Caladon Falls - Fundraising Project!

I was alerted earlier today about this little fundraising project on twitter and I thought I would do what I could to help out.  Savage Mojo is trying to get their setting book, for the Savage World's RPG printed and ready for Gen Con 2011!  They need your help and have set up a fundraising project to try and meet some of the financial needs.  I should make it pretty clear, I have never actually played a game of Savage Worlds.  I would very much like to give it a try at some point, but for now, I am left waiting.  I have however gotten a chance to look at this book, in PDF form, and I can tell you that it is 150 pages of pretty awesome stuff.  I haven't had a chance to give it a full read yet, and there is a lot of rules specific stuff that I don't quite understand (given my lack of Savage Worlds rules knowledge) but the setting itself seems to be made of awesome and I can totally see myself playing a game or three (or four... or many more) in this setting.

Currently, they are about one third of the way into their $7500 goal with only about 11 days left on the clock.  Time's ticking.  Here's some more info regarding the project and what they are aiming to accomplish with this fundraising effort.

Our Story
Caladon Falls is Savage Mojo’s first foray into fantasy setting books designed for Savage Suzerain, using Pinnacle's award-winning Savage Worlds rules. Kicked off in November as a PDF, we’ve been asked repeatedly when it will be in print. With your help, we’d like to answer that with, “Before Gen Con 2011!”
As the trailer shows, there are a lot of people who have worked their hearts out to produce a top-notch, high-art, high-quality roleplaying game (RPG) book packed with stunning visuals, intriguing plots, and inventive prose. Caladon Falls is brought to you by names you’ll know and those we hope will become some of your new favorites. And every one of us wants you to experience Caladon Falls the most complete way possible: by owning it for yourself – in print.
The Impact
Funds raised through this campaign go toward the production costs of a 750 book, limited edition print-run for Caladon Falls in its full glory. Each book is hard cover containing full-color interiors on high-quality paper. Those who choose to support us at qualifying tiers will get a copy shipped to them along with any other goodies at their chosen tier. Your generosity will help us gain the ability to put additional books on retailers’ shelves for others to access, increasing awareness of our company and introducing more gamers to the Suzerain Universe. If we do not meet our full goal, the funds will still be used to provide the perks promised and put some copies on our convention tables by way of an alternative printing plan.
What We Need & What You Get
We have twelve tiers to enable you to help as you wish. Every sponsor matters and every increment helps! From $1 to simply be remembered as helping to $39 to get not just the physical book, but also the accompanying PDFs of both the full GM's book and the player's guide to our super-crazy, $549 Patron of Suzerain tier with so much stuff you won't believe we're offering it. Printed Gamescapes maps, custom character sheets, short stories dedicated to you, and so much more are available just because you want to help us reach our goals.

It definitely seems like a worthy cause to me.  Try to do what you can! I'm sure they will appreciate it.

Expanding My Horizons - New Game Coverage on the Way

I have been reexamining my goals for this website over the last few days now that I have finally hit 200 posts. It has been a long ride, but I am really happy with how the site has progressed, but, looking at my goals for this site, I realized that I have gotten a bit off track.

At the outset, I hadn't really intended for this site to be completely concerned with 4th Edition D&D. However, that is exactly what it has become. I have been covering Wizards of the Coast and 4e almost exclusively over the last 2 years mostly because this is the only game that I have really had the chance to play recently.

Living in Japan doesn't really give me the chance to play too many different games, but I have finally convinced my wife to give some Role Playing a Try. However, I don't really anticipate any long campaigns to come out of this immidiately. What I have talked with her about is exploring a variety of new games and settings in order to find one that we can play together and enjoy. So... I now have an excuse to begin expanding my RPG collection.

Some of the games which I have picked up, or will be picking up in the near future include:

Pathfinder
Deathwatch
Savage Worlds
Mouse Guard
Gamma World

and lastly, L5R. L5R looks like it is going to be our starting point. The fact that my wife is Japanese, I live in Japan, and play games with my wife in Japanese, this just seems to be the logical starting point. I have the L5R Core Rule Book on order and I will be picking it up around Christmas when I make my annual trip back to the US. Now, I am going over the free RPG day adventures and quick start and I have to say, I am really impressed with the 4e style of the game. Can't wait to give it a try.

Look forward to a vast variety of new game coverage, news, and homebrew covering not only 4e, but also a variety of other sources as well.

Finally, as I am planning a fairly large expansion to this site, I am looking for other people who would like to join me in writing on any of these, or other games. If you would like to be a guest poster here, please e-mail me! you can find my contact information at the top of this page.

Thanks for your continuing support!