Dungeon Musings

Go Play NW gave me a big energy boost. There's a bunch of awesome stuff going on right now, so that I hardly know where to begin.

First up, thanks for all the great dungeon ideas in the Thanks for all the Dungeons thread! There were a ton of great ideas. That will help keep us all in dungeons for a while to come. David of Tower of the Archmage won the dungeon giveaway. Go check out his megadungeon maps on his blog!

Also, I'm adding a new theme to the blog: city tiles. I have very fond memories of the City of Lankhmar setting that TSR published. These city tiles were created for John Harper's as yet unpublished Stranger Things RPG. The first one, Wound Way was posted yesterday. I'm going to start posting these once a week as well.

Finally, the Apocalypse D&D project has a new home over at Vincent Bakers Barf Forth Apocalyptica. Most news and discussion of this D&D hack will live there, though I'll make the occaisonaly announcement through this blog as well.

The Positive Effects of D&D

Writers reminisce about the positive effect D&D has had on their lives; at Suvudu.

Original Art Week Almost Over

What and exhausting week! It was a very busy week for me: tons of work to do; two art projects on the go; I sold my first ever original artwork; my daughter had her first ever public singing performance this week; plus a very busy week in the online Dungeon Squad game I'm running.

There's still time to try and get a free original artwork of mine through the original art week giveaway. I'll be picking a winner at random tomorrow morning.

Have a good Saturday!

RIP Kage Baker

I'm a little late on this, but author Kage Baker has died. My wife and I just discovered Kage Baker's books earlier this year with Empress of Mars. It was that rare bird, a true science fiction comedy. It was the science fiction book of the year for me. There is also an excellent rememberance of her on Marty Halpern's Web site.