https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/shannonappelcline.xml It's just a feed for now Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:00:25 GMT feedland v0.5.59 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:00:25 GMT shannonappelcline Fri, November 24, 2023 2:00 PM EST <p>Since April 2020 I&#39;ve been spending about 20 hours/week on creative projects, mostly roleplaying history. I&#39;ve got three big projects in process: This is Free Trader Beowulf; Designers &amp; Dragons Origins; and Designers &amp; Dragons Lost Histories. Here&#39;s how they&#39;re going ... </p> <p>THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF (95%). I submitted my Traveller history to Mongoose last month. This month I got the initial edits back and am checking over them and making a few last tweaks while I have control of the manuscript.</p> <p>DESIGNERS &amp; DRAGONS ORIGINS (85%). Many years ago I wrote hundreds of product histories for DnDClassics covering most of TSR&#39;s products from the 70s to somewhere into the 90s. I&#39;m consolidating my OD&amp;D, AD&amp;D 1e, and BD&amp;D material into a set of four books.</p> <p>I finished second drafts of this four-book series last month and this month am working through all comments to date. I hope to have more comments next month and then to close up the draft content by the end of the year. After which, there&#39;s editing.<br>DESIGNERS &amp; DRAGONS: THE LOST HISTORIES (60%). I&#39;ve been writing new company histories from the 70s through the 10s. I have 300k words so far, and am planning for 3 books totalling 360k+ words. This month my history is on Ral Partha, my third minis history in the new books.</p> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:00:25 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=204133 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=204133 Since April 2020 I've been spending about 20 hours/week on creative projects, mostly roleplaying history. I've got three big projects in process: This is Free Trader Beowulf; Designers & Dragons Origins; and Designers & Dragons Lost Histories. Here's how they're going ... THIS IS FREE TRADER BEOWULF (95%). I submitted my Traveller history to Mongoose last month. This month I got the initial edits back and am checking over them and making a few last tweaks while I have control of the manuscript. DESIGNERS & DRAGONS ORIGINS (85%). Many years ago I wrote hundreds of product histories for DnDClassics covering most of TSR's products from the 70s to somewhere into the 90s. I'm consolidating my OD&D, AD&D 1e, and BD&D material into a set of four books. I finished second drafts of this four-book series last month and this month am working through all comments to date. I hope to have more comments next month and then to close up the draft content by the end of the year. After which, there's editing. DESIGNERS & DRAGONS: THE LOST HISTORIES (60%). I've been writing new company histories from the 70s through the 10s. I have 300k words so far, and am planning for 3 books totalling 360k+ words. This month my history is on Ral Partha, my third minis history in the new books.