Update

Well, I had a very quiet vacation, in which I was almost completely offline. So, as you can imagine, I've got a lot on my mind, but I can't possibly even attempt to capture it all right here right now.

The first thought I have is related to gaming. My big hobby. There's a pretty nifty Star Wars game that's built on the same basic game engine as Dungeons & Dragons (the d20 game engine). It's got three editions that all came out over the course of about five years. I bought the first two, barely cracked them open after first getting them, and decided to pass on the third edition. Which is too bad, as purportedly it's the best of the bunch.

Still; the idea that I've had kicking around for some time in the back of my head is to use the Star Wars d20 system for a fantasy setting. Let the two Jedi classes and the Force Adept be magic users, convert the lightsaber into some kind of magic blade, sorta like Psylocke's mindblade (from the X-men), tweak a few unnecessary skills out (like the ability pilot starships or repair droids, for example), grab a few races from fantasy sources, replace blasters with flintlocks or something, and run with it.

I think the game would feel more like Flash Gordon on Mongo or John Carter of Mars than it does like D&D, but I'm perfectly OK with that. In fact, that's a strength of the idea for someone like me, who's a bit lukewarm to D&D anyway.

Other than that basic idea, though, I haven't ever done any development. I have no idea where else this would go.