Wow, months have gone by… but the site’s still here, and so are we.

Here’s the skinny. We’re a “time donation” kind of project, not unlike inventing some new device in your garage or basement. Recently, the design team here has had a few non-gaming related distractions which are just now reaching their resolution.

Fear not, ’cause we still believe in the design and re now starting work to improve the overall presentation of our core product. This doesn’t mean that for those who’ve already purchased and play the game (thank you!) that you must buy the new stuff to continue. All it means is that we’re trying to make it even easier to understand the core concepts and better define the multiverse where our stories exist.

Hang in there; good stuff is coming.

Due to those meddlesome summertime vacation days, some work that needs to be done, and a group of players suddenly busier than expected, we’re suspending our ongoing campaign for a few weeks, possibly months. We’ll be shooting for something all-new and a player recruitment sometime in August or September. To everyone who played and as far as we got, thanks!

This is neither a news site nor one in support or defiance of another game system, but as with anything in the table-top RPG hobby, it affects us all. According to John Kovalic, happy-evil RPG artist extraordinaire, these two pioneering magazines that have stood the test of time after being separately published by three different companies, will end dead-tree publication as of August 2007. The two publications will live on as shadowy online versions of their former selves until they can be resurrected as cute little forest critters (okay, I made up the resurrection part).

While it may be plain and obvious that this website is here for advertising and support of Kindling Moon, the fact is that we, the creators, also use it to for linking up with friends and such. To that end, I’ve expanded the ‘Forums’ listing to include other message boards out there that we use to both make it faster to get to and create a few back links to get them more love. If you have any more, please suggest them!

From the bad news department, it looks like there may not be a GrailQuest this year due to Sanctuary’s closing and such, but convention planners intend to have it up for 2008 bigger and better.

Just a little design work we’ve been playing with for an in-store poster and upcoming desktop. The shadow of the character may look familiar for those who own the book. Enjoy!

At the bottom, it says, “You’re going to need more than a d20,” with a picture of a 20-sided die in place of the word. Hey, we’re not lying… we use ALL the dice (those are the other pointy, numbered things in your bag).

While it’s fun to think that raging barbarians freshly escaped from a Capital One commercial dashed down the streets of Jacksonville, Florida, and crashed through the game store windows of Sanctuary Games & Books and burned it to the ground (save yourselves!), alas its inventory has been sold to War Dogs and the shop itself has closed it’s doors. Emi the Owner (which is fun to say for some odd reason) has voluntarily taken a position as a humble clerk and has been freed of the responsibility to keep the Santuary walls standing.

The real questions are A) where we gonna play our next game, and B) is there going to be a GrailQuest this year (or any other ever again?) Stay tuned for all these answers and to see what the War Dogs will do with their sacked loot.