Dwarves and Things, A Lesson
Winter Cometh! So my work in the winter issue of Kobold Quarterly, which was just released contains some pretty awesome racial utility powers for Tieflings, Gnomes and Minotaurs for use with 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons. The powers are akin to the ones introduced in the Heroes of Shadow book and most of them have a very ‘classic’ feel to them, hopefully invoking warm thoughts of the racial bells and whistles of yore. I’m offering them to my players as freebies in my game, as I feel stuff like this is flavorful, fun, and having little to no impac on the balance of the game…things I feel have been put into 4e to begin with. Anyway, I won’t give much more than that away though, because you should really run out and pick up...
Achievement Unlocked: Published in Print
As some of you may know, I’ve been talking about this for a little while now and can finally stop holding my breath because a pitch of mine was accepted into Kobold Quarterly’s pages. It feels great to be able to say that something I wrote was good enough to go into the printed pages of one of the best gaming magazines out there. Not only that, but this also means someone has paid me money to write about mythical beings – I’m not sure many things in life get cooler than this as far as I’m concerned.Granted it wasn’t a lot of money, but we’ll get to that later but the important thing is: huzzah! Vague Vagueness I originally intended to reveal a bit about my article and give some explanation behind the writing process...
Gencon Wrapup, ENnies Glory and Gloom.
The Excitement So, Gencon has come and gone and yes Obsidian Portal won that ENnie we wanted so badly and I’m very proud to be an integral part of such a great team. Despite what both Micah and Ryan say about me earning this ENnie just as much as they did I have a hard time taking credit for something as amazing as Obsidian Portal. Somehow just running my mouth in our social channels and sending newsletters and editing the podcast and networking with people and setting up contests and finding campaigns of the month and… okay well maybe I do play my part. Still, it doesn’t seem to stack up to hour after hour of coding, innovation, billing, marketing and more. I’m not quite comfortable with the idea of actually being an part of something so...
Now an “Ennie Nominated” Game Designer!
With last Friday’s big announcement regarding the 2011 Ennies, I was totally caught off guard. I had a good feeling and hope that Obsidian Portal would be up in the running once again for our outstanding service but no Idea something as seemingly insignificant as Revenge of the Iron Lich would even come close. I was driving to work and got a text from Sersa: “We fuckin’ did it man“ Blood, Sweat and Gears I poured a lot of heart and soul into co-writing this with Sersa but never even fathomed it would be recognized by so many, including some real luminaries in the tabletop RPG industry. In two categories to boot, a nomination for Best Adventure and Best Free Product. At first I felt guilty, like I was riding on Sersa’s coat tails or...
Wish Me Luck!
Just a quick post to get this thing going, i’ll delete it all and write more later. Just made my first attempt at pitching to Wizards of the Coast with some Dungeon and Dragon magazine article proposals. I’ll probably get rejected but it doesn’t mean I’ll stop trying. A huge thanks to my amazing wife for all of her support and being my co-writer, editor and my rock. Keeping my fingers crossed for now. Update (7/8/11): My submissions are apparently still being looked over and not rejected quite yet. Regardless I’ll be looking forward to any feedback I receive.