August
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February 1, 2009
Hey everyone!
It's been a strange and busy year, and I
expect 2009 to be even stranger and
busier. As a result, you probably won't
be seeing many updates here on Bossy the
Cow. My advice is to keep an eye on my
livejournal,
which I will update on a more regular
basis. If you haven't seen them already,
I suggest that you read the posts I made
on January 29th and February 1st. I'm
going to be spending much of 2009
traveling around the world, and if
you've ever had a desire to play Eberron
with one of its creators, this is your
chance. I'll be plotting my travels over
the course of February, so if you'd like
to nominate your town and sofa as a
possible stop, drop me a line!
June 5th, 2008
It's been a long week. I'm back from
MisCon,
and I had a great time there - I'll
write up a longer report when I (ha!)
have a moment. I think that's the last
convention I'll be at until
Gen Con Indy. Beyond that, I've had
a whole mess'o'deadlines hit at once.
I've been busy working on the 4E Eberron
Campaign Guide, articles for DDI, my
next novel, and more. It's been a little
overwhelming, but it's finally starting
to slow down.
If you're in the Boulder/Denver area,
I'll be spending D&D Game Day at
Stonebridge Games in Longmont. I'm going
to be running two 4E Eberron games -
word is that they'll be filled on a
first-come, first serve basis. I'm
hoping to have a little time away from
the table to talk to anyone who's
curious about 4E and the future of
Eberron. Beyond that, once the books are
OFFICIALLY released, I'll be dealing
with Eberron-related issues on my
livejournal - so keep an eye on
that!
May 3, 2008
Hey everyone! As you can see, I
haven't had much time to update the
website, and honestly I don't expect
that to change in the next few
months. However, I have been posting
in
my livejournal and I suggest
that you go there for the latest
information or Eberron discussions.
Beyond that, I've just returned from
Penguicon and am gearing up to go to
MisCon in a month - and between
then, I've got a lot of work to do!
February 18, 2008
Hey everyone!
My resolution to update the website more
in 2008 has born little fruit. My
resume's years out of date, Dragons of
Eberron is still listed as "Coming
Soon", and we haven't even mentioned
City of Stormreach... the last Eberron
sourcebook before the transition to
Fourth Edition, due to be released this
week! However, Ellen and I have many
excellent reasons for being so lame,
between her job and my freelance work.
While they are all hidden away under NDA,
I'm working on a few interesting
projects at the moment, and I look
forward to being able to talk about them
in greater detail.
However, for the immediate future the
best source of information is going to
be my livejournal. Here's links to the
most recent entries:
More to come soon, including a
comparison of the City of Stormreach
sourcebook and Stormreach in D&D Online.
Until then, enjoy the leap year!
January 7, 2008
Hey everyone! Welcome to 2008.
As always, it's been too long since I've
posted anything especially interesting. I
have a new "Ask the Dreaming Dark" subject I
want to get to, and I'd like to post a
general overview of 2007 at the Bakery, but
it's going to be a few more days before I
can get to either of these things - I'm
wrapping up a project that got delayed by
holidays, and it needs to get finished ASAP.
In the shameless plug
department, I have a short (3-page) article
about running hardboiled and noir adventures
in Kobold Quarterly #3, which was just
released. It's not specifically tied to
Eberron, but it's certainly applicable...
while I didn't mention any Eberron
locations, I had the mean streets of Sharn
in mind. If you're interested, you can find
Kobold Quarterly at
http://koboldquarterly.com/
. It's now available in both print and PDF
format, and has articles by nobodies like
me, Ed Greenwood, Wolfgang Baur, Ari Marmell,
and others.
Anyhow, more to come soon, and I hope
everyone is having a great 2008!
August
31st, 2007
It looks like I'll be updating
my livejournal page more often than the
website, so if you haven't had a chance to
check that out, well, what are you waiting
for? Beyond that, there's a few bits
of news. The echoes of Gen Con are still
coming back - I just received the following
picture from Eberron player Dom, and given
that I'm all for being worshipped and
adored, I felt that I should post it; I want
it to be a giant statue outside the First
Church of Eberron (sadly, we don't actually
know if the god of the First Church of
Eberron is real, or if the clerics are just
drawing power from the Ring of Siberys...):
~Left to Right top to bottom, Lex, Kyle,
Keith, Adrian, David, Dom.
On the home front, I'm pushing ahead on my
new Eberron novel; the first draft should be
done within two weeks. Woo hoo! And with
that in mind, it occurred to me that it's
high time for another installment of
The Eberron
Casting Call. We're almost done with the
Dreaming Dark trilogy, but with The
Gates of Night, we have a new character
to consider: Xu'sasar of the Qaltiar. To
quote the book:
She was unquestionably elven, with fine
features, large almond-shaped eyes, and
long, pointed ears. Like most of the other
elves Daine had encountered, she was short
and slender… athletic, but built for speed
instead of strength. Where most elves had
light complexions, this woman's skin was
pitch black, a shade far darker than he'd
ever seen on another human. This darkness
was broken up by a web of pale white
tattoos, abstract but almost hypnotic in
their complexity. Her long hair was the
color of moonlight, silvery-white and
shimmering in the reflected flame. This
cloak of hair covered more than her actual
clothing. Vambraces made from some sort of
opalescent shell covered her forearms, and
she wore shin-guards made from the same
material. Aside from this armor, she wore a
short, dark loincloth and a few bands of
leather wrapped across her torso.
Xu'sasar is swift and deadly, and
operates under different concepts of
morality and theology that Daine and Lei.
She has grown up in a savage world, where
survival comes before everything else. Who
would you cast in the role of the drow
huntress?
Answer here!
August 22, 2007:
Back from Gen Con!
Hey everyone! Ellen and I have returned from Gen Con, and we had
a great time. I'd like to thank everyone who attended my
seminars, especially the Saturday evening get-together, and I'd
also like to thank C.A. Suleiman for running a game for me
(unfortunately, it was Saturday night and I could barely keep my
eyes open!). By now I'm sure that people have heard about the
onset of D&D Fourth Edition, and you may be wondering what this
means for Eberron and what I think about it. Because I'm too
lazy to figure out how to edit this page myself, I've started
using
www.livejournal.com, and I suggest you check out
my journal.
There were lots of things about
Gen Con worth mentioning, but I need to get back to work on my
novel, so I'll leave you with this terrifying scene of Bossy
being attacked by a beholder. It looks grim, but all I'll
say is that the beholder should have known better than to
swallow the Hellcow.
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