I just got my copy of The Eye of Charon in the mail yesterday. This is Richard Knaak‘s second book in his Aquilonian trilogy for the Age of Conan novels I edit for Conan Properties and Ace Books. It’s a great, rousing tale that brings our hero, Nermesa Klandes, throughout the realms of King Conan on his way to becoming …
Dracula’s Revenge in Game Trade
The latest issue of Game Trade Magazine features a review of Dracula’s Revenge, the board game I designed and then produced while at Human Head Studios. Marc Shayed of GamingReport.com gives the game a 9 out of 10 and has many flattering things to say about it too. Strangely, the article mentions you can get the game through its original …
The Mutant Chronicles Novelization
I just got a bit of PR from Paradox Entertainment on this, so I believe it’s official: MUTANT CHRONICLES NOVELIZATION BY RANDOM HOUSE Random House has signed on to publish a movie novelization of the upcoming Mutant Chronicles film slated to release in the spring of 2008. Matt Forbeck (Knights of the Silver Dragon series) will write the adaptation based …
No Plan Survives Contact with Reality
“No plan survives contact with the enemy.” – Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke That’s one of my favorite quotes, and I’ve applied it to just about every facet of my life. These days, I’d amend it to “No plan survives contact with reality.” Or, really, any contact at all. Plans rarely work out exactly the way you think they will, …
The Queen of Death in Stores Today!
Today is the official street date for The Queen of Death, the final novel in my Lost Mark trilogy for Wizards of the Coast‘s Eberron setting. To celebrate: Go on out and buy a copy now! If you’re one of those readers who can’t stand to start reading a trilogy until all the books are published, today is your day. …
New Open Design Project Launches
Having enjoyed the first Open Design project, which resulted in the fantastic Steam & Brass, Wolfgang Baur is ready to leap into the breach once more. Chip in as a patron at any level, and you can get in on the ground floor of the project now. Start by helping to choose what it will be.
Marvel Meets the Soaps
I’ve long explained to my wife that superhero comics are the male equivalent to the soap opera: continuing storylines, implausible plots, cartoonishly drawn (literally and metaphorically) characters, and over-the-top dialog. Now, according to ICv2.com, Marvel helps me put another nail in that argument’s coffin by teaming up with Guiding Light to help promote each other. Newsarama has an interview with …
Indie Game Development
Greg Costikyan of Manifesto Games (a venture started with my fellow Alliterate Johnny Wilson) posted a column about how the budgets of computer games have grown to the point that publisher can no longer afford to experiment much anymore. You could take his points and apply them to tabletop games almost verbatim. His closing says it best: I don’t mean …
Back to Basics
If you keep up with the news, you probably know that Congress recently approved a bill that allows for the revocation of habeas corpus and permits the President to define what constitutes torture, among other things. I don’t want to turn this website into a political forum, but let’s say I’m less than comfortable with this. A good friend of …
New Mirrorstone Site
Wizards of the Coast has revamped the website for Mirrorstone, the young-adult imprint of its book-publishing department. Their Knights of the Silver Dragon section, dedicated to the series I created for them, looks prety snazzy. They even have a new photo of me up on my bio page, although I’ll have to get them to update the text. Still this …