Bad Is Good

I've talked elsewhere about my initial experiences with Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. They've been positive enough that we've decided to continue playing, albeit with our catch-as-catch-can schedule. We lost Mike to a job-related move, so we're down to four players now. On Sunday, we got together over breakfast (thanks, Ted!) to decide what other changes we wanted to make. We agreed to sort of start over at first level, because several people want to switch classes and liked the learning experience that a few encounters at each level gave them. (In reality, we'll probably only do two or three encounters at each level until we hit fourth or so, just to move things along.) The other thing we decided is that the new game will be set in Privateer Press' setting, the Iron Kingdoms. Sort of.

Today, the minds behind Evil Hat Productions and Blue Devil Games announced One Bad Egg, their 4e support venture. While I haven't done anything officially for them yet, a few weeks back I twisted Fred Hicks' arm until he cried like a baby and promised to let me work on something for them. So while our group of adventurers, the Special Collections Team (Acquisitions Division) from the University of Corvis, will start out dealing with the sorts of things you'd expect in Western Immoren, they'll soon get to investigate the horrors of the Shroud (which I think is just to the northeast of Ios).

This is going to be fun.