14 Jarrett Crader

Jarrett has helped create some of the most popular indie rpg systems, modules, and toolkits of the last decade. Primarily a behind-the-scenes person, he has recently started his own company, Space Penguin Ink, with his partner debbie and his cats. He looks forward to making more weird stuff every day! I've been working with Jarrett and getting to know him a little bit better since my first years of making RPG things "professionally" around 2016 or 2017, and his attention to detail, his talent for making something good even better, is astonishing. And for what I've seen, and how I see these things going, it is only getting better and better. In fact, many of our favorite indie OSR/NSR RPG books and series out there have a finger or two of him. He has working with many indie authors, and companies such as Exalted Funeral, Tuesday Knight Games, Melsonian Art Council and many others. The thing is, Jarrett forgets he worked on stuff (there are so many) and does his best to keep his attention in what he is making now. In the present. And that's almost a life philosophy he carries into so many other areas. In our chat we got to talk about how his work of an editor and publisher is, how he loves being the first person to see these amazing books other creators are making, how he does with his routine, and the many tasks he has to do (while navigating ADHD as well), how he was raised in a haunted house, how art and RPGs are related, who are his major inspirations, and a lot more. This was a great chat, and I am happy I got to see a little bit behind his work, how he thinks, how he organizes his time, and how he understands this weird thing we love so much. So listen up, and let's get weird with Jarrett Crader! Check out Jarrett's Work! Space Penguin Ink - https://spacepenguin.ink/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/spacepenguininkInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/spacepenguinink/ Thank you for listening! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes!  If you would like to support the show, leave a review and/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help! https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers!  Get your copy right here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bit.ly/kosmosaurs⁠ Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be - https://www.amazon.com/Put-Your-Where-Heart-Wants/dp/B0B553D3FP