View From the Bushes

Since I started the DireKobold beta test back in December of last year I've had quite a few ideas for improvements, additions, upgrades and expansions. After talking to probably 100's of people at GenCon I have dozens more, and these ideas are not just my own twisted fantasies these are the sorts of things that my customers actually want. Stuff that would be in my best interest to implement. The current schedule of putting out a new adventure every ten days is too tight to give me the time to implement more than a couple of these ideas. Now if DireKobold had turned out to be a run-a-way success, fulfilled my wildest dreams of avarice and allowed me to quit my day it would be a different story, but since the day job is the one that's paying the bills if I want to implement all these great features and give the public what it wants I have to slow my DireKobold publishing schedule down a little bit.

In the short term this means that the adventure I promised to have out this evening won't be out until the 25th. Long term this means that DireKobold is going to go through an overhaul, with the goal of implementing a bunch of new features, changing some of the ways I do adventures, and in general increasing the value. And even though I already have some of my own twisted ideas, and dozens of ideas other people have given me I'm still interested in as much input on this overhaul as I can get. I'll probably post a poll over in the ENWorld forum, but I've also recently installed my own forums so I may open those up and see if I can't get some discussion going. Meanwhile adventures will still be released but there will only be two this month and two in September and October while we overhaul things.

I've been telling people for a long time that as we get more adventures in the archive the price is inevitably going to go up. And so beginning in November with the overhaul the price of DireKobold is going to go up, unless you're already a subscriber or subscribe in the next little while. If you're already a subscriber or become a subscriber you'll essentially lock in the lower rate. (I sound like mortgage broker or something.) So despite the overhaul this is actually a pretty good time to subscribe because the prices will be going up in the near future. In any case the next adventure, which will be out Monday, is by Wil Upchurch and it's quite good, and as usual the cartography by Ed Bourelle is excellent but the art, holy cow! Chad Sergesketter really outdid himself. In fact just because I'm in a good mood here's a sneak peek at the cover. Stay tuned to this channel for up to the minute reports as events happen...

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