>So FFE for next Christmas? (Like that segue?)

Love it :)

Although I know it's cold consolation, I can continue to say honestly that FFE
is never far from my heart and frequently strays near my keyboard. This very
afternoon I was at the public library consuming more FFE-related material and
digesting it into draft form (including a spiffy new sidebar for the Hardboiled
Era book). Okay, that's not true of _every_ day (I've been eyeballs-deep in
Uresia for much of the past couple of weeks, and still pecking away at the
Medieval France production work, etc), but it's true pretty often. Heck, even my
newest Uresia campaign material is "hardboiled Uresia" ... :)

[And to answer the question this might raise: No. Well, probably not. Well,
maybe an appendix.]

The draft continues to grow. Nothing can make it _shrink._ There is a finite
goal in terms of material needed to call it "finished." Therefore, as long as
there's no scare about my health or anything, it is a certainty, if not one that
answers to a schedule.

I've also been posting ads at all the local game shops trying to scare together
a new FFE campaign group here in Denver, but that has _not_ been going so well.
I'm getting the impression I should doll up the graphics to make it look like
Living Greyhawk and then spring it on 'em as a surprise, but that sort of
behavior can get a man lynched :) I can't even get Cthulhu players (which lets
me do a private eye game anyway) since it also isn't Living Greyhawk, although
I've got the one Uresia campaign still underway and I've been in touch with some
Hero System gamers ... (I just hope they're not doing some kind of Living
Greyhawk thing on the sly, but using Hero and not telling anyone).

If I were a Living Greyhawk guy I'd have to hold a lottery to narrow down the
available players to pools of a half-dozen each running three shifts a day. The
only thing in Denver that seems more popular than Living Greyhawk is cigarette
smoking.

This (running some FFE) is the most important thing that can happen to
accelerate the work. When I'm GMing it, I'm _constantly_ working on it, and when
I'm not GMing it, other things shoulder in. That's just the nature of Cumberland
as a whole: I do all this stuff as a one-man-band, based on my gaming habits
rather than any kind of reading of the marketplace or considering sane business
choices. For better and worse, but mostly better, I think.

So, if you're in Denver, for pity's sake: come play FFE with me! Tough men &
women with hearts of ... some metal more valuable than zinc, let's say ...
needed for new campaign ...

Don't get me wrong, I'm lovin' Denver (and living in an early-1940s tenement),
but on matters like this I do miss Austin :)



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