A new Kickstarter adventure has launched for what may ver𓆏y well be the ultimate insight into what goes on in the minds of game masters during the worldbuilding process. is a “collection of interviews with TTRPG developers” that currently has just ove🃏r 50% funded toward its $10,000 goal, with 29 days remaining.
The Kickstarter was launched by , a TTRPG designer, writer, graphic designer, and co-director of . You can also catch him dungeon-master🅷ing the heck out of the Tampo D&D adventure over on the on Fridays. According to the Kickstarter page, this is his first Kickstarter project launched.
Also according to the Kickstarter notes, Mendenhall describes Polyhedral as "an interview book, wherein the interviewer has spoken to different people who work in the Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG) industry." He has interviewed numerous TTRPG worldbuilders, people who have put in the time and passion to create entire independent systems and system supplements — alongside TTRPG company owners and talenteဣd industry freelancers.
Mendenhall has gathered these various interviews into Polyhedral in order to share with the TTRPG gaming and worldbuilding community the “passion, camaraderie, troubles, hardship, and joy in what each designer shares.” He states he had a few goals to unlock with the book, including getting the high-profile TTRPG folx to talk about themselves, their indus💙try origin stories, and encounters they’ve had during their adventures. He adds “that game designers are oftentimes some fascinating, empathetic people,” a fact that needs to be emphasized more. He also points toward his own experiences with worldbuilding, and shares that his “goal is to make a book that can help prepare people for the stresses ofꦺ making these books by giving them some measure of forewarning, but also to reassure that they can make what they envision as well.”
Currently, Mendenhall has a list of 31 professional TTRPG worldbuilders he’s interviewed for Polyhedral, and adds t🐎hat “a few unannounced surprises” are also in the works for the book. Just a few of the people whose thoughts and feelings you’ll find in Polyhedral include Matthew Mercer, Ashley Warren, Chris Spivey, Miguel Lopez, James Introcaso, Shanna Germain, Teos Abadia, Keith Baker, and Brandon Dixon.
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