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4 years ago
Coffee With The Princess!
Cogitating Ideas For 2022!
**Giggles!**
If you read the earlier journal, thanks for taking the time out to do so. Just like most of my journals, it's me just using them to gather my thoughts and put them into some sort of order, even if it's nothing more than a sounding board. Something that I do in real life too, by the way. Since I have been able to kick back a bit at work while letting the Office Bunnies do their thing and the Bosses deal with the Big Decisions and Meetings, I've been doing some more cogitating, trying to come up with ideas on what I can do for this year. Here's some of the ideas ...
The Saturday Night Tabletop Group has me back to doing the Dungeon Mastering once again, this time with the Council of Thieves, which has also allowed me to keep the introduction of different characters to the group. One of them is Tana Kayla, an older character from way back when, but with a bit of a twist. She is an elven sorceress who had one parent being a red dragon of immense power, but also a well versed character in various character classes too. While for the current adventure path, Tana Kayla is starting out as a sorceress, she will also delve into gunslinger and rogue as well, possibly alchemist. That means if I go three or four classes, the best she can hope for in all the classes being of equal level, she will be 4th or 5th levels in each. That's fine. Usually, if I remember the thinking of class level versus life experience, a 5th level character is pretty seasoned. Perhaps not professional, but rather good to say the least. Also running the game has gotten me back in the mode of writing too, even though I have been tinkering with a few stories over the year or so. One I started and left for a good cliffhanger was "Greetings, Daughter" and then there's one that's slowly coming together, mainly because of focus and violence. Not something I like doing, but it's part of the story. Hopefully it won't be this time next year when I post it.
A few friends of mine are hoping I will get back to artwork, but it's been hard to do. Not just lack of time, but my eyes have a bit of a hard time focusing when I'm drawing. I can sit back and type pretty well without my glasses, but reading books can be a problem. Now, I have reading glasses which I have discovered are not really helping any more. It seems like there's a point where my eyes straighten out. I sometimes can watch TV at a distance without too much problem and often do so without my glasses. Typing now is easy on my laptop or even the internet computer, but reading a character sheet up close or something out of a book is a serious pain in the butt. The eye doctors have said that my eyes are working fine for their age, but I know something is wrong. I hope when I go back to the main doctor, I can talk to him and see what can be done. Surly there is something that can be done.
Now, one of my friends, while at my place, saw some of the "Choose Your Path!" books that TSR did back in the 1980s and thought this might be doable. Something with some groovy ink-works for artwork to help the story move right along. Another said something about trying to get back to cartooning and sequential art. She's like me: an inflation/expansionist. But, also like me, she adores a good story and she's been reading what I have been doing for the last few decades too. She's also come by the place and offered to play some tabletop games with me while I was healing, so that's the sort of groovy friend she is. Personally, I like the choose your path ideas, but I'm not sure how many people still read ... plus, after hearing one of my friends suggest doing a video game, I sort of thought, "Well ..." though it's going to take some serious work to get into all of that.
I mentioned before the writing. While the Princess and Caitlynn are pretty good and set with what they do in the fantastic world of "The Flip Side!" Israfel is still a work in progress, along with the first part of her story. Somehow the copper top lands in the Mystic Woods, the haunted forest outside of Crossroads, where a lot of the story is centered, and is saved by Alyce Majestic, the local sheriff of the town from the creatures of the woods. They originally were the funghouls, but it was suggested to put in the goblins, a bane of the town. It's got me thinking: "What would happen if a funghoul got ahold of one of these little mischievous monsters?" Mm ...
Also, originally I was going to have Israfel learn how to use alchemy to help stabilize or even restore her elasticity, which is still a focus too, but I had thought with the loss of her powers, what should she do to learn how to defend herself? Archery was one of my favorite sports next to target shooting back when I was a kid and I was pretty good at both. So, Israfel learning how to be a ranger? I thought to originally make Alyce Majestic a gunslinger, but a ranger is also possible too since the Princess is the gunslinger. Mm ... the ideas just are slowly coming along.
My friend also saw my notes on using a color wheel for the potions to help make them look a bit more believable, but that also means that I'm going to need to do the artwork in color or at least the potions. She really liked that! "The heroine having to use potions to use her powers ... especially in a fantasy setting like Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder," she said. I nodded and told her that is where I was going with this.
Mm ... for the moment, I think that's all I have, but there are going to be more journal entries.
I hope.
BE Happy!
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
Cogitating Ideas For 2022!
**Giggles!**
If you read the earlier journal, thanks for taking the time out to do so. Just like most of my journals, it's me just using them to gather my thoughts and put them into some sort of order, even if it's nothing more than a sounding board. Something that I do in real life too, by the way. Since I have been able to kick back a bit at work while letting the Office Bunnies do their thing and the Bosses deal with the Big Decisions and Meetings, I've been doing some more cogitating, trying to come up with ideas on what I can do for this year. Here's some of the ideas ...
The Saturday Night Tabletop Group has me back to doing the Dungeon Mastering once again, this time with the Council of Thieves, which has also allowed me to keep the introduction of different characters to the group. One of them is Tana Kayla, an older character from way back when, but with a bit of a twist. She is an elven sorceress who had one parent being a red dragon of immense power, but also a well versed character in various character classes too. While for the current adventure path, Tana Kayla is starting out as a sorceress, she will also delve into gunslinger and rogue as well, possibly alchemist. That means if I go three or four classes, the best she can hope for in all the classes being of equal level, she will be 4th or 5th levels in each. That's fine. Usually, if I remember the thinking of class level versus life experience, a 5th level character is pretty seasoned. Perhaps not professional, but rather good to say the least. Also running the game has gotten me back in the mode of writing too, even though I have been tinkering with a few stories over the year or so. One I started and left for a good cliffhanger was "Greetings, Daughter" and then there's one that's slowly coming together, mainly because of focus and violence. Not something I like doing, but it's part of the story. Hopefully it won't be this time next year when I post it.
A few friends of mine are hoping I will get back to artwork, but it's been hard to do. Not just lack of time, but my eyes have a bit of a hard time focusing when I'm drawing. I can sit back and type pretty well without my glasses, but reading books can be a problem. Now, I have reading glasses which I have discovered are not really helping any more. It seems like there's a point where my eyes straighten out. I sometimes can watch TV at a distance without too much problem and often do so without my glasses. Typing now is easy on my laptop or even the internet computer, but reading a character sheet up close or something out of a book is a serious pain in the butt. The eye doctors have said that my eyes are working fine for their age, but I know something is wrong. I hope when I go back to the main doctor, I can talk to him and see what can be done. Surly there is something that can be done.
Now, one of my friends, while at my place, saw some of the "Choose Your Path!" books that TSR did back in the 1980s and thought this might be doable. Something with some groovy ink-works for artwork to help the story move right along. Another said something about trying to get back to cartooning and sequential art. She's like me: an inflation/expansionist. But, also like me, she adores a good story and she's been reading what I have been doing for the last few decades too. She's also come by the place and offered to play some tabletop games with me while I was healing, so that's the sort of groovy friend she is. Personally, I like the choose your path ideas, but I'm not sure how many people still read ... plus, after hearing one of my friends suggest doing a video game, I sort of thought, "Well ..." though it's going to take some serious work to get into all of that.
I mentioned before the writing. While the Princess and Caitlynn are pretty good and set with what they do in the fantastic world of "The Flip Side!" Israfel is still a work in progress, along with the first part of her story. Somehow the copper top lands in the Mystic Woods, the haunted forest outside of Crossroads, where a lot of the story is centered, and is saved by Alyce Majestic, the local sheriff of the town from the creatures of the woods. They originally were the funghouls, but it was suggested to put in the goblins, a bane of the town. It's got me thinking: "What would happen if a funghoul got ahold of one of these little mischievous monsters?" Mm ...
Also, originally I was going to have Israfel learn how to use alchemy to help stabilize or even restore her elasticity, which is still a focus too, but I had thought with the loss of her powers, what should she do to learn how to defend herself? Archery was one of my favorite sports next to target shooting back when I was a kid and I was pretty good at both. So, Israfel learning how to be a ranger? I thought to originally make Alyce Majestic a gunslinger, but a ranger is also possible too since the Princess is the gunslinger. Mm ... the ideas just are slowly coming along.
My friend also saw my notes on using a color wheel for the potions to help make them look a bit more believable, but that also means that I'm going to need to do the artwork in color or at least the potions. She really liked that! "The heroine having to use potions to use her powers ... especially in a fantasy setting like Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder," she said. I nodded and told her that is where I was going with this.
Mm ... for the moment, I think that's all I have, but there are going to be more journal entries.
I hope.
BE Happy!
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
