Patchwork Newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 39)

Welcome to your weekly TTRPG newsletter! The most popular posts on the blog this week were Running Red Dragon’s Tale, Dolmenwood Resources for You, Close and Distant Playstyles, Prepping Myths in Mythic Bastionland, and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 5e. Like this newsletter? Subscribe to get it in your inbox every Saturday, and please share it with your friends! Table of Contents Discord DiscussionsBlog Posts to ReadProjects to Bookmark and Download:Play ReportsPaladin ProjectsPoem Discord Discussions This week we talked about the importance of art to the appeal of a game. The context was a kickstarter where the art was in full focus but the game seemed — unfinished, at best. But nevertheless we agreed that for many people, this probably didn’t matter, as a lot are buying games to look at, rather than play. Really, you might see the game as a kind of poetic accompaniment to the art. Perhaps the game inspires the artist, as it were. Along these lines it is interesting to…