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This Could All End Very, Very Badly

It started as a lark. No, more like a rant. A rant against why no tabletop roleplaying game had ever captured the spirit of one of my favorite niche genres of film -- Hammer Horror. Yes, I know. Ravenloft. It's not my intent to be dismissive. That's just the first thing everyone has said since I started this "thought experiment gone horribly wrong" 18 months ago.

Long story short, I'm here. On a blog. With a publishing imprint ready to kick off the mad marketing campaign of my own personal fantasy heartbreaker.

I even had to look up what a publishing imprint was.

I'm so incredibly out of my element here. So here goes...



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  1. HarleyDecember 29, 2011 at 1:54 PM

    When you're famous, I'll be able to point back to this post and say I was first.

    Very much looking forward to these. Soldier on!

    //H

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  2. SMJanuary 8, 2012 at 12:55 PM

    Thanks! I will.

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