This map is from when I ran a 5E campaign set in Mystara.
This goes with the earlier map. I love the simplicity of the "Grand Tactical" map, so I bumped the Known World map up to 25 miles from 24 miles per hex.
Thus, this map is 1 mile per small hex, 25 miles across the big hex.
And so, as others have mentioned, we come to the end of the first 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons.
How to celebrate, you ask?
Play.
Play Dungeons & Dragons.
Play your favorite iteration with your family, friends, or strangers.
Play and have fun.
What about how those other folks over there are playing Dungeons & Dragons?
Doesn't matter.
But...
NO. It does not matter.
You play your Dungeons & Dragons.
And if you and your family, friends, and strangers are having fun?
Then you are playing it right.
And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Play.
In January of 2011 I launched a new blog, this blog, Adventures in Gaming version 2.
I had had several blogs before this one, most notably of
course, Adventures in Gaming, not to mention other side blogs, including James
Mishler Games. For various reasons over the years, they all were shut down or
fell by the wayside.
This blog marks an era where I fully re-entered blogging and
later re-entered self-publishing, and tracks developments in my gaming and
publishing life for more than 12 years.
But now this blog, and my blogging, comes to an end.
For a long time now, this blog has devolved into just a place to
stick notes about my various campaigns and pimp my various publications. I’ve not
had anything new or interesting to say about games for an age or two. I am not
alone in this. Once, blogging was an easy, breezy way to share ideas about
games, discuss the history of games, and generally get to better grok games.
Now, at best, it seems a pointless chore. I have nothing
more to say. I no longer have the time or energy to post about such games as I
do run or play in, and my publications on DriveThruRPG are, well, to be found there
far more easily than any sort of post to this or any other blog.
And so, I am officially ending this blog, as well as the
James Mishler Games blog. They will remain up, for some time at least, as I
have no reason to take them down. That may change if policing attempts to post
spam comments becomes bothersome.
As mentioned, you can find new James Mishler Games Shadowdark
and eventually, Labyrinth Lord 2nd Edition products, on DriveThruRPG.
If the last 40-some years have taught me anything, it is
that nothing ever remains the same, everything always changes. So eventually, I might
return to blogging. If I do, I will post a link to my new blog here.
If, and until then, good gaming!
Well, the Shadowdark Kickstarter was an amazing success, and I am eager to get my books – I went all in with the Crawling Group level, so that the players in any group I run will have everything at their fingertips. The PDFs are all amazing, but I’m still old school when it comes to having the real deal and can’t wait to get my hands on that premium basilisk-skin tome!
One thing the success of the Kickstarter has created is an amazing mass of new Shadowdark players and hopeful publishers. It seems something new is coming out every day now. Lots of new designers who are eager to show the world what they have to offer.
I think for now I’m going to sit back and enjoy reading the works of others, rather than diving right in and adding more to the corpus of Shadowdark third-party works. I want to see what others have to offer, before dive back in. Dan Proctor continues to work on Second Edition Labyrinth Lord, so it is also a wait and see on that still, as well.
A few stupid hiccups aside, Hasbro remains quiescent on the OGL front. So, I’m leaving the existing OGL products up for now. Hasbro can change its mind on that as quickly as a Pinkerton can kick in a door, so make sure you’ve downloaded all my products you have purchased and saved them on backups.
It is back onto hiatus I go. I’ve been reading some books and comic books and watching a bunch of movies. Just enjoying leisure again, rather than pounding madly at a keyboard like a man possessed. I suppose it is because right now gaming sessions have been few and far between. Maybe once I get back to gaming more regularly, I will again feel the need to pour words into a computer and share them.
We shall see. Until then good gaming!
