I'm super excited to finally announce what I've been working on the last few months. It's call Tiamat, short for Tiamat the Tile Mapper. It's a totally new version of the e-Adventure Tile Mapper . Actually, it's not just a new version but rather a completely re-envisioning of the original tile mapper. It's totally rebuilt from the ground up. So what's so new about it?

Well first, its going to have a new and improved interface (see quick look video), and second, its going to have many new and improved features (such as being able to export a high resolution Miniature scale maps), but most important is a new payment model. You see, Tiamat is going to be FREE to use. Anyone can login and make maps. Make as many as you want. You'll only have to pay for the maps you want exported for gaming. ...Read more

I mentioned Google Wave a few weeks ago. Another RPGer and I have about 40 or so invites. If you're interested in logging onto wave an checking it out, email me or post a comment below and I'll send you one. The only requirement is that you make me a friend/contact. :)

I needed to upgrade to different forum software due to the constant spam attacks on the old forums. The new forums are at the same link: http://www.rpgobjects.com/forum.

I said I was going to blog more, and here it is. If I manage to keep a consistent pace, I'll give this blog a name ("RPG Hack" I think). But until I prove that to myself, this is just a drive-by blog.

As I said in my last blog, I'm focusing on software now. For the month leading up to and after gencon, I spent a lot of my time thinking about what I was going to work on. One thing on my short list was an new version of OpenRPG. It wasn't what I picked to do first, but it's still on my radar. ...Read more

It's been a while since I announced that I was taking a step back and gave the gencon postmortem. While I have made posts and released some stuff since then, I wanted to peek my head out of my foxhole and follow up. ...Read more

Digitalxero has shepherded another OpenRPG release. Version 1.8 is up for download.

Sometime ago I release an experimental product, the Modern^20 Webbook. I got a lot of positive feedback but not a ton of sales. I was committed to a webbook for Voyages of Discovery (which is complete). So I decided to give access the Voyages of Discovery webbook FREE with the purchase of the PDF or print book.

In addition, I will discontinue selling the Modern^20 Webbook and give access to that with purchase of Modern^20. For those that did purchase access, I don't want you to feel slighted, so contact me for a free book or credit towards a new purchase.

I may still play with the format and I would like to import all the Modern^20 supplements into the webbook, but only as time permits.

Dj Gilcrease created a Google App Engine version of the Meta server (http://orpgmeta.appspot.com/) to help reduce the fail rate of the Meta server. You'll need to start using the new Meta by the end of July.

Once again when I wasn't looking a group of kind souls has shepherded OpenRPG (my baby) to another release (a few actually). This lastest version is extra special becasue the Windows installer version has all the dependencies included! Great job developers! So visits the OpenRPG page and download the latest version.

A very special thanks to Tyler Starke, Dj Gilcrease, and David Byron for all your hard work!

The PODCast returns with a new shorten format. I'm trying to experiment here a little with a weekly 15 min podcast. I'm solo in this one, but hopefully Chuck will join me next week. In this episode, I try to elaborate on the WebBook format.

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