After getting a couple wins under my belt, I apparently felt like it was ok to vanish for several weeks.

Ok, so that’s not entirely true. Things got hectic for a bit there, what with the holidays and all. Plus I’ve been doing a lot of work on the RPGBN for the past couple weeks. But I still should have found some time to post an update or two.

So, in the interest of getting back into the swing of things, here’s a fresh round of SPUC updates.

On The Table:

1. Shambles – I have been assured, on pain of blood, that I will have a print-suitable version in the next two weeks.
2. Codename: Simulated Jocular Anaconda – It’s not been touched since the last update. I am having existential difficulties with the subject material.
3. Shambles Source Material – Some research, not much else.
4. Codename: Gremlin Persistent Malice – I got another piece of short fiction for this recently.
5. Codename: Pandoran Apothecary Chest – Sat down with some design people yesterday. Expect to have a quote by next week, prototype by Kublacon.
6. Codename: First Rural Delusions – Not getting far. Have a couple things to sort out first.
7. RPBGN – I’ve been working on code enhancements to make the site less resource intensive to manage. This is coming along nicely. In the meanwhile, I’m hammering out a reasonable strategy for “what comes next”.
8. NaNoWriMo – Abandoned. I got to a point that I didn’t like the direction I’d taken the story, there wasn’t time to backtrack, and I wasn’t going to finish it just to finish it. Going into the closet for next year.
9. Codename: Insignificant Diversionary Anaconda – Removed from the Closet 1/28/10 – Was asked to do some additional work on this. 41% complete.

In The Closet

1. Codename: Cackle Smash Soup – Mothballed 10/28/09
2. Codename: Tactical Plastic Laser – Mothballed 10/28/09
3. Codename: Enormous Intersected Automaton – Mothballed 11/04/09
4. Codename: Big Audio Dynamite – Mothballed 11/04/09
5. Codename: Unwashed Repeat Pedestrian – Mothballed – 11/04/09

In The Trophy Case

1. The Grognards Of Gygax – My entry into the “Best Quest” contest for Legends of Zork. It won Second Place – WOOT!
2. Obnoxious Howler Monkey – I completed the first version

Excuse Of The Week Month: It’s been a busy busy time.

I pushed an update to the forums earlier. Let me know if you notice any weirdness.

Some people (myself included) were having problems finding a full list of what’s in the Gamers Help Haiti bundle at DriveThruRPG. I’ve pasted the list from my download section. It’s not pretty, but it should tell you what you need to know.

[EDIT] – That was just lazy. I cleaned it up a little and sorted the list so it’s more readable.

[PFRPG] GM's Aid VII: Condition Cards - Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Edition
[PFRPG] Loot 4 Less Vol. 1: Armor and Weapons
[PFRPG] The Book of Arcane Magic
[Savage Worlds] Strike Force 7 - Savaged!
17 Archer Feats
17 Bard Spells
17 Magic Shields
17 Monk Feats
17 Plants
17 Rogue Feats
43 Space Opera Adventure Seeds - Space Opera Support #6
90 Phenomena in the City of Copenhagen
Advanced Fleet Designs: Titan Class Scout
Adventurer Essentials: Holy Water
Adventurer Essentials: Rope
Afterpeak Systemless Setting
Albenistan: Election Day (Modern Dispatch 113)
API Demon Codex: Lochs
API Demon Pack 01
API Worldwide: Canada
Apocalypse Prevention, Inc.
Ápocrypha - Myths of the World
Barbarians Versus
BASH! Basic Action Super Heroes (New and Improved)
Basic poker playing cards 1
Beast Hunters RPG
Behind the Monsters: Skeleton
Behind the Spells: Sanctuary
Best of The Rifter
Bits of Darkness: Dungeons
Bits of Magicka: Pocket Items
Blood Games II
Blood of the Innocent: A Savage Worlds mission set in the jungles of Evil
Book of Races
Book of the Faithful: Power of Prayer
Brandy's by the Bay
Breathe Life Into #1
C&C Arms and Armor
C&C Shadows of the Halfling Hall
Castlemourn Campaign Setting
Character, Hero
Chronica Feudalis
Class options volume II: Paladins Prevail!
Classic Spycraft: Shadowforce Archer Worldbook
Classic Spycraft: Spycraft Espionage Handbook
Colonial Gothic: Secrets
COPPER DRAGON: Basic Dungeons 1
Cortex System Role Playing Game
Counter Collection 4th Edition Paragon 1
Creatures of the Wastelands: A Menagerie of Mutants and Mutations (Revised Edition)
Creatures of the Wastelands: Habitats
Creatures of the Wastelands: The Thrasher Gang
d66 Ship Names 2
Damnation Decade
Dark Raiders of Misty Ridge
Degenerate Seaside Town
Demimonde
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: Bar Room Berserker
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: Gravity Slinger
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: Lucky Bastard
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: NeoWitch Guardian
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: The Innocent
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: The Prince of Doggs
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: The S.L.A.M. Soldier
Dept. 7 Technology Update: AAP/CPR Med Kit
Destinations: Spaceport Trident Vespa
Diana: Warrior Princess
Divine Homelands
Divine Quests
Dork Covenant
DRAGONSHIRE: City Interiors
DRAGONSHIRE: City Ruins
Earth Space Marines
eCollapse
Ephemeris
F-211 Copperhead
Fantastic Maps: The Dragon's Lair
Fantasy Firearms
Fantasy Women Clipart JPEG 7
For the Love of Dungeons
Forlakh's Tower - CR 4 D20 Module
Full Light, Full Steam
Future Firearms Pack One
Gravitic Thrust Vehicles
Grumlahk's Troll Tales
Hollow Earth Expedition Earth Drill
Instant Antagonist: The Selfish Succubus
Interface Zero: Modern20 edition
Items Evolved Rituals
Karma Roleplaying System Core Rules Book
Kiddy counters
Kids, Castles & Caves
Kobold Quarterly 11
Labyrinths & Lycanthropes
Lady's Rock
Liber Sodalitas: The Dream Healers (Pathfinder edition)
London Fires module A101 for Fellowship of the White Star
MADS Role Playing Game
Magpie Codex 2
MARS: Savage Worlds Edition
Martial Cultures: Arytis
MegaCity Sector Maps
Mini Nuclear Plant
Modern Dispatch (#104): Line Zero
Modern Dispatch 120: Cyber-state Avatar Toolkit
MonkeyGod Presents: From Stone to Steel
MonkeyGod Presents: Frost & Fur
More Mighty Than Steel
NEO MONKS: The Dragonlord
NEO RANGERS: The Spider King
No Dignity in Death: The Three Brides
Objective Interim Modern Combat System
One Shot Adventures! Days of Knights
Open Game Table - The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Vol. 1
OSRPG CCG Card Template 1
Piledrivers and Powerbombs: Chokeslam of Darkness Edition
Pimp My Paladin
Police Precinct
Portrait of a Villain - The Desire
Power Pics Heroes 1 -Female Speedster
Power Pics Villains 1 -Male Cyborg
Privateers and Pirates
QAGS Second Edition
Qalidar
Quirin Encounter #3: Healing Device
Quirin Maps #14: Bandit's Territory
Reign of Discordia (Traveller Edition)
RIO DRACO: Base Set
Rise Of a Legend:NEW Issue #1
Roma Imperious
Rugged Adventures
S.C.A.R.E. Vol. 2-Viesca Melin Aella
Scenes of Space Hex Battle Maps
Serenity Role Playing Game
Seven Leagues roleplaying game of Faerie
Shambles
Shaolin Squirrels : Nuts of Fury
Shrouded Agendas for D&D 4E: The Purifiers
Slivers of Dawn
Special Vehicles
Spirit of the Season
Squirrel Attack! Operation: Get Mr. Jones' Nuts
Stolen Blood
Summerland Revised and Expanded Edition
Tales of Wyn D'mere Role Playing Game!
Tendril's Oak Inn
The Black Book
The Black Spot
The Book of Dumb Tables
The Book of The Dead
The Fate of Inglemia - Superlink Edition
The Kerberos Club
The Lazy GM: Lizardfolk
The Lunar Scrolls
The Otherworld
The Squared Circle:Wrestling RPG
The Veggie Patch
Thousand Suns: Foundation Transmissions
Thousand Suns: Transmissions from Piper
Threat Record Vol. I, Issue #2
Three Sixteen
Thrilling Tales 2nd Edition (Savage Worlds)
Torn Apart by Radiation Wraiths
Trail of Cthulhu Player's Guide
Treasure Chests: Volume 2
Turris Lemurum : Tower of Ghosts
Unorthodox Sorcerers
Valherjar: The Chosen Slain Core Rulebook
Vampire Castle
Wayfarers
WorldWorksGames / Deadly Encounters Combo
WorldWorksGames / DungeonLinX: Dragon God
WorldWorksGames / Uncharted Space: Sathrican Homeworld
WorldWorksGames / UrbanMayhem: Streets of Mayhem
WorldWorksGames / Wormhole
Wyrd of Questhaven (PFRPG)
Zombacalypse
Zombie Apocalypse
Zombie Bytes: The Anthology

In the wake of the tragedy in Haiti, DriveThruRPG put up a couple products to collect donations for Doctors Without Borders. Many publishers contacted DriveThruRPG and asked if they could somehow help. In response, DriveThruRPG put together a bundle to which any publisher could add a product. I have participated by adding Shambles to the mega-bundle. The bundle costs $20.00, and includes over a hundred products, valued at over a thousand dollars.

It’s a good cause, and a spectacular deal. You can see some details about it by viewing the bundle. You need to buy it now.

Their press release follows:

Gamers Help Haiti! DriveThruRPG Offers a Mega-Bundle to Spur Donations

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

DriveThruRPG announced a major incentive to the roleplaying gamer community today to incite donations to aid in rescue and recovery in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Called the “Gamers Helping Haiti Bundle,” the product includes over a hundred products totaling over $1000.00 in retail value. For a simple donation of $20 – all of which goes to Doctors Without Borders to support their post-earthquake Haiti relief efforts – RPG fans can have this once-in-a-lifetime collection of gaming products.

DriveThruRPG already had opportunities to donate up and running within a day of the disaster. When publishers began asking how they could support the cause, the bundle was created to be an all-inclusive shared effort. Those who donated at the lesser levels won’t be left out, however; gamers who have already donated $5 or $10 will be receiving a special coupon code that lets them pay the difference from their initial donation to get the bundle.

“We are humbled by the generosity of both our customers and our publishers,” said Sean Patrick Fannon, Marketing and Communications Manager for DriveThruRPG, “all of whom have stepped up at this time of terrible tragedy to offer aid to a desperate people. We are also very proud to facilitate these collective efforts, providing the necessary tools and technology to bring it all together.”

More than tools and tech, though, DriveThruRPG is really putting their money where their mouth is, so to speak. “We have always believed in the power of giving and sharing to make the world a better place,” said Steve Wieck, President and co-owner of the site. “To that end, we are matching funds with everyone who’s making a straight donation at the $5 and $10 level.”

There is no set date for terminating the donation efforts, though the bundle will only be available until the end of January.

Anyone wishing more information about this effort, or about DriveThruRPG overall, should contact Sean Patrick Fannon at sean@onebookshelf.com.