Buckle up folks because this is going to be a long one. But if you’re interested in seeing – or helping create – expansions and sourcebooks for the Coyote & Crow RPG, this post might be worth your time.
(more…) Coyote And Crow News ||Folks, I’ve been wanting to write about this for awhile, but it’s a heavy topic, I’ve been dealing with the Wolves Kickstarter and I just haven’t had the emotional bandwidth.
In short, since Roe v Wade was overturned, I’ve made it a company policy that Coyote & Crow Games doesn’t attend conventions in a retailer capacity in any state where abortion care is either severely restricted or banned entirely. Specifically, I don’t want my tax dollars going to states where people don’t have full access to the reproductive care that they want.
Of course, this leads to a lot of “gray area” bullshit. What’s “restricted”? What’s a “retail appearance”? I refuse to define those things here in a policy format. Instead, I’ll say that I will make personal appearances on panels, etc. at shows where I feel comfortable with the specific situation (for example, I’m planning on returning to IndigipopX in Oklahoma because I’m directly connecting with a largely Native audience and the show is on sovereign Indigenous land). And I’ll make decisions about a booth and retails sales on a case by case basis.
Which brings me around to Gen Con. Gen Con runs from August 3rd to August 6th this year. If you aren’t familiar with Gen Con, it’s the largest annual board games convention in North America. I’ve attended Gen Con every year since 2016 (except for the dark year). Last year’s convention was marred by the failures of our Outreach Coordinator, and our booth situation became a disaster. But I still attended personally, I had some great meetings, and Logan Boese ran some incredible games of Coyote & Crow the RPG.
This year however, it looks as though on August 1, the near-total abortion ban will go back into effect for the state of Indiana. Now, I already wasn’t planning on having a booth for Coyote & Crow Games at Gen Con this year. There’s a lot of reasons for that (staffing is tough for everyone, shipping is incredibly expensive), but it’s important to call out that because of this impending ban, I wouldn’t attend, even in a personal capacity, nor will I be planning on attending in the future.
If you’re not in the know, it’s incredibly expensive to attend Gen Con – even as just a gamer. It’s easy to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars just to wander those halls. And for me, spending that is already a tough sell without it being soured by being in a state where I’m surrounded by people who can’t make basic choices about their health.
I don’t blame any company or person for attending in Gen Con in the face of this ban. That’s totally okay in my book. Many companies rely on Gen Con as a part of the annual marketing push for their games. And few companies out there are getting rich off of board games. But, I’m in a position, maybe for the first time in my life, where I can make a stand with my dollars and my principles.
I’m aware that neither Gen Con nor Indiana will notice my absence. But perhaps I’ll inspire some other folks to take similar stands. Who knows. What I know is that in the world we currently live in, I often have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so it’s nice to sometimes be able to just shut the door entirely and say, “nope.”
On the brighter side, I’m really excited to be attending Big Bad Con this year as well as GameStorm next year, and more to come, hopefully! And, while Coyote & Crow Games won’t be at Gen Con, we’ve got some incredible things happening there:
- We’re nominated for the Diana Jones Award – and the winner will be announced at the show!
- We’re nominated for a CRIT Award – and the winner will be announced at the show!
- We’re partnering with [REDACTED] – and they’ll be announcing the partnership at the show!
- We’re also partnering with [REDACTED] – and they’ll be announcing the partnership at the show!
We’re also currently up to 130 donations for our new game Wolves, which will be running on Kickstarter through 8/7!
So, I’ll take what good news I can, where I can, until everyone has the health care and rights they deserve.
Coyote And Crow News ||Obviously, the big news right now is that we’re almost ready to launch our new tabletop game, Wolves, on Kickstarter. To say I’m excited is an understatement. I’ve been working on the game since 2021 and it has come so far. I’ll have more on that farther down in the post.
But the real news is that the final pieces are in place to announce some really exciting news about our relationship with our Canadian fans that are going to make things significantly easier for them to get a hold of our games.
CANADA
First, our partnership with the amazing Pe Metawe Games is finally at full power! This means some fantastic things:
- We can now ship products from our webstore to Canadian addresses!
- Pe Metawe Games itself will have a consistent supply of our games and you can order from them or visit their store!
- Pe Metawe will help us fulfill Canadian backers of future Kickstarters (including Wolves!)
- Pe Metawe will work on supplying games to Amazon.CA as a third party seller, so you’ll be able to get them that way as well. (Currently, Amazon direct has some C&C products, but they are inconsistently carrying them)
Second, and just as exciting, is that we’ve partnered with Library Bound, a Canadian book distributor. They’ve generously offered to ship our donation books to qualifying Canadian recipients – free of charge! For more information, head over to our donations page for more details on that.
WOLVES
In Wolves news, we’ve launched our full video for the game. It will give you a good sense of the components and the feel of play. You can sign up to be notified of the launch HERE. The game goes live on Kickstarter on July 10th, 2023.
AWARDS
We’ve previously been nominated for a Nebula Award for Game Writing. And we won the 2022 Tabletop Game Awards for Best RPG and Rising Star Publisher. But the hits just keep coming! I’m so proud of what the C&C team has done with this game and what we’ve put into the world.
- Coyote & Crow won for best core RPG at the Origin Awards!
- Coyote & Crow has been nominated for a CRIT Award to be announced at Gen Con this year!
- Coyote & Crow has been nominated for a Diana Jones Award, to be announced at Gen Con this year!
Other News
Just a few other tidbits to throw your way.
- We’re working on layouts for the Coyote & Crow Story, Creep, from Allen Turner. We should have it out to backers and on sale in our webstore and DriveThruRPG within the next couple of weeks.
- Two other companies are going to have Coyote & Crow related announcements at Gen Con. While we won’t be there officially, you’re going to hear some good buzz about Coyote & Crow at the show.
- We’ll have some VTT news to announce in the next couple of weeks as well!
- We have two more tabletop games in development, one of which might even see the light of day before the end of the year.
- My only official appearance at conventions this year is going to be Big Bad Con, which I’m really excited about. Sadly, between costs and scheduling, there just isn’t a way for me to afford to do more shows. I hope to change that next year.
That’s all for now. Talk soon, friends!
Coyote And Crow News ||I know it’s been a minute since our last news update. Honestly, I try not to flood folks with trivial stuff or news that doesn’t include something that you all can take action on. But, I’ve got so much great stuff piling up that I just couldn’t wait any longer. Let’s get into it!
Wolves
Wolves is coming to Kickstarter in June 2023! We’ll have more details soon, but for now here’s the skinny. This stand alone, tabletop board game is for 3-6 players. It’s semi-cooperative and is designed by myself (Connor Alexander) and features art from Sadekaronhes Esquivel and Ovila Mailhot. While the game is called Wolves, the theme is cooperative community survival amongst humans. Players will take on the roles of leaders of their own communities, each of which generates resources and needs them to last through winter. But here’s the catch, if any community fails to meet its basic resource needs, all players lose the game. Consequently, players will be able to gift other communities their excess resources each turn, helping ensure everyone gets their needs met. Along the way, players will gain status by either gifting resources or giving excess to their own people. At the end of the game, if all players have survived the winter, the player with the most status is elected chief of all of the communities and is granted an additional victory. The game takes anywhere from 45-100 minutes, depending on the number of players. It incorporates some push-your-luck elements, hand management, and concepts centered around gifting economies.
In addition, we’re planning on producing this entire game using wood, recycled cardboard, and compostable materials where ever possible. And our goal is to use zero plastics in this game. Not even shrink wrap.
The game is technically set in the world of Coyote & Crow, but no knowledge of C&C is required. The events in the game take place after the Awis, but long before advanced technologies have been developed. So the resources in the game are connected to more traditional ones.
Look for the pre-launch Kickstarter page soon! And in case you’re wondering, after having some great conversations with Kickstarter and BackerKit, we’re going to be moving back to Kickstarter for this next round of crowdfunding. We’ll still be using BackerKit as a pledge manager. You’ll want to sign up for our newsletter and join our Discord to make sure you’re on board for all of the early pledge bennies.
Stories of the Free Lands
Great news on Stories of the Free Lands. We’re currently on track to have these incredible adventures delivered to backers by the end of April. I am so excited to be able to get these all into your hands. We’ll be fulfilling them through BackerKit and folks will get them in two zipped files, each containing one volume of the stories, plus the additional splash art file.
The bonus story from Allen Turner and Tate Allen will be released about a month after that to backers. Following that we’ll release eight of the stories, plus the Allen Turner story, to our website as well as DriveThruRPG and Roll20.
Other News
The rest of my news is a little more vague but I still think it’s worth sharing.
- We’re very close to being able to announce our partnership with another tabletop game company who is going to be bringing something very different to the world of Coyote & Crow.
- We’re dialing in a partnership with an Indigenous owned manufacturer here in the US that will be able to produce some very cool print-on-demand fancy merch for Coyote & Crow that I think you’re all going to be amazed with. I’ve seen the prototypes and they are phenomenal.
- We’re finishing up an agreement with a Canadian library book distributor who is going to help us get donation books to Canadian outlets.
- We’re finalizing our partnership with Pe Metawe Games in Edmonton, who will be acting as a distribution partner for us in Canada, allowing us to ship C&C games to Canadian customers (and maybe future crowdfunding backers too!)
- Our organized play efforts, called Akinana Circle, are coalescing. Greatest thanks to those who filled out the pre-launch survey! Your input gives us excellent guidance as we move forward in our planning. We are excited to bring you all content as well as a place to play the game together. Please keep an eye out for Coyote & Crow games being run at local cons. We are reaching out and trying to set up as many as we can. If you’re interested in knowing more, check out our Discord and the Akinana Circle channel there.
- I am currently hard at work writing the next full Coyote & Crow RPG book. I’ll have more info soon, but what I can share now is that it is a setting book, set in a small fictional town and chock full of mysteries, stories, characters and ideas that will be worth a read even for folks who don’t play the game. This is a passion project for me that will hopefully go to crowdfunding toward the end of the year.
- We have three other games tabletop games in the wings in various stages of development. We’ll have more on those soon.
- I’ll be appearing at Big Bad Con this fall. Outside of that Coyote & Crow Games will be limiting their conventions to panel and speaking appearances by myself (and writers and artists), and organized play events run by Akinana Circle.
- We’ve got some other partnerships in the wings that are really exciting. We want to wait until we have some really exciting things to show you before we announce them, but they are in the works!
From the start, I dreaded working with PayPal. There’s a wealth of reasons to dislike the platform itself as well as its founder, Peter Thiel (Here’s one among many). But we here at C&C Games were using it for two reasons. First, I needed a way to pay contractors easily and in a way that made sense for them. Roughly 80% of my contractors request to be paid through PayPal and I try to be conscious of their needs.
Second, it’s a massive default payment option through most webstores. We currently use Shopify and a large portion of our sales there come through PayPal.
(more…) Coyote And Crow News ||
So, I had a post that I’d been working on for days. It was an essay really. I was about 1500 words into it and I realized I’d only reached the half way point. I re-read it three times. And I realized something. No one really cares about what I have to say about all of the nuances and nitty gritty details of AI art. At least not enough to warrant a 3000 word essay.
Instead, I’m going to give it to you internet style with some succinct bullet points. Here’s where I (and by proxy, Coyote & Crow Games) stand on AI art, currently.
- Coyote & Crow – the RPG and the company – would not exist without artists who collaborated with me extensively over the last two years.
- I appreciate artists and I strive to pay them on time, at better than industry average rates, and with bonuses whenever possible.
- Artists (and all creatives I’ve worked with) are also fallible. The vast majority I’ve worked with have missed deadlines, many have flaked on me, ghosted me, or flat out stolen money from me. If I could add up all the time and money I’ve just straight flushed down the toilet on artists, I would seriously spend the day weeping.
- I used MidJourney to create the background for three Facebook ads on our last crowdfunding campaign. These did not take jobs from anyone. I either would have used AI art for the background or art I already owned.
- AI, LLMs, machine learning, and the art all of these will create, are not going away. It will only get better, cheaper, and more pervasive. It’s here to stay. And while the details and legislation on the hows and whys may evolve, don’t ever think that in the system we all live in that AI art will ever be abolished, banished or undone.
- AI art programs, in their current forms, are rife with racism and misogyny and fly directly in the face of what Coyote & Crow is striving to present in our art, which is the accurate and positive portrayal of Indigenous people.
- Companies that trained their algorithms on scraped art, where the terms of their arrangement were only for research, are wrong for using it for commercial purposes and the artists who have had their work stolen deserve compensation and justice.
- Our society needs to start seriously tackling the wider social implications of AI now, rather than later. We need to have real discussions about the difference between “create” and “make” (currently, I believe AI is ‘making’ art, not creating it, but that may change)
- Coyote & Crow Games will not use AI art in anything we sell, with AI in it’s current form and structure.
- Coyote & Crow Games might use AI art in non-commercial forms in the future, depending on:
- The ethical and legal structure the particular AI is built on. It will need to be something that a majority of artists are on board with and whose terms do not conflict with the ethical foundation that Coyote & Crow Games is built on.
- The intended use of the art and whether the situation calls for it. I don’t have an example off the top of my head for this, but it will have to be on a case by case basis.
- Coyote & Crow Games will not use MidJourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Lensa or other AI at all in their current iterations. We may reconsider this if they change how they operate, their terms, or how they gather data. We will also be adding a clause into our terms with contract artists specifying the same.
Today, 11/16, is a big one for us. Coyote & Crow Games is launching three different items!
NAASII: A COYOTE & CROW DICE GAME
First we have Naasii: A Coyote & Crow Dice Game. This fresh twist on a classic concept is our first step into tabletop board games. We wanted to create something that gamers and their aunties could play together and that has both elements of classic American dice games like Yahtzee along with aspects of traditional elements of Native American games of chance.
This game was designed by Connor Alexander (Cherokee Nation) with development from Daryl Andrews (of Sagrada fame!) and art from Wolf Tomoyaketu (Comanche & Apache).
You can get Naasii in the following places:
- Our Webstore: https://shop.coyoteandcrow.net/collections/all
- Your friendly local game store (if they don’t have it, tell them about it!)
- Our Amazon store
COYOTE & CROW STORY GUIDE SCREEN
You can also get our new Story Guide Screen for the Coyote & Crow Story Guide Screen. It’s got a ton of great info inside it to help smooth your storytelling and has incredible art from Sadekaronhes Esquivel (Kanyen’kehá:ka & Mexican Indigenous).
You can get it in the following places:
- Our Webstore: https://shop.coyoteandcrow.net/collections/all
- Your friendly local game store (if they don’t have it, tell them about it!)
- Our Amazon store
HEMLOCK AND SAGE
Finally, we have our first novel set in the Coyote & Crow universe, Hemlock And Sage. Written by Tali Inlow (Cherokee Nation), art by Mackenzie Neal (Quapaw Nation) and edited by Heidi Billy. It’s a fantastic coming of age story set in Cahokia as two friends are undergoing the Adanadi. Their friendship is tested as things don’t go as planned and a stranger from out town needing help crashes into both of their lives.
You can get Hemlock And Sage in the following places:
- Our Webstore: https://shop.coyoteandcrow.net/collections/all
- Your friendly local game store (if they don’t have it, tell them about it!)
- Amazon (print on demand will be available shortly)
- DriveThruFiction (print on demand will be available shortly)
I hope you enjoy all of these additions to the world of Coyote & Crow as much as I do. Please spread the love and help us keep bringing Indigenous futures to life!
Wado,
Connor Alexander
Coyote And Crow News ||Siyo, folks!
I’m going to have a Crow’s Nest video soon that will cover some of this same material, but I wanted to write down my thoughts and let you all know where I’m at, where the company’s at, and where Coyote & Crow Games will be heading in 2023.
Personal Update
Starting on a personal note, I’ve recently moved and while it’s a positive move into a lovely nearby home with more workspace and game development space for me, it’s also taken the expected toll on my body, my psyche and my wallet. So I’m a little wiped and looking forward to a relatively quiet winter. I need some chill.
As I write this, I’m also concerned about ICWA and SCOTUS’ hearing of the Brackeen v Haaland case. And the general outcomes of state and federal elections, like many of us are. It’s been an exhausting year.
Stories of the Free Lands
Stories of the Free Lands was a big success. We took some huge risks in offering PDFs up for a crowdfunding effort and in moving away from Kickstarter to work with BackerKit for their beta platform. And now we’re wrapping up work on ten stories for the Coyote & Crow RPG that I really can’t wait to share with you all. There’s some really fun worldbuilding in them and some amazing art. I’m so grateful for the support and love our backers and fans showed us for this project. If all goes well, we’ll be delivering those PDFs very soon.
In addition, backers who pledged for the Story Guide Screen and Naasii should be receiving their products soon. We’ve already begun the fulfillment process and games are on their way. Fulfillment this time has been so much smoother.
Product Launches
Speaking of Naasii, we have three products landing on November 16th:
- Naasii: A Coyote & Crow Dice Game
- The Coyote & Crow Story Guide Screen
- Hemlock And Sage, A Coyote & Crow Novel
I’m thrilled for all three of these and I think they’re really going to help people get their heads around the Coyote & Crow universe. Everyone involved has put blood, sweat, and tears into these things and I can’t wait for you to dive in.
Social Media
Let’s talk about social media for a minute. We technically still have a Facebook page, but we’re letting that go idle and really only using it to attach to any FB ads we run. We’ve got an Instagram, but I’m personally running it and frankly it’s not a priority. I’ll occasionally drop announcements or art there, but it’s not a regular source of communication for us.
Twitter is…a mess. For the moment we’re staying on board and I’m watching things. To be honest, it’s been our best platform for engagement with non-hardcore fans and for bringing new folks into the fold. I’m not sure there’s anything out there that can replace it. So far, I’m not sold on Tribel, Counter Social, Mastodon or anything else. It’s likely that if Coyote & Crow leaves Twitter, I won’t add a new presence elsewhere to replace it.
That said, I am looking to find someone who can take on creating a TikTok channel for us. While I’m not a user or a fan myself, I’ve seen what boardgame and RPG TikTok has to offer and I think it’s a great way to reach new audiences. The problem has been finding someone to do it. My requirements were experience with TikTok and Native American heritage. So far, I’ve had two people get in touch. Neither of them have gotten me their TikTok info and one of them didn’t even include their name, so…yeah. That may take awhile.
Lastly, we have our Discord, which is growing and fun and engaged. Great folks there and if you’re looking to hang out with C&C fans, it’s the place to be.
Partners
I’m currently in various stages of negotiations with a number of different partners. From new merch producers, to minis, to foreign language localizations for the RPG, non-profits and actual play groups, film and television work. All kinds of stuff. When it comes to those kinds of things, it’s difficult to get specific because so much can happen between ‘talking’ and ‘contract signing’.
I’m hoping to have some announcements to make before the end of the year and all of these possibilities are really exciting. We shall see.
In the meantime, you can find Coyote & Crow on Roll20, Foundry VTT, and DriveThruRPG.
Conventions
As I stated earlier this year, Coyote & Crow Games won’t have a booth presence at conventions where Roe V Wade has been overturned or people cannot get access to abortion care. I may make personal appearances at some conventions and I may make for some other allowances for other things here and there. But in general, I don’t want tax dollars going to states who are going to deny women basic medical care.
With that said, I’ll be attending PAX Unplugged this year. I’ll be taking some meetings, doing some play testing, sitting on at least one panel and hopefully playing some games. If you see me, please do say hello.
I’ll also likely be attending the GAMA Trade Expo next year and I’m considering Essen Spiel. I’d also really like to attend Big Bad Con as a company and have a full booth and events. Fingers crossed.
2023 Plans
I have three releases planned for 2023 currently. One is a stand alone, family friendly, hobby strategy game that centers around semi-cooperative community survival and gifting economies. The second is a constructable, non-collectible competitive card game. Both are set in the Coyote & Crow universe. The third is a Saga setting book for Coyote & Crow the RPG that will be written by myself exclusively and illustrated by a single artist. All three of these will likely go through crowdfunding.
Between those three things, the day to day of running Coyote & Crow, and attending conventions and other business travel, it should be a pretty busy year for me.
How You Can Help
If you’re interested in partnering with or working with Coyote & Crow, please do get in touch through our contact form on this site. While we aren’t currently hiring, I always like connecting with writers, artists, editors, etc, especially Native folks. In terms of partnerships, I’d really love to see some more folks step up with ideas for how they’d like to use the C&C license. I’m absolutely willing to license out this world to inventive folks. If you’ve got a C&C Saga book you’d like to write or draw, a board game you’d like to make, a craft or merch idea, I don’t want to stop you. Talk to me!
A Nativember Surprise
Finally, besides all of our other November releases, we’re also going to have a surprise near the end of the month. I won’t say what it is, but I will say this: only a few of you will be able to get in on it. I’ll have details a little closer to the end of the month.
Stiyu,
Connor
UPDATE: The book is now available! Links below!
It’s been a very long time coming, but we can finally announce the release date of our first novel, Hemlock And Sage – November 16th! Just a week out! We’ve been working on it for more than year now. We’d have liked to have had it to you sooner, but between Covid, the world being…the world, and the fact that we really wanted to get this book right, it took us a minute.
The book is written by Tali Inlow, not me. While I’d like to have written it (and will likely eventually write at least one myself), I fully trusted Tali and the story they wanted to tell. When we first discussed it, we quickly agreed that we wanted to tell a coming of age story, one that focused on relationships, friendships, family and the Adanadi. Heidi Billy did a fantastic job editing and developing the book with Tali, and Francita Soto did a lovely job on our layouts. And Mackenzie Neal created a beautiful cover!
The full back cover text:
In Makasing, the Adanadi ceremony is a nearly universal rite of passage into adulthood. It binds the recipient to their chosen Path animal and, in some cases, bestows upon them a supernatural gift. For most, it is a ceremony focused on that single individual, surrounded by family and loved ones. But Niya and Tusika are not your average citizens of Cahokia. Best friends with a bond that goes beyond sisterhood, the two young women have chosen to undergo the ceremony together.
But each of them brings with them their own secrets and burdens. Niya comes from a modest background and her family has never received special Abilities from the Adanadi. Tusika’s family has power and a long line of Abilities—and the expectations that come with that. When the ceremony does not go as planned for either of them, their worlds begin to spark and smoke. And when a strange, passionate young woman shows up with stories of a dark cult and asking for help, there’s nothing that can stop it from bursting into flames.
Hemlock & Sage is the first novel set in the world of Coyote & Crow, an alternate history science fantasy where colonization of the Americas never happened. Instead, after a climate disaster alters the course of history around the world, advanced civilizations develop over centuries, fueled by Indigenous knowledge, culture and determination and powered by the mysterious Adanadi that arrived in the wake of the disaster.
If you’re interested in getting your hands on Hemlock And Sage, it will be available in the following places and formats:
Our Webstore: Digital Bundle (PDF and 2 different EPUB formats) $16
DriveThruRPG/DriveThruFiction: Digital Bundle (PDF and 2 different EPUB formats) $16, and Print On Demand $16 (+shipping)
Amazon: Kindle $16, or Print on Demand $16(+shipping)
Osiyo, Indigipunks!
Today we’ve launched our community content tools on DriveThruRPG, called Coyote & Crow Fireside. It’s an important step for us and one I wanted to talk a little bit about beyond just the announcement. This is a tool that’s been a long time coming and one that I’ve sorely wanted to get to you all for quite a while. So indulge me for a minute and let me explain why Fireside is at the crux of what Coyote & Crow is about for me.
When I started really diving into the world building of Coyote & Crow back in 2018, it hit me pretty quickly that I could either create a very close up view of one place and get into hyper detail and specificity or I could paint a larger world with a broader brush. I chose the latter because I didn’t want this game to be about Cherokees but about Indigenous people across North America. I just couldn’t see how I could build out a single tribe or nation or city, without giving context to the larger world around it.
But even bringing on other writers to help flesh out those spaces didn’t really do all of that world building justice. And as proud as I am of the almost 500 pages in the core book, it barely scratched the surface of the possibilities.
Really early in testing, we began to get questions like, “What about the Inuit?” or “What about the Métis?” And the answer to both, and to that type of question in general is, “Firstly, we can’t tell the alternate history of every tribe in North America and even if we could, it’s not my place.” And as we built out this fantastical world, it became clear that what we needed to ensure was that there was space in this world to tell a huge amount of stories. Rather than making it a bug, I decided to make it a feature.
While I still envision there being expansion books for the Ti’Swaq Alliance, the Keetoowagi Federation and all of the other nations, along with books for Mesoamerica and South America, I don’t want folks to have to wait for those at the pace that modern RPG publishing dictates.
Which brings us to Fireside. Giving folks the tools to put together their own content, and being able to sell it in the DTRPG marketplace is a real gift. We’re going as fast as we can over here at C&CG, but laying out these tools will let everyone who wants to participate jump in with their own ideas and at their own pace. And maybe even make some money!
What I want to be really clear about is that these tools are for everyone. Not just Indigenous folks. Sure, you can create stuff that is specific to real world tribes if you claim that identity. But you don’t have to make content that is focused on those things. Come up with your own cool monsters or spirits, your own pieces of tech or just write a story.
Let me say that again. Non-natives, dive in and make stuff. It’s okay. Just don’t add real world tribes to your stuff and you’re fine. Let me know if you need me to say it again.
Now, go make stuff!
Wado,
Connor
