Artcow Jonathan Wojcik / Bogleech / Scythemantis

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Bawg posted a long post on tumblr, on his mortasheen ttrpg
Mortasheen is going to be four years late but so far every backer who’s seen the preview book has loved it, compared to countless projects I’ve followed that went even further overtime and were disappointments.

POST-KICKSTARTER TIMELINE SO FAR:
2021: spent on tons of new artwork of my own while organizing art from all the other illustrators I hired on, while also building, writing and formatting a prototype book myself. A lot of old material had to be redone, and a lot of brand new material was necessary.

The team who had previously been developing gameplay took to the end of the year to get together the lore and worldbuilding materials on their end, which I didn’t realize they had so heavily modified and expanded on from what I wrote a decade prior.

It had strayed a bit far from my concept of the setting, but had lots of good ideas as well, so I had to start a massive rewriting project to integrate everything together myself and make sure it all had a consistent tone and logic.
2022: I was still waiting on the actual gameplay mechanics themselves, which had been finished, but the dev team wanted to work out a new contract before sending them over. Their life schedule interfered with communication for months at a time, and I only got the mechanics later in the year.

This contained the framework to build monsters and all their possible abilities thus far, but no builds for any specific monsters besides a sample for the player’s guide. They were unable to confer with me regularly enough to stat the 100+ monsters I’d need, but I had shared the mechanics with a trusted enough friend who was really into the setting. By I think the end of fall, gutsygills had already been playtesting and statting tons of creatures, so I made the decision to just hire her.
2023-2024: 160 monsters needed to be built from scratch while gutsy and others started running campaigns and playtesting vigorously, during which hundreds of things came up to edit, modify, add or remove about the system, specific monsters or specific abilities.

Many issues coming up in the mechanics required new creatures or characters I had never thought of, especially a logical middle ground between completely defective “junk” monsters and powerful ones. I had essentially made too many of them too cool and grand, so we needed to give almost every monster class a few little mooks and goombas.

More worldbuilding, lore and fluff also needed modifying along the way to interplay with the rapid evolution of the system, which also necessitated me meticulously going over what I’d already written to scrap what wasn’t working or wasn’t that interesting.
2025: final playtests, massive final read-throughs and editing marathons to catch every last error or inconsistency, final polish on the last new monsters, gutsy writing a final guide to actually running a campaign with everything we’ve now developed, finishing the last necessary chapter on the setting’s non-monster villains, and once we know the final page count for certain……we have to build the indexes, which is going to be pretty tedious, but that is going to be the very, very last thing to do.

It’s basically been entirely me doing an amount of work usually done by a larger team, until I hired one assistant whose job had to default to being just as huge. It’s eaten so much of my time I feel like I aged at 5 times the normal rate…but I do feel like the end result is going to be worth it.

Once the book is out, we have to start working right away on the promised bonus book of all the backer-original monsters, and also start planning for the next book, which will be almost entirely more monsters.

So It reheated excuse from years ago. I can't still wrap my around how this thing have fucked up and is at least 14 year late(counting the 10 pre kickstarter year) Sound like bawg beside sending picture and idea barely did anything in the original game project and then wonder why thing didn't go his way. And I feel he didn't learn his lesson and his doing the same thing( he's rarely seen in the discord ttrpg server and barely interact with anyone)
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re: bawg admit that he doesn't do the game mechanic nor is involved in the current ttrpg gameplay in any form. Which make his claim of being the sole worker on the project being pretty much self centered.. and may explain why the project is humm.. clunky
 
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Justwandering02 said:
@What'sThePoint? @Hey Bitches it's me can you two get a room?
Also bawg rebloged my callout post with a sock. I won't even waste my time to replie to this fruit and I will outright report him hopefully his sock will be terminated for block evading
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Trying to say the men in dresses mutilating themselves are the normal ones is one big part of why I get mad at this freak. He supports medical mutilation and mental illness.
 
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You know between this thread's content and what I saw before just makes me glad that bogleech is out of my life, I used follow his site and blogs around when I was young. It frankly didn't help my mental wellbeing and surely didn't become less hostile and frankly seeing deteriorate him from this alright guy with cool art and opinion pieces with the occasional flip out to this absolute mess of a human being that has a meltdown every time he sees something bigoted or just plain doesn't agree with is just disheartening to watch.

I have more to tell but frankly I wanna keep this short and stick what I think broke the camel's back with him when I think he kinda went sane.
 
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Sigh. If only we could have the old Jonathan back. I am sad, now. :stress:
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Yeah... looking through his blog recently and seeing little to no shit flinging made me hope he may reformed from his previous attics but between what this thread showed and these comments on robin ek's articles made it clear he's a lost cause.

What's most ridiculous in this statement he said on both article's comment section, "And even when devs claim there's a problem with "political correctness," where do we even see it? Everyone regardless of politics likes Bayonetta and 2B and Samus as-is, in fact liberal LGBT's probably love them as much as any horny dude does? I never saw 1% as much social justice anger towards game content as I did backlash against perceived or presumed social justice anger."
He's huffing copium if he really believes that progressives enjoy sexual video game characters as much as he's suggesting, hell I saw someone on twitter getting over 900 likes calling anyone that didn't agree with her "coomers" and him saying "You're the only guy who thinks any of that." is kinda funny when multiple I saw recently started saying gamergate was right (and this coming after the hogwarts legacy & sweet baby inc debacle make it more hilarious)

Frankly it's impressive how not only can he sound dumb but his statements can age badly.
 

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Majora's candlejack said:
Yeah... looking through his blog recently and seeing little to no shit flinging made me hope he may reformed from his previous attics but between what this thread showed and these comments on robin ek's articles made it clear he's a lost cause.

What's most ridiculous in this statement he said on both article's comment section, "And even when devs claim there's a problem with "political correctness," where do we even see it? Everyone regardless of politics likes Bayonetta and 2B and Samus as-is, in fact liberal LGBT's probably love them as much as any horny dude does? I never saw 1% as much social justice anger towards game content as I did backlash against perceived or presumed social justice anger."
He's huffing copium if he really believes that progressives enjoy sexual video game characters as much as he's suggesting, hell I saw someone on twitter getting over 900 likes calling anyone that didn't agree with her "coomers" and him saying "You're the only guy who thinks any of that." is kinda funny when multiple I saw recently started saying gamergate was right (and this coming after the hogwarts legacy & sweet baby inc debacle make it more hilarious)

Frankly it's impressive how not only can he sound dumb but his statements can age badly.
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He has a huge track record of being banned from places, which is why he has so many alt-accounts at all of the platforms he has been on.

I am not going into too many details about my political views here as that belongs in another thread. However, he is apparently still bitchy over years ago when I pointed out how he white-knights and kisses the ass of somebody (Rev) and basically became a complete simp for somebody so revolting. It had nothing to do with "feminism" as if Jonathan was a woman and Rev was her boyfriend it would still be an example of somebody making excuses for their horrible partner who goes off on SJW polemics.

I stayed out of the stupid political squabbles over Trump or whatever political figures as best as I could as I normally do not give a damn about politics one way or the other. Yet, he constantly groups whomever disagrees with him with whomever is the boogieman du jour in his eyes and so they automatically become "Nazis" or "alt-right" or whatever the shopworn accusations are that he usually uses.

Finally, I do not care if somebody is a card-carrying ridiculous SJW or conservatard. What pisses me off is having to hear about somebody get on their political soapbox every other fucking sentence and there used to be a time when he could have online conversations without going into meltdowns at almost every paragraph. He actually used to ban political discussions on the old Bogleech forum before Rev took it over.
 
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Just passing by but I will add more screencap...fresh from today; he still whining on how we are wrong at assuming he have gone cray cray and he was always 'political'
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really no idea what he try to achieve here with no context screencap and no link. Also a year between the two prove that he was way more calmer than now. were nowaday he would harass non stop any rando that disagree with him and resent and complain for days after being blocked..
 
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Just passing by but I will add more screencap...fresh from today; he still whining on how we are wrong at assuming he have gone cray cray and he was always 'political'
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really no idea what he try to achieve here with no context screencap and no link. Also a year between the two prove that he was way more calmer than now. were nowaday he would harass non stop any rando that disagree with him and resent and complain for days after being blocked..
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Someone should show him his old comics with the fly-headed character that did the whole "women don't like nice guys like me..." song and dance next.
 
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