The Adventures of Chantel 80

Alright the time is here you can now get your badges for Ice and Dice. https://tabletop.events/conventions/ice-dice-20221 I am only signed up to run two games right now, I think I would like to play some, but part of me thinks I should run more to get my name out there.

Right now the plan is to run Chaos, the adventure I am writing for this con, and The King’s Castle. But I am really thinking about running my 12 hour game.

I finished the Temple of Golden Nuts today, I mean I still need to get the Pre-gens in but that is it, This adventure should be on Drivethru on Friday the 22sd. There are two monsters in the book, that you will not encounter, but you can get them on the Patreon before hand https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14964776&fan_landing=true.

So Paizo has a Union now, and that is Great, I support it 100% But I have been thinking about this since I read the news, what’s next when do we go on strike because getting more than 5 cents a word isn’t going to change just because there is a Union, and bad managers aren’t just going to stop being bad managers.

Then I had an even bigger thought. It doesn’t really matter what happens at the home of Pathfinder, I mean if the workers do go one strike I support that and will tell everyone I know not to buy PF2 or Star Finder. but the next big thing we should be watching what is going to happen at WotC.

If the Workers at WotC get a union then things will start to change, but even a bigger company like Pazio the world is not going to change just because they have a union, just because Pazio is not the world leader anymore.

Now here is the thing, when the PF workers do go on strike, pazio is going to come knocking on our doors we need to stand strong and not screw over our what ever you want to call them. Now that being said, I get it you have mouths to feed and bills to pay, and if you took a job I would not judge you.

Alright I think that is it, so until next time keep gaming.

This Week in Gaming 10/14/2021

Happy Thor’s day and that means it’s time again for the weekly update.

I don’t know if it will be today, but I need to start making a new character for a play by post game. I also need to finish my character for my every other Saturday game. I am waiting for the DM to read the new UA stuff. I think the bug race from Dark Sun would be cool to play as a Ranger. I just realized that both these games are the same adventure just one is as it was back in the day, and one has/ is being converted to 5e.

I have started building a new Commander deck, it has 99 lands I think it will be fun.

Free RPG day is this Saturday Oct 16th, I was hoping to find a store that I could go run some of my stuff, but there seems to be only 2.5 stores that are doing anything so I think the kids and I are just going to go do the stuff from DCC so we can get those books. That’s right you read a .5 and you wonder how do we get a .5. Well you see there is a game store in the capital city, and they were not going to do anything but after messaging them on Discord and calling them because I did not get an answer on Discord, they posted a poll on their discord that we could play the Normal Saturday D&D or we could learn a new game because it’s Free RPG day.

The Final Dream I: I have six pages left to type, I think I can get it done today. when I am done with the blog I will jump on that.

Ice and Dice: I will get fully into this when I am done with The Temple of Golden Nuts. If I finish that today, I will start on this adventure tomorrow.

Well my friends, I think we have come to the part where I say until next time keep gaming.

The Adventures of Chantel 79: Sometimes I still wonder

I once wrote a blog asking the Question are we really all in this together? https://agameraday.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-adventures-of-chantel-26-and-this.html.

And as you can tell by the title of this blog, I still wonder are we all in this together? If we are to busy fighting about what makes a family on Twitter, I don’t think we are. Now I know that Twitter needs the Drama of us fighting about stupid stuff like that. But we can do better and if we really believe we can beat the math of Twitter and Facebook and any other Social Media we have to do better.

I Know it’s short but that is all I got, and tomorrow is this week in gaming so maybe there will be more thoughts on this subject. So until than keep gaming.

This Gamer’s Goals #9

I turn 38 in 10 days, you wonder why that matters? well it’s simple that means I have a year and a half to make it on to the 40 under 40 list. I don’t think I am going to make it, and even if I did, I don’t they have a list like that for writers of RPG’s. And I guess that is okay, because I have already said lists like that are dumb and I don’t even remember why I wanted to be on that list. I guess it’s because there was a time in my life that I cared what people thought.

I heard back from Anchor and they are still working on the issue, I guess that means we follow up again next week or at the start of next month, we will see.

Now it’s time to get on to the part of the blog that we have all been waiting for the three goals that I have that are going to help me take over the world one game store at a time.

This week is all about The King’s Castle. https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/chantel-jones/ch1-the-kings-castle/paperback/product-7dg5y4.html?page=1&pageSize=4

One Goal is to get 50 dollars or to sale 10 copies of each book. I would really like to sell the PoD’s on Lulu, but There is still one day left for the Small Press Spotlight on Drivethru. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/14046/Chantel-Jones?term=Chantel Plus if I sold them through Drivethru I would maybe have enough points to submit a deal of the day.

This week I am going to get the adventure for Ice and Dice done.

There are some other Business things that are not writing, that I am going to get done this week, that will help like getting more stuff on eBay.

There you have it, so until next time keep gaming.

The Adventure of Chantel 78 Life as been good so far.

It’s been a few days since I have heard from the people at Anchor, so I sent them an email, more updates coming as I know.

I went to drivethru last night get get a link for Trick or Treat and found out that Drivethru is having a small press spotlight sale. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/14046/Chantel-Jones it last for the next four days.

I use to work with this guy and every day he would tell me how much he hates is life, he had a full time job working where we worked, and then on Saturday he had a part time job working for the Post Office. And every day I would tell him to find a different job, He had a degree in Film making so he could go do that.

I saw him today, and I am not sure his life is any better, I mean being a manager at a Thrift can’t really be better than working at Nu Skin can it? I don’t think so, but the point is if it works for him and his family than it’s good enough.

I have a pretty good life, I mean it would be nice if I could pay all the bills with my writing and patreon, and maybe some day I will so I don’t have to go to a job I hate. but at the end of the day I am doing what I enjoy and that is good enough for me.

This Week in Gaming 10/07/2021

Happy Thor’s day to all of you. Aside from maybe playing a game or two of Magic, I don’t know how much gaming as gone on since last week. Ok I lied I did get a game of Phase 10 in with the family.

The Facebook crash was nice. I was not going to talk about it a lot, but saw someone ask if it was really that big of a deal? Yeah for some of us it was, there are people that use it as a means to talk to people, and others that use it of business. I mean it sucks as a place trying to promote your work, but it’s a way.

The Final Dream: The Temple of Zeus is coming a long, it will be done this week I think, there are somethings I have to do for my wife’s business, so we will see. And then I will just need art.

Ravenloft: Yes well here we are. I really need to get The Temple of Golden Nuts done, so I can focus on this all the time.

Alright that’s it for this week, so until next time keep gaming.

The Adventures of Chantel 77

Alright it’s a new week, I’ve got this Right? I think.

For a minute I thought I have figured out the issue with Anchor, but it seems I had not, so we will keep waiting to hear back from them. If I don’t hear anything by Friday I will email them.

VGC2 has come to an end. it was a fun weekend of gaming. I was able to run Castle Roan for a group. They killed the White and the Blue Dragon, and The Red Dragon never showed up. https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/chantel-jones/adventure-module-r1-castle-roan/paperback/product-p4en28.html?page=1&pageSize=4

I was on a twitch show, and I should have had the show on in the background so I could have shared a link to the website but I did not even think about that until I was getting dressed today. So something to remember next year.

Next up on the con events is Ice and Dice on January I don’t remember the dates, and I am lazy to look them up, but I know there will be other blogs where I talk about it so it’s ok.

It’s a new month and I have not talked about it yet, but this month the goal is to get three goblins to join the Goblin Forces. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14964776&fan_landing=true.

In September I made 6.66 dollars from Patreon. 2.08 on Drivethru and 0 dollars on Lulu. and I think I use to track Ebay, I have not got the report yet, but I think I made about 200 dollar.

Alright my friends I like that is it for today, so until next time keep gaming.

This Gamer’s Goal #8

This week I am going to be Promoting Castle Roan. It will also be the Item for Two for Tuesday. https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/chantel-jones/adventure-module-r1-castle-roan/paperback/product-p4en28.html?page=1&pageSize=4

The First Goal this week is to get The Temple of Golden Nuts done. I have one more Cat of The Round Table to do in the morning and then, I can get the rest of the adventure typed up. I might need to get a new artist, but we will figure that out before my post on Thursday.

The second Goal is to get going more on the Adventure for Ice and Dice. I need to get it done because the guy doing the maps, wants a copy so he can get a feel for my style.

The last goal is only related to gaming, because I will look good for Ice and Dice, but I really need to get back to working out so I can be a different shape than round.

There you have for this week’s goals, so until next time keep gaming.

This week in Gaming 9/30/2021

It’s been a busy but good week, let’s start with I got a new Goblin and that means I am half way to meeting this months goal. There is still time to join the patreon. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14964776&fan_landing=true. Today I will be adding two more Cats of the Round Table.

Virtual Greyhawk con is tomorrow, I think I am mostly ready. I will hopefully everyone’s characters so I can set up roll20 tonight.

The Final Dream: Work on the Temple of Golden Nuts is coming along, when I am done with this blog, I will get more work done on the Cats of the Round table. Then once that is done the rest of the rooms will take like a day, and we will be done with level 3.

The Ice and Dice Adventure: I just sent of the concept for the cover art, now I need to get to writing it.

I think that is it for this week, so until next time keep gaming.

The Adventures of Chantel: 76 I don’t think I am going to make it.

There is so much to do before the con this weekend. I have to do my Patreon stuff for the coming month. Still trying to find a job, and so much other stuff.

I don’t think I am going to get everything in the Temple of Golden Nuts done before the end of tomorrow. The things I am doing with the Knight of the Round table is turning out to be bigger then I thought but I should have known that was how it was going to be.

That being said, the Temple of Set will come out in Q4, so I guess getting to adventures will be a good deal.

When I sat down to write this blog, I thought it was going to be longer, but I think that is all I got so until next time keep gaming.