I’m not going to be around for the next couple of days. I’m leaving after work to go down to New Hampshire to visit with family, and I won’t be back until sometime Wednesday night.

As a result, there won’t be any real updates to speak of until Friday.

Have a good final week of 2005!

Just popping into wish all of you a merry Christmas, and I hope the coming year goes well for you.

As you have undoubtedly seen in my earlier post, the EGC is now available from DTRPG. The announcement was accompanied by a slew of purchases that pushed it to #1 on the small-press “hot list” (knocking the Serenity RPG from the top slot), and has been seen as high as #6 on the overall “hot list”. Thanks to all and sundry who’ve bought it thus far!

In a related story, DTRPG has released the Top 100 list of 2005. We’re sitting very nicely at #3 on the small press list with the Earthdawn Player’s Compendium, and we have half a dozen other books in the top 50. Since going live with the PDF sales, we’ve sold nearly 300 books (almost half of them Player’s Compendia)!

We’re really looking forward to the new year, when we’ll have physical books for sale, as well as several exciting new products coming out. 2005 was a long (though fun) learning experience… 2006 is shaping up to be a good year for Earthdawn!

Another part of the long wait is over. The Earthdawn Gamemaster’s Compendium is now available in PDF from DriveThruRPG.com for $29.95. But wait, DTRPG is also running a 20% off holiday sale! That means you can get it for only $24! We’re practically giving them away! Order now!

The hardcover print editions are expected in January of 2006. Stay tuned to this feed (or www.earthdawn.com) for more information on specific release dates!

Well, not actually now, but Joss Whedon’s Serenity is available on DVD tomorrow. If you missed it while it was in theatres this past fall, do yourself a favor and rent it. Despite its relatively poor performance at the box office, it received a favorable overall rating (80% at Rotten Tomatoes).

Even if you aren’t familiar with the series that spawned it, the movie is very accessible to new viewers. Of course, I highly recommend the DVD set of the series as well, but the movie is a good starting point if you’re daunted by the 4-disc, 14-episode series (which you really should to see in order).

When I get out of work tomorrow, I’m heading over to pick up my copy. All you fellow browncoats out there be sure and do the same!

Brief update this evening — a new entry in the Riders on the Storm journals.

Two for three this week… not too bad.

EDIT: Probably should put a direct link in.

…of having updates on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Here it is, late Thursday (technically early Friday), and it’s my first update of the week.

There is an update, however. Today (my first day off in over a week), I finished up the script for my latest Camarilla podcast, recorded it, and uploaded it here.

The More Things Change, Episode 2 (8:13, 7.53 MB)

Please remember to observe the distinction between in-game and out-of-game reality; their ‘public’ existence here does not equate to public existence within the framework of the Camarilla’s Requiem setting.

That’s all for now. I’ll try and have an update for tomorrow. See you then!

We got our first real snow of the season today. Not a whole lot — only a couple of inches — but I had to shovel the sidewalk, so it counts. Down south they got a lot more; news reports are putting the total at about a foot of snow. Better them than us.

I don’t have a whole lot to talk about at this point. My “vampire podcast” was pretty well received, and generated a bit of in-character controversy. I’m working on the second one now (and it should be available sometime next week).

If you haven’t encountered the webcomic Questionable Content, you really should. It’s very good, and the storyline that ran over the past two weeks was wonderfully funny and heartbreaking. The arc in question starts here, and while a familiarity with the strip and its characters makes this arc even better, you should be able to pick up on what’s going on pretty easily.

One final note — we’ve finished our pass through the proof-draft of the Player’s Compendium, and should be getting a new draft here in a week or two. Hopefully it looks good, and we can hit the big red button to go live with it.

I’m off to do dishes and general household chores… enjoy your weekend, and I’ll see you on Monday!

Today’s update is a new entry in the Riders on the Storm journals, over in the Earthdawn section. A somewhat brief entry by the Swordmaster Mica, it covers more events during their trip through the underground river tunnels below Throal. Here’s a direct link to the entry.

Enjoy the update, and I’ll see you on Friday!

Added note: Caught up in the frenzy of HTML coding and the like, I also added a section in the Other Games section that has links to the in-character audioblogs for my Camarilla character, as well as transcripts of the recordings themselves. Enjoy, if you haven’t yet!

We’ve got an interesting little game/exercise going on over on the Living Room Games Forums. November was National Writer’s Month (or someting like that, I forget exactly), and somebody came up with the idea of trying out a round-robin writing exercise.

Here’s how it works… each writer gets 1,000 words (give or take). In the course of the overall story, they can introduce 1 protagonist, 1 antagonist, and 1 plot element. When they have finished their 1,000 words, the next person on the list picks up from there.

We’ve been through the list of seven or eight ‘players’ twice now, and while the results are a little uneven from time to time, it is shaping up to be an enjoyable exercise.

You can read the story thus far by following this link.