Work Journal: Updated entries: the Archive and Nicodemus Archleone. (+1057 words)

Luckily, Ivy and Nico are some of the most substantial updates I need to do. (New entries will probably be close to normal enrty size, with a few outliers).

Interweaving new info into my current entries is COMPLEX.

Tags: dresden, evilhat, game design, gaming, work journal, writing

I now have an overwhelming urge to play Car Wars or in a GURPS Autoduel campaign.

Tags: gaming, movies

Yesterday, drivingblind and oletheros came over to the De-Luxe Apt in tha Sky-y-y, so I could run the second local S7S "gamma" playtest.

Short form: It went really well.

( details behind the cut )

Huzzah!

Tags: asmp, evilhat, game design, gaming, pdq, s7s, work journal, writing

Well, I think I've updated the Goes Bump chapter of DFRPG (the one that talks generally about the various critters in the Dresden Files books). I seem to have added +1343 words, in light of Small Favor.

And now, I take the weekend off before tackling Who's Who (the chapter that talks specifically about all of the "named" characters in the books).

(woof.)

Tags: dresden, evilhat, game design, gaming, work journal, writing

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13764.phtml

Check it out!

Tags: asmp, evilhat, gaming, spirit-of-the-season, truth-and-justice

(Doesn't "spokken" sound particularly METAL?)

In response to my poll, the clear leader for "work during my break" is refining the S7S handout, to enable gamma playtests.

So mote it be.

Tomorrow night, or over the weekend, I'll start redrafting it. Once I have something in hand, I'll populate to my local groups, test, and revise. Only then will I propagate out to the S7S list. (Skyship combat needs a mighty testing!)

Since we're on the topic of S7S, let me reveal some DEEP, DARK concerns I have about the manuscript... ( non-gamers can skip )

So, those are the deep and disturbing issues I'm feeling re: S7S.

Tags: asmp, evilhat, game design, gaming, s7s, work journal, writing

With the completion of my initial work on the Small Favor matrix and some freelance editing, I am taking a short break.

Of course, for me, "break" means I only work on one project, because I iz insaneymans.

But which. One. Spock? Which. One?

Poll #1180446 "Break"
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Which "for-fun" project should I work on during my "break"?

Lemme know, f-list. Taking you advice until tomorrow evening.

But for tonight: comicable books and wine, oh yes.

Latah!

Tags: asmp, dresden, evilhat, fiction-and-poetry, game design, gaming, s7s, sekrit projekt, sf&f, work journal, writing, zoz

Work Journal:
* Typed up 3 pages of my longhand notes on Small Favor. [24 of 24 done; 100% done.]
* This generated 3 pages of matrix entries. [running total: 28 pages.]
* This takes me up through page 420 of SmF. [100% done.]

Whew.

Tags: dresden, evilhat, game design, gaming, work journal, writing

Last night's Work Journal:
* Typed up 3 pages of my longhand notes on Small Favor. [21 of 24 done; 88% done.]
* This generated 1 page of matrix entries. [running total: 25 pages.]
* This takes me up through page 396 of SmF. [94% done.]

Tags: dresden, evilhat, game design, gaming, work journal, writing

Summary: Much improved.

I'm about 75% done with DFRPG work (Samll Favor matrix). There are some other mini-projects I can/should do when that's done, before revising the "Goes Bump" and "Who's Who" (and possibly "Harry's World") chapters. But I am definitely taking a short break from Dresdania when the SmF matrix is done.

I'm about 2.5 fairy tales away from having a collection of ZoZ-based stories. I hope to publish them myself, which is a situation rife with possibilities for failure. Self-pubbed fiction (unlike comics or RPGs) is definitely the bastard child of publishing. QUICK QUESTION: Would you buy such a thing> Inquiring minds, and all.

The novel is on hiatus; I don't have the brain-cycles to apply to it.

S7S is also somewhat on hiatus. I need to update the gamma handout and run at least two more local sessions, before I can push out changes to playtesters. I don't see the possibility of meeting up for a local game before mid-May, tho.

Influenced by maliszew's discussion of old-school D&D, I have been pondering a new game system. A fusion of PDQ and OD&D. It hasn't fully coalesced in my skullmeats yet, so I cannot say more.

Socially... I need to see my friends more. I need to spend time with my girlfriends. I need to somehow break the chains that connect me to this keyboard.

Send money.

Tags: asmp, dresden, game design, gaming, s7s, writing, zoz