The Planet

Feels weird making a thread for it but didn't want to ruin another thread and Cal said to mention it!

I published another novel this month, and a playable TTRPG set in the same world.

It's called Non-Player Character and the details are here: https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/non-pla ... ria-corva/

And the TTRPG is called Kin and it's here: https://vicorva.itch.io/kin-the-fantasy ... aying-game

The rule is if you ever want one of my books but feel nervous about the cost, you can just message me to ask for one and I'll give you a copy no questions asked and no strings attached (seriously, you don't even have to read it). This is pretty much my rule for everyone everywhere but definitely the rule for friends!

Carry on, as you were, etc ...

But now we got a place to talk about it ALSO I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WROTE AN ENTIRE CUSTOM TTRPG FOR THE BOOK OMG

Me, reading the setting section of the Kin PDF: *points excitedly* "I KNOW THAT CITY MAP GENERATOR!!!"

Thanks for the reminder! I meant to pre-order it but you can't pre-order on Kobo without a credit card and then life has been, well. Yeah. >.><.<

Legit cried right in the first chapter, I needed this book <3

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:09 am

Me, reading the setting section of the Kin PDF: *points excitedly* "I KNOW THAT CITY MAP GENERATOR!!!"

Bee wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:14 am

Thanks for the reminder! I meant to pre-order it but you can't pre-order on Kobo without a credit card and then life has been, well. Yeah. >.><.<

Legit cried right in the first chapter, I needed this book <3

I'm super looking forward to buying and reading it but I already bought and am reading the TTRPG first because well

Bee wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:15 am

^ that, lol

no but it's exciting 'cause I think I'm the one who told V/everyone about it?? so it's like one part i love that particular generator lol and one part YEAHHH I HELPED

Okay corva I have a couple questions for ya about Kin.

How easy/hard is it to run online without voice chat? Also, do you think it'd be runnable in a forum thread or does it need too much realtime discussion to make work?

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:23 am

Bee wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:14 am

Thanks for the reminder! I meant to pre-order it but you can't pre-order on Kobo without a credit card and then life has been, well. Yeah. >.><.<

Legit cried right in the first chapter, I needed this book <3

I'm super looking forward to buying and reading it but I already bought and am reading the TTRPG first because well

Bee wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:15 am

^ that, lol

no but it's exciting 'cause I think I'm the one who told V/everyone about it?? so it's like one part i love that particular generator lol and one part YEAHHH I HELPED

having helped is a great feeling, ngl

Bee wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:14 am

Thanks for the reminder! I meant to pre-order it but you can't pre-order on Kobo without a credit card and then life has been, well. Yeah. >.><.<

Legit cried right in the first chapter, I needed this book <3

Bee! T_T <3

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:26 am

Okay corva I have a couple questions for ya about Kin.

How easy/hard is it to run online without voice chat? Also, do you think it'd be runnable in a forum thread or does it need too much realtime discussion to make work?

Hmm. I haven't tested it without voice but it's very flexible. I think everything in Narrative Mode would be pretty easy in a forum thread, and Smooth Action Mode only requires a dice-roll per involved player so I think that'd be pretty straightforward too. Could work? Especially considering on YOUR forum there is in-built dice-rolling!

Hard to know until it's tried but I've played rules-light D&D on forums in the past and it was still a lot heavier than anything in Kin.

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Fri 15 Oct, 2021, 12:23 am

^ that, lol

no but it's exciting 'cause I think I'm the one who told V/everyone about it?? so it's like one part i love that particular generator lol and one part YEAHHH I HELPED

Ohhh it really could have been! I've been using it for a handful of years for DMing TTRPGs so I'd completely forgotten! The Watabou Medieval City Generator is genuinely so useful!

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Thu 14 Oct, 2021, 10:50 pm

But now we got a place to talk about it ALSO I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WROTE AN ENTIRE CUSTOM TTRPG FOR THE BOOK OMG

I, uh, got over-ambitious with the Kickstarter rewards. I was like 'I only need to promise a tiny TTRPG. I think I could make a one-page TTRPG.' and then I was like 'No, promise like 50ish pages. The rulebook they use in the game is a proper book and that'll look a bit more like it.'

And then I wrote the damn thing properly and by the time it was done it was ~120 pages. XD BUT! It's the same rules used in the book! Which I'm honestly pretty chuffed about. And I've since started looking at making other TTRPGs (including a Jam Jar TTRPG about necromancers) and extra content for Kin, and all sorts, basically because it turns out making TTRPGs is *awesome* and I love it.

Nonetheless ... not something I'd like to promise as a Kickstarter reward unless it's already 100% written and typeset. XD