View From the Bushes

I imagine that by this point that anyone who doesn't like the Tour de France has stopped reading my blog, or at best has decided to come back and check on it in August. If you're still reading but have no interest in the Tour, you nevertheless owe it to yourself to check out this Clip of yesterday's crash and the amazing maneuver by Lance Armstrong to avoid crashing himself. But since today was a pretty slow stage and tomorrow is a rest day, we'll be taking a break to talk about... what does DireKobold do again? Ohh...yeah...gaming.

Today we're supposed to be publishing another adventure. But as I explained earlier, I'm waiting for the release of the 3.5 SRD on the 18th, though I've heard rumors that the books are already out, so I may run down to my FLGS and pick them up, in any case it will definitely be up by the weekend. It sort of just hit me that a week from now I'll be flying high above the country on my way to Gencon (that or making my stopover in Newark; bargain travel is Hell). There are easily 20-30 major items I have to do before I can leave and that doesn't count publishing the latest adventure. Okay, if you'll excuse me I think I need to breathe into a paper bag for awhile...

Okay, I'm back. I do have some exciting news for GenCon: A guy I met last yeah by the name of Don (also know as "Negative Zero" on the ENWorld Forums) has a spiffy little project he calls "Improved Initiative" which he is going to be selling in a little corner of our booth. So there's one more reason to stop by. Overall I've got to say I'm pretty stoked about GenCon. I'm looking forward to walking up to someone like Monte Cook and saying "I'm the guy that started DireKobold." And have them say, "Never heard of it." And then I can say, "Okay, never mind then, I'll just walk away slowly and look at my shoes." It's going to be great!

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Ross