I’ve been making good progress on the Fully Automated! solarpunk TTRPG campaign! We got a group together to play it and we’ve done four or five sessions now.

At first I’d been thinking of the play sessions as the cost of getting the campaign guide finished and out the door but I’ve been having an absolute blast running it. It helps that my players are awesome - two are devs from the game, one is an experienced player, and one joined recently but has been great - their collective knowledge has basically allowed me to run the story and lean on them for the gameplay. It’s worked surprisingly well.

I’ve never GM’ed before, played a couple DnD sessions but that’s about it. But I’ve watched tons and tons of Actual Plays and read a lot of world building and session running guides because they were a good source for writing advice, so I guess I picked up some GM tricks a long the way. It’s so fun! And they seem to be quite enjoying it - it’s been lovely getting to watch them occupy this world I put together and we’re looking at doubling how often we meet per week.

The sessions have been a great motivation for making more content and an awesome way to find gaps I need to fill. It’s going to be a much more thorough document after the rest of the playtesting.

I’ve also made a lot of character artwork (in a kind of old comic book style) and an additional map for one of the main locations which has been very helpful.

It’s just been great and I’m looking forward to working on it more.