The multiple games in the same setting was too demanding considering I was supposed to be doing college work, so I reeled it back to the basics - just one game running at once, just a handful of players. I did, however, still really like the characters and the setting that we'd formed for the game, and I wanted to continue the story of the tabletop game, but on a smaller scale. Last time I did a little nostalgia piece I was talking about the old World of Darkness and how we all got very into playing Vampire and Mage, and then I had a bit of a falling out with White Wolf, mostly due to the way my wife and I were treated by the nasty minority in The Camarilla. Let's hope 2013 is a better one, for everyone. It has become a very personal project for me, and I just hope that when you do finally see it, that it is everything I hoped and dreamed it would be. With the novel already done (probably needing a rewrite/edit) there's already a bonus incentive, and then there's the cards to work on. I hope to Kickstart it, but I want the game to be actually finished before I try to do that - that way, there won't be the traditional 6-12 month wait between paying for a game and for it to actually come through the letterbox. Hopefully, WILD will be closer to publication next year. Sure WILD can be used to play action, and violence, but I hope the game will be something more. The world is harsh enough without games of death and destruction. And hopefully, the game will be all I hope it will be - a game of dreams, where you can explore the mind, the unconscious, to visit impossible realms, to do the amazing and not just kill your way through bad guys. WILD seems to be the place for me to put my sadness, frustrations and setbacks aside.
The supplements for Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space started seeing print, the amazing Defending the Earth (UNIT sourcebook) is now in hardcopy as well as PDF, and the Time Traveller's Companion has just launched as PDF with a print version in the new year.Īnd I successfully finished my NaNoWriMo novel that set the scene for the WILD RPG. The three supplements for the game were successfully backed and two out of the three are already in glorious shiny hardcover form. The rest of the year was taken up with recovering a little, and the day-job in retail as it built up to Christmas and the usual madness that entails.Ĭonspiracy X 2.0 returned to life thanks to Kickstarter. My summer was dominated with taking every opportunity to travel back to my hometown to visit mum in hospital, and then in the care home where she was placed, but she never really recovered from that night, and she died early in August. While she was being rushed into hospital, my phone was turned off and I was miles away, unaware of what was happening.
An amazing opportunity, and a fantastic couple of days (see the full post here).īut even then, the universe wanted to keep me down, with my mother being taken ill the very evening of the Avengers press screening. I managed to get myself a little writing job covering the release of Marvel's "The Avengers" (or "Avengers Assembled" as it was called in the UK) for Forces of Geek, heading to London to see an advance screening of the film, and then attending the UK Press Conference, being in the same room as Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, etc.
While the original series of Unlocked went down well and was screened at GenCon Indy 2011, things kinda fell apart and I found myself alone (with the wife and cat) and at a particularly low state. I'd had the thought that producing comedy was the way to go, writing something funny that everyone could enjoy. I was in between writing jobs - a situation I'd put myself in by turning down writing opportunities for the last year while I worked on the Unlocked webseries with my former video production partners, Cheesemint. So what has happened this year when it comes to my writing? However, this year was so bad that I haven't bothered doing a newsletter - it would have been so depressing and miserable that it would have been a miserable read and not what people would want to read at what is traditionally a cheery time of the year. I didn't do one last year, mostly as no one was really reading my blog (is anyone actually reading it now?) but I did a similar thing with one of those legendary "family newsletters" that I used to put in Christmas cards to everyone. Last blog post of the year, and traditionally a lot of bloggers and publishers produce a "State of the Nation" speech, a summary of the ups and downs of the year.