Reading

My whole world has caught on fire the last month or so. I will end up spending less than 48 hours at home in four weeks total when I'm finally done traveling for work emergencies and extended family emergencies. I have not been able to read as much as I'd like, and I've pretty much given up on trying to play SWTOR for the time being. It's been a catastrophe. I've been busy, very, very stressed, very frustrated, and simply not in a good mood for a long time. But I have managed to at least read a little. I finished Buccaneers of Freeport and have read about a third so far of the d20 Freeport Companion. Which you can't exactly buy under that title anymore, but you can get a pdf at least of the 3rd Era Freeport Companion which is the same book, just retitled and slightly modified on the cover. I bought it years and years ago before the old d20 license went caput, so I have the older, original title. 

I found, or remember, more accurately, that the rules are very specific to d20/D&D of the 3.5 edition. I suspect that the other companions are significantly different after all, although I've never really read them in detail, although also that they're so ingrained with the system that they're almost meaningless to someone who doesn't play that system. But now I'm concerned that I might possibly miss something if I don't at least do a (relatively) thorough skimming of the books, so I'll probably do that. Sigh. Let me load those pdfs on my tablet before I go out of town again later this week. I'm really determined to finish reading the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path while traveling too, so two more adventures to read. I haven't, on the other hand, touched my novels, but I have a lot of those in my backpack too right now.

All of this is a big pain. I'm getting hit up to run my "piratey" themed game by some of my gaming group, and I've had to tell them to wait for a while... after I've been hoping to get a chance to run it for a couple of months now. My plan for that is to run a very loosely adapted version of the Freeport Trilogy, followed by possibly some other Freeport modules or other related type of modules or adventures or just stuff that I come up with, if necessary. The Freeport official modules are pretty hit or miss; I'm excited about half of them, more or less, and I'd never run the other half. And even the stuff that I would run would be heavily modified.

I've got other seafaring material too, of course, like the Savage Tide adventure path that I read last year, or the Serpent's Skull adventure path that I read several years ago. Heck, I've still for the Pathfinder regular 6-part style Green Ronin adventure path, Return to Freeport. Actually, getting to that, even though it's at the end of the Trawl, was what I was probably most excited about reading. I needed, of course, to get there by getting the context of reading the other material, including some that I'd never read to date, before reading it, but I now have the final goal in sight. 

UPDATE: That's a crappy looking image. Maybe I'll replace it shortly. UPDATE II: Screw it. I'll use an old Eberron image from my blog history. UPDATE III: OK, got a better ChatGTP image.