I looked at the weather forecast yesterday and it looked like we're not going to get more than two days without rain/snow so Suzi and I did all the gardening work that needed to be done. It took over 3 hours and I am quite sore this morning. We've now got about an inch to two inches of compost/leave particulate covering both the gardens along with ( Read more... )

Just saw the new Indiana Jones movie and thought it was pretty good overall. I'd put it behind Raiders and Last Crusade, but before Temple of Doom. Thought it was enjoyable.

We've got snow. We've had snow for a while now and I haven't had time to properly prepare my gardens for next year. I need about 4 days of no rain/snow to do everything that ( Read more... )

We're continuing on with the garden rock-ridding process and it's both tiring and tedious. But in the end I'll get good food so that's a pretty good trade off, IMO.

Design question: Should players be in the world of the monsters or should the monsters be in the world of the players?

Ever get that feeling that a great idea you had is actually going to be quite a bigger project than expected ( Read more... )

Last night the temperature got down to around 55. We were able to open the windows and they're still open now at almost 11am. A nice, breezy 70 outside. I am *SO* happy about choosing Coshocton as a place to settle down. Went out and watered the plants as it's been unusually dry for us here lately and picked a mess of green beans. One of my bean ( Read more... )

Although the title of this post has food first, I'll discuss that second. We're editing The Advanced Players Guide and it's taking a while. It's a big manuscript and we're slowly working our way through it. Our October release month still seems to be a good estimate. I've gotten a new manuscript from Alphonso Warden for a new Advanced Adventure and ( Read more... )

Finished the maps for the first Lands of Darkness product. It feels a bit odd to do tactical maps as that's not something I've done before, but it's, IMO, the default assumption with the new edition so they're done. Did an overview map with the 12 detailed areas highlighted but with many other areas left for the DM to fill in. We're taking the ( Read more... )

Didn't get any work on S&SS done yesterday. Suzi and I are collaborating on our first 4e product so we hashed out all the monsters in the adventure and today I'm going to get quite a bit of the mapping done. The product is called The Barrow Grounds and it's the first in a series called Lands of Darkness. They're

Rock Lobster!
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