While I’ve taken September and October off from writing regular articles, that doesn’t mean that I don’t want to provide updates time and again. This isn’t going to be anything particularly huge, but its something!
Continue readingI know its a day late, but Tuesdays Article was a little haphazard, so lets try again, shall we? This has proven to be really tough to move from my head to paper, and I think I might have it this time.
Continue readingI continue rushing headlong into the second year of writing Coldforged material, and this year I hope to cover enough topics in preparation to print as is possible. We are in the home stretch, and today I’m fiddling with something a player of mine wants to make a reality: Herbalism, Alchemy, and Medicine! Let’s take a look as I wander my way poorly while I try to describe my nascent Idea of what that would look like.
Continue readingI continue rushing headlong into the second year of writing Coldforged material, and this year I hope to cover enough topics in preparation to print as is possible. We are in the home stretch! I’m on the last portion of the book, the monsters, allies and Heroes!
Continue readingI continue rushing headlong into the second year of writing Coldforged material, and this year I hope to cover enough topics in preparation to print as is possible. We’re in the home stretch, I can feel it 19 months in that there is only a little left to accomplish before beginning the editing process! Today, I take another look at the Injury charts I made back in the Before Times, and see how I can hone it to a more appropriate form.
Continue readingI continue rushing headlong into the second year of writing Coldforged material, and this year I hope to cover enough topics in preparation to print as is possible. We’re in the home stretch. I’m continuing my atlas this week, and it’s going to be multiple maps and not a ton of words. Come on in!
Continue readingDuring this, the second year of writing Coldforged material, I have covered many topics in preparation to print as is possible. I believe I’m in the home stretch. I believe I’ve finished out the new series here about writing adventures and trying to get the flavor of Coldforged setting to come to life. As a final to that, I want to talk a little bit about the problem of NPC’s and the levels in character classes, and then talk about what I am working on to fix it!
Continue readingI continue rushing headlong into the second year of writing Coldforged material, and this year I hope to cover enough topics in preparation to print as is possible. I hope we’re in the home stretch. Here I’m continuing my atlas, turning from looking at the physical geography of the continent to the political geography of where they all live, this time focusing on the most impressive structures and natural locations in each region.
Continue readingI continue rushing headlong into the second year of writing Coldforged material, and this year I hope to cover enough topics in preparation to print as is possible. I hope we’re in the home stretch. I’m starting a new series here about writing adventures and trying to get the flavor of Coldforged setting to come through. This week, I talk a little about what It means to adventure in gritty and dark ages, and how to go about creating that feel.
I continue rushing headlong into the second year of writing Coldforged material, and this year I hope to cover enough topics in preparation to print as is possible. I hope we’re in the home stretch. Here I’m continuing my atlas, turning from looking at the physical geography of the continent to the political geography of where they all live, this time focusing on the most impressive structures and natural locations in each region.
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