View From the Bushes

Now that I've got my mojo back, there's a ton of stuff I not only want to do with DireKobold, but desperately need to do as well. All of my time today which wasn't taken up by my 'real' job has been spent putting together a massive to-do list. Obviously, the first thing is to get some more adventures out. Xenogenic NPC's aren't nearly as cool, though once I have every class represented I think that will change. I hope to put them out at a pretty fair pace. Obviously, once a week is too fast, but certainly more often than once a month.

Speaking of adventures, I had high hopes of having the Midnight adventure out by now, but at the moment I'm waiting for final draft approval which is taking longer than I had planned on. As a result, I'll be starting on one of the other adventures I have in the hopper. I have one from Luke Johnson about a devil in search of redemption or I could put out the next installment in Wil's Chronicles of Anyaka series. If anyone has a preference feel free to note it in the comments.

Another thing I've learned through sad experience is the necessity of keeping costs as close to zero as possible, so much of my plan involves doing a substantial amount of the writing myself. This indirectly lead to the idea of the Xenogenic Town (the adventures have to be set somewhere after all). A town doesn't have a level in the same fashion as an adventure, but at the same time it doesn't make a lot of sense for the baron to be level three with the party's level 18. More than that, I'm hoping to have the option of generating it as a 'classic' town (i.e. only races which have traditionally been available for players) or as a 'diverse' town (Orcs and Bugbears mixing freely, though not frictionlessly with elves and dwarves). As I mentioned earlier, this concept is still in the 'research and development' phase, so any ideas are welcome.

Well, that's all the time I have for today. I need a nap if I'm going to be able to run the family campaign this evening. But before I go, I will leave you with the obligatory link. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Thomas Covenant books, but apparently Stephen R. Donaldson is going to revisit 'The Land' with four more books. Pretty cool stuff; there's even an excerpt.

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