I Feel Free

I have one thing to focus on right now - getting my game playable.

It's playable for me. We've run 10 playtest sessions already.

But it's not playable for other DMs who have never played before. In fact, I'd be interested to see if people who have played my game could run it. Gabe, wanna run a session?

That's all I need to do:

Make it playable for someone who has never spoken to me, but found my game online, came to my website, and downloaded it. Can they run it? Was it fun? What questions do they have?

My goal is to get the game live by end-of-week. I've got a pretty easy list to finalize the alpha rulebook:

Then I need to host it somewhere.

It's taking longer than I thought - not sure if I underestimated the number of rules that are in my head that still need to be documented or if it's my perfectionism kicking in.

Completing this list should mean that anyone could pick up my rulebook and have everything they need to play the game and do so successfully. Then, I can start building my feedback loop - I can't make any big updates until I have that in place.

I spent 90 minutes getting my tables ready this morning (as pictured), I'd like to get them added to the rulebook tonight. It was nice getting to spend time game designing that early in the day though - I'm loving that!

I'm excited

It's not just that I'm happy. I love getting to play DnD in my mind all day. I literally get to be a kid again : )

It's that I have SO much more focus and clarity. Over the past few months, I'm pretty sure I've reduced the amount of projects and businesses I'm working on by half. I have just been taking a machete to everything I've allowed myself to put energy into. I used to put a little energy everywhere. Now I'm putting more energy in fewer places and watching them grow in my life.

It's like having too many browser tabs open, it's just mental clutter.

And with all this free space I've created, I can feel my mind open up to the universe, allowing for inspiration to strike.

But if I'm being honest, I just want to get back to work on the rulebook.

90 minutes is a great start but I need to dedicate more time to creative work - to get this game designed. Thursday and Friday open up for me and I'll get through a project that's been consuming me tomorrow. So I'll be able to give this game a lot of love <3

I'd love to be spending 2 hours in deep creative work every day. That would be awesome! Visualizing that now so I can live it later : )

But I'm gonna take advantage of the next hour before bed. So, see ya tomorrow...

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