General Status Report

Polaris is selling like Gangbusters. I've got Matt Snyder, my layout guy as well as the designer of my present favorite campaign-length RPG (Nine Worlds), on making some great downloadables for the game, and in the process of a mad rewrite of the website. The Diamond in the Sky edition, which represents a substantial rewrite of the text, is still a ways off, but I'm plodding slowly towards it.

Bliss Stage is full of awesome. Emily got some mad playtesting done with her (non-gamer) roomies, and other sources are giving me very good feedback, but mostly positive. A recent RPGnet thread gave a lot of attention to the game. Andy is hooking me up with some sweet artist sugar. My only regret is that I'm not playing the fuck out of the game right now.

Drifter's Escape is due for a serious re-write and playtesting, but I'm holding off until I see my bro in December.

On the Ecology and Behaviour of the Common Mud Dragon is awaiting Ron's Englighted Judgement.

Maps may have been made obsolete by The Dragon Killer but work continues nonetheless. See next post.

Want, 百花 and Tactics are strictly back-burnered, but definitely simmering. I'm looking up costs for producing a 百花 prototype pretty soon.

The Essay is stalled. I've reached the end of what I talked about in Finland and, frankly, I don't know what else I really want to say.