Dragon Hearts RPG Halloween 2022

Things have been busy with Dragon Hearts RPG lately. The Halloween/Samhain seasonal quest for the year has been pushed live on the main website after the code was play tested.

Challenge setting:

Once again the leaves phase colours into their fall glory and then dry to blow away in the winds moving between the worlds. Did the forest really produce this many leaves though? Something doesn't seem quite right. Piles of leaves reach to the eaves of the houses and obscure the entrances of caves. They swirl through streets, forest paths, and even over the oceans and deserts. Carve a pumpkin? Expect to be greeted by an explosion of leaves and squash guts once you've got that top circle done.

Visit the event page to explore.

https://www.dragonheartsrpg.com

Dragon Hearts RPG 2.0 progress and a quick check in

 The Dragon Hearts RPG Beta Site has been updated.

Dragon Fangs and Black Days have been added.

While in beta you can purchase as many Dragon Fangs as you like for free.

https://beta.dragonheartsrpg.com/

Thank you Bear for all your hard work steadily redoing the code base to make for a more stable game site. It is exciting to see the progress toward being able to eventually merge these changes to the live main site.

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Now, as to why I've been so quiet lately:

I have been dealing with some physical issues but I have also been very busy working with a client on their book during the few hours a day I am physically able to do so. I have several books that I need to post reviews of though and hope to be able to make more progress on my own writing and illustrations for a couple customers soon.

Dragon Hearts RPG update

The beta site has been updated by Rowan. Familiars have been added and everyone's existing familiars migrated.

https://beta.dragonheartsrpg.com 

Dragon Hearts RPG update

 Rowan's been continuing plugging steadily away at the recode project for Dragon Hearts. Per Obs:

"The Beta site has been updated. Conclaves have been added including battle groups! Only the conclave leader has staff powers, they can assign extra staff.

https://beta.dragonheartsrpg.com/ "

It's been a long project rebuilding the site and adding new improvements as he works through it. Once he's done it will be easier to do world expansions than it used to be. I've certainly not forgotten about the pirates and the exploration expansion, the commerce guild, or other things that have been approved. Groundwork has to be done first. This new code makes for a more efficient game engine.

As always the base game is still available at dragonheartsrpg.com

Dragon Hearts 2.0 recoding progress and new live tests available

 The Dragon Hearts Beta Site has been updated.

The weekly treasure hunt has been added.

All forms of knowledge can now be learned (the Golden Shrine and Selena's Tower have been added).

Exploration knowledge has been added this is a new kind that improves the rewards gained while exploring and in the labyrinths.

More to come!

https://beta.dragonheartsrpg.com/

Live testing by players is important, but don't forget to play the main game in its current incarnation at www.dragonhearts.com as it is from this site that progress will be calculated when the code from Beta gets moved to Main.

Book Review: The Way Out: A Novel by Gordon Jensen

The Way Out: A Novel by Gordon Jensen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed reading this novel. I was entertained by the way the novel was written. It's a series of interviews that stitch together the story, very meta, as the point of view character is working on a documentary or a book... I forget which.

There is no true "bad guy" in this, which is nice to see becoming more common. It is man against nature and man against itself since GMO corn is what was behind the virus that made male births become a thing that does not happen anymore. I can only remember, in ALL my reading over my past 40 some years, ONE sci-fi in which I encountered a species that had no more male births. THEIR solution was COMPLETELY different than the one in this book.

I was definitely in awe of Captain Halverson when told in one of the interviews what her solution was to the black hole that allows the first challenge to mankind to begin... their "loss."

Time travel, repopulation, political intrigue, social justice questions... all good old school sci-fi trajectories the founders of the genre would be proud of, I think. I am very much looking forward to reading the next installment of the series.



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Dragon Hearts RPG Beta's site has had an update

The Beta Site has been updated!

This is quite a milestone, 8000+ lines of code later, Rowan Wookey at Dragon Hearts RPG added all 170+ special items, the coffee empire, snowflakes, and dragon fangs as well as fixing a few bugs.

Have at it!

https://beta.dragonheartsrpg.com/ 

Main Site: https://dragonheartsrpg.com