This message from a Patreon supporter brought a smile to my face!

This message from a Patreon supporter brought a smile to my face!

Hey guys – I joined the Patreon a while ago, and listened to the podcasts before that, and I wanted to take a moment to thank you for what you’re putting out into the hobby. I’ve been playing for a long time but I’m fairly new to story games in general & PbtA specifically – my first exposure to a PbtA game was when I came across World Wide Wrestling on DriveThru & thought it would make a great Christmas present for my husband. That strange phrase, “Powered by the Apocalypse”, led to a Google search that led to a fundamental shift in how I understand & play games. Cue that sword descending from the sky in a shaft of holy light from the end of The Messenger, full choral accompaniment and all that shit. I found your podcasts & community after that and so much of what you do has helped me change my habits & change the games my groups play. Watching Lowell run Gauntlet League Wrestling helped the game come alive for my husband & me (and helped me to find where the fun is in professional wrestling). I started GMing my first 2 games recently – Fellowship & Lady Blackbird. Listening to Discern Realities helped to unlock the mechanisms of PbtA in my head and gave me tools that I’ve used in my Fellowship game.

I joined the Patreon specifically to get the Codex with Rich’s Lady Blackbird article and those event seeds & questions have come to my aid over and over again! I’m generally a lurker online (by contrast, XXXX, my husband, has been thrilled to find new people to babble at online) but given how many of my recent games have been influenced by the Gauntlet, I wanted to thank you for being awesome!

Cc: Richard Rogers Kate Bullock Lowell Francis David LaFreniere (also, indirectly, Nathan Paoletta Vincent Baker Meguey Baker John Harper Jacob Randolph)