Been A Little Busy

Some of you might have noticed I have been a little quiet of late. This has been mainly due to me finally being able to relax after finishing my classes for the summer, but also due to the fact that I have been working like a little slave to learn Adobe InDesign.

The main reason I wanted to learn InDesign was to get the Labour of Love PDF that I owe some of the site members sorted. I have not really had time to do the page layout work and to be honest I have not had the software to do it, as Word was totally unsuitable and the free desktop publishing package I downloaded was just useless.

Thankfully the production is almost totally done now after 2 days of constant page setting and layout and it has been proof read by my team of train proof readers (mostly Lindsay). All I have to do is incorporate the changes and then I can get the thing up online and email the link to the folks that need it. I have to say that I am pretty pleased with it and I am glad that I waited for InDesign and gave it the necessary time. It has been a pretty hectic year and I have had most of it written for a while - just had no way to make it look pretty. It has some lovely art from our lovely Site Artist and looks pretty slick if I do say so myself. Hopefully you guys will think so too.

Not sure what I will do with it but I might look at dropping it up on LuLu and seeing if anyone else wants it. Technically it was written as an intro adventure to Tomb of Haggemoth so it might be nice to have printed copy as well.

Been wandering the local outlet mall today with the girl Lindsay knows from her forums. It was OK. I frighten myself with how much I know about women's fashion and things but I guess I was well trained when I was young and my training has since been concreted. Ended up eating out at a Mexican. I love burritos but this one was not the greatest. It was a little dry and heavy.

I have been trying to see if I can manage to get a preorder of 4e sorted so that I can get it as soon as it is released. I have seen the demo adventures and could likely run one of those with the pregens but I have been thinking about it and the rules are still only the quick start ones and I think the best test will be to wait until the actual game comes out. I have Keep on the Shadowfell preordered from Amazon so I think I will likely start by running a group through that (hopefully the day the main rulebooks are released). I think I have managed to secure a preorder - now I just have to persude them to stay open until 12.01am on the previous night so I can buy it from them.