:13 +0000 UTC
