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Everything you Know is Wrong
Feb. 22nd, 2008 08:00 amSo, game called on account of freezing rain, which turned out to be much much worse at 3:00 p.m. than it was at game time. Still, better to have not risked things being an unholy mess on the way to or from the game for my players. Scheduling woes have claimed one of my players, unfortunately.
Tomorrow night is the Meetup group's monthly game night. I've got a Stargate SG-1 game prepped, and I'm looking forward to revisiting that game for a little while. I'm planning on Deadlands: Hell on Earth for next month, and a little further down the road, I've got this bright idea to run some Damnation Decade at DieCon in May.
Thinking about making some food for the meeting tomorrow. My slow cooker cookbooks have plenty of things suitable for helping to feed large groups.
I made a product pitch to a certain small-press game publisher this week, and it met with enthusiastic response. It's a sizable piece of work (maybe 60000 words, total), and I'm looking at this as a real challenge to further hone adventure-writing skills and get some time in on what I really like doing - sourcebook material. I've got a dilemma here, though. My options are to essentially do this as work-for-hire - I produce the words, the company handles art, layout, sales, etc., and I get a cut of sales - or to do this completely on my own, including setting up a storefront with RPGNow and other places, doing the layout (currently no problem thanks to the job), and finding (and paying for) artwork. Work-for-hire would certainly be easier; I'd just have to worry about the words. Going this alone would be really rewarding, though, and has the advantage of not really being under an external deadline, allowing me to work at my own pace, and freeing myself up for other work while I'm working on this.
I got to see some of the progression of the lunar eclipse Wednesday night. It was a perfectly clear night here, and the moon was maybe 15% in shadow when I left work. Got home and puttered around for a bit, then went back out in time to see the moon slide completely into shadow.
Now reading: Corrupts Absolutely, by Alexa Hunt. Decent read, definitely a first novel. Has some decent ideas for action-espionage games. [Update: Nope, not a first novel. Written like one. Rather rough for someone who's cranked out about 20 novels.]
Tomorrow night is the Meetup group's monthly game night. I've got a Stargate SG-1 game prepped, and I'm looking forward to revisiting that game for a little while. I'm planning on Deadlands: Hell on Earth for next month, and a little further down the road, I've got this bright idea to run some Damnation Decade at DieCon in May.
Thinking about making some food for the meeting tomorrow. My slow cooker cookbooks have plenty of things suitable for helping to feed large groups.
I made a product pitch to a certain small-press game publisher this week, and it met with enthusiastic response. It's a sizable piece of work (maybe 60000 words, total), and I'm looking at this as a real challenge to further hone adventure-writing skills and get some time in on what I really like doing - sourcebook material. I've got a dilemma here, though. My options are to essentially do this as work-for-hire - I produce the words, the company handles art, layout, sales, etc., and I get a cut of sales - or to do this completely on my own, including setting up a storefront with RPGNow and other places, doing the layout (currently no problem thanks to the job), and finding (and paying for) artwork. Work-for-hire would certainly be easier; I'd just have to worry about the words. Going this alone would be really rewarding, though, and has the advantage of not really being under an external deadline, allowing me to work at my own pace, and freeing myself up for other work while I'm working on this.
I got to see some of the progression of the lunar eclipse Wednesday night. It was a perfectly clear night here, and the moon was maybe 15% in shadow when I left work. Got home and puttered around for a bit, then went back out in time to see the moon slide completely into shadow.
Now reading: Corrupts Absolutely, by Alexa Hunt. Decent read, definitely a first novel. Has some decent ideas for action-espionage games. [Update: Nope, not a first novel. Written like one. Rather rough for someone who's cranked out about 20 novels.]