Clashlands and the Future...

Okay. I know it's been a while. Clearwire problems pretty much shot my ability to use the internet and though I have had it back for over a week, back on Comcast, I have been busy catching up on all the other crap I was behind on due to lack of net access.. I mean, I'm totally a first generation kid of the digital age. I don't even have a TV because I depend on the net for all my input... But anyway, I'm back but not yet back into the swing of things and when I am, finishing up my picture projects comes first... SO what's happenning and what's the plans?

Well, Dystopian Dreams RPG is definitely on my to-do list as leveless and fixed Hitpoint game concept based on the 3.5 d20 system, but it will be a while coming. Along side it, will be the Clashlands setting I was first focused on when I set up this blog in the first place, but I have bigger ideas for Clashlands that I am putting this out as a first call on, though it will easily be 6 months before I can get the foundations set up. My idea is to introduce the Clashlands setting first to players as a MUD... That's right.. a text based RPG MUD, and if I can pull it off, it will be a test platform for the rule system as well. That will be a big time consumer when the time comes, and is not something I am completely unfamiliar with having been involved in the design of a few MUDs and MUSHes over the years. The big issue will be that in doing it, I really do want to set it up from the core out as original code so it is not bound by any licensing restrictions on derivation from past MUD code. On the otherhand I do NOT mind putting it together with pieces of code that are GNU licensed.

In other news, it looks like the RPG4.ME idea might actually go somewhere. The friend I have been talking to about it likes the idea enough that she is supposed to be crunching out code to partner up on it with me and in the process launch her own market ideas in similar venues... The whole e-book market is something she never noticed before, so it's a bit of a shock to her, but at anyrate, I may be involved in setting up another e-book source on the net, and LPjr, I'd host you logo on my site.