Too much?
Posted by: Ruel Knudson in Developer Blog, E-RPG General Development, Overall Development, Personal Post, Romp, Writing AdventuresContent creation has become almost a full time job for me lately. Working on current projects has superseded me even getting a normal 9-5 job since I got laid off about 3 months ago. This is not a devious plan to avoid full time work, it is actually just a product of some current life issues that my family have to hash out before I start work again. The good news is that it allows me more time to work. However, the load is getting pretty heavy and I am only one guy at the moment.
My current open project list contains several projects. Here’s the list broken down:
- Fantasy Sagas Desecration (still finalizing the testing and working on revisions).
- ROMP Core Rule Book
- Romp Adventures (of which there are 18 to finish before release)
- A somewhat secret Romp Varient and its adventures
- A Modern Sagas Campaign world and several adventures for that.
- 3 more FS sidetracks
- Meta-Humans
- Reach Weapons
- 3 more grimoires
- A Paladin sourcebook
- and a partridge in a pear tree
All told, there are about 40+ books under construction. That is a lot of writing, designing, layout and all the other development stuff that goes along with it. To say I feel somewhat overwhelmed at times may be an understatement. The problem is I get all of these ideas I can’t put down. As soon as I wrap up one thing I get ideas for 2 more. What’s bad is that all of these projects are things I really want to develop. They are all very interesting projects I feel compelled to write, even though I only have time to focus on one or two at a single effort.
Anyways, more of a rant than anything else. Sorry about that. I just thought I’d get that off my chest. I don’t exactly know what to do about all of these. I thought about going to other writers and seeing if they would want to do the actual content writing for the projects and I oversee them, but I fear that overhead would be beyond my means write now. Not many people writing on assigned books want to do so for royalties. However, it is something I may have to look in to. If you, dear reader, have any suggestions or know anyone that would be willing to write the content for the projects for a nice chunk of royalty drop me a line or leave a comment here.
I’m still treading water, but I may sink under the weight of my own ideas sooner or later. I really hate to toss some things to the wind, but it may have to be just so I can keep this going without completely going under.
Anyways, back to work.
BTW, two notable things:
Testing for Romp is open, so if you want to give it a go check out the forum announcement here.
Secondly, registered community members can download some previews of Desecration’s Temple dungeon overview and two encounter maps. They are low res and have the Ironwood logo stamped on them. But they are a nice little tidbit of what you will see.
