There are so many positive benefits to getting involved in our community. Many of them are difficult to quantify or explain, but they are absolutely perceivable if you know where to look. Legacy 2e from James Iles is a terrific example of what I’m talking about here. (I believe) James first heard about us when Lowell Francis began running Legacy 1e on Gauntlet Hangouts and making those videos available. In those videos, we spoke really openly about the things we liked in Legacy 1e and the things we didn’t like. James was in the planning phases of Legacy 2e, and so he got in touch with Lowell to discuss things more in-depth. Importantly, James didn’t act like a baby when we (gently) criticized his game, but rather embraced our critique and got really involved in our community. Our community, particularly our Slack, had a first-row seat to the development of Legacy 2e. Furthermore, James began running playtests of Legacy 2e and related products, such as Rhapsody of Blood, on Gauntlet Hangouts.
Ultimately, James’s partnership with Modiphius is what sent Legacy 2e into the stratosphere in terms of its KS and DriveThru sales. We deserve absolutely no credit for the game’s success from a marketing standpoint. But in terms of the quality of the text, creative support, and just generally providing a friendly, welcoming place for James to work out his ideas, the Gauntlet did the thing.
Legacy 2e is a fabulous book. One of the things I find most exciting about the project as a whole is how James has embraced our spirit of welcoming and encouraging new people to get involved in RPG authorship. You can see that in the Worlds of Legacy line of supplements, which I have just started taking a look at. I just picked up one of them, Generation Ship by Aaron Griffin, and it’s really neat! It basically takes the factional play of Legacy and puts it in the stars.
Anyway, for the two of you who don’t yet have Legacy 2e, I highly recommend it. And check out all the cool stuff coming out for it, too!
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/242791/Legacy-Generation-Ship-Worlds-of-Legacy-1-PDF