OH!! I love hearing the process, it's really cool! And tbh, everytime I read Dialtone it just really makes me want to make my own system and such! Gets me really excited about TTRPGs! I do wonder if the main party or scenes in there are all on the spot or it's like from a campaign? Dialtone's and Heartbreaker's illustrations are such eye candy!
i encourage you to make stuff always, even if you've never done it or are just starting out- its the best way to learn, and the act of creation is fun as hell in itself.
the scenes ironically came independent of any idea for a story- i more wanted to convey snippets of things happening outside their context that'd be fun to kinda get someone's brain going. during the writing for heartbreaker though, i'd been wanting to prod inklings i'd had for a story, which was mostly confined to illustration/impulses to do a comic or try to learn small gamedev to act it out- but i need to clear my plate more first before that