Dice Exploder Season 3: Coming to Kickstarter September 26th
Follow the launch page now! Plus this week's episode on Brinkwood and Blades in the Dark.
Hello listeners, and welcome to Dice Exploder’s pledge drive era.
That’s right, starting this October 10th, I’m going to be running a Kickstarter to fund the third season of the Dice Exploder podcast. You can follow the launch page right now to get notified when it goes live.
UPDATE: The campaign is now launching on September 26th!
I hope you’ll help make this thing a success. And to that end, let me say that pledging to this campaign is only the second best way to support Dice Exploder.
The best way to support Dice Exploder is to tell your own RPG community about the show.
If you love Dice Exploder, go into whatever Discords you’re in that I’m not and tell people about it. Or post about it on your favorite posting site. Send them the Kickstarter link. As much as I’m looking for a monetary boost as the writer’s strike drags on, I’d easily trade all the money I raise from this Kickstarter to triple my listenership instead.
If you do plug this Kickstarter in a Discord I’m not in or publicly on Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, Tumblr, or wherever else, send me a screenshot and I’ll give you a special role in the Dice Exploder Discord. (This is an explicit invitation to also come down and hang out in the Discord. We just remodeled!)
Regardless of whether you ever do anything more than listen to the show or read my silly posts, thank you. Truly. This show is my love letter to this hobby that takes up such an irresponsibly large amount of my life. I’m so grateful you’ve all cared to spend your time listening to it.
FAQ
Who’s gonna be on season 3? And what are you gonna talk about??
Hold your horses, we’re only halfway through season 2! But I do know the answers to these questions, and I’ll be revealing them slowly over the next two months to really milk the suspense.
Doesn’t Kickstarter suck because it supports climate-destroying blockchain technologies and has a complete nothingburger stance on AI?
Sure does! They're still hoping we’ll all forget about their crypto nonsense instead of publicly walking it back and taking responsibility like a true “benefit corporation” should. I have wrestled with whether using Kickstarter is something I'm comfortable doing.
While I have decided Kickstarter is the platform for this project, I've also decided to donate 5% of what I raise to Our Streets Minneapolis, a non-profit in my home state dedicated to transforming transportation and infrastructure in the Twin Cities and at the state level by making local streets places where people can easily and comfortably walk, bike, roll, and use public transit. Let’s get rid of cars, people. Help the planet. You can learn more about Our Streets Minneapolis here.
Are you gonna run one of these Kickstarters every season now?
Almost certainly not, unless we raise like 10x of my goal and get 30 stretch goal episodes. But I want to see how it goes to run a campaign. Assuming I continue to have enough time to continue making the show in 2024 at all (and money sure will make that more likely), I expect a crowdfunding campaign to become an annual thing.
What was that about this week’s episode?
Yes! This week I have on Tan Shao Han, a super smart guy with a heck of a resume, who brought on the stress mechanic from Brinkwood by Erik Bernhardt, a character resource originally from Blades in the Dark by John Harper.
This is one of those episodes where to talk about the mechanic in question, we kind of had to talk about the whole-ass game around it because so much of Brinkwood is tied up in stress. And in this case, we really had to talk about two whole-ass games, because so much of what makes Brinkwood stress interesting is how a few small tweaks from Blades in the Dark ripple out through the design and lead to big changes in play.
Get ready for the full firehose of mechanics: this is an episode jam-packed with delicious, crunchy examples.
See you all next week!