January 2025

We talk about the last month at La Esquina del Rol.

This is our first Newsletter of the year! January has been a fantastic month for us, and we are very excited about our upcoming collaboration with our partner El Refugio de Ryhope. We are preparing the first of our collaborations and hope it will be to your liking.

We are aware that Substack is undergoing a process of "enshittification" and we are exploring alternatives to continue distributing our content through other channels. Our blog is becoming our main focus for interaction, but for now, we will use Substack until we find a way to become independent from any other corporate entity.

🧉1. Bring on the Discourse

2025 will be a year of migrations for our community. We have already seen how harmful social networks can be on other occasions, and I do not intend to delve further into them.

I firmly believe, as Yochai Gal shares in his latest blog post, that we must take our community's discussion to safer and more independent places. I know I'm not the only one who doesn't see Discord or Bluesky in a positive light at the moment.

Yochai Gal's call to bring the conversation back to forums has resonated with the Spanish-speaking community, and we have now taken a subforum in The Cauldron. I invite everyone who wants a safe and corporate-free space to start the discussion in English and Spanish in The Cauldron. We're waiting for you!

🅱️2. 2025 Is the Year of the Beta

We start the year with this Prismatic Wasteland challenge. I invite you to join. If you have an idea in the drawer that you haven't published yet because it seems endless, then this is the year to bring it to light and see what happens. Join the Year of Betas!

Entries to the Beta Challenge (in no particular order):

1. Mulberry

2. Oozes and Oubliettes

3. Everything You Are Must Be Found

4. The Doom that Came to Wizard City

5. Dark Space Society (This is mine!)

6. Tombstone - Grit & Determination

7. NO GOOD DEED: Bleed 10,000 Hit Points

8. LEVEL: Adventures in a Virtual Fantasy

9. The Explorer’s Guild

10. 5 Million Worlds: Avatar Builder

11. Wormtooth

12. Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted

13. Gasmasks & Goblins

14. Fate of Faltera

15. Absurd Lands and Curious Creatures

16. The Demon of Dogwater Gulch

“DONE is a myth, Complete is a joke, PERFECT is impossible, and SATISFACTION is a lie.” 200-Proof Games

🗣️3. January Interviews

Thinking about what might happen with Substack, we have moved several of our English interviews to our blog. If you missed any, you can now find most of them here.

An Interview with Goblin Archives

Excited by the announcement of the upcoming deluxe edition of Liminal Horror, I'm thrilled to share an interview I did with one of the authors, Goblin Archives. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

An Interview with Patrick Buechner

It was a blast chatting with

Patrick Buechner

about The Soloist, the future of TTRPGs and Solo Borg!

🎲4. 1d10 Crowdfundings to Follow!

1. Solo Borg by Patrick Buechner

2. Midnight Muscadines by Pandion Games

3. XENO Invasion by Caligaes

4. A PERFECT WIFE: TTRPG Adventure + Fundraiser! by Zedeck Siew, illustrated by Amanda Lee Franck and Scrap World.

5. Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition by Goblin Archives, Josh D | Vaulted Pyramid and Zach Hazard Vaupen

6. Out of Orbit: A Troupe Survival TTRPG by Andrew Beauman

7. Pirouette - A Ballet Horror TTRPG by InnocentGoblin TTRPGs

8. Mum Chums by Tanya Floaker

9. Dungeon Bound by

   René-Pier Deshaies

10. Roll the Dice Twice Again!

And that's all for today, see you in February.