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I Am So Grumpy Right Now

So I do something I think will be really, really awesome. And that is, I updated The Winter Home  pre-gens to be closer to the characters in the finished book, Transylvanian Adventures . Things are going swimmingly, especially considering I haven't done layout since the heydays of Quark and Pagemaker. I get the file finished up. Upload it. Click to send all the customers an email saying "Hey, guess what? The pre-gens are now about 12 hundred-thousand percent more awesome and.... BOOM! Not only is my updated PDF incapable of being downloaded but the product is now "inactive" (again). Overall, I look and feel like this right now. I have two support tickets open for DriveThruRPG/RPGNow at the moment. One for the file not really being updated (despite the spiffy email I received saying it was) and the other for the de-activation of The Winter Home . So far... not loving it.

The Winter Home Now Available

The wait is over! Sort of. An introductory module for Transylvanian Adventures  is now available on RPGNow and DriveThruRPG. The introductory module is titled The Winter Home.  It includes some abridged rule enhancements from  Transylvanian Adventures and  5 pre-generated 4th level characters (Valiant, Exotic, Half-Breed, Reaver and Hunter). It's worth noting that these pre-gens are scaled back a bit and don't feature all the options available to characters in Transylvanian Adventures. Why? Mostly because some class abilities would've required more of the rule enhancements from the book to make sense. So head on over to the Land of Phantoms online store . Or go directly to the page for The Winter Home . The Winter Home  is available for $3.99. And an update... The final chapter needing draft has been completed. Most chapters have been proofed and are headed to layout soon. I was also able to finish up a couple of random tables I'd forgotten about. O

Free RPG Day

As mentioned in yesterday's post, I'm working my way through getting the Transylvanian Adventures Introductory Adventure  available for download through RPGNow/DriveThruRPG. It's been kinda-sorta-maybe sitting in "Product Approval" now for 24+hours. I don't think it's going to be approved by the time Free RPG Day hits (which would be now). It's my bad for not anticipating the duration of the product approval process on their end. I've also submitted a support request for some clarification but I would not expect any more information until Monday at the earliest. So here's the deal-ee-oh, starting at midnight tonight (now for many of you), email me through the blog or PM me (smathis) over on the Goodman Games forums. If you give me an email address, I will send you a promotional coupon to download the  Transylvanian Adventures Introductory Adventure for free when it becomes available at RPGNow. As a bonus, I'll add you to a TATG mai

More Updates

It's been a busy few weeks... NTRPG I got a chance to head up to Dallas for NTPRG Con. Got to meet Doug Kovacs, Harley Stroh, Paul Wolfe and Michael Curtis among many others. Had a great time. Quickstart: The Good News It's been through layout. It's been approved. It's good to go. After a couple of minor edits, it will be available for PDF download on Free RPG Day. The finished booklet is 50 pages long. The cover art (shown below) is by Doug Kovacs. And it looks amazing. Quickstart: The ?! News I'm going to be selling my books through RPGNow/DriveThruRPG. It's the best option I've found thus far and allows people to print-on-demand for hardcopies. I don't quite understand the RPGNow/OneBookshelf approval methods. So I don't know if the book will actually  be available for download on Free RPG Day. It appears I can't only have one  product and have that product be free. We're not unhappy about the prospect of people a