Crafty_Pat's blog

Back when I worked at AEG, you were almost always "in the 11th hour" with at least one project. It's that period at the very end of production when you're fitting the puzzle pieces together to get your final files ready for the printer.

Busy time at the home office: Fantasy Craft Second Printing is in the can and off to the printers (we'll have the electronic versions out in your hands soon), Epoch's complete and should go into editing later today (the rest of the Adventure Companion's close as well), Time of High Adventure's going into layout this week, and tonight Alex and Pat are meeting about the last of the materials we need for the Spycraft Third events at GenCon. The final Spellbound stretch is waiting in the wings, and after that it's - wait for it - a return to the World on Fire. Good times.

Nathan and Marty talk about Fantasy Craft and a whole lot more in the latest episode of their podcast...

For episode detals go here, and for details about their special discount for Crafty Games products go here.

Happy listening, and stay Crafty!

This article presents an eerily familiar concept...

A new Pew Internet survey of 900 Internet experts leads with a headline finding that will surprise few: the experts largely agree that, by 2020, we'll all be computing in the cloud. But an even more interesting notion is buried in one corner of the report, and it's an idea that came up in two of the three cloud interviews I did in the wake of Wired/Ars Smart Salon. This notion is that, at some point, there will be a massive data breach—a kind of cloud version of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but pouring critical data out into the open instead of oil—and that this breach will cause everyone from private industry to government regulators rethink what cloud computing can and cannot do.

YouTube reviewer Tetsubo has posted a fair and comprehensive (multi-part) review of Fantasy Craft. Check it out!

Just sent Alex a stack of drafted spells to review, including the Polymorph chains (plural), which are based on revised concepts he and I cobbled earlier this week. Phylactery's also in there, and might I say that one's gonna get play in some really wicked campaigns (it's a story-based spell, similar to the Wish chain, though with a fair bit more mechanical text). Soul Bind's in there, plus the Enlarge and Shrink chains, which got the hairy eyeball given all the zany we've seen with Size abuses in the core book. Plus Clone and the other alternate form spells. Big chunk of work done done DONE! As usual, these things tend to come together quickly once the founding concepts are in place. Spellbound grimoire's currently at 45k and climbing with maybe 70% of the work done. Woot!