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When Feargus asked me if I wanted to make a Pillars TTRPG starter guide, my condition was that I have complete control over it. It’s more important to me that you can make the kinds of characters you could in Pillars/Deadfire that can do the kinds of things you could do in those games than it is to replicate the CRPG mechanics, which were sort of loosely aping a mix of 2nd Ed. My preference in tabletop games is classless/skill-based and I don’t think most attribute systems are particularly fun or interesting. I felt that if we had not made the game class-based, with real-time with pause combat, and a six (or close to six) stat “traditional” attribute spread, the backers would feel bamboozled and lose faith in us/crowdfunding for games. Pillars of Eternity and Deadfire were created as spiritual successor/throwback games, which (to me) constrained design choices I made.

I’ve seen programmers, UI artists, and producers go into game director roles, but IME the best directors always have a good critical mind for game design even if it isn’t their career discipline. A “designer” who “makes stuff” without designing it generally just leads the rest of the team in circles because they don’t know or can’t articulate what they’re trying to accomplish. Without it, you’re not really designing, you’re just… making stuff. While it could be argued that it’s important to any discipline, it’s essential in design. Goal-oriented critical thinking is at the heart of design. If you find you enjoy that, see if you can transition fully over into design at least for a while to understand how the broader discipline works. Because you’re already working with the design discipline in a particular way, you have a framework for understanding what’s going on. Combat is the obvious choice, but it depends a lot on the project and its needs. In the case of VFX, this is often connected to system design (arguably area design, but VFX usually works with environment art more than the area designers). My advice would be to see if you can get involved in the design of something directly connected to your current discipline. I don’t know what the structure of your studio is like and how flexible they are about letting people shift disciplines, but at Obsidian we’ve had people switch tracks from time to time. That said, even if you started in VFX, that doesn’t mean you can’t transition over to game design. Obviously I’m highly biased due to my design background, but I feel that design is so central to game development that if you want to be a director, you will eventually wind up doing it.

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Life got pretty full pretty quick.Thank you for the kind words. I could be doing better with other releases, but man. I’ll be honest, despite how proud I am of Horrortale, it is the only one of the MANY projects I started that I actually managed to finish. I don’t know where the story will go from here, how it will be told, or what sort of projects will be on their way. And let it be proof that, given enough time, you can pretty much finish anything no matter where you art skills are.

That being said, drawing Horrortale has been sooo much fun! I never really took art seriously growing up, so being able to tell a story like this over all this time has been a pretty remarkable accomplishment. That would mean another 100+ pages to draw. As it so happens, I have the entirety of a “Book Two” drafted out, but the length would roughly match this one so far. The first part of Aliza’s story is finally over.