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It's been two months since my last update, and you may wonder if I've fallen off the face of the internet. In fact I have been chained to my desk working on my upcoming RPG Phoenix: Dawn Command. We just finalized the card files yesterday, the
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We're closing in on the finish line for Phoenix: Dawn Command development, and artists Rich Ellis and Grace Allison surprised me with a portrait of my own for my birthday... which seems like an appropriate image as I prepared to set out for GenCon. As Phoenix is still
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As I was writing about the daelkyr in my last Eberron post, it occurred to me that my emphasis on how alien and unknowable they are might make it hard for people to understand how to work them into a story. Eberron has a host of major villains ready to
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In May I successfully raised the funds to produce Phoenix: Dawn Command, thanks to 1,100 awesome backers. I'm continuing to work on Phoenix and I can't wait to share it with the world. In the meantime there's a new host of crowdfunding projects
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I've spent much of the last few weeks sick with the flu, but I've finally bounced back. I'm continuing to work on Phoenix: Dawn Command, and I'm excited about how the adventures are coming together. I'm still not 100% certain
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Since the Phoenix Kickstarter campaign ended, I've been working hard on finishing the writing for Phoenix and that's going to be my focus for the next few months. However, I don't want to completely drop off the face of the earth, and I'
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The Phoenix: Dawn Command Kickstarter campaign wrapped up at 8 AM this morning (Wednesday, May 6th). Thanks to all the people who backed us, we are going to be able to make this game a reality. It's been a long eighteen months, and I'm grateful to
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As I write this, there's seventeen hours left in my first Kickstarter campaign. We're closing in on a thousand backers, which is an amazing experience. I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on why I'm so passionate about this project and why
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I'm going to be on Reddit in r/iAMA at 11 AM - 1 PM Pacific Time today (Monday, May 4th). Drop in and ask me a question about Phoenix, Gloom, Eberron or anything else!
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Up to this point I've mainly talked about the story of Phoenix: Dawn Command at the highest level: The Empire is fighting the Dread (and losing). This is a good one sentence description of the concept. A group of nations is facing a terrifying supernatural threat. But it&
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The Dread began three years ago with the rise of the bone legions in the south. Since then it has spread across the known world, a waking nightmare that takes hundreds of horrible forms. Ghosts howl in the night. Skinchangers lurk in the wilds. Fallen soldiers rise to slaughter the
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It was just a dream. Yet you can still smell the blood of the night watchman. You can still hear the raven’s whispers and feel the silver blade catching on bone. It was just a dream, but you knew he had to die and you had to kill him.