After not posting through most of September, I seem to be posting a lot lately, but I should mention that I was recently interviewed by Randolph Carter of “Grinding to Valhalla” (here). And the guys from “Sci Fi Guys Book Review” talked to me last week for a podcast that should be appearing soon.
While I’ve been mostly incommunicado, Dave Freer has been running a project to finance taking his family’s pets along when the family emigrates to Australia. It’s a “Storyteller’s Bowl” concept: he publishes a new installment of his upcoming book, Save the Dragons, online every time donations reach a certain threshold. It’s a great cause–and a great story, as a matter of fact.
I got a kick out of the Grinding to Valhalla interview, particularly your description of being a computer game aficionado while your kids did tabletop RPGs downstairs. I have fond memories being asked by my father what 1d6 and 1d4+2 meant, because his new game’s equipment list seemed to assume its players already spoke fluent D&D.
Glad you liked it–and, yes, this sort of thing has caused me problems, too. Nowadays I just google stuff like that, but before we were Living In The Future I sometimes needed a translator service.