Well, the playtest draft of Halls of the Mountain King: Roots of Madness is off to the playtesters, and really all that's left for me to do is to punch out the consequences/conclusion section and scrub the manuscript for the editor...well, until we get playtest notes back. :) I've earned a cup or three of nicely warm sake and a good plate of ( Read more... )

Alright... time to dig into stat blocks again.

I'm working on one of three parts of the second act for Open Design's Halls of the Mountain King. It's been a great collaborative brainstorm with the other three developers (Tim Conners, Michael Furlanetto, Brandon Hodge) and Wolfgang Baur is riding herd to make sure we don't go off into the weeds. The ( Read more... )

So, voting's done over at Open Design. *sigh* Always the bridesmaid. Well, looks like it's not over yet.

(cue bass)

It's time to rock this thing.

Get everyone and the pitches together...

3.
     2.
          1.

Let's jam.

-Ben.
(who's trying to see if he can get lucky at the proverbial reception.)

So I've been doing a lot of writing lately, and it's bearing fruit.

I got to write for Wolfgang Baur's Open Design 6, Tales of Zobeck, where I wrote "Redcloak Ruckus." That's in editing and there's still time to sign up as a patron. You want in on this if you like steampunk, if you like fun gaming, if you want some rocking and rolling adventures ( Read more... )

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So I follow a link to look at a chunk of text from the upcoming 4E DMG, and I'm greeted with this section on commerce:

"Even small villages give characters ready access to the gear they need to pursue their adventures. Provisions, tents and backpacks, and simple weapons are commonly available. Traveling merchants carry armor, military weapons, and ( Read more... )

I'm punching through what is supposed to be the climatic encounter for the APL16 table at the Principality of Ulek's final interactive. What's an interactive, you ask? What the heck is APL?

APL stands for Average Party Level; it's the measure of difficulty used by the RPGA to scale an adventure for groups from level 1 to level 16.

An interactive is ( Read more... )

Alrighty.
It's been a very busy two months.

SHE8-01, Severance, is done and being edited. SHE8-Int1, Above and Below, is done, but we're not going to talk about that one unless you feel like buying me a beer.

That takes us to KEO8-SM1, Not a Moment to Lose. You can now go get your NONC cleric/wizard spells, your dwarvencraft weapons, and Church ( Read more... )

Ok... So SHE8-02 is nearly complete on a rough draft and I'm launching into SHE8-I01, which will be related. It should be a good time, many tracks, APLs 4-14 (ugh ( Read more... )

So no word from the Keoland Triad, so january mod... or is there? :)

Well, yes, there is. I'd helped Dave K. crank out SHE7-06, and it looks like we're going to do SHE8-02 and a SHE8-I01. All related. :) Good times. But it means some serious cranking for the next three weeks, which I'm ok with for now.

I'd planned on working on the Dreadwood Battle ( Read more... )