Dragon Storm RPG Friday News

Later today we will be heading down to the Penguicon convention. Should be fun.

Item Set 401 is now available in the items section of the Market Place. There is also a link to the sets web page with the listing. The Pre-Orders have shipped.

That brings us down to two Item sets still on the Pre-Order page. Sets 402 and 403. Magic Items. We are focused on the item sets for the moment because they work for both Classic and Second edition.

The Pre-orders we are getting are extremely helpful in keeping the cash flow regulated. Thank You! More people placing Pre-Orders would be very good.

I have been fighting off the allergy attacks sent at me by the necromancers. Those pesky enemies have discovered a way of slowing my work to a crawl. It is keeping me away from the hours sitting at the computer. However, it has caused the mind to meander, and you can see the result on my daily blog. I posted two longish meandering talks on the blog this week.

Good Night and Good Gaming!

 

Thursday Dragon Storm Update. More happening!

Susan sent me tha last piece of art for the Lifeline Set. I made the PDF, individual pics, wrote web comments, guideline and the card text file. Now you can go to the page and find out all about it.

She also sent me the last card for the Valarian Set, Two Dragon Sets. I will try to get one done per day for the next few days.

I started a page for posting the Classic Deluxe cards in PDF's for those looking for them. We have so many links on the Downloads page it easy to miss the additions. So here is the start of the Classic page. If you have specific needs, let me know and I will put that on the top of the list.

For those who missed it, we have started taking Pre-Orders for the newest Magic Item set. It is #403. These were previously published as the NFS items. What to do with a price of NFS caused a lot of confusion, so we put a price on them. I doubt that anyone who has one will sell it, but they do know what it is worth.

I have spent a good deal of time this week working out a way with local shops a new way of publishing small numbers of cards. That means we will be able to do slower selling sets on nearly an on demand system. It will also allow us to create a system for buying individual cards for $1.00 each. With Second Edition I am laying out the card files in a way that we will be able to get our hands on the cards and make you a set of nine cards for $9.00. You will be able to pick the cards you want in the set. The Classic files are not set up to do this, so we will not be able to go back and do those, sorry.

Good Gaming and Good Night!

 

 

Monday Dragon Storm News and Round Up

It has been a very interesting week around here, so let us take a look.

We finished the web page for Magic Item Set 403. Powerful items that were in limited supply as NFS items. I then promptly posted the set for Pre-Orders. You can get to the page here. I am glad to say that at least one person found the link last night when I posted in to Twitter.

I posted the web page for the Universal Set 302. I am not in a big hurry to rush these to the printer. Since the old cards work for Classic and Second Edition and there is still a supply of DS and Kanchaka Universals around, why hurry?

I also posted the web page for the Universal Set 303. Like the previous set, while we still have the DS and Kanchaka Boosters, there is no hurry.

The Weekly Familiar Place web comic installment has been posted.

I am happy to mention that we are still getting player card submissions. You can check them out here. If you want your ideas to be read by us and other players, you can go here and submit your card idea.

We had a good show on saturday at the Flint Comix Con. It was held downtown Flint and was fun, we even got to teach a few people about DS.

That is it for today, Good Luck and Good Gaming.

 

A Little Slow in Posting Updates

I will be getting on track for updates next week. It has been a very full week here, but not much to direct you to.

I posted the web page for Set 301, Channel 01. It includes the Guidelines, notes, sheet PDF, but no individual pics yet. The art is almost done, Sue has sent me two of the three pieces and just one to go. When I get the rest of the art I will post pics and replace the PDF.

We will be assembling and prepping a number of sets for second edition, as we get them done I will post them for proxy use. As fast as the old cash flow allows we will send them off to the printer for the actual cards.

The taxes are almost finished, and once that is behind me I can get more sets worked on.

Sue has also sent me the Second Edition rules to go through and begin layout work on. As with everything, this will take a longer time than I would like. My first time through took about twelve hours. I thought I would be able to do the whole thing in a day or two. The truth is it will be a week or two to get through it all. sigh, that life for you.

I can say it looks really good. Once I get through it I will be doing a full FAQ on Classic to Second Edition card usage. We have identified one Classic card that breaks Second Edition, several that will need to be used thoughtfully, and that is about it. Common Sense will have to be applied to Classic cards to determine if they are an Enhancement or use a "thing", but that is something you and your GM can judge in seconds, especially since the GM is always right in DS.

The Enhancement test is: Does the card stand on its own, or must it be played in combination with another card to work? If it stands alone it requires a "thing" to use it. An example is Good Moves. It stands alone, it costs a "thing" to play it. Those that can not stand alone, like Dragon Claws, are Enhancements and do not cost a "thing" to play.

The banned card is Make it Independent. It absolutely screws up what we want to do with making big "Ka-Boom" cards for high CP characters and Cast.

Thoughtful cards I am not ready to go into yet. You will have to be patient.

This also means that we can slowly release the Second Edition cards over time. By now everyone knows that the original DS and Kanchaka cards are dwindling and we can not reprint them, so we need new cards to sell. We believe we have a 1 to 2 year supply of the older cards, therefore we have 1 to 2 years to get Second Edition fully operational.

And one more note on the rules. +WIS bonus does not have a ceiling, but you can only add it once to a single contest roll. The add only once applies to all Stats.

Now, back to work.

 

Wednesday Dragon Storm Update.

Prepping for FCN, taxes and a gut disagreement are slowing things down, but we do have a few new things since Monday.

Started getting the finals done on some of the GM cards. Set 600, GM Storm creation cards, has its own web page, PDF, Guideline and more. I better do the Channel set next, players need some anti-storm weapons at hand.

In this set you can see the Dragon Storm way being expanded. Like characters and cast the storms can now be assembled and role-played by creative GM's. Plus, you have more playable Storm information than ever before.

I just talked to the Printer and Set 401 DS, magic potions will be hitting the press in the next few days. That means we have 10-14? days before it arrives here and the Pre-Order deal drops and it goes to individual sales. You can see the Pre-Order page here. I also increased the initial order, thanks for the Pre-Orders, they really help.

I asked players for Feature ideas, and I am happy to say we have gotten some excellent ideas. I have been posting them on a regular basis, go look. I am focused on the Features at the moment, but all sorts of ideas can go in the hopper. If you want your thoughts on cards available for Sue and I to pick over, you should submit them.

It is also time for me to remind everyone that Dragon Storm Con is July 22nd to 24th. You really should go check it out and sign up. If you want the special Con cards, but you can not attend, get a supporting membership and get the cards. I am not sure how we will make these available later, but we will find a way. We are not going to make them exclusive, but they will not be easy to get either.

If you missed it, we posted the Second Edition Starter/Demo Human Dragon Character. Scroll down and you will find a basic character generation and rules you need sheet you can give to new people. This is the Link.

I have been posting links to new DS sheets and works in my twitter feed. You can see it to the left on the blog page. If you have a twitter account I should be watching, let me know about it.

Monday Dragon Storm Updates

I have gotten less done than usual today. My gut and I are having a disagreement, so I am taking it easy. Luckily I have the Tuesday and Thursday games set already and since we will be at a Con this weekend I will not need to prep a Saturday game. It does mean this will be a slow week.

I got the latest player submitted cards up on the beta blog. Good stuff! You should look at them.

The Monday Familiar Place web comic has been posted.

I spent the day doing mechanical tasks, catching up the second edition card list. I will be posting the initial list in the next couple of weeks. It is the list of the cards that have made it far enough through the creation, play, edit, re-edit and finalize stages.

I have also started sorting tax papers. *sigh*

Sunday Morning DS Round Up

What has happened this week? First of all I have discovered why I am not getting full webpages up for the new DS card sets. It takes at least full days work to get each page ready to go. So that is just about all I have gotten done in the past week.

I moved the links to the newest web pages for sets to the top of the Downloads page. This is the link to the page.

The starting/demo character has pictures of all of the cards with notes by each. When you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will find the set PDF's for download.

I have also included a shortened Character Creation and Rules you need for new players. It prints out as a single page. I put this up in an RTF format so our Warden GM's can either print out a couple for reference, or modify it to suit your needs.

Sue created a new Character sheet layout based on the rules she is writing. She provided an example and I laid it out. When done I created a PDF of the Character sheet and put a link to it on the Starting Character web page. If you are looking for a good long/detailed character sheet there are a number of people who have created them. Glenn put one on the Dragon Storm Group on Facebook.

Each of the card sets also include a simplified Guideline RTF. I did them this way so that it would be easy for me to update the Guides to cover new questions as they come up. In some places I have even made reference to some of the changes that affect Classic cards. I really can't get too deep into that until Sue finishes the new rules.

On some of the sets I have added an experiment. There is a buy button for the PDF's. Let's see how that works.

You may have noted that I am doing updates on Twitter, and Facebook, as I complete tasks. Both are quick to do, so I am. If you need the Twitter or Facebook links, check on our links page.

I asked for Feature ideas earlier in the week and players responded, Thank You! These are the ones I got up. There are a couple more good ones I need to post, and you should see them Wednesday.

Now, links to the new set pages:

Card Set 100. Human Dragon Starter/Demo. Lot of info here.

Card Set 102. The rest of the Dragon Characters. We now have ten races. Yes, this process will be repeated for each shifter race.

Card Set 200. The first Dragon Abilities sheet. It looks like we have four total Dragon sets on the way through the pipes. The fifth set is partial.

Card Set 400. Magic Rings. Now in the Market for ordering. The new versions do not need another card with them to work. They now stand on there own.

Card Set 401. Magic Potions. We are going to be doing a lot more with items as we go along. This is the first potion set. You can pre-order these, they are in the market.

Card Set 402. Magic Items. Nine all new items. Not as powerful as the old NFS items, but good stuff. You can pre-order these in the market.

Over the next couple of weeks, we have a convention and taxes to deal with. That means getting more than a day or two for DS is going to be tough, but keep an eye on the twitter and here for updates.