Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Please Hold ... Someone Will Be With You Shortly

I'm about two weeks away from graduating with a MLA (masters in landscape architecture).  It's been a rather long road (and a long story that I'm not going to detail; suffice to say nothing dramatic happened - it's just long).

I'm also a very distracted person, and having two (or three) new followers makes me want to post something to entertain them, but I can't afford to take the time.  But it weighs on me.  So this is my compromise.  I'll tell myself I'm posting something real, but I'll just list a bunch of stuff I might write about later.  Feel free to leave a comment if something sounds particularly interesting, or you want to make a special request.

  • Notable Priests of the Shadowend (the notable spellcasters post was really wizard-heavy).
  • Magical Societies & Orders
  • Non-Magical Societies & Orders
  • Map sketches n' stuff
  • New/expanded info on the Dalerain, Typhos, & the Envidier.  (explanation here: I see the campaign from a sort of "middle" viewpoint - neither ground level nor "creator deity".  The gods are a soap opera of characters, and their interactions often serve as catalysts and actors in campaigns I run.  So, I  like detailing them.  It's my thing.)
  • more adventure hooks.  I've got this theory that everything ought to have an adventure hook or two.
  • translate some stuff into Swords & Wizardry.  I had a brain surge a few nights ago and ended up scribbling down ideas for merging my nascent RPG-clone (everyone has one) back into S&W (where it started anyhow).
  • Winter stuff.  Because it's winter.  And Joukahainen, the frost giant sorcerer scion of Cheneitha, is totally kick-ass, if I could just finish a decent write-up of him.
  • Unearth some 2e stuff and post that.  And maybe update that to S&W, or downdate, or whatever.
  • More geography.  Because I love geography.
  • Some kind of riffing about what lies beyond the Shadowend.  Years ago I adopted the idea of putting all the cool stuff on the map where I would use it, rather than off the map where I wouldn't.  As a result, the areas beyond the map have actually become less detailed over time, as the Shadowend keeps dragging them down dark alleys and  taking their stuff.  But there are still ideas that don't fit on the map, and they lend some context to the Shadowend, which is really sort of a backwater.
  • The Fallen.  Because I like them.  And because they're blatant ripoffs of Glen Cook's Taken.
  • The Shimmering Plain.  Because I myself know nothing about it, and that fascinates me.
  • More "monsters from the tome of horrors and where they live", except now I've got the ToH COMPLETE, so this project could go on for -years-.
  • Races.  I always do troldfolk, because the writeup hasn't changed in about 12 years, and I think I did leshii, but firjotun and talvijotun and them-all could still use a moment in the sun.

6 comments:

  1. These look particularly interesting, Nathan:

    - Winter stuff. Because it's winter. And Joukahainen, the frost giant sorcerer scion of Cheneitha, is totally kick-ass, if I could just finish a decent write-up of him.
    - Map sketches n' stuff
    - New/expanded info on the Dalerain, Typhos, & the Envidier.

    'dog

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  2. Err, all of the above?

    Mwahahahahahahahahaha!

    Too much? Okay, okay . . . lazy critter!

    Notable Priest, Magical Societies and Non-Magical Societies.

    Although "all of the above" is still my favorite option! :P

    (Sorry! TERRIBLE misspelling in the original post!)

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  3. OK, now we need a third opinion as a tie-breaker...or possibly just to confuse the issue.

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    1. Me! Me! Vote for me!

      I don't know what the Hound's doing here anyway! I'm still waiting for him to post something new to Black Blade's site!

      Not to mention "Imrryr, The Dreaming City."

      I weep and lament for those poor, forgotten orphans! Feel our pain, Allan! Feel our pain!

      Hehehehehehehehe!

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    2. Oh, that's lol. I mean low. Lolow. :)

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