Went to Dragonmeet last week, my first RPG convention for 30 years.
Had a really good time and it was great to meet up with fellow authors Stephen Deas, Dave Devereaux and Johnny Nexus.
Everyone very welcoming and a few people asked me to sign copies of The Elfish Gene, which was nice. Stephen had a cuddly dragon in front of him. I must try to get a cuddly, or not so cuddly, werewolf. It has occured to me to get a werewolf head (should that be wolf head) to wear to world horror in Brighton. Shall I? Hmmmm….
Played ‘Hot War‘
This was a post-apocalyptic game with an interesting system that lets the winner of an encounter narrate the rest of the stoy. Good fun but relies on adult attitude to avoid complete carnage. GM only needs one good win to kill everyone in the party.
Geekiest comment of the day was over my D20 T shirt. ‘I notice the 7 is rather too close to the 14′. 10/10 geeking there. Also 10/10 for the bloke asking the authors what typeface and paperstock was used in their books. IDFK, are the initials of my response. To be fair, I think he might have been thinking of self-publishing so wsa looking for advice.
Gaming world is an interesting place. It strangely seems to give you more kudos if you’ve published something yourself. This is the indie ethic. In mainstream publishing it’s generally assumed that self published stuff isn’t very good. I found with some D&Ders and other RPGers that almost the opposite is true.
Finally broken the deadlock on Wolfsangel sequel. I’m writing it as a thriller so I needed to keep the tension up despite disparate groups of characters wandering around a vast landscape. Weird that, as soon as I’d thought of the solution, it all seemed so easy and obvious. That’s a good sign, I think. You don’t want something that makes the reader go ‘eh?’. Well, not in a bad way, anyway.
Heard great ‘head of Vecna story’ at Dragonmeet.
Read it here, it’s very funny.
Looking at ways to increase blog visibility at the moment, so if you know of any let me know. That is, assuming you’ve found the page in the first place.
TTFN.
M