The Mad Quill Mailer
Mike ConnellCreator insights about storytelling from Mike Connell.
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What Temeraire taught us about adapting fiction into play
Adapting a story into a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) sounds straightforward.
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You have a world.
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You have characters.
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You have conflict.
Turn that into mechanics, and you have a game.
But the reality is more complica...
Storytelling is a system (even when dice aren't involved)
Before there were rules, there were patterns.
Every story – whether it’s told around a fire, across panels in a comic, or at a game table – runs on an underlying logic. Cause and effect. Tension and release. Choices and consequences. Even...
In the shadows of a legend: Lessons from GaryCon
By Frank Avila, RPG Consultant, Mad Quill Publishing
GaryCon is not just another convention. You feel that the moment you walk through the doors.
There is a weight to it. Not oppressive, but reverent. A sense that you are stepping into a...
We didn’t build a game. We built a world that needed one.
When most tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) are created, the process usually starts with the system.
Designers build mechanics. Dice rules. Combat structures. Character progression. The world often comes later… a setting built to suppor...
Why we're turning Feral into a TTRPG?
Most tabletop role-playing games are born from systems-first fandom.
Feral is story-first.
We didn’t start with dice and mechanics… we started with:
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A world
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A thesis (colonialism, exploitation, monstrosity)
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A narrative engi...
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