This weekend I finsh off the layout for the first issue of Heart’s in Glorantha.

darransims  has come up with the goods cover wise.

Its a extremely suitable ‘wrapper’ for all the high quality articles and art . Oh yes we have art, some of it jaw droppingly good -cheers Darran for sourcing.

There’s more about the first issue in a preview up on the D101 Games website

I’m chuffed to bits with the first issue, which has been very much thrown together very quickly. Its a credit to the people who have submitted articles.

First off the bad. Its glorious weather outside, but I’ve been stuck inside since yesterday since I’ve pulled a muscle in my back. Yesterday was spent hobbling around like an old man, today my posture is back but I have sharp pain down my left side. OW!

The Good. I’m off work, and paradoxically the best place for me is at the computer! So as well as some crafty gaming (mmmn Stalker: Shadows of Chenobyl) I’m cracking on on my adventure for SimpleQuest, Life and Death. Already standing at something like 50 pages its a beast of thing, but over the last couple of days its really started to come together. Should get the first draft complete today!

Just had a big burst of activity and spent what feels like the last 2 hours cleaning up.  Main area of zappage was the middle bedroom which is where I put my computer. If you know me its a continuation of the den, where my messy 15 year old self holds court. Well no more, Rach gave me an ultimatum clean up or no computer. Seeing as it turns up tomorrow, today is do it day. So its done, and I’ve just chucked another load of clutter in the bin. The middle bedroom is one of our favourite dumping grounds. Things that go there are usually on their way to the attic, to garage (where there will be a reckoning one day) or the bin.  There’s a rant in there somewhere, but for now I’ll just leave it at 99% of my problems these days are to do with too much stuff in my life.

All the content, bar Darran’s HQ scenario which hes doing next week along with some art :), for Hearts in Glorantha is in 😀 I’m currently gobsmaked. For something that has come together almost on a whim, the quality is outstanding. I can’t really single anyone out. Little old me has ten or so top quality articles to do justice on layout. 50 odd pages of copy and not a dud amoungst them. Job tomorrow print it all out and enjoy reading it. This job does have its perks after all 🙂

Another writing job I’ve started this weekend is the end of SimpleQuest. All the hard rulesy bits are done and have been edited by the lovely

gspearing

. Now I’m just doing the example setting (think Charlemagne’s Europe with Orcs), monster descriptions for the creatures chapter and a very simple adventure that teaches the rules. Its all a bit fluffy, but very nice to write. Should all be done and dusted by next weekend 🙂

Evie was charming today, despite being shut in the house for most of it. Managed to go out on her trike down half mile or so of road, there and back twice which meant I walked a grand total of 2 miles. Between going out for walks with Evie and gardening I’m beginning to get back into exercising which is good news.

Looking forward to work this week. Its going to be a challenging week, but I’ve learnt from the hard work I’ve put in this weekend that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have to happy and relaxing where I allow things to work themselves out and not get in the way 🙂

So Rach is on nights this weekend. Not something I enjoy, being in the house on my own freaks me out and I don’t sleep as well. Evie didn’t go down well last night, it took an hour to settle her. But once she did, I had me curry and settled in to catching up with TV (Battlestar Gallatica) and Films (Walk the Line and the Buffalo Soliders – both damn fine films, BS especially). Did a bit of RPG writing, but didn’t bust a gut like I planned. Struck me how much I needed to have a good relaxing night in.

Another night in alone tonight. Going to pick up the pace on the writing, since I have sorted out my writing set up with the laptop.  Got to make the most of it, since back to usual tommorrow and my gaming PC turns up 🙂