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Gone South, will be back Jan 25th

January 14, 2010 by The Chatty DM

I’m leaving for a one week vacation tomorrow.  I’ll be driving to Burlington Airport tomorrow night (a 2 hour drive), sleep over there and have fun with the TSA’s security rules from 4h30 AM onwards on Saturday morning to eventually land in Orlando somewhere around noon.  We’ll be spending a few days with the Dire Mouse® and then join my father in-law in Daytona beach for the rest of the week.

During that time my online presence will be limited to checking emails once a day so don’t wonder why I disappeared from the comments. There’s a chance that spam linkbacks will appear but they are easy to deal with.

I’ll be back by Jan 25th, all ready to tackle new projects like a new Gears of Ruin adventure,  write my 3rd gaming magazine article (one is in the publisher’s inbox) and do a LOT of prep for training seminars.  I also mentioned on Twitter that I’m working on starting a Dungeon Mastering Podcast with both Dave the Game (from Critical Hits) and NewbieDM (from the blog of the same name).  We’ll give you more details soon, we now have a project plan and deadlines!

Also,  as I mentioned last week, I’ll soon be merging this blog with Critical-Hits.com. I don’t have a date yet since many technical details need to be addressed, but we went from the “maybe” category to the “most likely” one.  Dave and Graham are hard at work hammering the details to upgrade CH to accommodate my blog.It will become a special section of the website you’ll be able to access easily from the front page. It will have its own RSS feed, although I hope that many of my readers will discover the excellent material that CH will produce (including lots of new columnists!)

So I’ll see you next weekend, if I succeed in vanquishing the trademarked Were-Rat!

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Comments

  1. borisCallens says

    January 15, 2010 at 3:05 am

    Podcasts!
    Will they be about D&D or will they be recorded D&D.
    I personally loved the WotC’s series with the penny arcade fellas and would love to find more of that kind..
    Now I come to think of it I wonder if the next series has commenced yet..

  2. ChattyDM says

    January 15, 2010 at 6:09 am

    It will be about DMing, it will likely be short and to the point and it WILL be awesome beyond belief. 🙂

    So no Actual Play planned. You have to know that I play in French and I think Newbie plays in Spanish so if we did Actual Play it would only be about Dave’s games… Not that there’s anything WRONG with Dave’s games. (/drama!)

    🙂

  3. Heather says

    January 15, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    Oh have a good trip. And grats! The merger sounds interesting.

  4. newbiedm says

    January 16, 2010 at 12:07 am

    I play in English.
    I speak in Spanish to my mother.
    Have a nice trip giving that evil rodent your Canadian cash.
    🙂
    .-= newbiedm´s last blog ..NewbieDM Review: The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos =-.

  5. Bartoneus says

    January 17, 2010 at 1:12 am

    Don’t lie, we all know that Dave’s game is terrible! 😀
    .-= Bartoneus´s last blog ..“King of RPGs” – King of Viral Marketing? =-.

  6. Scott says

    January 18, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    Have a great trip, and be sure to enjoy yourself
    .-= Scott´s last blog ..More To Watch =-.

  7. John Arcadian says

    January 18, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Congrats on the move to Critical Hits. I’d heard the rumblings and think it will be a great merger for both parties. Despite the fact that I never find the time to leave comments, reading your stuff is one of my weekly must-dos.

  8. Gordon says

    January 19, 2010 at 8:24 am

    Glad to hear things are going well for you! Can’t wait to get my books and take a crack that the fabled 4e.

  9. Eric Maziade says

    January 19, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    What?!! I’m always the last to know these things!! Darn this “secluded” period of mine.

    Well, have a great vacation, then!
    .-= Eric Maziade´s last blog ..What the future holds =-.

  10. Sammy Cornwall says

    January 20, 2010 at 2:57 am

    Have a nice trip!!! Enjoy your one week vacation and oh! congratulations on your merger with critical-hits.com. Hope it’ll be a hit! He-he!

  11. ChattyDM says

    January 20, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    Hey everyone. I`ve been doing good and am enjoying myself! Will be back on Sunday!

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