Now, this IS relevant to EverQuest. I think I’m just about finished with Crushbone’s Revenge, the sort of sequel to Tempest in a Freepot. You’re on a mission to save Retlon Brenclog, a gnome who was last seen in Crushbone. But you uncover something much darker on your quest, and a gnome isn’t all you save. [gallery ids=“11217,11219,11222,11220,11221,11218”] The next step is optional, but it’s usually a good idea to get other foundry authors to weigh in on your quest before you make it widely available. This is semi-baked in, because you have to get five reviews before it goes live to everyone. Lucky me, I have four already, and need just one more. The unlucky bit is that I’ve been honestly reviewing people’s foundries for a few months now, and… some authors might want to be a little brutally honest with me. ...

Took about forever to finish this book, but it was worth the read. Looking forward to the second half of the story with a mixture of anticipation and dread….a review of Pandora’s Star Wow, that was a thick book. Not long from now, humanity develops both instantaneous space travel via wormholes and immortality and spreads throughout the stars in a sort of t… This was posted on Google+

Yay! Back to rotating through my old original EverQuest image collection. We’ll try that out for awhile. I wonder if it would be sacrilege to start adding images from the games I’m playing these days? I haven’t played EQ1 much for many years.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll spam all my recent Google+ posts.

I’m about to copy in all my posts from Ello. At first, I enjoyed writing to an audience of none, but … I can do that right here on my blog. It’s not all about games. I still play games, of course, all the time, but I don’t always (or even, often) have anything illuminating to say about them. I also will catch up on the writing for the online D&D 5e campaign, but that’s not written down anywhere. ...

Watched the first half of the first episode of Ascension last night. The premise is that, in the mid sixties, America launched an interstellar starship based on Orion technology in total secret to the stars, and now, 51 years later, their frozen-in-amber society is beginning to unravel. Orion worked by shooting nuclear bombs out the back, and plus such a large ship would be easily seen being built in orbit, not to mention lighting up the skies. 51 years would barely get it out of the solar system, still hundreds or thousands of years from getting to the nearest stars, none of which had been confirmed as having planets in the 60s. It wasn’t until the 80s that we could even confirm other stars even had planets. Plus apparently they have gravity control? The ship interior doesn’t look like there’s any support for acceleration or maneuvering? A puzzling plot line back on present-day Earth? ...

Weekly foundries!** First, a thanks to Cryptic for adding their rollable 20 sided die for in-game currency. Kasul and I were rolling for stealth and perception checks all night :) It was a small thing, but making something purely for fun, and cheap enough so everyone can have it, is just a really nice gesture in a free-to-pay game like Neverwinter. Only 70,000 AD in the Wondrous Bazaar. A heck of a lot of fun. ...

Lanys T'Vyl and friend plot against the player Still figuring out what Ello is for… slow at work today, new projects are being specced but this close to the end of the year and a department-wide vacation, not much is getting done. We had a release early this morning which went fairly well. I was barely conscious. But since I was up so early, I decided to work a little more on Crushbone’s Revenge. I’ve spent so long on this now that it seems like there was never a time when I wasn’t working on it this year. In reality, I started development on it in October, I think, or early November, so it really hasn’t been that long. ...

Was scanning Hulu and noticed a surprise picture of David Tennant in a show called Gracepoint. I’d heard he was reprising his role in a British series for an American audience. I had fun in the pilot trying to guess what sort of American accent Tennant was trying for, but it never came together for me. He was supposed to be from Philadelphia? The plot and so on was just a rehash of Fargo without the comedy or local flavor, or Twin Peaks without everything that made that show a treasure. Or Blackpool without the music videos, to bring in another Tennant detective show. ...

Posted without explanation, just before the final encounters of Crushbone’s Revenge. Participants and location should be familiar to anyone who played EverQuest back in the day. (Comment if you think you know!) I finally have a version of Crushbone’s Revenge that has the complete story, though I need to flesh out the dialog in the final map before I can publish it. This quest is only a little smaller than Tempest in a Freepot. I was hoping to make it a LOT smaller, but the average playtime so far shows I missed the mark. Again. ...