The End--UPDATE

It's the end of the year, and I am happy to say the Tome of Terrors and Treasures is also complete. It is now available on Lulu.com.

There is a New Year coupon buy one, get a second item 50% off coupon code: PIC4U

A 15% off promo code: GETIT15

In addition there is a buy 3 books get 1 free coupon which may be a great deal if you wanted to pick up some additional books besides just the Tome of Terrors and Treasures. That promo code is: TRESACE

I cannot confirm if the book will work in all countries, so I apologize in advance if it does not.  In addition, I'd hazard to guess Lulu may have a great coupon tomorrow so why not wait one more day and see if they do!

It was an extremely difficult year, but I hope in the end all the time, effort, late nights and extra efforts will make the new book something you enjoy for years to come.  Next is an issue of Cauldron and for 2015 I also want to release the Blades & Black Magic as well as the Grim Venture solo module.

I wish you and yours the happiest of New Year's and from my wife and I, thank you very much for your continued support.

Happy New Year!!

So close now!

Happy to say after a series of unfortunate events, the Tome of Terrors and Treasures is 99.99% done.  I plan on combing through it ONE MORE TIME tomorrow before finishing it up and letting it go live on Lulu. Thanks for your support and patience!

I also wanted to point you to a wicked cool little mapper!  This program and website from Amit Patel allows you to generate a random island and view it in multiple ways! In addition you can out put it as a PNG and then doctor it up as you like!

Below is a sample hex map it randomly generated for me. It's the right kind of canvas for creating a cool hexplore campaign.  Indeed I have a submitted map/ island hexplore from Narmer to use in the next Cauldron as well as including some naval rules for HOW. So much to do and once the weight of ToTaT is off my shoulders I really look forward to smaller projects.  Still I feel that getting ToTaT created and completed was a necessary and needed resource for HOW especially, but maybe as a resource for other similar games too.  Not long now...

In the meantime

While you are waiting for Terrors & Treasures, the fine folks at Dark City Games have released a new fantasy adventure: EBON REBIRTH!

This can be played solo or with a party of adventurers and is compatible with HOW rules!  I ordered mine and heartily recommend their adventures! If you are looking for adventure in the style of classic TFT style, check out Dark City Games great selection!

Unravelling

The end of the year in the real job world was both highly gratifying in terms of finishing the year on a high note, but also quite stressful in trying to achieve some unprecedented goals.  As a result all my "work" energy was taken by the real job and my final editing of ToTaT is still in progress.

When I started to shift and change thing layout the whole work began to unravel.  Not in a sense of being destroyed or anything like that, just in the sense of going from what I thought of as "complete" into "still needs good work"  to be ready to release.

While I am blessed and lucky to have the next two weeks off of work, family is visiting all of next week (starting tomorrow) so my time is going to be dominated with  holiday hosting and playing games--rather than designing and writing them.   I am very excited by it but that means this project hits the pause button again.  I still think 2 good uninterrupted days of work should see it complete--but that won't be possible to start until the 27th. 


Even now I am getting "the evil eye" for being on my computer as there is house work to finish, gifts to be wrapped and things to be done for family arrives tomorrow morning.

Sorry this is taking so much longer than I anticipated originally.  I only hope at the end that all the tweaks and work will have been worth the wait for you--I can only say for me, its going to be something I not only will use and abuse regularly in my own game nights...but if someone breaks into the house, I could thump them pretty hard with this beast of a book. Thanks for your support an patience, I sure hope you will enjoy it when it is done.

I wish you and yours all the best and every happiness this holidays season!

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Revelations

First I'd like to thank Buzzclaw for his support and for posting his honest first look and a new second look critique of the HOW core rules and Magi Carta.  Definitely worth your time!

Second a little package arrived today!

 

So the box arrived and tearing out the two copies I was happy to catch text errors on the back cover immediately, hooray!  :p

This thing is a freaking brick.  Below is a pic showing the ToTaT compared to the HOW rules book + Magi Carta stacked up.

Now the work on editing and cleaning up continues...

Message received loud and clear

Thanks all, hope to have the draft samples tomorrow and I will take pictures so you can see what's to come.

Appreciate all the great feedback and your patience!

Pick a path: BOGO

I got an email from Lulu saying on Wednesday (12/10) they are going to run some sort of BOGO promotion.  I do not know anymore details than this:

You loved our last buy one, get one offer so much, that we've decided to share a new one with you.

We will be emailing your BOGO offer on Wednesday and the offer will only be good for the day.

 Great right? EXCEPT I will not get hard copies to proof/review until...you guessed it...this Wednesday.

Which means I won't see them until after work which means too late to really be of any use. Oh the fickle humors of fate...what to do?  While I have spent weeks editing it and getting it ready for retail--no doubt there are new things I will "see" once I have the book in hand--but to miss buy one get one (IF the promo really ends up being buy one/get one)? That would be wicked cruel to think due to delayed shipping we all miss out.

So I will offer this option, YOU vote and choose your fate:

1) RELEASE THE KRAKEN--I know it may have some rough edges, but stop being prissy and make it happen captain!

2) STAY ON TARGET-I hate missing a good promo, but would rather let you have time to comb through it again before putting it up for sale.

Please vote in the poll off to the right hand side, top of the column...you have 24 hours to do so!

and still waiting

Still waiting, just got confirmation today my sample copies shipped--more than a week after ordering...sigh.  Thanks for waiting and I will post picks when the samples arrive. I expect a day or two of edits after I get them before they go live.