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Another Week Done
Another hectic 🌞Summer🔥 week is finally over. Time to kick back and relax… Yeah, right. Being busy rarely ends. Being busy also means all the stuff I want to do in the evenings gets bumped to the weekends. 😠
Work Week Is Over But The Work Isn’t
I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday. ~John Tiffany
I’m sticking to my final third of the year rules. Work-work happens during the week, preferably between 8 and 5.
Since that’s not a reasonable assumption, Work-work happens Monday thru Friday, hopefully with evenings off.
That means that the weekend and some evenings are spared to me for getting me-work done.
I’m actually almost done with August’s Christmas All The Time post, which puts me in a great place for getting September’s done early.
I was hoping for some relief this week. Kind of got it, but not exactly. Then the extraneities kicked in again.
It never rains but it pours, as the saying goes. Friday went out with a bang.
Thank God it’s Saturday. The banging and klanging can wait ’til Monday.
A New Edition That Isn’t
What is ONE D&D??
One of my favorite pastimes back in high school and college is getting a tweak.
Historically, they’ve released a new edition of D&D every couple of years with some pretty drastic changes introduced in each.
The new initiative is to take what’s good about Fifth Edition D&D and build on that rather than rewriting it as they have in the past.
The basic rules seem to be being maintained. There will be some adjustments in the way certain features work. As you can see from Bob’s take in the video above, these are mostly positive changes.
Wizards of the Coast will be rolling out proposed changes for general playtest over the next year or so via the D&D Beyond platform.
The most interesting new feature is that they’re pairing it with a virtual table top experience that will allow players to have virtual miniatures of their characters in videogame-quality settings. Maps will be provided to accompany the published adventures to facilitate immersion and any hardcopy book will come with a virtual copy that can be read from a phone, tablet or computer.
The neat thing about it is that they’re going to maintain a top-down view to keep you in the mindset of it being a tabletop environment rather than a character’s POV as you would in a video game or MMORPG.
The whole thing will roll out with a new collection of core rulebooks in 2024, but they claim that the existing library of Fifth Edition supplements will still be playable in the updated, unified version of D&D.
Maybe by then, I’ll be working on some Tales Of Olde Auringia books and can pair those with matching D&D stats, maps and other properties on Dungeon Masters Guild or DriveThruRPG.
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New Series To Geek Out Over
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ~Warren E. Burger
As it stands, I’m currently working on my The Sentinels series. At least, I’m trying to do so.
That hasn’t been easy since most of my creative energy is exhausted at work-work.
Whatever brain cells I have left at the end of the day have been allocated to getting my Christmas All The Time monthlies finished so I can get a head start on my Holiday Season Serial Romance.
As I mentioned above, I’m just about done August’s and can get September’s finished fairly soon. Having actually done October’s much earlier, that’s a year’s monthly content finally done.
The idea I had for this year’s Holiday Season Serial Romance may wind up waiting until next year. Since Holly and Ivy had a Christmas Carol motif near the end of the story, it seems too soon to use that again.
I’ll have to come up with another angle (or 👼 angel 👼) for this year’s story.
That’s quite a bit of work for what’s supposed to be a relaxing weekend.
As to the quote for this section, I need to spend a bit of time listening.
I’m still not getting the direction I need in order to continue on with The Sentinels: New Blood.
I just don’t have enough creative energy left in my brain after a long week to seriously consider writing much of anything.
I also still haven’t finished the Snowflake exercise or any of the other plotting devices to help me get on track.
I’m just brain-fried. I need to relax and get some of the to-do’s off of my plate.
That quote also speaks to the first episode of the new She-Hulk series on Disney+.
It’s funny how she starts off with a soliloquy on how those with power are required to use it responsibly, winding up with a tremendous amount of power that she doesn’t want to have to use.
If she has the presence of mind to listen to her closing argument from the beginning of the episode, she’ll see that her cousin, Bruce, is correct. She’s a superhero whether she wants to be or not.
Interesting premise. It will be fun to see how they continue playing with this trope.
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That’s all for now. I hope you’re having a relaxing weekend. I am, for the most part. Sometimes weariness outweighs overdue tasks. That’s the work-life balance of my weekends.