Grog's is Back!

Well, not really, but I've posted a map for my new campaign that rips it off.  Sort of a "Grog III" except... not:

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/constellation/maps

It's really exciting to have a campaign again.  Sure, I've been running games at conventions here and there, but an ongoing campaign is a whole different flavor, with the long-term plans and the world-building and player characters that you can actually get to know.  I had forgotten what it was like.  Really, brilliantly invigorating.

Silver Bullet

A friend who's into guns sent me this.  Apparently Winchester is ready for the coming werewolf apocalypse:

http://www.winchester.com/products/catalog/cfrlist.aspx?bn=5&type=13

Sniff-Sniff

I'm at work, and yet I smell beer.

Qalidar

Finally! It's here!
http://www.perytonpublishing.com/qalidar.htm

About That 'Yaay' Post

The details I promised:

1. I was about to go eat at Fat Cats, one of my favorite restaurants, to celebrate my birthday, and some fun presents had recently arrived in the mail.
2. My vendor ID registration for Peryton Publishing went through quickly and easily. There was no reason it shouldn't have, but it was still a relief.
3. The distributor I've been talking to presented me with a contract that covers everything I wanted it to cover and I'm getting every indication that the rep will be a great guy to be in business with.
4. It looks like our fiction anthologies might be marketable through the same channels. The distributor offered a way to try this out that makes good sense and doesn't involve me gambling a bunch of money.
5. I found a way to make an attractive map for my updated Qalidar with old software, replacing the disappointing piece of crap (Dundjinni) that I bought awhile back, and not requiring me to do it by hand, which just would not have been good for anybody. Finishing this map means the book is ready to send off for a draft printing now.
   
6. Halloween, one of my favorite holidays, was coming up, and it was on a Friday night, and Tom was off work.
   

Yaaay!

This day just keeps getting better!

(details later)

Evil ACORN Conspiracy

Good article. Here's my favorite quote:

If the howlings of maddened Drudge-readers were to be believed, vicious gangs of ACORN thugs are roaming the ghettos forcing people to register to vote over and over again. And it's all part of a huge conspiracy to defraud (great white hope) John McCain and install (black Muslim terrorist) Barack Obama as president.

http://www.chrispramas.com/2008/10/feeling-political.html