{"id":752,"date":"2025-08-18T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:30:57","slug":"the-only-cure-for-change-is-more-change-a-metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Evolving into a Real Live Website Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"781\" src=\"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Honorbound-Coverart_2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-757\" style=\"width:291px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Honorbound-Coverart_2.webp 604w, https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Honorbound-Coverart_2-232x300.webp 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Honorbound Cover Art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Where have I been for the past ten months? Well, right here actually! Literally staring at my computer the day all of my information went out the window. Every time I sat down to overcome my fear of technology I was quickly subdued. It was too much so I kept pushing it down the line of importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And then something kinda forced my hand. The website doesn&#8217;t make me any money OR draws that much traffic. What it <em>does <\/em>do is represent an online presence. A flag planted firmly among the scavengers attempting to separate you from your hard-earned money. It says &#8216;I am a real person. Who is bad at website stuff&#8230; But I&#8217;m real and I love writing adventures, creating mechanics, and creating games&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">So, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Recording a (mostly) weekly actual playtest with some friends on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@jerodleupold5889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Wrote Honorbound (literally weeks from being published from what I understand)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Wrote another <a href=\"https:\/\/paroxysm-by-design.itch.io\/a-place-to-call-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">adventure <\/a>for Goblyn Market<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Writing a more robust set of rules for <a href=\"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/?page_id=637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Legends of the Khurst Riders<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Running games at conventions, come play with me at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameholecon.com\/events#conID=18&amp;eventType=&amp;startDay=&amp;startHour=&amp;groupID=&amp;searchString=jerod%20leupold&amp;page=1&amp;specialEvents=false&amp;hideSoldOutEvents=false&amp;sortNew=false&amp;isVirtual=false&amp;isKidsTrack=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Gamehole Con<\/a>!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dreamling-1-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-754\" style=\"width:352px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dreamling-1-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dreamling-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dreamling-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dreamling-1-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dreamling-1-2048x1536.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">At this point I have dropped playing Ashes, it is still an amazing game, but I just don&#8217;t have time for it. I am finding out raising a seven-year-old is not the easiest thing to do in the world. Pretty sure I was still eating dirt at that age instead of dissecting existential dread of the infinite beyond. But here&#8217;s some art we worked on together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I did the ink; she did the coloring. It&#8217;s a Dreamling eating dreamstuff in the world of Goblyn Market. Yum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">With Honorbound, the largest project in my short career finally coming to an end (I mean&#8230;does it really ever end? I&#8217;m already playtesting new mechanics!) I am reworking my schedule to include some more fun game playing on the <strong>Raspy Raven Discord<\/strong>. We talk about it here on the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ic8vcJc1PA&amp;t=4333s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">YouTube <\/a>offering. Something, something makes Jack a dull boy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Here&#8217;s a short list of what I&#8217;d like to nail down over the next year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Publish adventure for Dee Sanction contest (outlined)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Publish adventure for Mutant City Blues (written, maybe this will help me get the campaign published too!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Publish adventure for The 13 (vaguely outlined? I am struggling a bit with this one&#8230;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Publish Honorbound campaign Revenge of the Aeronaut (outlined)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Kickstart Legends of the Khurst Riders on my own (scary!!!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Rerelease Goblyn Market without AI Art and some updated rules (been a goal for a while&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where have I been for the past ten months? Well, right here actually! Literally staring at my computer the day all of my information went out the window. Every time&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/?p=752\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evolving into a Real Live Website Boy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-paroxysm-by-design-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroxysmbydesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}