Current Projects

I’m working on a slew of different settings. For Cthulu Aventus, I’m putting together ‘Mountain Home’ which is a setting, a short adventure, and some adventure seeds. Its over seven thousand words now. I’m struggling with organization of the setting material now. Later, I suppose I’ll struggle with expanding what I have on the short adventure. Right now, I’m also doing research on the Appalachian mountain culture. I think the whole thing is going to hit more than 10k words easily. Its due by Sept. 28, I hope. I hope its not due by the 21st because then I’m toast. Project Numero Two: Eden’s Planet needs some imaginative work to make the Morally Superior Aliens both existent and interesting. I know roughly where I want to go; I don’t know how to get there. And right now, my brain ain’t up to imagining the path. Project Trey: Mary Piper Epsilon; Nursery Rhymes is mostly done. It needs to be put together, and polished off, and I need to see if I’ve missed any major sections. This is the one MJ suggested to me, and I struggled with because I could not see how to combine MP and Nursery Rhymes…but I think it works reasonably well. Project Quatro: Way too many projects here….I read some of “How to Write Killer Fiction” by Carolyn Wheat, and she gave a very nice description of Gothic romance. Instantly, as I’m prone to do, I wonder how to use this as a Multiverser setting. Flip it around, make the host a hostess, a mercurial, over-emotional Elven Queen….well, I’ve outlined some of the idea, and I’ve put together a personality for the Queen, in large part. I’m not sure its the personality I want, but it is dark and forboding which is Gothic. I have to say, if I pull this one off, I’m giving myself another @1 on the Game Designer Skill. I think that a Gothic Romance world setting has to rank as waaaaaaaaaay out there for the typical gamer, and yet, I think I can do it in such a way (with lots of random monsters roaming the Near Maze area adn the lawns of the House) that most gamers would enjoy it. Project Cinco: There is no Project Cinco. I’d like to write a little about the wilderness survival of Jackson Wellington, Worldwalker, but MY BRAIN IS MELTING. Oh yeah, maybe I got a new player at rpol. The number of players has severely shrunk…not that I’m too unhappy about that. I’m still thinking a bit about closing up shoppe when the game’s posts hits 20,000. I don’t know. My players are very good, very intelligent, and have been with me for a long time. On the MY BRAIN front…I need to get the Mountain Home thing done, and then maybe take a break from my recent fervid rate of posting. I’ve been trying to get backlogs of past years of work out of my computer and into the public. I still want to get paid. I still want to see this stuff published (and I’m still very bad at publishing), but its better if the stuff is being used than if its sitting on my computer and rotting.