I've had a few registration bugs since the site tweaks. This is mostly due to old code that uses the Prototype javascript. I've been migrating all the javascript code to jQuery, but it takes time. Anyhow, the registration page should work properly now. Sorry for any hassles. Please let me know if you encounter any other issues.

Updated the website with some changes I've been working on. Nothing major. Just a new header and home page layout.

If you encounter any problems, please let me know asap (webmaster at rpgobjects.com).

Server is up and should be all configured. If you have any issues downloading books, using tiamat, or the online store, please let me know asap.

Gencon is over. It was my 21st consecutive. This year I returned to running events as I took a year off last gencon. I used that opportunity to totally explore all the nook and crannies on gencon. While it was fun, I must admit, I missed running events.

With that said, I think I may of over done it running 4 events. 4 event is what I have done in the past and it gets your free badge. But after last year, I didn’t get to explore the gaming and exhibition halls as much as I wanted. So I have to strike some sort of balance. So I think I will run only 2 or 3 events next year. Free badge be damned!

As for those events, they all went well. I posted about each on google+.

• Veslpoids (d20 Modern)
• Revenge of the Terminals (Savage Worlds)
• Revenge of the Terminals (Savage Worlds)
• Revenge of the Terminals (d20 Modern)

After running 2 Savage Worlds events I’m sold on the system. I’ve played d20 based games for a long time, so I’m a bit jaded there, so I won’t say it’s better than d20, but if I had a choice of playing a d20 vs SW game today, I would choose the latter.

When I did have time, I visited the gaming and exhibition halls. Below are links to my photos.

• Photos Day 1
• Photos Day 2
• Photos Day 3

Again, didn’t have a ton of time. So I missed a lot. One thing I missed the most was not seeing all the costumes. All my friends told me about the good ones and I was envious.

Other highlights and things that stuck out.

• Fantasy Flight has a new version of Fortress America on sale. That’s insane!
• I bought the 2nd edition of the Game of Thrones boardgame. The 2nd edition changes make a great game better.
• Played Jamaica. It’s a good casual game that I think my wife and older kids might enjoy.
• My good friend Jay took second placed in the Iron GM challenge.
• My friends and I hold a gamer olympics every 4 years. I took gold. Rumors are that I was doping, but I got away with it!
• My events ran in the new hotel downtown. It was great. Only four tables per room and noise level was ideal.

I’m already looking forward to next year! Number 22.

I started a series of blogs before last gencon (which was my 20th consecutive) that revisited gencons past. I only got a few blogs finished before gencon 2011 arrived, but in recounting some of my favorite events from the early years, I had mentioned a Scooby Doo based Call of Call Cthulhu event.

A funny thing happened a few months later. The GM that ran that very event contacted me. Gotta love the intertubes! Check out the rest of the story.

This project asked for my support a week or so back, which I gladly gave. Check it out!

Introducing Wild Card Creator. Any PDF, Any Setting, No Extra Cost!

Journeyman Games has just announced a Kickstarter for their Wild Card Creator, a computer program that helps gamers quickly and easily design characters for the Savage Worlds tabletop roleplaying game. The program enables you to generate, save, and print characters in both stat block and character sheet formats, enabling you to access them whenever you need, in a fraction of the time it takes to do it by hand!

Because Wild Card Creator comes pre-loaded with the full text of Savage Worlds Deluxe, you can start making characters right away. But what if you want to make characters for a supplementary setting like Deadlands, Agents of Oblivion, Hellfrost, or any of several dozen other settings? Other character creators would make you type it all in yourself or force you to pony up $5-$10 for the same content you already own. Not Wild Card Creator.

If you own any published Savage Worlds PDFs, Wild Card Creator will be able to import any new Races, Edges, Hindrances, Gear, and other character options without you paying anything more! If you've got the PDF, you've got the content. Pinnacle Entertainment Group and 14 other companies have already given permission to allow Wild Card Creator to work seamlessly with their full range of PDFs, so your favorite settings are sure to be supported.

Wild Card Creator will be available for Mac, Windows, and Linux and has an estimated release date of November 2012.

Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657350477/wild-card-creator
Website: http://www.JourneymanGames.net
Twitter: @JourneymanRPGs

It's been about four months since I published a book and posts here have been sporadic. So for the record, I'm not dead.

One thing you might also notice, other than a slight site redesign, is that there is no upcoming section anymore. That's by design. I had a backlog of Darwin's World and Abandon All Hope content that took me the better part of two years to finish. I made it a point to commit to nothing more after that. It's not that I don't want to do anymore books. I just want to work on some other projects, some RPG related and some not.

So what will I be doing here? Here's my personal goals for the near future.

• More blogging. Mostly about the things I'm working on, but also on gaming and technology related to my gaming.
• Continue work on a table top rpg project that may be a product or a series of blogs, but probably both.
• Continue work on some mobile projects (some RPG related). I use my phone and tablet a lot in life and gaming.
• A full website redesign.
• Other stuff that suits my fancy, most likely a book or two.

I will still publish books from time to time, but I won't announce it until it's nearly done. Most likely support for Darwin's Worlds or Abandon All Hope, but more on that in a future blog.

I've been wanting to redesin my website for some time. This new design is really only a tweak to the old design, but it has one important change: it works on both desktop and mobile devices. And it's not two different sites (as is often the case), but rather one site that adapts. If you look at this site on your smartphone, it should adapt to the smaller screen size.

It's not ideal. When I saw it works, I don't mean it's flawless. But it's usable. Which is important to me since I spend a good deal of time these days on my phone and tablet.

Anyhow, I've been trying my best to clear my plate the last year so I can do more blogging and work on other projects. Getting this site working on mobile was one of those steps. Except a total resigned sometime in the not to distant future.

Gencon approaches and I want to continue with my gencon blogs I started last year. This is year 21 for me!

If you find something not working on the website due to these changes, please let me know asap (webmaster at rpgobjects.com).

GenCon 2012 is less than 3 months away. I didn't run any events last year and I missed doing it. This year I'm back at it and I'm trying something a little different. I'm running 4 Darwin's World events. Three of the four are the same scenarios but each time I'm going to use a different system.

RPG1233422 Revenge of the Terminals (d20 Modern) Thursday 1:00 PM (4 hrs)
RPG1233423 Revenge of the Terminals (Pathfinder) Friday 1:00 PM (4 hrs)
RPG1233421 Revenge of the Terminals (Savage Worlds) Saturday 10:00 AM (4 hrs)
RPG1233425 Vespuloids (d20 Modern) Saturday 2:00 PM (4 hrs)

You need to sign in order to view the events. See ya at gencon!

I'm getting closer to finishing Brotherhood of Radiation. All the art and content is complete. It's just a matter of editing and layout now.

In the meantime, I'll be posting some artwork for it on G+. Here's the first batch.

Brotherhood Artwork