YouTube video by H. L. Burke

YouTube video by H. L. Burke

(I received a free digital ARC in exchange for honest feedback.) So, I read Julie Leong’s cozy fantasy The Teller of Small Fortunes early this year and wanted to do a book review for it, but never managed to find the words for it. This second book, set in the same world, and seemingly shortly after the first one, helped me figure out how to put it.

(I received a free ARC in exchange for honest feedback) Cozy fantasy has been all the rage since 2020. Cozy sci-fi seems to have had a harder time getting off the ground (punintended), despite the ultra trendy solar-punk aesthetic being ready made for that exact purpose. (Why aesthetic and not genre? Check out my two post series on dieselpunk- 1, 2).

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Everyone knows autocorrect causes more problems than it fixes. One time, however, it ended up being a power source of inspiration. I was trying to type the word dynastic into my phone notes for some reason, but between my own mistypes and autocorrect, and up with something more along the lines of “duyrnaric.” I thought it was a cool name, but nothing came of it.

(If you’re new to our Genesys setting demo and solo game here, you can check out the earlier posts: session 0, scene 1, scene 2, scene 3. If you want to check out the setting demo for yourself, I have it in this Google Doc.) Where we left off... Wind whips through the cockpit, tugging at Jack’s utility suit and whipping his hair in the wind, despite the helmet clasped tight beneath his chin.

(We now take a short break from the Iron Horizons demo because it’s been a very busy week and I’ve not managed to get through the next scene yet.) As someone who has been writing and worldbuilding a wide array of projects for a very long time, I’ve ended up with lots of ideas that found themselves without a world to call home.

(If you're new to our Genesys setting demo and solo game here, you can check out the earlier posts: session 0, scene 1, scene 2. If you want to check out the setting demo for yourself, I have it in this Google Doc.) Flashback to Last Time We return to the adventures of Jack Quincy as he tries to pay off the family debt to the Jets and purchase his own tramp freighter!

I think we can jump to scene two. This one I’ll jump to the end of the Unmastered Play Guide to use the Scene Mechanic, which again uses a deck of cards to determine what the scene should be. I drew the 3 of Spades, which gives the result of an Easy Skill Challenge and Adversarial. An Easy skill challenge typically uses one…

Right, returning from last time when we did the pregame set up, it’s time to start the actual adventure. Let’s be cliche and start it at a bar aboard Forlorn Hope Station, the Angel Red. If you missed the last post, which includes both the Iron Horizons demo and campaign set up, you can read it here. Scene 1…

Now that we finished the setting creation process and worksheet from the Expanded Player’s Guide, it’s time to start putting the material to the test! You can view the completed RPG demo (as a Google doc) here. I’d love to hear what any of you think of the material and for any feedback you have for the setting. I’m not going to put it on the Foundry quite yet, because it really isn’t ready.

We come now to the end of our journey. This is the sixth and final step on the Genesys expanded setting creation sheet and focuses on the game mechanics in the setting. That’s right, we’ve gone through more than ten thousand words of material without touching on a single game rule except for how planet sizes affect certain rolls. That’s it.