The Blog Has Moved...

I'm moving the blog off of Blogspot. I haven't had any problems here, but Blogger has a really poor selection of apps for the iPad (where I create 90% of my posts). The Blogger app from Google is lame, and Blogsy, the strange but workable app I've been using went under this week. (Even Google's Blogger has vanished from the app store in the last few days).

Seeing the handwriting on the wall, I've moved things back to Wordpress, but this time on their servers. I've been quite happy using the Wordpress app for my family blogs, and it's great to have everything back under one roof. So hopefully I'll be posting with just a bit more frequency than my recent lame rate. :)

The new address is: https://purplesorcerer.wordpress.com

The Carnival of the Damned Now Available!

At long, long, long last, I'm thrilled to announce the availability of David Baity's The Carnival of the Damned in both print and PDF!

David has created something special: polished at conventions like Gary Con and Dragon Con, the adventure sports 143 digest-sized pages of clown-filled creepiness that can be used for DCC tournament play, as source material for many standard funnels, or as a massive pool of nightmare encounters that can be unleashed individually on any old-school campaign.

Featuring an awesome Doug Kovacs cover, the adventure is filled with incredible art from Simon Todd, Stan Reed, Danny Prescott, and Todd McGowan. I think you'll love the look.

In addition to the main book, a separate printable appendix is filled with goodies including every pic from the adventure in easily printable form to use as handouts, patron spells, and paper miniatures.

Pick up a copy today from RPGNow, or the Purple Sorcerer Games Store! We truly appreciate your support.

 

Black Friday Weekend Sale

This afternoon I noticed a very nice burst of sales, and couldn't figure out why... turns our there is a 25% off sale at RPGNow, and my stuff is included! So take advantage of great prices on many different DCC titles while the sale lasts. :)

See the deals at RPGNow

You can of course also purchase Purple Sorcerer Adventures at the sale prices through The Purple Sorcerer Store.

Happy News

Hey Crawlers!

A couple happy bits of news to share: first, I'm beginning to recover from the effects of the bell's palsy. I can blink my left eye, and I'm starting to get some movement in both my eyebrow and the left side of my mouth. I'm thrilled that such good signs are appearing less than two weeks after all this weirdness started. :)

Secondly, The Carnival of the Damned has been approved by the Dark Master, and I'll be starting the print proof process this weekend. With luck, the print version and PDF will be available within 2 weeks. (As always, with print items you learn to expect the unexpected, and each round of proofs adds 10-14 days to the process. But I'm feeling lucky!)

Take care everyone.

A bit more quiet I'm afraid...

Earlier in the week, after a morning believing I was experiencing an allergic reaction, I suddenly realized the left side of my face was sagging, and I could no longer close my left eye. After eight hours in the hospital, two MRI's and many additional tests, in the main it seems I've been struck with Bell's Palsy, and as a result, the left half of my face is completely paralyzed: I can't close my eye, expressions are strange, and eating and drinking are a grand adventure. :)

There's no way to know how long this will last. For most, the effects fade within a month, but can reoccur occasionally throughout life. The gentleman across the hall from me in the hospital has dealt with his for 71 years. I'm surrounding by a loving family and an understanding employer, and I'm beginning to adjust just fine. But reading and editing and doing work is challenging. (I picked up an eye patch today, which is a huge help, but using touch-devices is now a bit of a hunting and pecking adventure.)

I'm sure I'll get back in the swing of things shortly, but on top of the other physical challenges I'm dealing with, I imagine progress will be slow. Thanks to everyone for your understanding.

Take care,

Jon

 

All quiet...

I apologize for the silence of late: health issues continue to slow things to a crawl. Using a mouse in particular has been a challenge. Cursed little blighter! ;)

I've switched to a new arthritis med, but these things take a while to get revved up: it will likely be another six weeks before any improvement is expected. For the third time, fingers crossed.

The Carnival of the Damned is just a good days or two away from completion.

As always, thanks to all for your support,

Recent Tool Updates

Here's a roundup of recent small updates to the DCC Tools:

1) The cover sheet image for the Sorcerer's Grimoire has been 'inverted' so you can print out a cover sheet using much less ink. (And I'm working on adding additional images.)

2) I've added Terry Olson's Tatterdermalion's Tampering super-funky dice methods found in this year's Goodman Games GenCon Guide to the zero and upper level character generator dice-methods, and his 'Emerikol' rolling method to the Mercurial Magic Generator and the Sorcerer's Grimoire. (Which makes it much less likely to roll a 'no mercurial magic' result.)

3) New occupation sources for the character generators include Mark Hunt's Drongo, Zine lists for Black Powder and Black Magic and Crawling Under a Broken Moon, and Andrew Trents Food-Suin list. (Which are now described in the new occupation list description page linked from the character generator pages.)

Happy crawling everyone!