Monday, August 30, 2010

Just a few notes.

We have a new Shaman Set 31 Guide PDF available. A link is posted on the content page, with the set pre-order and You can download it from right here.

I am back to full work and the Guild cards started going out in the mail today. I will be doing a few everyday and should catch up this week.

We are getting a good number of online Guild applications every week. I am glad to hear from a lot of old friends. If you have friends who still have not signed up, Pass this link to them and get them signed up well before the next newsletter.

We are getting a good response from the Newsletter. Thank You!

Good night and Good gaming.

-- Post From My iPad

Second Familiar Place Web Comic Up.

It has now been a week since the First Familiar Place comic was announced in the Newsletter. Now there is a second issue up!
Check out the new Familiar Place Strip here.

Spread the word, send the link to anyone who might enjoy the strip. Get them interested in Susan's work and maybe they will look at DS with different eyes.

-- Post From My iPad

Monday, August 23, 2010

August Newsletter Ships!

That makes three months in a row that the newsletter has gone out. We have added a lot of people to the list and I only got three failed to deliver notices. Not bad. Looks like Mocha typed them in pretty good. If you did not get the newsletter, and should have, you should e-mail me from the address you want our mail to go to and I will make corrections.

If you are not getting the newsletter you can see copies at our newsletter pdf archive. You can also go to the Guild Site and sign up for the Guild and ask to be put on the newsletter list.

Good Night and Good Gaming.


-- Post From My iPad

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Guild Clan Roster update and 200 max

High Councilor Ann has sent in a Clan Roster Update and I posted it. You may need to refresh the page if you have looked recently. We are still discussing a fair way to do the Clan Points. Balancing is tough. We want everyone to enjoy and join the clans, we have adventure ideas for the clans.

As I work on the new card design the text area for explaining the card is now at 200 characters* and spaces maximum. The text size is increasing for reading.
*corrected!

-- Post From My iPad

Friday, August 13, 2010

Envision the Coming Storm

Envision the Storm.
It tears the land apart, rending it with malignant Powers.
Imagine the Storm filling the sky, bearing down on you.
The peasants screaming as they pour into the underground Labrynth's looking for safety.
You can make out hundreds of evil madspawn swarming in the storms maelstrom.

Then a voice speaks within your mind.
All Right Heroes, Time to Shape Shift.
We are going in.

Dragons, Unicorns, Gargoyles, Werewolves and more appear all around you.
These are your Allies.

Hell is coming your way, and it needs a good thrashing.

-- Post From My iPad



Thursday, August 12, 2010

Back from GenCon, relaxing, doing some updates.

I have completed a Gallery on the GM cards that are wandering about.
This is the link to the new GM Picture Gallery.
I have included the card type, Title, card #, and released in data as part of the title.
You will notice that I have divided up the Features into several types for easier explanations.
FEA, your standard Feature. Does not Purify, it is on there till death.
WFEA, these can be removed by Purification etc.
NEC, Necromancy spells and items.
NECP, Pylos engineered Necromancy spells. If we ever do the Brotherhood officially these will not be available. Sorry, no Madspawn Minions, draining, Toxify, or pure Warp attacks. Just the undead, my friend, just the undead.

The work on guidelines continues. We are making good progress. Some yelling, some cheering, usually about the same things. Just about what you would imagine.

VACATION. Taking one, got to clean out a brain cell or two.

I had some very interesting talks with gamers outside the convention over the weekend. It looks like we have a real opportunity to expand DS right now. What we will need is the support of our players and a cleaned up set of rules. Nothing to it...

In general GenCon was real good for us. Good art sales and Wizards Wagon was happy with the DS sales. It helps that Sam at WW has played and likes DS.

Now that we know the new standard cards are going to work out we are going to go slow and try to assemble sets with related cards. This will take some thinking, care and some new cards to fill everything out to nines and eighteens. I am actually feeling very good about this.

During the transition we will be putting up all of the cards in picture galleries and selling blank cards so you can make emergency proxies, and GM's can use the cards right off of the web.

I am behind on putting up the new card ideas and entering the new Guild members. I am very glad to see some names showing up that are new and some that have been away for a while. It should be fun.

Now, nap time calls me.

-- Post From My iPad


Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Gencon Prep and more updates

For those of you headed for Gencon Sue and I will be in the artshow somewhere. Dragon Storm will be sold at Wizard Wagon.

We have had a number of cards submitted on the Beta site. Check the July 2010 link on the left for more.
Follow this link.

You can submit your cards on line and I put it in the above list.
This is the link to the submission form.

You will also find some full sheets of cards ready to print in the Beta site. Look at both the Alpha and Beta sheet links on the left.
the main Beta site link is here.

I have gotten Picture Galleries done for all of the Card Sets out there so far.
this is the link to the Set Picture Galleries.

We are continuing to work on the Guild Guidelines. We are also working on both the Guild Guidelines and the Dragon Storm rules in general. I have written up an internal set of rules changes we would like to see to make the Guild and the Game run under the same rules. For the moment Sue and I are discussing the changes with a few people and we will be making an announcement a couple/three weeks after GenCon. We must be careful with what we do. Much is just codifying general practices while others are shifts to accommodate the developments Sue has added to the game over the last 14 years.
This is the Link to the New Guild Site. Keep an eye on it, sign up, join in the coming fun!

-- Post From My iPad