Roll for initiative!

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

January 2024 rewards are out, and I'm pretty happy with them. I think I'm getting my momentum back.

The Roll for Initiative pack has been bouncing around for quite awhile, and finally gelled for me. As I said when I started it, I wanted a nerdy wreath for my own front door. I made the big Roll scroll and the Welcome. And then I made some dimensional D20's that I haven't been brave enough to try gluing up. That's a bad sign: if I don't want to try it myself, it's going to be hard to write up for anyone else to do.

So I made a flat version of the D20. I was really pleased with making three D20's for my address, but realized it might be problematic for folks with different numbers. I went ahead and put a 0 on the D20, which is wrong, but then added the D10/D100, which runs 0-9 or 00-90.

That was four designs: Welcome, Roll, D20, D10. The fifth one had me stumped. I tried a wizard mini. Wasn't feeling it. I tried a dungeon map. Still nope. It'll be mixable and matchable with the Adventurer pack, which is almost ready to go, so all the best monsters were spoken for already.

I even started a couple replacement rewards, but suddenly it came to me: I had to add three more designs.

And that makes me especially happy because the design is very usable for non-gamers as well now: you can put all kinds of things in there, including the Kawaii Snowflake (with or without face) which is free to everyone right now.

The Kawaii Snowfriend, now in early access, is not quite as O-shaped. We have a sign in our house that reads "No Place Like Home" but New Jersey is the O, and I insist on reading it "Like Hime."