2-1/2 month update ... I'm getting better

Spent a lot of time this summer reading RPG material. Now that 4th edition D&D has been released, I've discovered that 3.5 really wasn't that bad.

It really started sometime last fall. I discovered that Dungeon magazine had released a four part super poster map of the World of Greyhawk. As a younger RPG player, Greyhawk was the first fantasy world I had found. It inspired me to create my own worlds and introduced me to characters and places that intrigued me.

Anyway ... Paizo Publishing was the publisher of Dungeon magazine at the time. While shopping their website I discovered they had their own RPG in development. And you could get it for FREE! (Well, it was the beta playtest, but....it was FREE!!!) So, I downloaded it. Tried learning it. And discovered the wealth of cheap 3.5 books available now that 4th edition was on the market.

Since then, I've totally fell in love with Pathfinder as an RPG. The campaign world Paizo has developed to support their RPG (Golarian) is unique and flavorful. I'm slowly building a library of 3.5 sourcebooks from a number of publishers.

I've given time to write a few proposals for modules in the open competitions the company has and am now actively developing my own campaign world and adventures with an eye towards publishing it myself on a site like Lulu.

So....thats what I've been doing.

Oh...also built a game shed this summer. Still no power or windows or interior walls, but, its water tight and a good temporary place to store my gaming stuff.

The 3 Month Update....

You'd think I could do a better job of posting to my blog.

So ... Panzerblitz 2 has finally printed. And with it a whole raft of errors, questions and issues. All in all, though, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Myself and a few others have already started working on the next historical module (Mortain). I'm also in the process of reconstructing the unit data for the first core module. The numbers I originally delivered to Darren and MMP were on a spreadsheet along with the formula to calculate unit strengths. I only delivered the numbers for units they needed for Hill of Death. I had burned the sheet to CD for what I thought was posterity. I didn't account for CD rot, or degradation or whatever you want to call it. When I reopened the file to send everything I had to Darren, it would not load. I was finally able to extract a few lines of data from the file. Enough to get me going in the right direction, but, a lot of number crunching has to be recrunched, now. A L-O-T of numbers.... I'm mightily sickened by that.

3 More Months....

So...no gaming of any consequence to report.

I've actually been pretty caught up in my writing. Paizo Publishing is an RPG adventure and magazine publisher who has positioned themselves to inherit a large number of D&D 3.5 adherents. Their "Pathfinder" RPG is often described as D&D 3/75 or what "3.5 should have been".

I don't know. I haven't played an RPG since I divorced my first wife ... coincidentally right about the time 3rd edition D&D replaced the long running 2nd edition.

Anyway ... Paizo often holds open calls for scenario submissions as well as their annual "RPG Superstar" contest. I've been spending what little free time I do get from work and kids to sharpen my writing skills and submitting a few things to them. In the back of my mind I have the idea to get myself writing again and hopefully finding a way to make a living at it. I have notebooks full of story ideas I've always wanted to write. Perhaps its time to do what I went to college to be in the first place.

I have done a little miniature painting. Clearing two more Cryx units from my Warmachine backlog. One more 'Jack to finish and all my Warmachine will be painted.

Now to finish the 1000 pt Norman and 1000 pt Alexandrian armies for Warmaster Ancients.

And the Circle of Orboros units for Hordes.

And the War of the Roses Might of Arms army.

And the drawer full of 1/144 WW2 figures.

And the half drawer of modern microarmor/6mm.

And the drawer full of 6mm Imperial Romans for a DBA army (or maybe Might of Arms, I haven't decided yet).

And of course I still have a Sub-Roman British DBA army to paint.

I think I'll stop now.

I also recently bought a bunch of AT-43 miniatures really cheap. I hope to actually go gaming for a day in April with the West Texas Wargaming Association up in Big Srping. :)

I almost forgot "the shed." I should hopefully be getting a 12' X 16' shed built in the backyard ot move all my gaming gear into. I'll finally be able to set up at least 1 4'x 8' table for wargames and have plenty of space to store all my games.