The Google Alert has turned up something fun! Dane of War just posted a review of the Chronicles of Ramlar Soundtrack, The Dreaming, and Into the Reach got a mention!

First and foremost, the music is based on what appears within the pages of the game’s Core Rule Book and Alana Abbott’s novel - Into The Reach. Both are so rich in detail that ( Read more... )

So, I got to play one of my favorite D&D characters today--a character who made a debut in 3.5 but never got to go much of anywhere. His name is Urtog Fight-Good, and he's seen more life outside of D&D than any of my other characters, simply because his shtick is so fun. I've probably introduced more students to D&D during the Ireland trip and the ( Read more... )

Nearly all of my B&N preorders have shipped and should be arriving on my porch in the next few days. So I'd like to take this moment to wish a happy Book Birthday (in some cases, belated from earlier this week) to:

• frost_light's One Foot in the Grave,
• melissa_writing's Ink Exchange, and
• shanna_s's Don't Hex with Texas

Welcome to the world, books ( Read more... )

It's five minutes to midnight, but I've finished my edits from the playtest in the adventure I wrote and turned it in to my fabulous editor. What's this? I beat my deadline? Yes indeed ( Read more... )

First, business. Tomorrow is the last guest entry I have stashed away. I've been able to secure quite a number in advance up until this point, but at last, I'll be running out. If you read this blog and are interested in writing a short piece about either the importance of mythology in your writing, how mythology impacts your writing, how you go ( Read more... )

So, the most difficult thing about Dungeons and Dragons has nothing to do with learning the rules. It doesn't deal with rolling dice, and it doesn't even take into account a variety of improvisational skill levels. No, it has *everything* to do with finding a time when six or seven people who all like hanging out with each other can manage to put ( Read more... )

So, when I said Triumphant Return, that was with the expectation that I'd actually be back online, posting on my blog, and things would get back to normal. As you may have noticed... not so much. I have, both fortunately and unfortunately, had plenty keeping me busy (one of which was playing several D&D games from the Xen'drik expeditions campaign ( Read more... )

Sorry for the delay in getting all of this posted. I've been struggling against the flu, which I believe I caught somewhere among all the hand shaking. This is comforting, as it means that some of the illness that I thought I was giving myself for being nervous was actually a physical ailment. I'm going to take comfort in that!

( Full GenCon Report )

This is the first chance I've had where I actually had time to sit down and write about what's been going on with GenCon. What makes this unfortunate is that it means I'll abridge and inevitably miss some really cool stuff that happened, but this is the way of things. Since I was only semi-coherent on Wednesday anyway, there are probably things I'd ( Read more... )

Ah, Origins. Game convention of adventure and excitement. This was my third year as an Origins attendee, and again, it was a productive experience.

For some background:

At Origins of 2004, I met James Lowder, who presented at a panel on shared world fiction. (The panel also featured Michael A. Stackpole of Star Wars novels fame.) Mr. Lowder was ( Read more... )