I’ve been spending some time on a new forum set up at WorldsofDnD.com. There’s not too much traffic yet, but a good number of Wizards novelists stop by to post. If you’re interested in discussing Dungeons & Dragons novels with other fans and asking questions of some of your favorite authors, stop by to give it a look.
Currency Matters
My friends at Guardians of Order (publishers of The Authority RPG, of which I wrote the player’s chapter for them) just announced that they had a rotten 2004, mostly due to the plummeting value of the American dollar versus their Canadian version. Because of this, they’re asking people for help by purchasing some of their excellent games now. If you …
Happy New Year!
Whew! We’re only five days into 2005, and it already seems like it’s flying by. I managed to complete the outlines for my next four novels (which is staggering to think about), and now I’m waiting to hear back from Wizards about the outline for my next Eberron book so I can get to actually writing it. I’m looking forward …
LA Bound
Up until a week or so ago, I didn’t have any plans to make it to Gen Con So Cal, despite the wonderful time I had there last year. Then I got a call from a company that wants to fly me out to LA for part of that week for a meeting. I arrive November 30 and depart December …
Comments Working
I built Forbeck.com around Movable Type, a great blogging and content management tool. Like many bloggers, however, spambots inundated my pages with comment spam. I recently upgraded to Movable Type 3.1 so I could implement its new antispam tools. This includes a commenter registration service designed to put a stop to spambots and the like. I had a few issues …
No Comments
I’ve been getting a ton of spam in the comments sections on this site, so I upgraded to the latest version of Movable Type. It works great at stopping the spam, but it also breaks some of the custom templates I generated for use with the last version of the program. As such, I’ve shut comments off for now. I …
Xbox in the House
As a reward for finishing up the second draft of Marked for Death, the first in my Eberron trilogy, I went out and bought myself an Xbox. Since I left Human Head, I no longer have a PC on which to play games—one of the great benefits of that job. I’m a happy Mac user, but the fact is that …
Novels Rolling Along
I’m getting back into the freelance swing of things again. I polished off the final draft of Marked for Death, the first in my Eberron trilogy, due out in March of 2005. Then I realized I’d made a big goof, and I had to fix that. (“That one-handed character is hanging from the edge of an airship while holding up …
Hungry Little Monsters Due in November
According to the website of the newly minted Sean K. Reynolds Games, Hungry Little Monsters is due as a PDF release in November. HLM is a charity jam book Sean developed, much in the vein of the Swords into Plowshares book he produced last year. Proceeds go to benefit FoodforAll.org, which is dedicated to feeding needy people. The book features …
National Games Week
Mark Simmons, the man behind the Games Quarterly Catalog and Games Quarterly Magazine, has launched a brilliant new idea: National Games Week. It’s to be held the week of November 21 through 27, right through Thanksgiving. It’s the perfect time to break out a game to play with those relatives you barely ever see. You can find out more at …