By AWizardInDallas on 1/2/2009 9:09 PM

I was just wondering why the prices on D20 titles are still so high, particularly in PDF format?  I don't know about everyone else but I refuse to pay the current prices and will wait until they're down in the $5 range.  The D20/3.5 song has been sung so why not lower the prices already?  Is it a deterent to keep 3.5 fans from obtaining what they'd rather have or is it that 3.5 is still popular enough to hurt 4E sales?  I really don't care about the polly-tiks.  I just want the books, preferably in PDF.

By AWizardInDallas on 12/30/2008 1:13 AM

I'm really looking forward to the New Year.  I have to admit that my mind reels at all the things going on in just my little corner of reality.  Before I go on to talk about some of those things, I would be very much remiss not to mention the one overriding thought that seems to clarify everything, to make everything else seem rather less significant.  I'm talking about my wife.  My good wife as a matter of fact.  Please feel free to tune out or skip ahead now if sentiment or sap isn't your thing.  It's late and I can't sleep.  I'm feeling reflective.  I also didn't get to spend much time with her tonight which always bothers me. 

I love her and nothing I do next year will matter as much as spending time with her.  I seldom get to talk about her these days and she's probably the one thing I'm always excited about, more than anything else.  She knits.  She bakes cookies and paints them turquoise.  She games, plays the rogue and the monk equally well, paints miniatures.  Loves corned beef and is a good cook, no matter what she says.  She's good at whatever she sets her mind to, which I recently mentioned to her.  We've been married for two years now, so the most exciting thing about 2009 is her.  Marrying her is the most brilliant thing I've done.  It's really that simple. 

Okay, sorry if you skipped ahead.  I was going to theorize about next year's role-playing game systems, role-playing game software and tools and maybe a little about the direction my chosen programming languages, but it doesn't seem all that important now. 

Suffice it to say that we'll be sticking with D&D 3.5 and D20 for our games.  I might pickup the Pathfinder RPG if it's compelling enough, but I'm sick of changing horses.&am ... Read More »

By AWizardInDallas on 11/6/2008 7:44 PM

I'm closing this blog today. It's become too much of challenge to keep the blog as well as the campaign going, while working on Hero Lab and my campaign world and...well you get the picture.

By AWizardInDallas on 11/6/2008 6:37 PM

I'm closing this blog today due to player availablity issues related to his crudy job with a crudy work schedule.  We all sympathize.  Anyway we did finished the module successfully as noted in the blog.  I had planned to continue the campaign with some expanded material that will now be used in a future campaign.

By AWizardInDallas on 5/11/2008 4:58 PM

From the Private Journal of Duira Siannodel:
(Player Submitted Entry)

"Well we managed to kill all the forest trolls and burned them so they wouldn’t come back, and the Thorns who helped us were nice and as a thank-you, gave us four vials of barkskin potion.  Not exactly the nice crown I was wearing for awhile, but who’s counting?  Conveniently, the ridge above the area where we fought the trolls was also the gateway to Silvermote.  It didn’t look quite like Dad had described it in his diary, but close enough to recognize the standing stones.  The actual entry was a structure made of white stone with green veins running through it and a door with a big tree carved in it.  Funny thing about the door: there was no lock and no way to open it: no markings or anything, and yet it was obviously a mechanical door.  We were rather dumbfounded, especially since Saille and I are rather good at such things.  While we were contemplating the issue, one of the Petals came along, so I talked her out of the information we needed: one need only wait until nightfall and the moon letters would reveal themselves, though the Petal didn’t know what they said.  So, we hung out until nightfall, and there were the moon letters, in Common.  And, it was a riddle, of course.  Tsk.  Elves.  The riddle itself took us quite awhile to figure out (naturally, I was the one who finally did so: I am the more cunning of the Siannodel sisters, after all).  Unfortunately, the moon letters and the riddle they revealed did not demand that everyone give me their treasure and worship me in the manner to which I should be entitled.  Instead, it read:

I am the leafless tree grown in fearful earth
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