Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

Monday, June 13, 2011

Time to Grow Up


I'm on a strange period these days. I see the 25s coming, and I'm trying to make some order out of my life because I'm feeling like I still have "targets" to achieve, and I don't wanna find myself thinking "fuck, I wasted my time and it won't come back." Thus, I started a diet, I go out for jogging every other day, I'm studying hard to graduate on time, and I'm generally trying to live my life at my best. Behave in a mature way, you know. On the one hand, I've always been the kind of person who takes double the time doing things for the sake of go it alone. On the other, I've also always been the kind of person who doesn't love risks, and prefers to delegate instead of failing. As you probably know, Austrodavicus have helped me during the last six months on proofreading each and every Yaqqothl post – as I've said quite a few times, it's mostly because of him if this blog have been readable and enjoyable and free of poor syntax mistakes. David is a good friend, and although we never meet on person I hold his friendship in highest consideration. These six months of intense writings without having to care too much about writing it wrong allowed me to significantly improve my english, and now I just want to see if I can make it on my own from hereon.

That means David won't proofread this blog any longer, although he offered to still proofread any other document I decide to release on the net, and this is great cause I'm still not ready for that! Anything going well, you will notice the difference, though hopefully not that much. David's effort have been invaluable, and I know I'll miss his help.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Mapper for Hire?

It happened so fast that I'm still not sure of how it happened, but looks like I've become involved in TWO big dungeon projects as mapper. That's pretty cool indeed!

The first, is Beedo's terrific Black City megadungeon, the second I'm not that sure if I can tell you what exactly it is, but trust me when I say that if the module will be half as awesome as the map, then it'll be totally crazy.

I think I'll have a full plate with these two for the next couple of months, but if everything goes well I may offer some mapper services here at the Grimoire, for wannabe adventures writers who have little experience with such things as Photoshop or Gimp. By the way, it's just pointless blah blah at the moment.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Storie di Draghi: My New Campaign Archive

Groovy

Time for another blog! No wait, calm down please, I'm just kidding!

Storie di Draghi is not really a blog, but an archive for the campaigns I'm running for my friends (actually, only one.) I really loved the experience with the Doomed Wastelands blog, but I just don't want to open a new one each time I decide to start a new campaign, so here I am. I moved toward Wordpress.com for this one because it allows better page organization (i.e. you can have parent pages, which is pretty cool) and better file hosting (i.e. the fucking PDFs.) Unfortunately, the whole site is in italian (for obvious reasons), so you'll need Google Translator to read it unless you can speak italian.

Oh, and I didn't use Obsidian Portal because it sucks so hard! Come on, cash for space? Fuck you. I would be glad to pay if they offered some really cool features (such as dungeon/wilderness design online tools), or even if they improved the graphics a bit, but as it is now it's not worth my money (and the free version makes my inner never-grown-up geek scream the hell out of me.) Don't get me wrong, I'm happy if you like it, but I don't.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Various Updates

  • I'm still working on the Birthday Party organization. There is a serious possibility that I will use Yaqqothl as the adventure base – we will see.
  • Stefan has just sent me an amazing draft of a barbarian who plunges his ax into the head of a random poor bastard! I can't wait to see the final version, and he also promised me a ghoul and at least one laser weapon (I love laser weapons.)
  • I've completed the map of my Möbius Maze of Mysteries! for the 2011 One Page Dungeon Contest. I still have 40 rooms to key, and really hope I can manage to deliver it on time (April 1st, uuuh). In any case, you are about to learn that geometry doesn't have to be non-euclidean to make your head explode.
  • LaTeX and Matlab are as good as a rectal examination (not that I've ever had a rectal examination, I just figure it wouldn't be that pleasant.)

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

One Page Dungeon Contest 2011

I'm going to participate in the One Page Dungeon Contest 2011. I will submit a wilder and weirder version of The Lair of the Wicked Witch, which some of you may remember from my old blog Game Snob. There are still a couple of things that are not very clear (for example, whether or not I'm allowed to publish previews on my blog), and I still have to pick a style, but all in all I'm definitely in. Of course I will ask Greyharp to check grammar before submitting it to the contest!

Monday, February 28, 2011

Unofficial Supplement VII Art News

Still nothing confirmed, but this evening I swapped a couple of e-mails with a really cool artist, and incidentally the author of the first roleplaying game I ever played. He is, possibly, willing to do a couple of illustrations for the interior pages of Supplement VII. I just wanted to share this information, but I'm not saying more on it until something actually happens. Instead, you get some amazing Community Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, just in case you missed it. So watch it, you fools!


Friday, February 25, 2011

The Blog That Will Put You Upside Down

ALL HAIL TO THE AUSSIE GAMER!

GIANT FUNGI EVERYWHERE!!!

Despite the fact that I'm still on a sabbatical (actually Black Sabbath-ical), I felt an urge to exalt the first attempt by my favorite Tasmanian Devil to run a blog! I've been in contact with Greyharp from months, and I have to say that he is a really kind and wonderful person, and I had a blast reading his quick biography. So do yourself a favor, and join his follower list! Also, I can't wait to read something from his actual campaign! Back to Black Sabbath-ical right now.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

A Little Break

I have worked really hard on my various projects during the last month, so I'm planning to take a break from the computer for a couple of days . I've spent really too much time burrowing on the internet and typing on the keyboard, and I need to get back to paper for a while. Be cool, and keep on rocking dice!

Monday, January 31, 2011

Side Project Addenda

The central conflict in the Yet to be Named Project will not be Chaos against Law, nor Good against Evil, but the conflict between Fairy and Weird. Dwarfs [the use of this form for the plural is intentional] and Elves will not be characterized in the usual, high fantasy cosmetic way, but in a more tolkienian and mythical way. Don't think of it as The Hobbit meets Yog-Sothothery, rather The Hobbit meets Bulgakov and Bukowski.

Also, in the Yet to be Named Project there will be no proper names – the enchanted wood will be The Enchanted Wood, and so will be the doomed swamp and the eldritch sorcerer. I will, at best, provide the elvish translations of some of the names.

And remember: the Yet to be Named Project is not a matter for publication, so I will release it here, for free. I'm really in love with this project, and the way I plan to conduct it.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Announcing the Side Project

I'm here to announce that from now on I will work on two different projects:
  • Yaqqothl: OD&D gritty science fantasy, primarily inspired by Carcosa, The Dying Earth and Zothique;
  • The Yet to be Named Project: AD&D 2e weird fantasy, primarily inspired by Palace of the Silver Princess, The Hobbit and Averoigne.
The Yet to be Named Project won't have its own blog, I will just post something here from time to time. Basically, it deals with my need to have something to stave off my impulse to put too much medieval fantasy into Yaqqothl, which is and must remain alien and unpredictable. Nevertheless, I find myself having the urge to have something classic enough and easy enough to set up games on the spur of the moment, either to gather some new players or amuse seasoned grognards.

There and Back Again

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Quick Update

Andrea aka Archmage, author of the upcoming Ventura RPG (here and there) shot me an e-mail this evening saying that he owns the italian books of C. A. S. I'm looking for and that he is willing to lend them to me! This is incredibly amazing, since the guy in question lives in Napoli and I'm in Milano (about 500km of distance). I can't say anything but THANK YOU buddy, you're totally awesome!

Love internet.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Y-Team


Gentle readers, I have some WONDERFUL NEWS!
The other day I told you that Austrodavicus was assisting this blog as "proofreader" by sending me email corrections of my poorly-spelled posts. Well, the cool news is that now Austrodavicus is officially a collaborator, with complete access to my blog! So if these posts are clear and easy to read, you know who to give credit to.
Be cool!

Il Male™
 

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