The Mushroom Press Design Blog

Not too much to report today. Got back to finalizing Tian Shang after a hiatus; there are a few issues that cropped up in playtesting and design that sorely needed to get addressed.

I've also been watching one of our star playtesters Mikel on his channel Confessions of an Improv GM. That's been really informative; I feel like in a lot of ways Mikel puts into words the zeitgeist that surrounded LotW, and that's an important thing to capture in the new rules.

Also, We're getting the finals back from Christof for the art. Check out this badass Tripitaka he drew up for us:

Scope those flyin' prayer strips. Hell yes.

In addition to Tian Shang, work continues on Parliament of Crocodiles. Taking a page from Justin Alexander's playbook, I've been reviewing the games Processes in order to ensure that GMs have a system that they can use to answer the question of "what do we do now?"

It's a beast of a system, but the final game should be amazing (tootin' my own horn, here)

Finally, I've been bitten by a creative bug and I've started pecking away at a riff on the Tian Shang system for a post-apocalyptic kung-fu thing a la Fist of the North Star. I put up a post on the ol' RPG.net to see if I'm the only one who would actually play a game like that. If I get some bites, I might actually lump for some art and publish it. We'll see!