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So this has been a very busy time. There is an entire bucketful of things coming down the pipe. Not all of this is directly related to Modern. Therefore, I have opted to not include this entry as solely a development journal for Modern.

There have been some discussions within the Ironwood family discussing some production elements. Digital Pen n Paper has been a big topic of conversation lately. I have had no less then three meetings concerning this, one being a lengthy discussion with our programming team. The meetings have added to my project lists as Matt, our lead programmer, has requested some revisions to the design document. Being as this is a smaller document than modern and requires less resources I have switched gears temporarily to provide the revisions. Those, however, are all but done. With some luck, Matt should have his information by the end of the weekend.

I have also had some talks with James concerning developments of his second adventure, a sequel to Prophecy. This story is shaping up nicely. I am drooling at the prospect of getting this onto my gaming table. The first adventure was a huge hit with my personal gaming group. The new plot developments happening now will take the story even further. The return of some key characters is also exciting. I can’t give away any details, but this is going to be something great!

I also got some play time on Willie’s new campaign. Though I may have some bias as this is another Ironwood project, I have to say that our first game session has got me clamoring for more. Its a shame though that my impending trip to Philly will have to put the campaign on pause for a bit. Its like having to watch the first episode of a great TV. series only to find out it was a season finally and you have to wait a few months to see the next one. Hopefully the wait wont be that long.

Then there are some personal sidetracks. I have had a lot of small fires burning here and there. While digging into some info for modern I stumbled into something that turned one of those small fires into a blazing inferno. So I went back to it, crammed in two night’s work, just about finished it, and put the fire out. This is actually a small collection of creatures. It will be released as a free download for the basic information (descriptions and stats) but I am also leaning towards releasing a larger version with more meta information, artwork, etc. for officially release as a mini-supplement. My long standing commitment to not create a creature book is the only thing in my way. You see, I don’t want to sell something that to me is something that the end user can create to their liking. I hate Monster Books. I would much rather release small downloads of creatures for free. However, this is shaping up into a biggter project. It has much more useful content than I anticipated. It would be shame not to put the rest of the team on board with this. So I figure I can still go with plan A and release what I had intended on being free release stuff for creatures, but if you want more I have to tap into some more talent and that will unfortunately cost us some money we will have to make up in sales of mini-book PDF sales.

The final things on the plate are my treatments of several adventure modules that will be completed once Modern goes to the editor’s desk. The treatments have to be finished so I can get them to our artists. This gives them plenty of time while I complete the writing and design of the adventures and they go to the editors. This way, we get the book back from the editor around the same time as we get the artwork. I personally have 4 adventures coming up. Two for fantasy and two for modern. The first one will release shortly before, or at the same time as modern. Then I will follow it up with the modern adventure, and the modern campaign adventure (this mixes some elements from fantasy into it as well). Last will be the final fantasy adventure which may be released shortly before or at the same time as Sci-Fi.

Believe it or not, there is more, but they have not been a focus. I have done some tentative inroads towards my research into some supplements. This is setting up for a long string of material I can’t wait to focus on when Sci-Fi Sagas is released.

So, there’s a lot. After this weekend I should have a much stronger focus on Modern. I will also get a lot of this done in Philly as well. Upon my return the final beta testing material will go out to Nexus Community members for last bit reviews, opinions, and suggestions. While I hate to predict a release date, I expect within 2-3 months maximum before modern finally hits the shelves

Oh yeah, it may get a new cover too. I designed one, and Willie is also working on his own. I’m on the fence as to which I like better. It may come down to a community decision. 

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