Category: Lampblack & Brimstone: Announcements

AS G+ DIES, LOOK FOR L&B AT THE GAUNTLET FORUMS

It doesn’t look like a dedicated L&B forum is in the cards at the moment, and even if it were I have my doubts about how many folks would make use if it, so I will be splitting my online RPG activity between the L&B blog and the Gauntlet Forums.

Jason Cordova, Shane Liebling, and many other folks have spent years building the Gauntlet up into a vibrant ind inclusive RPG community. It’s full of thoughtful, engaged, and interesting people people, talking about games that they love. I can think of no better place to fill the indie-RPG void that will follow the evaporation of G+.

So, as this humble outpost crumbles into the swamp, feel free to ping me (@jasonlutes) over at the Gauntlet Forums if you have any L&B-specific questions or suggestions.

I hope to see you there!

https://forums.gauntlet-rpg.com/categories

Okay, here’s a link to my blog, which I am going to try to update weekly:

https://lampblack-and-brimstone.com

And here’s a link to sign up for L&B news:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeckdohVx_8jsA2mrAc5oSDQzIAf9Totnkc0wfVovLg6xwJIA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thanks for all of your support, everyone. I have really enjoyed meeting new folks and discussing games via this community, and I hope we can stay in contact.

Happy new year!

As a part of end-of-year accounting for L&B, I pay out profit shares to contributors and donate 10% of DTRPG sales to the Southern Poverty Law Center. This year I’m happy to announce that I was able to give $800 to the SPLC. So if you bought an L&B product this year, thank you!

Along with this auspicious beginning to the new year, I am quitting Facebook and paring down my life in order to focus as much as possible on comics and RPG stuff. Since G+ is sinking, the first steps in this department are to reboot my old blog, connect it to the L&B shopfront, and start posting again on a regular basis. I’ll let you know here when that’s all in order, which should be within the next 10 days. I’ll also be setting up a mailing list for anyone who wants to stay apprised of our activities.

My priorities right now are Stonetop (design & layout) and Freebooters 2e (development/playtesting). My contributions to both of these projects have been minimal over the past 9 months due to book tour stuff, but the dust has settled and I am super-eager to dig back in.

Thanks for your patience! Watch this space for more details.

L&B project update:

Because of the amount of non-games work I need to get done between now and December (finishing a graphic novel, among other things), I have to put current L&B projects on the back burner until I’m in the clear.

For Freebooters on the Frontier 2e, this means development is on pause. For Stonetop, this means that design and layout are on pause, but Jeremy will continue to develop content and make it available to the playtest community at his discretion.

I’m still listening to feedback and suggestions, so please continue to post any you might have. The good news is that once I meet my deadline, I’ll have at least a 6 month chunk of time to devote to this self-publishing thing.

Thanks for your patience!

L&B STOREFRONT, TAKE 2

Okay! I think I got the security issues sorted out. The store is now open again, but let me know if you encounter any issues.

https://lampblack-and-brimstone.com/

EDIT: THE LAMPBLACK & BRIMSTONE STOREFRONT IS ON HOLD UNTIL I GET SECURITY SORTED

http://lampblack-and-brimstone.com/

Eek! I’m crossing my fingers this will all work according to plan. If you experience any problems, please let me know.

This is where you can directly order t-shirts and whatever printed books are sharing my studio space with me (currently A Book of Beasts and the 1st edition of Freebooters on the Frontier). PDFs and PoD stuff will be linked here, but will remain available for purchase exclusively through DTRPG.

For at least the next 4 years, 10% of all Lampblack & Brimstone profit will be donated to Planned Parenthood and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

I thought about doing this this behind the scenes, but I wanted to let everyone know where L&B stands.

Thanks for supporting our stuff!

https://www.splcenter.org/

20 DUNGEON STARTERS

One side project I’ve been chipping away at for close to a year is this collection of dungeon starters, which just went live on DriveThruRPG. It contains 5 starters by Marshall Miller and 15 by Mark Tygart, all edited and updated from their original forms.

The original versions of these starters are still online and available for free! There are no plans for that to change.

Marshall’s are here:

http://www.finemessgames.com/DWsupplements/dungeonstarters

and Mark’s are here:

http://catsoftindalos.blogspot.com/p/dungeon-starter-archive.html

So why collect them and charge money? I wanted to put the best of the bunch in one convenient pdf, with a consistent design and editorial standard. That took a surprising amount of time and effort!

So I’m charging $5. That’s 25 cents per starter — seems like a decent deal to me.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/194173/20-Dungeon-Starters?src=newest_since