Welp, my little brother has a TTRPG bee in his bonnet, and wants to get more serious--maybe more oriented, is a better world--toward actually creating and selling game materials. We are both approaching retirement age in our respective careers; I'll be done (God willing) in less than four years, and he's not far off of that, so what we've long talked about and thought about is starting to come to life.
Way back in the day, when D&D 3.0 was alive, we came up with the idea of Fionna Games, and wanted to publish some Celtic-themed materials, but someone beat us to the punch, life got in the way for all of u (wives, kids houses, careers, etc.) and it just never happened. Dennis (my little brother) is a very organized person; 20+ years of service in the United States Army does that to a person, and I know he's had this on his mind for decades now. He's really good at logistics and organization; at creating a plan and executing it. At researching things, then making best-information-available decisions.
I'm good at making shit up.
So we've decided to take the next few years to create lots and lots of content, in the hopes that in the not too distant future, we can actually turn some of our lifelong hobby into a retirement gig. I am not concerned about making money at all: this is more about filling my time doing something I love with the people I love, so it's a nice plan and completely doable.
When we were children living in Somerville, MA back in the 70s, we used to call this staircase 'the Wicked Place' because, in our little kid perspectives, this wall was like the battlements of a castle, looking out over a mighty realm, especially as the sun was setting. Imagine Mufasa holding up baby Simba as they gazed over the Pride Lands in wonder and awe. That's what this view as like for us as kids, and in our New England parlance, "wicked" means good, or amazing, or incredible. Wicked Place Games goes back just about as far as my memories do. Seems like a good place to start.
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