Next steps

It's been a quiet week, since I spent much of my time at my new job this week, and had busier than normal weekend and evenings. I do, however, hope to get the blogging moving again, and I have three projects in particular that I'm focusing on in the short term.

1) SWTOR. I'm playing a fair bit again after setting it aside for a good six weeks or more. I've got a decent-sized backlog of raw video to convert, and plus I think the new Season 3 is supposed to start tomorrow. I guess I won't necessarily blog about this with a regular cadence or anything, but when stuff comes up that I want to talk about, I'll probably do so and because I'm playing a lot right now, it may be a bit more than normal. As usual when I play SWTOR a lot, it tends to draw my attention to Space Opera X and its setting too. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that comes up here and there, although I do put a lot of that kind of stuff on the other gaming blog, honestly.

2) I want to do the remaining work on my 5x5 for CHAOS IN WAYCHESTER. I might actually even run this sooner than I thought; my oldest son, who hadn't ever been particularly interested in D&D before, says that his two brother-in-laws (his wife's brothers) are interested in playing, and he was talking about trying to do something with them. I told him that I would be happy to run for them, if they add my daughter's fiancé to the group too; I know he's interested. But even if I don't run, I still want to finish the development work anyway. Personal issues have obviously caused a delay, but I honestly thought I'd have been done with this by now.

This will include, by the way, a redrawing of a part of my map, so I'll have some more mapmaking posts when I get to that phase of the project too.

3) I want to finish my more detailed posts about the races. My material in the rulebook itself is pretty sparse, and while I talk plenty about kemlings and jann and Hyperboreans and whatnot here and there, I really haven't put it down in a succinct yet "one stop shop" kind of format before. My Hyperborean post from a couple of weeks ago will be the format that I'll probably follow for the other races, although I may think of improvements to its presentation yet. I'm finding that doing this causes me to develop as I post, because details will come up that I hadn't thought of before, so it's a good setting development exercise too.

Some other stuff outside of those three pillars that I have on the backburner include a possible revamping of the monster list from Dark Fantasy X and actually turning Space Opera X into a document in the same format as Dark Fantasy X. Those are longer term projects that I always meant to do but hadn't gotten around to yet; I'll just note them here in case I get started on them by some miracle.