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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

I need to put a sticky note on my desk somewhere or set a calendar reminder to prompt me to promote my existing work rather than constantly worrying about the material I'm still writing or only thinking about.

I mean, I've got 88 writing credits on RPG Geek...

www.justcrunch.com

A clipboard lying amidst debris on the floor. The paper clipped onto the board has a message, rendered in a font meant to look like neat handwriting, saying: "It would be nice to remember some time that I have a whole range of games available for people to buy, download, play and even get hard copies of, but week-in and week-out I forget to run any kind of promotion of their existence. You can find links to PDFs and access for hard copies through: www.justcrunch.com"

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 15h

#furnacerpg Slot 2 - Run Out The Guns. I have a book of critical hit tables, and an awful lot of skills to do sums with. Hornpiping the poop deck with @paulbaldowski.bsky.social at the helm (?)

A games table with a ttrpg in progress with a cardboard ship in the centre

A booklet "The Combat Book" with lots of critical hits

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 11h

GMing all day today at Furnace. Playing tomorrow.

Ran Flight from the Darkness in the morning (Sanction/Lone Wolf) and deployed the Critical Tables in the afternoon with Run Out The Guns! with added "beer pong"-style side game.

Great fun. One parrot 🦜 may have been harmed in-game, accidentally.

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 11h

You loved every Crit of it ☠️🏴‍☠️🦜

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

PPP has become near useless over the last few years at DriveThru, but I'll keep it in mind.

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

And I didn't include publicity, marketing, socials and all that stuff in that list. That's so much to do when, like me, you also have a day job 😜

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

My operation is just me, so yeah. If I've budgeted for others, great, but otherwise I'm developing, play testing, writing, re-writing, versioning, editing, doing layout and art direction, managing print, coordinating contracts, project managing, etc. Those credits you don't get to see on RPG Geek 🤣

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating...

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

It confounds me, Josh. It feels like I'm running and can't risk looking back. I should be promoting all that has come before, rather than constantly focusing on a point somewhere in the far future.

And, on that note, congratulations on your Ex Tenebris campaign 😀

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

There was a winner. Is a winner. Thanks to those who commented and shared.

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

I've direct messaged you!

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

Once I've confirmed you're the winner, which I'll do by posting in a comment beneath your comment, I'll pass you on to the crew at All Rolled Up to resolve the shipping details.

Get Googling that birthday!

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 2d

A Dee Sanction giveaway (to test the functionality for customers in the United States).

The first person in the US to post Doctor John Dee's birthdate (correctly) in the comments, below, wins a copy of the current softcover edition of The Dee Sanction, gratis. We'll cover shipping.

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm trying to sort out a plastic sleeve. And some notepaper. Don't worry. But... You need me to provide dice?!

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 3d

Heck no! Bring notepaper. These are originals. No pens! 😲

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm talking about me.

Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 3d

And my assessment, without qualification, is that it's a neurodivergent trait within the scope of ADHD, but that's just me.

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 3d

Necessarily expecting it to be used at the table. I mean, I have an A4 page of the Ship's Store. Players get a 4-page character portfolio. I've listed the entire crew of The Narwhal.

How much will we use? I suspect very little. But, I feel the show matters when you Run Out the Game!

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 3d

To a degree, the prep for Run Out the Guns! has been easy. In the case of the ship, it's just a scan of a page from the game.

However, other elements have required scanning, text extraction, and then pasting that into Word.

The best part is that I'm looking to create the experience, but not

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 3d

You and me, both.

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 4d

If you wanna see indie creators succeed, remember you can always write reviews, talk about your play experience, do shoutouts, plenty of stuff that helps so much since there's only so many places that offer us outreach, especially if we are outside of the D&D/OSR space

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone deserves cake and coffee for their birthday (heck, it might be nice to have more regularly).

Please head to itch.io/s/160877/wh-... and pick something up.

🎂 🎲🎉

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 5d

Love this 😍

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 5d

Fil had her jab on Saturday and it has hit rather hard. I know, it's the natural reaction given someone just pumped you with a micro-flu and it's better than full blown flu, but it's darned inconvenient 😵‍💫

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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield 🔥 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 6d

It's an orange Kaweco Sport