Here's a bit of good news. I have recently begun work on Adventures in Oz: Beyond the Deadly Desert. You know, that supplement that I've been meaning to work on for about a year and a half.
What's been keeping me? A number of excuses, really. But the big one I like to point at is the fact that my old laptop died. Well, its floppy drive died. And that was the only way to get information off of it. That left me with only one desktop computer to share with my wife and not enough time to squeeze in everything I wanted to do. Enough to keep up the blog, but not enough to get any serious writing done.
So in the aftermath of the wedding, we got a nice little infusion of gifts and money. Enough to get a little something that I had wanted for quite some time. A cute little netbook. Enough computer to get me writing again, but not enough computer to distract me with MMOs. And I do loves me some D&D Online.
Also, you will notice that the blog is growing a few tabs. This is because I've gotten enough digs at my old site with my lack of HTML skills and poor updating habits. So I'm going to try to flesh out this blog into an actual site and have www.adventuresinoz-rpg.com redirect straight here. Let me know if you have any tips or suggestions for this process or any content you want to make sure is included.
If you caught the blog a few days ago, you'll know that I got a couple of local shops to carry a copy of AiO. Not long after that, I got a notice from Lulu that they had completed the process of converting my book into an ePub and placing it on Apple's iBookstore. Although I had mostly given up on CreateSpace (their file review process is finicky and at least a little inconsistent), I finally got them to accept the files for AiO there. I've ordered a proof copy and it should show up sometime in the next week. If it passes muster (I have reservations on that front), Amazon.com customers will be able to buy Adventures in Oz: Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond the Yellow Brick Road from that site.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the poll off on the right. It's helping me get a view on my readership. The majority (4 out of 11 responses) of you seem to have gotten the game from Lulu. This could be because it's where the link on my homepage sends you, or the fact that it's been up there the longest. There are two of you who have not purchased the game yet. I hope you guys are finding value in the blog, even if you don't own a copy. And as for the guys who voted "other", I'm curious where you picked it up if not from an official outlet. If you're pirates, it's clear that you were impressed enough with the game to track down the blog, so I'll take that as a compliment. If you picked up the physical book on the used rack at your local gamestore, I'm just a little curious as to where this store is. Maybe they'd like a few copies to put on their regular shelves.
I'll try to have a new poll up by next week, giving me a better picture of my fanbase. Thanks for participating in this one.
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We had once discussed including several of my book characters in your game. You seemed to think that when you worked on the supplement that this would be a good place for them. Are you still interested in Magician of Oz characters? I think Shadow Demon would provide a good evil and Family of Oz would also work quite well for some unique characters, including Cobbler the Dog..
Has not left my mind, James.
I was one of the ones who chose Other, simply for the fact that I got my .pdfs from Paizo first and my physical copy from Lulu the week after.
Loved it so much that I've spoken to some Podcasting friends of mine (who do Atomic Array amongst others) about it and they seem pretty excited by the game. :)
So you're the guy who pimped me to the Atomic Array. They have gotten in touch with me, but we haven't nailed down a recording time yet.
Yep, that was me. :)
Good to see there'll be a future AA with AiO on it. :D
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