Back on Track
My very hectic semester ended on 18 December, and after a hiatus to basically paly Half-Life games, I'm back to work on the Emerald Press product. Technically, I think I've been back to work since my semester ended, but I've only just stated actually working on it. I've been talking to Todd at Emerald Press about the title and possible supplemental material, reworking the projected offering to fit better with EP's 2008 business plan.
As for LPJ, I wrote Louis when I finished my semester, and haven't heard back. The project in question was put in indefinite hiatus in lieu of D&D 4e, so that may have something to do with it. I'm not really sure what's going on there, and I should probably write him again and figure out what's going on.
However, I do have a contract with EP, and not with LPJ, which makes the EP project a higher priority. In addition, the fact that the EP project is d20 Modern, and the LPJ project is for D&D means that the former won't be as affected (I hope) by 4e as the latter, so it's understandable for EP to be more interested in finishing the project in question than LPJ.
It feels good to be back to work again on some d20 stuff, even though I haven't run any d20 in well over a year (in fact, sometime in July it'll be two years if I don't run something before then). There was a momentary flirtation with running some Star Wars d20, but I think it's pretty safe to say that urge is dead.
EP is also going to be giving me some actual deadlines for this project, which is fine by me, as I work much better with deadlines in mind, as I outline on my blogspot here. We'll see how that goes, and hopefully I'll have more to say here in the comming weeks.
As for LPJ, I wrote Louis when I finished my semester, and haven't heard back. The project in question was put in indefinite hiatus in lieu of D&D 4e, so that may have something to do with it. I'm not really sure what's going on there, and I should probably write him again and figure out what's going on.
However, I do have a contract with EP, and not with LPJ, which makes the EP project a higher priority. In addition, the fact that the EP project is d20 Modern, and the LPJ project is for D&D means that the former won't be as affected (I hope) by 4e as the latter, so it's understandable for EP to be more interested in finishing the project in question than LPJ.
It feels good to be back to work again on some d20 stuff, even though I haven't run any d20 in well over a year (in fact, sometime in July it'll be two years if I don't run something before then). There was a momentary flirtation with running some Star Wars d20, but I think it's pretty safe to say that urge is dead.
EP is also going to be giving me some actual deadlines for this project, which is fine by me, as I work much better with deadlines in mind, as I outline on my blogspot here. We'll see how that goes, and hopefully I'll have more to say here in the comming weeks.