![]() We were a bit shocked by the reception for Crit Faced, especially from the D&D community, who for the most part had not heard about myself or any of the other authors involved. How many episodes are you guys planning to make? Honestly, the fact that we record them doesn’t really change how we play – anyone listening to the podcast is basically just spying on our normal game sessions, which I think is pretty damned cool.ĭid you expect it will be such a success? Seems like a lot of people dig it. After that campaign, however, we decided to have a shot at it. I think it was actually Tim’s idea to record the sessions, but back during our first ever games the thought was horrifying. As so seldom happens, that talk actually grew into something, and we gathered a few like-minded souls to play along. That got us spitballing about someday playing a game with a bunch of other writers. How did this start?īack to Fighting Fantasy! A few years ago, Phil was showing off some pics of his then-new writing space, and I spotted the spines of the old Fighting Fantasy books. ![]() How did you end up with Crit Faced? I’ve been listening to the podcast, and find it interesting. That’s kind of cool, the board game nights. The Baldur’s Gate series of games (of course, based in a D&D world!) were a massive obsession of mine. I loved the experience, and (especially with the recent boom in board gaming) have never really looked back on it.Ĭomputer gaming was much more my thing as a teenager. I played a lot of Games Workshop stuff as a teenager, but when I met my wife she and her family played a lot of board games, and would regularly meet up for board game nights. I did play some role playing games as a teenager, but they were more based on the Fighting Fantasy book series – D&D is something I picked up on my own. The games… I think that came from my wife, more. No, I was definately not one of the cool kids! So, you weren’t the popular kind of kid back in high school, I guess □ Did you start to play games back then or is that a recent developement? I know a lot of fantasy authors grew up on D&D and other RPG games. Around the same time I was also becoming aware of how viable indie publishing was, so that really gave me the kick up the backside I needed to put pen to paper more regularly, and with more purpose. However, although I had dabbled in writing for all my life since (I spent a summer travelling in New Zealand, writing all the time, and as a young adult man I wrote a series of five novellas that nobody will ever see), it was only when a potential financial headache raised its head a few years ago that I realised I wanted something to fall back on in case times ever got tough. There were a few false starts after that story (I tried far too hard to get people to laugh), but writing eventually became my ‘thing’. The big ‘people like my stuff’ moment was in my third year of high school, when I wrote a story called ‘Death and His Cat’ that my English teacher went crazy over. I can think of a few moments that led up to eventually publishing my work. For example, I was 9 when I told my mom I’m going to be an author after writing down my first tale. However, I’m interested to know if there was a moment, when you knew this is what you want to do? Like, I don’t know, a revelation or something. I’ve read your author info, so I won’t ask how long have you been writing. Anyway, he was kind enough to answer my questions in his spare time and it ended up to be a good material IMO. ![]() It was bound to happen that he’ll be my first interviewee too, altough it took us a bit longer to put together this interview than we’ve expected. My review of They Mostly Come Out At Night was one of the three dedicated posts I started this blog with too. To help out authors like him, to spread the word and give back something I’ve got. Benedict Patrick, author of the Yarnsworld books, SPFBO semi-finalist, SPFBO cover contest winner, Dungeon Master at the Crit Faced Podcast, dad, and one of those people who got me where I am today.īenedict was one of the first people I got to know in the indie scene, hell, in the book scene overall and one of the reasons I started blogging.
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