via wisdom of the owl strength of the bear!.

My emotions to this range from OOOOOH, to MEH.

I think it can be useful tool but certian aspect like having Monsters NOT BE miniatures and ushc sort throw me off.

I still prefer a low-tech solution

Overall It can be a something neat to use, especially for mapping but I’m not really bowled over.

via Make: Online : SurfaceScapes 2.0 demo.

SO I SIT HERE STEWING TO FUCK over not working on this, but currently my hours are filled, and even sleep right now seems to be a bit of an option with the current workload I’m taking on.  Between Zombie Years, Creature Entertainment, and various Freelance work, I have no time. And It’s not that I couldn’t squeeze it in like a Drug Mule, it’s that I want to HAVE the time to do it. I want to be able to really make it as kick ass as i see it, and if I don’t and it happens to come out like shit, well then I would really be mad at myself.

When I get to it, it’ll be beautiful.

Till then, hold on, and no worries, you’ll probably some preliminaries hit my DeviantArt account soon, and maybe even a change of name, here and there (mostly over coincidences like this, that I hope won’t suck) but also the expansion on the idea later.

All in due time, he tells himself, all in due time.

So now i’m going to go smoke a cig, and scream mentally at this wall for a bit, and hopefully soon, we will realize DRAGONBREATH together.

Keep rollin’ them dice…

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The Zombie Years Premiere this Wednesday the 19th!

MIAMI, FL  January 19, 2009 – This Wednesday, come see Juan Navarro’s newest Webcomic Book endeavor “Zombie Years Premiere, with an 8 page preview and loads of extras at ZombieYears.com!

Zombie Years takes place in a near future Miami Florida, where the sky has fallen, the Gods have fought, Jesus Wept, and the snake has eaten his tail. Humanity if a bug on the windshield, and the sky is wearing down the cities.

The world has ended, but you still gotta eat.

The survivors of the tragedy now try to get along, the daily struggle to survive is the routine and the rule, and everyone watches for the The Fever: a maddening virus that drives people insane, eventually dying from it ….and then coming back.

“It’s just one of those day-dreams put into a story” says series Creator Juan Navarro, “After watching endless Zombie flicks and reading various survival horror, you begin to wonder how you and your won would test in such an element. Miami would be perfect setting for this, and I think it will be fun to explore the full idea of the Survival Horror scenario with Latino slant to it. Plus some Cuban jokes help too!”

Zombie Years will update every Wednesday every week!

Dragonbreath Page 9 scene

As much as it may seem that I”m gone, I’M NOT.

Soon, very soon I’ll busting some shit out on to here, but until then all I have to show is this sketch form Page 9 of Dragonbreath for you guys to see.

I’m still here working behind the curtain

Wow….I guess I am short and stout already….and maybe serving dark God of undeath and magic wouldn’t be too bad a gig….

Now Originally this blog was to be a support site, with supplements and little things here and there for Dragonbreath, a fantasy webcomic I’m currently working on. In that time I decided to stretch my legs and have a go writing extra material here and there and in that got caught up with deadlines.

I hate Deadlines. They are my favored enemy.

I like working with a buffer, a long list of work in front to give me time to develop what will be coming and jumping the gun had just put me into too much crap to do that.

So Dragonbreath isn’t stopped, not at all, I’m working on it as I type with ink covered hands, it’s needing to get finished up and “Buffered” so as to work smoothly.

I’m imagining an August or September opening but right now their is a change up happening over at WCN so we’re kind of waiting on that too. heck it’s halting the work on Zombie Years and Vigil too, and those have already allotted plenty of pages and such.

……

Alright shitty joke. On with the links:

+I was emailing with Vishon about his decision about making his own game system for his setting, Clashland, and I applaud his for it. The fact is that game system, to me, are a way to a means, and it just comes down to your DM/GM, players and setting to bring the fun out. Believe me, my gaming group has shitted themselves on straight D20 at times and it just end up being a dice roll to get that critical thing to be done. Vishon has some good ideas though, and I’m anticipating some awesome stuff soon.

+Got a head up fo some new feature on Gleemax on this review. Hopefully it will be the place for table top gaming folks ot get together plus that whole 4th edition D&D thing, right?

+Kieth Baker and4th Edition Eberron!

+Largest collections of Games PURCHASED? Wow……impressive….in a RPG gamer kind of way…

+ My kingdom for FEL LOTUS!

+It’s so true: They’re is a Murphy’s Law to DMing and D&D. My favorite it number No.8: Players will always try to kill the friendliest NPC.

+ooh, lots of 4th edition stuff right here

+Great gaming blog at  When Squirrels Attack!

+This is very cool: The Heroes and Monsters Blog is sort of a collection of classic movie heroes and viallains with stats. Now it ain’t no D&D sort of stats nothing to official but enough info for you to adapt characters and such to your game.

There’s more links than that, but I really have to get back to work. Heck, I wish I could write some better quips here and there too, but I have tog et to working on some NPCs for this Thursday!

(Side note: this thing was originally written on Friday the 11th but due to WordPress Maintenance, was setroyed halfway through, which originally had 22 links up! GRAH!)

+yeah I know yesterday was the first break form NPC Thursdays I’ve had here but unfortunately I’ve had a bunch of travelling to do and just didn’t let me really work on it. I’m gonna really aim for getting somthing up today, so be on the look out.

+You want maps? Maps, baby.

+ A little thing on Analog gaming

+I am workin on the maps for all the sites and sounds of Borel. Getting through all the mire of it, it’s really so uncomplicated it just takes a lot of drawing. RIght now I’m trying to see about an interface for everythin, but that a long stage goal once I have everyything in step then I’ll see about putting in the huge city interface in.

+BEHOLD GOBLIN COCK!

+Dragonbreath’s script is awesome right now and I’m really excited about gttting to draw it already, but again travel plans and such have hindering a bit so once I’m back i hope to get osme good chunky days of drawing.

+Remember the “Choose your Adventure” books? Here’s a sweet look at some of the Steve Jackson version that have come out in the past.

+Did you hear/read about this shit with WOTC and 4th edition licensing? I mean I really, really don’t care. I see why WOTC said what they said, and I understand the reaction, but c’mon folks, you don’t see it? If WOTC makes 4th edition and say companies are making supplements for it, wouldn’t it defeat the selling of 4th edition if those same companies keep producing 3.5 stuff? The whats the point? Now I dig what say Paizo is doing, and making they’re own brand while building on the 3.5 stuff, and it even looks hella good (especially with the Wayne Reynolds art) but really we shouldn’t worry as consumers, because it just means people will by working harder to get our buck, and as creators it just means we have more avenues to make and sell so much more.

+D&D Fundraising?

+ QUESTION: to all you folks out there, what is some of the music you guys like to put on during D&D? Sure we all like the LOTR soundtrack or the Conan soundtrack but what else? I use a lot of Iron Maiden, Rammstein, and other heavy but rhythmic stuff, something to signify battle. When I used to play as a kid, we would put on Slayer and Cannibal Corpse on for fight scenes. What do you guys like?

+ Reincarnation in D&D and:

+Video coverage on the upcoming 4th edition G4′s MMO report

Now to see if i can get home today!