Ongoing DF games?

A while back, I had a page with a list of ongoing GURPS Dungeon Fantasy games that had summaries I could link to.

I haven't updated it in a long time. And I know there must be other DF games besides some that I know about - and I'd like to make a new list and have it reasonably current for 10/2021.

If you have, or know of, an ongoing DF or DFRPG game that has summaries I can link to, especially if it's on a blog, let me know in the comments. I'll make a new page out of that and try to keep it reasonably up to date!

Writing Update

I'm busily not writing my next writing project.

I'm actually kind of stuck.

I know what I want to say, and how to say it, but not quite how to organize it.

So I keep noodling around, writing words I will need to delete or recycle into something else . . .

It's honestly the biggest issue I have with game writing sometimes. I have useful things to say and rules to share but not a good way to organize them in a useful, usable way. I know I can get it done, but it's a struggle sometimes getting it down productively.

Still, I have a few days to finish, and I will. I don't miss deadlines. Still . . . not sure when the dam will burst and the words will flow out into a beautiful product. Hopefully tomorrow so I have free time the rest of the week.

As a bonus, here is a circular reference coming - Grognardia talking the Adventure Log, and I threw my article on the topic in the comments.

Jon Peterson on Polygon on his new book

I saw this on Polygon, because the secret internet masters know what to show me to read while I'm waiting for no-gi class to start:

History of Dungeons & Dragons chronicles the battle between Arneson and Gygax

I'll buy the book when it comes out, as sad as it will be to read it. Gygax vs. Arneson and the Satanic Panic . . . the latter was tough to live through.

In memory of Terry K. Amthor

Terry K. Amthor wrote "Cloudlords of Tanara," one of my favorite settings, bar none. I've never run it as written, but if we still played Rolemaster I would certainly do so.

He passed away on September 25th, 2021

Terry wrote one of my favorite gaming supplements - the Cloudlords of Tanara.

His wiki entry.

The announcement on ICE.

Thanks Terry, for the Cloudlords, the Yinka, the mysterious Duranaaki, the rosters of troops, the details of the sandbox, and everything. You set a bar for settings I rarely found matched outside of Twilight: 2000 materials.

I'm sorry he's gone but glad he was here.

Next Felltower/Cold Fens - scheduled

Quick note today, as I spend it otherwise on the Thieves playtest, writing a short project for SJG, and non-gaming stuff:

Next game is 10/17, and we'll wrap up the Sakatha Cold Fens arc then. Either by TPK or by victory. I still bet victory - the PCs are close, so close they could have won it the initial session, but hit a creativity brick wall last time and spend it triple-checking dead-ends to try and find a way to victory. Hopefully someone will have an epiphany, or barring that a plan to systematically go through ways to defeat Sakatha, and we'll wrap it up.

Otherwise some green 250s will have to take on Felltower! It's been left fallow for a while, what might have moved in?

We'll find out the first on 10/17 and the second a few weeks after.

Pirates of Treasure Island minis

File this under "want" and "but have no reason in hell to spend money on."

I mean, not even if I bust out Yaquinto's "Pirates & Plunder" set to play again. I have more than enough painted pirates.

But man this looks excellent:

$127.50 on sale. Not bad at all for 35 minis including a cannon and accessories.

But yeah, even if I had the time and inclination to paint them, I don't need more pirates.

Maybe.

Probably.

Hmm . . .

Friday Links - 10/1/21

Here are things I thought worth reading this week:

- I don't think I ever heard of Lee Gold's "Lands of Adventure"

- I love writeups involving squaring the circle of D&D magic + wargaming. And the inevitable "realistic" discussion that follows. Anyway, Mass Combat and magic are a fun mix.

- Not a link, but next probable Cold Fens/Felltower session is 10/17.

- I approve of Ork-tober.