After 11 months, the Halls of the Mountain King for 4th Edition D&D has shipped to its patrons (check your email for details).

It's impossible to thank everyone who contributed, of course, but fortunately most of you know who you are. I'd like to single out two contributors for the 4th Edition in particular:

Ben McFarland for some key design work and for keeping the playtest effort on track, and
Scott Gable for pulling together the editorial on a massive project that started behind.

The results speak for themselves, I hope, and I'm very happy with the way that the new design started from the ground up, though it took longer to do. At 264 pages for the adventure+gazetteer, I think patrons got roughly double their money's worth.

For those who were not patrons, the Iron Gazetteer is available now and Halls is available to patrons of Courts of the Shadow Fey.

Dwarves work cheap; I hope you enjoy the result!

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You go, chaste girl:

Tweedle me deedles.

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How many times do I have to say "You might want to check them out, they just get more and more insane, and pretty clearly, just from the way you're mocking them, you just read part of the first one?"

Total spoilage of the insanity of the last book in "THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE" at CHUD.

I have no fucking idea who's going to make that movie or how they're going to do it. Just leave important chunks out of the adaptation or smooth them down so they won't hurt anybody? Chris Weitz, who made New Moon, already did that with The Golden Compass, and...what usually happens, the movie pleased no one, not the Christians ready to snap at the atheist content of the books, not everybody else who, uh, kinda liked those books because of the attacks on religion.

That version of Breaking Dawn would be a big letdown.

Oh, and BTW: you should really go revisit your fairy tales if your jaw's dropping, because absolutely nothing in this book is...novel. You've read stories about monsters mounting women and they have monster babies and men imprinting on infants or children and a betrothal beginning that way. And liked them, even.

Thanks to Julia Sevin, my self in another body with a vagina and boobs, only not really, for pointing this out to me today.

Tweedle me deedles.

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How many times do I have to say "You might want to check them out, they just get more and more insane, and pretty clearly, just from the way you're mocking them, you just read part of the first one?"

Total spoilage of the insanity of the last book in "THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE" at CHUD.

I have no fucking idea who's going to make that movie or how they're going to do it. Just leave important chunks out of the adaptation or smooth them down so they won't hurt anybody? Chris Weitz, who made New Moon, already did that with The Golden Compass, and...what usually happens, the movie pleased no one, not the Christians ready to snap at the atheist content of the books, not everybody else who, uh, kinda liked those books because of the attacks on religion.

That version of Breaking Dawn would be a big letdown.

Oh, and BTW: you should really go revisit your fairy tales if your jaw's dropping, because absolutely nothing in this book is...novel.

Thanks to Julia Sevin, my self in another body with a vagina and boobs, only not really, for pointing this out to me today.

Tweedle me deedles.

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You go, chaste girl:

Tweedle me deedles.

Originally published at Minor Bun Engine Made Benny Lava!. Please leave any comments there.

How many times do I have to say "You might want to check them out, they just get more and more insane, and pretty clearly, just from the way you're mocking them, you just read part of the first one?"

Total spoilage of the insanity of the last book in "THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE" at CHUD.

I have no fucking idea who's going to make that movie or how they're going to do it. Just leave important chunks out of the adaptation or smooth them down so they won't hurt anybody? Chris Weitz, who made New Moon, already did that with The Golden Compass, and...what usually happens, the movie pleased no one, not the Christians ready to snap at the atheist content of the books, not everybody else who, uh, kinda liked those books because of the attacks on religion.

That version of Breaking Dawn would be a big letdown.

Oh, and BTW: you should really go revisit your fairy tales if your jaw's dropping, because absolutely nothing in this book is...novel. You've read stories about monsters mounting women and they have monster babies and men imprinting on infants or children and a betrothal beginning that way. And liked them, even.

Thanks to Julia Sevin, my self in another body with a vagina and boobs, only not really, for pointing this out to me today.

Tweedle me deedles.

Originally published at Minor Bun Engine Made Benny Lava!. Please leave any comments there.

How many times do I have to say "You might want to check them out, they just get more and more insane, and pretty clearly, just from the way you're mocking them, you just read part of the first one?"

Total spoilage of the insanity of the last book in "THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE" at CHUD.

I have no fucking idea who's going to make that movie or how they're going to do it. Just leave important chunks out of the adaptation or smooth them down so they won't hurt anybody? Chris Weitz, who made New Moon, already did that with The Golden Compass, and...what usually happens, the movie pleased no one, not the Christians ready to snap at the atheist content of the books, not everybody else who, uh, kinda liked those books because of the attacks on religion.

That version of Breaking Dawn would be a big letdown.

Oh, and BTW: you should really go revisit your fairy tales if your jaw's dropping, because absolutely nothing in this book is...novel.

Thanks to Julia Sevin, my self in another body with a vagina and boobs, only not really, for pointing this out to me today.

Tweedle me deedles.

Originally published at Minor Bun Engine Made Benny Lava!. Please leave any comments there.

Yesterday we made it through 4 stores worth of shopping before noon. Then promptly needed sustanance and sleep.

After the nap we went back out shopping yesterday. The final result yesterday was... 6 1/2 hours of shopping. Which means we finished the last of the list of people we still had to get gifts for. And helped my father pick out gifts for ourselves.

Gift List Win... Human Survival Rate - Epic Fail.

I want to sleep until after the new year!

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Garmegula roars and stomps around the industrial park, leaving twenty-foot prints in the concrete, which makes it difficult for Jebediah to finish his PowerPoint.

“The red line, of course, tracks gross revenue over six months, and the blue area would cover expenditures.”

“KREEE,” Garmegula bellows.

“Now, that’s not a great-looking graph!” says Jebediah, who was up until 3 am trying to make it look less terrible.

“GREEAGGH,” says Garmegula.

“But th-things look good to roll out the second wave of action figures in December, and the interactive DVD is–”

“WE ARE WAY BELOW PROJECTIONS FOR Q3,” says Garmegula.

Thanksgiving Blahs. Forgive me.

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Apropos of nothing, I was listening to this when I saw that.

But, of course, I have a big red Atari logo in the exact same place.

Tweedle me deedles.

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Apropos of nothing, I was listening to this when I saw that.

But, of course, I have a big red Atari logo in the exact same place.

Tweedle me deedles.

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The next Open Design Podcast is out, and it's a winner! Tony DiTerlizzi of Planescape, Monstrous Manual, and Spiderwick Chronicles fame talks about how to improve your art and art direction, and he sketched up a prize for us as well. Yes, you could win a Tony DiTerlizzi drawing, just by subscribing to the Open Design Podcast RSS feed.

If that's not enough, Mike Mearls of Wizards of the Coast talked with us about design, collaboration, and his favorite adventures. And told us just a little about an upcoming boardgame project as well.

The free podcast awaits; let me know what you think.

Dinner was, as always, very delicious. One of the best things that ever happened for us was Tim discovering the Food Network, Alton Brown, and a general love of cooking. We all helped out, and the only thing we forgot was (AGAIN!) to add the pecans to the sweet potatoes. Didn't get to the pie yet as we ate kind of late and were all too stuffed to move.

Watched some football and a lot of Avatar, one of Becca's latest crazes that she's now inflicting upon her aunt and grandparents. Today, just when they'll be thinking she's almost fairly normal, she's gonna hit 'em with Repo: The Genetic Opera and remind them once again what a dark twisted little weirdo she truly is :)

Vanilla eggnog with butterscotch schnapps in it is yummy. Not exactly eggnoggy, but yummy in its own creamy deliciousness. I'm now thinking that the schnapps might be fun to put in the blender with some ice cream, a dollop of dessert topping and those butterscotch baking chips for a shake ...

Today, Tim has to work Black Friday down at the game store. I've got some laundry and chores, not planning on venturing within a 2-mile radius of a mall if I can help it. Becca and Kathy are still sleeping. Dottie and John are planning to try their luck at some of the shopping madness, then join us here at the house. We have loads of leftovers to nosh upon.

Tomorrow, the plan is for us all to go out to a movie (2012, looks like, which will be over-the-top cheeseball disaster porn; I at least will probably love it because I have some questionable cinematic tastes) and either lunch out before or dinner out after, depending on when we get organized.

And though it's still a ways away, this time of year tends to go fast so I thought I'd toss it out there early, with more details later ... but we're hosting the New Year's thing again, I don't have to work this time, and it'd be great to have some of MY weird friends and/or relatives show up so I'm not totally outnumbered!

So hey, start giving it a think, huh people? :) Some of you, it's only a four-hour drive or so. I'm off most of the week so could certainly pick up at airport or train station too. We have couches and floor space. Camp out, watch the Rose Parade with me in the morning?

Joy may have found the source of this picture here.

From this page

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Exactly?

Also, I'm pretty sure the secret ingredient in moose chili is "substitute moose."

Tweedle me deedles.

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Exactly?

Also, I'm pretty sure the secret ingredient in moose chili is "substitute moose."

Tweedle me deedles.

Originally published at Minor Bun Engine Made Benny Lava!. Please leave any comments there.

Hope you all had a joyous one!


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Evonne's calling everybody and announcing that we're broken up. She can't seem to get straight whether she broke up with me or I broke up with her, but either way, she does know that none of this is her fault. So that's good.

At any rate, I got an answer to my final "Please stop doing this to me," so I'll make the last entry private, there's no point to it being up after that.

Time to dig out the "Getting the hell out of here" plans, again. Sigh.

Tweedle me deedles.

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