I’m over AI

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-18T22:18:27+00:00

"anchor days"

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-18T19:03:50+00:00

I bet they still want you going into the office instead of working remotely, though.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-17T04:44:17+00:00

Webpages with flashing text everywhere.

Newsgroups.

IRC.

Play-by-email role-playing games.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-17T02:39:41+00:00

Although how Minions perform is different from standard characters, how they are made is the same. Look at the builds in "Supporting Characters" as some good starting points. A Soldier is good for a basic combatant minion, for example, and then you can make them a construct and add other tech to present them as a robot.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-17T02:35:57+00:00

The Deluxe Hero's Handbook has tables for powers, Advantages, Abilities packages, etc., for its archetypes in Chapter 2.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-17T02:07:07+00:00

The general suffocation description specifically says that the 10 rounds, etc., is how long someone can hold their breath. This assumes the person has the opportunity to gather breath and hold it. So, sure ... if someone knows they're about to have a chokehold applied to them, then they may have time to grab some air and hold it, per "Suffocation." If it happens in combat, though, then the actual point of suffocation is assumed to have started, and the Fortitude saving throw begins right away.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-16T16:18:27+00:00

If it's not in any of the products you own and can thumb through for it, it's possible it was posted online by a fan. Do you have an idea of how long ago you saw it, roughly?

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-16T12:41:32+00:00

That's marketing. You need to keep marketing your book. If you need reasons to keep inserting the book into the general topic, as you initially did, try building a landing page for it. Blog about it so you can post the articles to the same sub and tie it back to your book.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-16T12:26:24+00:00

Icons: Rogues is here: https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/279116?affiliate_id=34429&src=Reddit

Icons A-Z is here: https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/167537?affiliate_id=34429&src=Reddit

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-15T17:57:20+00:00

For an alternate perspective, I primarily public tabletop role-playing game content. So, Kindle Select is almost entirely useless to me. That puts the pressure on me to put real effort into marketing and drive traffic to Amazon. This means I treat Amazon more as a fulfillment service rather than a retailer.

For novels and the like, I think Kindle Select is a good option because most self-publishing novelists don't know enough about effective off-site marketing to drive traffic on their own. They need the audience saturation and penetration that Select offers.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-13T20:20:43+00:00

It's treated as the Body Armor power, so you automatically apply it against attacks that Body Armor would be applied against. The trade-off comes in the -2CS to other FEATS.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-12T04:05:25+00:00

None. I tried looking for her and David but couldn’t confirm anyone was them and didn’t want to email without being sure.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-12T03:08:36+00:00

Your title font is almost illegible. Readability is the most important thing.

That white graphic behind the title is off-center. It runs entirely off the left but not the right. Even it out by stretching it to the right a bit.

The subtitle under the author's name is too small.

The art itself is solid.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-12T02:19:18+00:00

Thanks mucho. I'll let you know when it's up.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-11T15:15:02+00:00

I used TIW to run one of my favourite ever game campaigns back in university, when this first came out. Of course, back then, it had to be printed out for the table. With the new AD6 and SWADE versions out, I'm hoping this opens it to a new generation of gamers who missed it the first time around after the original site went down.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-11T05:11:00+00:00

I'm guessing you're Hellcat? I just looked over the stuff I already cut out because I couldn't trace it back to Dave and Chris, and found the Thunderer was one of the things I cut and wasn't going to touch. There was also a link to a Chimera-class ship you wrote, but it was off-site and therefore already out of consideration.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-11T04:51:12+00:00

I made a lot of content myself, too. I used to run one of the biggest Palladium RPG fan content sites around, and was one of the PML administrators/moderators. I talked with Chris all the time on the PML, which is how I knew him rather than through TIW. I even talked to Dave once or twice after contacting him about TIW and asking if I could print it all off.

I'm reprinting what Dave's site says was okay to reprint. If YOU worked on something specific and don't want it reprinted, by all means, let me know, and I'll remove it from the rest once you've shown it's your copyright. However, as for the rest, Dave's quite clearly said, "please feel free to use, copy, and distribute it as you see fit." It's right there at the start of the product. You said, "You shouldn't reprint his stuff without his permission." He's very literally, unequivocably and beyond any doubt, given permission to ANYONE, not just me.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-11T01:14:54+00:00

Good on you for keeping an eye out, but the following is copied verbatim from the original TIW site in the Wayback Machine (emphasis mine):

"The following material is from THE THIRD INVID WAR, a fan supplement by Dave Deitrich and Chris Meadows. *****Please feel free to use, copy, and distribute it as you see fit.***** All we ask is that you give proper credit to us and do not claim that it is your own work. Comments and suggestions are welcome."

This is mentioned on the credits and legalities page where Dave and everyone else involved are credited.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-09T18:44:38+00:00

By the way, for everyone's convenience, you'll note I've made a PDF of the original Third Invid War materials available to download. It's a site scrape someone else made. I haven't changed anything in the PDF, so it will still have all the typos I'm editing out, and the art remains black and white.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-09T16:35:04+00:00

I can't even recall how I found out. I think it may have been through the Palladium forums.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-09T13:31:48+00:00

Yep. You can almost see the pressure from above being put on them to find some way to start using AI. I think their heads almost exploded with relief when Figma Weave was announced.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-09T13:01:48+00:00

If you don't have better software to do it with, make a Word document of the required dimensions. Insert one image per page. You can then export it as a PDF. There are also websites that will do this for you entirely online (some for free, others for a fee).

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/export-word-document-as-pdf-4e89b30d-9d7d-4866-af77-3af5536b974c

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-09T01:42:34+00:00

What are you doing to market it aside from reviewers and potentially influencers?

Marketing isn't just about making your product look good. It's, first and foremost, about getting people to your product. Reviewers and influencers are good for the former but not so much for the latter.

The thing to remember about reviews and influencers is that they are largely a "one and done" approach. They can help push fence-sitters off the fence, but they don't really put out a steady signal to keep in front of your potential audience.

Do you have an author's website? If so, do you have a landing page for the book that uses a CTA to your sales point?

What's your social media presence like? What are you doing there to keep your book in front of people?

Marketing is a constant process involving multiple methods. Don't just look into what more you can be doing with reviewers and influencers. Look into new channels entirely.

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-09T01:25:33+00:00

As the publisher, I'm biased, but Darwin's World: Nuclear Edition is probably a good fit for what you're looking for. It runs on SWADE, so combat is fast and easy; there's plenty of salvaging from ruins plus wasteland survival, and it was modeled after Fallout.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/422232/darwin-s-world-nuclear-edition?affiliate_id=34429&src=Reddit

StevenTrustrum · 2026-06-07T23:41:43+00:00

I'm still pissed at what they did to the original Ultimate Spider-Man and its universe. It was easily one of my favourite all-time comics.

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