Dear Cami, I am curious if you would ever be interested in actually playing a Tablestuck game of your own, either hosting as resident Douche Magician or as a normal player, both would be historic events I must not miss

While I'd love to, and probably should, I've just been so damn busy lol. I can't promise anything yet but I do intend to run maybe some kind of game that anyone will be able to watch.

I remem8er it 8eing the c8se, at least early on, that Ta8lestuck was supposed to eventually have a companion program, to m8ke pl8ying the g8me easier and faster. Is something like that still planned?

Yes indeed! You're thinking of Pestercord, which was originally planned to be a companion Discord Bot to make running things easier. Also like, my second ever coding project. That version of Pestercord got pretty fair and was decently playable but had a few problems:

- We were planning on making it a single Discord Bot that anyone could invite to any server. Eventually, once we actually started doing cool and interesting stuff with the bot, being able to scale to so many players at once became substantially less feasible. Discord also has a bunch of kind of technical restrictions with stuff like that we were running into.

- Interfacing with a Discord bot (and this was before Discord added functionality to bots like slash commands, dropdown menus and buttons. We were doing this entirely with text commands) made actually trying to have control of a session as a DM a great technical challenge. We did try implementing a few DM tools but the learning curve to be able to use them was way too high to expect from a tool supposed to make it easier.

- My code was ass. Again this was like, the second thing I'd ever done.

I haven't given up on Pestercord though, far from it, we're making a new version that will address the above concerns by being built as an Electron Application that the DM will be able to run locally on their computer and host their own instance of the Discord Bot that will be easy to Mod and Homebrew without conflicting with other groups also using the tool. The Electron Program will also serve as a visual GUI interface for the DM that they can use to manage their campaign easily without needing to go through Discord Bot commands.