MS Downloads Page
This will be the page where I'll offer various critical reviews of the Game System, should it ever achieve some level of completion. Unfortunately, I've nothing to offer at the moment... Stuff should be added begining around Summer of 2010... provided everything goes as planned (best laid plans...what?). This page is really just a place holder and I'll be designing it as I come up with something to put here...ultimately, this will be where I'll be offering the individual Works of my personal Gaming System (pay particular attention to the "personal" part of that description... it means alot...).
The full Gaming System, if ever completed, is intended and envisioned to be a fully conceptualized Dark-Fantasy Gaming System. If it is ever finally completed, the comprehensive body of work will span all the various Real-World Historical Periods generally associated with Fantasy Gaming; Primeval, Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and Future. Currently, the Medieval Period is the seminal work being produced and the central focus of the entire Gaming System (hence, the title). This intriguing period of time, in the author's eyes, can be seen as the central, defining point from which all other points of our recorded history, directly or indirectly, can be related. Hence, the Gaming System as a whole will emphasize a Medieval-Fantasy theme. The book list below details the current progress of those volumes of creative work in the comprehensive Gaming System that are now at some appreciable level of completion. Note that the actual written production of the extensive body of work is likely to reach far into the future (i.e. the author is quite practical in this matter).
The full extent of the envisioned Gaming System will be listed and somewhat detailed here. Note that all titles are really only abstractions of the general period of time the volume of work details. All titles are subject to random changes at the unpredictable whim of the author's imagination and temperment.
The 1st edition Medieval-Fantasy Character Design Handbook, the introductory work to the entire Gaming System, will (hopefully) be made freely available by PDF download on this site around summer of 2010. This release may also include some attempt at POD self-publication. This release is entirely dependant, of course, upon the author's capacity to escape all the responsibilities related to his forced servitude to modern capitalism (a.k.a. "the real job"), competing personal interests ( arts and humanities, history, languages, and the related lists of general reading subjects -- mostly ignored at the moment), and a number of household chores (like paying any meaningful attention to the wife). In addition to these distractions, the author is constantly plagued by random periods of intense writer's-block (mercifully only lasting a couple of weeks). All these circumstances are currently threatening to prolong the final production of this work well into the future. Despite any likely adversity, however, this work will be completed at some practical point in the future -- even if at the cost of the author's mental health (tenuously clinging to any real-world existence or practical identity in the first place!). The author can only envision some incident of truly epic consequences interfering with the final production of this work -- something that, in all probability, will require the involvement of various legal agencies.
Any and all other additional works may or may not be completed/released as the author is likely to loose all shreds of sanity (and free-time) before then!