This week's activity is an AMA with creator / publisher Grant Howitt.

In his own words:

"Hello! My name's Grant Howitt and I write roleplaying games. I design most of my games with Chris Taylor, who is my long-term design partner and best friend. Here is a list of the ones that you might have heard of:

• Spire

• Heart

• The most recent edition of Paranoia

• One Last Job

• Goblin Quest

• Honey Heist

• About thirty others of varying length and quality

I also run a games advice/design podcast (Hearty Dice Friends) and am one of the co-founders of Rowan, Rook & Decard - the official business that we publish our games through. You can learn more about what we do at our website: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/.

I like black coffee, ginger tomcats, toy soldiers, computer games where you jump sideways firing two pistols at once, and RPGs where you don't have to do any maths past single-integer addition."

Does that all work for you?

Cheers,

G

On behalf of the community and mod-team here, I want express gratitude to Grant Howitt for doing this AMA.

For new visitors... welcome. /r/RPGdesign is a place for discussing RPG game design and development (and by extension, publication and marketing... and we are OK with discussing scenario / adventure / peripheral design). That being said, this is an AMA, so ask whatever you want.

On Reddit, AMA's usually last a day. However, this is our weekly "activity thread". These developers are invited to stop in at various points during the week to answer questions (as much or as little as they like), instead of answer everything question right away.

(FYI, BTW, although in other subs the AMA is started by the "speaker", I'm starting this for Grant)

IMPORTANT: Various AMA participants in the past have expressed concern about trolls and crusaders coming to AMA threads and hijacking the conversation. This has never happened, but we wish to remind everyone: We are a civil and welcoming community. I [jiaxingseng] assured each AMA invited participant that our members will not engage in such un-civil behavior. The mod team will not silence people from asking 'controversial' questions. Nor does the AMA participant need to reply. However, this thread will be more "heavily" modded than usual. If you are asked to cease a line of inquiry, please follow directions. If there is prolonged unhelpful or uncivil commenting, as a last resort, mods may issue temp-bans and delete replies.

Discuss.

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