Retroactive Review.
I opened my blog today. The last post is dated as Jun 26, 2020. Wow I just wanted to catch my blog up to where I am today in 2023. This feels eerily like time travel.
I am going to list off writing/gaming/hobby milestones/events that have happened since the Covid pandemic (Spring of 2020).
Full Disclosure: I have worked with Arcane Minis before and I hope to do so in the future. A sizable portion of my efforts (DMing/writing/art) goes into the work I do for them. The Sordane campaign I am running is super fun and gives a lot of player choice.
First off here are my new partys for my main home game set in Sordane, created by Arcane Minis.
NOTE: The minis below are from a whole gaggle of modelmakers from across the interwebs.
Post Covid Milstones (Achieved)
- I created more than a dozen posts.
- I have painted 1000+ minatures in that time. I posted most of them on Instagram. Not all for myself, but at least 500 of those were for me.
- My game Went from DnD to Pathfinder, and even investigaing other systems again (I'm looking at you Candela Obscura!).
- I have created hundreds of "flavor cards" on mtgcardsmith.com
- I have sampled ChaptGPT and Nightcafe. They make me dream of tools like these without the controversy. I'm not linking to them because I don't know where I stand here yet.
- My campaign in Ravnica by WOTC eneded (as planned for... a 3 year game suypporting 3 parties at the same time) and now I am running my game in Soradane by Arcane Minis (In year 2 of 3 for this story...still with 3 groups).
- And I am running a short campaign (3 sessions) in my scifi world (Nak) using a totally homebrewed version of Candela Obscura.
- I wrote content for Sordane.
- I have had 5 of my short stories published on the web by Arcane Minis. My stories are located HERE.
- I registered as a DM with Startplaying.games (DM Jeb)
- I have converted over to online play so I have access to all my resources.
- Corporate DMing. It has it perks (new brushes on a good month).
- I slow the cadence of DMing in the summer.
- I put my games (but not my players) on pause through the holiday season (Thanksgiving through 'after New Years')
- I am a patron (On Patreon) of Arcane Minis. The team there makes so many cool Arcanapunk themed characters, VTT, STLs, Music, Terrain, Airships, and creatures not to mention their Sordane setting AND 2 upcoming board games! Am I biased? Yes. I also like fun and quality content with depth. I get that with this world every month, its like crazy. All of the amenities (Short Stories, Music, VTT, ART, Minis, Airships) that Arcane Minis offers are more opportunities for players to latch on to, and make the world memorable for themselves and then bring that energy back to the table. I have had players just look at all the minis on Myminifactory for hours they look for their 'backup' character, but also familiarizing themselves with the game world. And getting their first sourcebook PDF HERE.
- I have a Nexus account now. It seems like it is still young in ites development cycle, but I have hope it will be something groundbreakingly cool in the future.
- I have sent 2 novels to editors. Still tweaking them. I'm looking to self-publish.
- I have fallen in love with Legend Keeper. Such a neat app.
Future Milestones
- Maybe looking for Beta Readers soon.
- Finish painting Ben's Orcs.
- I want to hire someone to do an audible version of one of my scifi short stories to find out how that process works.
- I need to figure out how to do book layouts
- I would like to do my own cover design, at least for the first version of the book.
- Finish 1st Sordane campaign ( Late Fall, 2024)
- Put images and locations of all of my miniatures in a database of some sort, like my IG account, but with reliable search results not tweaked out by an algorithm.
- Get a few of my minis submitted for the Arcane Minis painting contest...But Ben's Orcs first.
