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What horrors await the Heroes when they are tasked with retrieving information from a derelict R'tillek star ship? Can they accomplish their mission before the R'tillek fleet comes to reclaim what is rightfully theirs? Find out in this action-packed adventure written by Andrew Bacon!

Salvage Run is a True20 adventure for the Reign of Discordia campaign setting. The adventure begins in Rover's Beacon, a space station that orbits the gas giant Teron and serves as a major trading post. It is a major port-of-call for traders of all sorts, and a popular embarkation point for expeditions to the uncharted systems beyond the Frontier. This adventure is designed for four to six fifth level characters.

Salvage Run can be played as either the second part of the campaign begun in Virus, or as a stand alone adventure. It further explores the twin threats of the R'Tillek and the Lamagos Star Navy, as well as introducing a new species, which may prove more important to the fate of the former Imperium than would at first seem apparent....




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So I recently joined Scarrport co-writers Graydon Schlichter and Greg Tito to chat with Rone Barton and Ed Healy about Scarrport: City of Secrets on their Atomic Array podcast.

Pretty fun interview!

Ed and Rone do a great job with Atomic Array and I hope they continue to do so for a long time to come.

In the interview, we talk at great lengths about the city of secrets and everything you'll find in the book.

We also give props to Fred Hicks and Everyone over at One Bad Egg for their work on the Gods of the Shroud. If you're reading this.. Great stuff guys!

You can check out the interview here!

Ugh.

Sometimes I really hate Texas, especially on days when it's very humid. My allergies are going nuts, and I'm all sweaty and sticky. It's hard to even think about working, not that I'd be able to anyhow.

I'm sort of in a creative flux.

I have a NEED to do some writing, but I can't decide what. I've spent most of the day pouring over rules systems, looking at submissions which have a lot of promise, and generally thinking about stuff.

But overall, I feel like I'm in a holding pattern; waiting for something to happen, but I don't know exactly_what_that is.

The wife is coming home early today, and I think we're going to go see Wolverine tonight. maybe that's what I need - a night out, to re-energize myself.

Some people need days in, but since I do my work at home, I hardly go anywhere.

Ok. I've rambled enough.

Whew!

It's about time I got this one out the door. It's debuted at  #7 on rpgnow's top 100 list, so that's pretty cool, though I sometimes wonder how reliable those top lists are.

Overall I'm pretty happy with it, though some errata's coming back that needs fixing.

Ahh, I love errata, it makes me all tingly.

Scarrport is published using the Gods of the Shroud, by the great folks over at One Bad Egg. If you haven't checked out their stuff, you should.
They make some great 4th edition PDFs. very original material. very cool stuff. We teamed up to bundle Scarrport and the Gods of the Shroud, something I'm excited about!

You can grab Scarrport (and the bundle!) here

We at Reality Deviant Publications want to show our appreciation for everyone who has supported us in the past and impress on those of you who might be considering picking up our PDFs that we are committed to bringing you the best game supplements we can possibly make in the future.

In light of the events of the past couple of days, we are putting all* of our True20 books on sale for either 1 dollar or 2 dollars at DTRPG and RPGNOW, depending on the size of the book.

So, if you have been wanting to check out some of our titles, but were on the fence, or you just want to add to your true20 collection now is the time!

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Once again. Thank you so much for all of your support. We wouldn't be able to do this without your patronage.

-David Jarvis
President of Reality Deviant Publications

*-due to licensing terms, we cannot offer our True20 conversion of Colonial Gothic for a reduce price.

I just wonder what the WOTC brain-trust was thinking when they decided to pull their pdfs out of OBS and PAIZO.

Maybe the conversation went something like this:

Corporate moron #1 "This piracy thing SUX!!"

Corporate Moron #2 "TRUE DAT! But, what can we do about it?"

Corporate moron #1 "Don't ask me, my brain hurts from chewing on all that tinfoil for breakfast and I can't think straight."

Corporate Moron #2 "Lawl! Noob."

Corporate moron #2 "Hmmm... wait, I just had an idea... yeah... I had an idea!!! We could fight piracy by pulling our PDFs off online retail sites!"

Corporate moron #1 "ooooh. You is smart!"

Corporate moron #2 " Yeah! I ROXXORS!"

Corporate Moron #1 "Should we warn our customers first?"

Corporate Moron #2 "Naww.. They won't notice. They're too busy reading PHB2!"

Corporate Moron #1 "OH-KAY! let's do it!"

Corporate Moron #2 "We rule...Hey, got any more of that tinfoil?"

I'm really craving a chicken salad sandwich right now, and some veggies with dip.

Awesome Song.

This guy looks pretty cool. I'm loving the artwork Anthony is doing for this project.

A big part of world development is coming up with solid, evocative names for the places you want to introduce your readers to. It's arguably one of the toughest aspects of creating a world.

At least for me.

I'll be writing along, getting some good stuff down, and then suddenly I'll come to an element of the fiction that needs a name. It might be a canyon, a forest, a city, or a person or race...whatever. The tap-tapping sounds of the keyboard cease as I stare at this blank spot on the page.

I can feel my mental gears grind to a screeching halt as I fumble to find adjectives that have an appropriate connotation, yet don't sound like something I've read or heard elsewhere. The page mocks me as I type, erase and retype, searching for that ever-elusive perfect name; the one combination of words (or a single word, as the case may be) that properly conveys the subject matter.

This is where writing ceases to be enjoyable, and becomes work.

It's so easy to just step away from the keyboard at this point (and some people say that's exactly what I should do when this happens...), but I can't seem to do that. Part of me wants to furiously type through my block, keep going... The other part of me wants to play guitar hero, but guitar hero doesn't get me any closer to a deadline.

ugh...

Tough getting motivated this morning.

I still have some work to do, though my imagination isn't running amok today, which strangely enough, is a good thing.

I tend to get flooded with all sorts of ideas and then proceed to go off on wild tangents, which, while cool ideas (at least in my mind), only serve to distract me. Before I know it, a couple of hours have passed and I haven't made progress on things  I should be getting done.

Today however, my mind is a bit quiet.

OK, after a long, long hiatus (or was it just a lack of interest/time?), I'm going to try and start writing in my live journal again.

Today hasn't been bad.

I'm getting some good editing done for Scarrport.

I'm_still_finding things I'd like to add to this book though.. sheesh. I'm sitting here writing up Encounter groups for night fang eels, and I wonder to myself:

"Who do these guys hang out with? Well... nobody, they're eels (rather large, vicious eels, but eels nonetheless). But...Do other creatures use them as slaves?"

Bad question for me to ask myself on the tail end of an edit.

Now I'm sitting here wondering if Sahuagin might work in a river setting. They're sea creatures, but I don't suppose nothing would keep them from coming upstream and forming a colony on one of the islands on the Torberyn River.

Maybe they have freshwater cousins...

Ugh..

Geez, I've been neglecting this journal.

In my defense, I've been really busy lately getting the Blood Throne book ready to be printed. After a long birthday weekend filled with awesome BBQ and layout, I'm happy to say the interior layout for the book is done and I'm just formatting the cover, which should look neat when it's done.

After that, it's uploading and sending off for a proof copy!

I like rain. It's really nice to see the area get it too. It's been dry all summer so the sound of rain pounding on my roof is great.

I just hope I rolled up my car window.

I've just been in contact with Sadie Gregg, who works with Clyde Lewis at Ground Zero radio. I think they will be plugging the upcoming RDP book "Alien Invasion" on their radio show.

This could prove to be pretty cool.

Can't seem to get motivated today.

I have a ton of things to do, maybe I'm just overwhelmed by it all and can't figure out where to begin. I've been getting alot of ideas lately for new projects. The problem is I still have existing projects that need work... arrg.

Need more coffee I think.