Origins game submission deadline is upon us!

We are going to need all of the support we can get from our GM's to create our best Origins results.

We need games in the book and the deadline for GM submissions is upon us. It is March first.

So, if you want to help us at the con, and you are a GM, get over there and sign up to run a DS game.

For the rest of you, we need ambassadors to spread out at the con and get as many people as possible back to our booth to try a demo game of DS. This year we have a demo booth in the retail area and we will be running demos all day long.

If you want to volunteer to run a demo or two over the weekend, get in touch with Tim Kennard and let him know so he can keep track of what is happening at the demo booth.

Also in the news.
Sue has returned home, but the recovery will be slow. If you can help increase the value of our conventions this summer, that would help a lot!

Thanks, Mark.

Health Report

By now many of you know that Susan was admitted to the hospital last Sunday. She was having seizures and was non-responsive for about 12 hours. At that point she began to respond to treatments and slowly improved throughout the week. Late Thursday she came home.

They have not determined the cause, but we are all optimistic. For the time being she is being kept in semi-isolation as the search for the cause continues. She will be reaching out to people as she is capable to do so. It has been an "interesting" adventure so far.

I expect a complete recovery, but it may be slow going.

I also want to thank all of you out there for your support, prayers, and well wishes. They really do help.

We are going to have to ask you folks for more help at the conventions so we can keep the support flowing. I will talk more about that shortly.

Mark

Making Progress

Just a quick update. Sue is improving, but it looks like this is going to take some time.
Mark

A bump in the road

Everything here has come to a halt. Susan is currently in the hospital, so I am dropping everything to help her.

Mark

At OhayoCon

It has been a great con! Thank You!

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The problem of a fertile imagination

We have just a single set of the old tattoos, and Sue has it with her at the Con (Epic Confusion). So, I am here remaking them to fit the new 2.0 way, which is a magic item needs to be playable without having to lay your hands on a spell card to make it work.

The tattoos are pretty straight forward and convert by shortening the text to fit in the box, but they work the same.

The tricky one is the Mark of the Shadows. The user is sliding into the shadows between the physical and spirit worlds and using it to see into both the physical world and into the spirit world, yet they are in neither, so they can not effect either, or be effected by either. It makes this tattoo into a way to survey enemy camps, bases or rooms, or to gather information. This is different than the classic spell, but I can fit it on a card. GM's will need to use 3.14 to make specific calls that will come up when the card is used, but that is what we have GM's for.

Are these shadows a nice safe place? Well, what happened to those who failed to get back out? Plus I know there is at least one monster in there with you. Their are also totally alien native shadow creatures in there. Wherever there is a space, something uses it. It may not turn out as slick and safe as you want. For the time being we are going to let the GM populate the shadows with creatures from their imaginations, just be aware, we will be adding some "stuff" in the distant future.

I have no idea what I could write on a card to help the GM, and the player, understand that chaos can strike anywhere.

Try this:
When someone enters Shadow Walk, by tattoo or spell, have them run into a crying man sitting on the floor. He watched his wife and family grow old and die, he watched his children, grandchildren and more, live and die. He watched the vast majority of the world die in the storms and wars after Deathday. He is mad, he wants just one thing, and that is to get out of the shadows so he can die too.

This should give the player an idea that all is not well in the shadows. I do not have a solution to the mans problem, but if a player comes up with a good, creative idea, let them get lucky and succeed. In my games good role-playing trumps dice rolls.

Conventions and Dragon Storm Con 2012

We have been getting questions about the dates for Dragon Storm Con 2012. We have them. July 20th to 22nd, 2012.

Link to Dragon Storm Con Page, with, of course, Membership information.

We also have the 2012 Con schedule up and posted. There will be, as usual, additions to the list.

Here is the Link to our Con page.