Panniers, Saturdays, & Stuff

Panniers. Took my panniers out again to gaming both last Wednesday and Saturday. I don't know that I'll be using them every time I game, but I'm trying to get comfortable with them. Well, mostly I'm trying to get comfortable that they won't go flying off when I use them.

So, Wednesday I rode to Endgame, tensing every time I hit a bump, fissure, or pothole at speed, but the panniers stayed firmly attached. On the way back, feeling more confident, I did my best to hit many speedbumps hard and fast. Not only did I get a good workout, but my panniers remained attached. Yay!

Then I managed to send one flying again on my way home from EndGame on Saturday. Boo.

So I'm pretty sure the problem is that I brush up against them with my foot, part of the pannier jumps up over the divider on the rack, and then is poised to fly away. Theoretically I should be able to correct the way I position my feet, but I'm also considering whether I just need to tie the damned panniers down. Most annoying.

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Saturday. Speaking of Saturday, for a bit now we've been rushing toward the end of Savage Tide, and I'd been open to the possibility of simultaneously ending my Traveller campaign, if it wasn't well balanced with whatever else was running.

Then, in the last few days I came to the conclusion that I wanted to. It's always been a lot of prep work, but I'm also increasingly feeling like I'm retreading the same ideas, and whether the players notice or not, that's not fun for me.

So, I announced that I would definitively be ending Traveller at my next chapter point. I now know that it's going to be two weeks of Traveller run hence. As with most campaigns, I plan to end it where the majority of the current stories have stopped, but to consider the possibility that I might want to start it again some day.

For the future, I've let folks know that I definitely don't want to run both games as we change things out. Mary is considering Dresden or 4E while Donald offered the possibility he could run something too a bit back. I've told them that my first choice for my new game would be Kingmaker for Pathfinder, but that I'm open to returning to my old AD&D or Stormbringer campaigns as well.

(No one really remembered the Stormbringer campaign, sadly.)

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Weather. Sucks. Worst summer ever.

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Guest Cat. Coming soon. I should stowaway in Melody's suitcase for Hawaii.

The History Book: Week #21

So after a few weeks working on history articles that were less than challenging, this weekend I settled on White Wolf. Hoo boy.

The original piece was about 8000 words long, but it was also one of my original pieces, published over at RPGnet, and it was late enough in the book that it hadn't been updated when I was crashing toward the completion of the book the first time, back in 2007. In other words, it needed some expansion.

So over the course of the weekend I revised those 8000 words, filled the article with quotes, and wrote about 6000 more. I'm very pleased with both the revision and the expansion, and I think it paints a much more detailed and interesting picture of the company.

Though I got the main chunk of the WhitE Wolf article done, there's still some work to be done. I should write two or three boxes. I'm thinking about "Horror in the RPG Industry", "Magazine Histories: White Wolf", and "Mini-Histories: Malhavoc Press". The first two should be pretty easy. The last will take some additional research.

I also got a bit rushed at the end and I missed including a paragraph about Scion as well as denoted that at this year's GenCon, White Wolf most bizarrely decided not to sell product. I'll need to remember to put those in. Oh, and I should look at the forum thread from the original article posting to see if it had anything I should be thinking about.

I'll probably do that revision on some future week when I've done something light. And now that I've done White Wolf, I'm going to probably move on to Holistic Design and Atlas Games, which are connected to the Lion Rampant and White Wolf work I've done.