Well, it's been a while

Okay, I think it's fair to say that it's been a long time since I've posted anything here.

Life has been, as it tends to be, a bit hectic, and I've changed a bit as a person, too. Still, my memory is as awful as always, so I'll just write about things that I find interesting and that have happened recently (which could be any time in the last 5 years).

I've been really into playing Pathfinder a lot, and I found myself caretaking a spreadsheet that a whole bunch of really talented people produced before me. This led to me asking lots of questions of a chap called Jason Nelson, who owns a publishing company called Legendary Games. Now, if you're not big into the 3rd Party Publishing scene for the Pathfinder RPG (PFRPG) you've probably never heard of them, but it's pretty safe for me to say that Legendary are something of a "big deal". Not because they're the largest, or produce the most stuff (though the back catalogue is huge), but because their reputation has been built on having the best authors writing their self-selected projects to the highest standard.

It was something of a surprise to be able to write a book for them. I'm not a previously published RPG designer. I'm just a passionate fan of Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder who tinkers with rules. I really was just "messing around" with a rule idea, and Jason took a chance on me being good enough to meet his standards.

I now have three books out with Legendary Games, which is really mind-blowing, and that extra bit of money that comes my way as a freelancer has proven a real boost.

As for what's actually going on for me RP-wise, my regular group has just started playing the War for the Crown adventure path by Paizo. We're a few sessions in, and firmly in the middle of the second part of the first chapter of the adventure, and it's going well. I think my players have only completely messed up two things so far, and only one of those is plot-sensitive, so the old GM's trick of moving the thing they've missed to somewhere else is coming out to play.

There's also some developments in the family social side of things. My son has expressed an interest in roleplaying, so we're going to experiment with family gaming on a Sunday - to that end I've decided to make use of the Legendary Beginnings line by a certain publisher who you can probably guess and will be running the Trail of the Apprentice adventure path for my wife and son in the near future, as soon as I can persuade them to make characters and stop pestering me to watch Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. I am weak. We're watching Iron Man 3 tonight.

Other than that, life is pretty much the same for me.

With any luck I'll actually post a bit more often here, but we'll have to see.