Between work and other life demands, this year is going by so quickly. I aimed for a weekly posting this year, but I haven't been able to maintain that with any regularity so far. In fact, I completely missed the month of July so consider this post a bit of catch up around here.
I finished reading The Forgetting Moon by Brian Lee Durfee yesterday. I really enjoyed this epic fantasy novel. I took a chance on this previously unread author just from his YouTube videos. I'm ordering the next two books in the series and will continue reading. This brings my total reading for 2024 up to five out of a goal of eight, so I still have plenty of time to reach my goal.
I started reading Night Shift by Stephen King. It wasn't on my planned reading list for this year, but I bought it when I saw at the bookstore. There were two main reasons for purchasing and reading this book now. First, 'Salem's Lot if probably my favorite King tale and this book has two stories related to it - one being a prequel and one being a sequel. Second, this book is a collection of short stories, and I believe it is an underappreciated storytelling form.
I still owe several posts about the Cha'alt trilogy from the kickstarter. I went all in, and I've found the books interesting and entertaining. I just need to make time to post about them. I also picked up the Dragonbane boxed set, Bestiary, and some accessories. I really dig this game, and it has served as inspiration on some of my own stuff.
I have a few creative projects underway as well. I've assembled some guidelines for alternate layout system for detailing characters and monsters in many of the old school style games. It's not really hard rules but just some statistics and guidelines for use in a generic sort of way rather than tied to a specific game system. Yes, it's been done by others several - many? - times before but it's just something I wanted to experiment with and see what developed. I'm also assembling all of my house rules and world information into my own old school style supplement. Of course, there is no hard and fast timeline for this, but it will show up sometime.
