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Survival: The Hiatus-ing
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To those following me, please don't expect much for the foreseeable future. Lupus symptoms have had me semi-bedridden by chronic pain and chronic fatigue for over two years now, and when I don't feel well, my imagination is the first thing that deserts me.
I worked with SLE for four years, until things suddenly got worse, and now, even with a good rheumatologist, I'm lucky to get one or two days a month of "manageable", "good" days where my body approximates how I was when I was healthy enough to work. The current IV-infused medication seems to making things worse, both in exhaustion/oversleeping and pain, and I've not had a "good" day in months.
So, writing's out. As for drawing, doing so with a pen or pencil kills my wrist. I got myself a Huion-rebranded-as-Monoprice tablet as a Christmas gift to myself, but the drivers are clunky and don't fully work, either on Windows (tablet buttons work; pen buttons and dragging doesn't) or on my beside Linux laptop (pen buttons and dragging works; tablet buttons don't). As well, due to lupus jitters, I'm finding the low-friction tablet pen to be near-impossible to draw a straight line with.
Thus, tl;dr: don't expect much out of me. I'm alive and surviving, but that's about it. 
-LXP
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What Does the Freelancer Say?
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So, after snarls took down my first solo project for Super Genius Games (now Rogue Genius), the revised edition finally emerged to see the light of day.
DevArt preview here
•And thanks to the ever awesome 3PP web ninja Liz Courts, not only was it featured on the Paizo store blog but headlined an update.
•Paizo GMs Day Sale ("March Fo[u]rth")
But really? That's just the start:
•The project I helped freelance for Paizo is due out this April. Once they officially reveal the cover art and contributors, I'll be able to officially rant about it.
•I'd like to be able to visit PaizoCon and/or GenCon, but money aside, I burned through leave at work dealing with medical an issue that lead up in surgery in January.
•I have a Giant Robot vs. Kaiju fantasy adventure module, In Iron Clad that'll be showing up in Adventure Quarterly #6. Details from Kickstarter here. I'm already working on another cool but unrelated project for Rite Publishing.
•I have another book in the work for Owen K.C. Stevens' Rogue Genius Games. Here's a hint: Everything's Better With Monkeys™.
•I snuck in contributing a couple of spells to Kobold Press (p.k.a. Open Design)'s Deep Magic, due out this Spring.
•And I'll be contributing to a upcoming PFRPG product for Green Ronin Publishing. Intentional vagueness because I don't know if there will be an NDA to go with the contract.
DevArt preview here
•And thanks to the ever awesome 3PP web ninja Liz Courts, not only was it featured on the Paizo store blog but headlined an update.
•Paizo GMs Day Sale ("March Fo[u]rth")
But really? That's just the start:
•The project I helped freelance for Paizo is due out this April. Once they officially reveal the cover art and contributors, I'll be able to officially rant about it.
•I'd like to be able to visit PaizoCon and/or GenCon, but money aside, I burned through leave at work dealing with medical an issue that lead up in surgery in January.
•I have a Giant Robot vs. Kaiju fantasy adventure module, In Iron Clad that'll be showing up in Adventure Quarterly #6. Details from Kickstarter here. I'm already working on another cool but unrelated project for Rite Publishing.
•I have another book in the work for Owen K.C. Stevens' Rogue Genius Games. Here's a hint: Everything's Better With Monkeys™.
•I snuck in contributing a couple of spells to Kobold Press (p.k.a. Open Design)'s Deep Magic, due out this Spring.
•And I'll be contributing to a upcoming PFRPG product for Green Ronin Publishing. Intentional vagueness because I don't know if there will be an NDA to go with the contract.
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A Contract and A Birthday
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Right, well, happy birthday to me as of two hours ago.
Just finished a nifty old school-esque map, with details here: Oshar's Mines
More awesomely, on Monday, I sent in a turnover for my assigned section of an upcoming book for a certain purple golem that be rockin' the ICv2 charts ( www.icv2.com/articles/markets/… ). You might have heard of that tabletop game thing they do. Because of how long the editing, arting, layouting, and printing takes, it won't be out until March of next year. I'll likely either be jumping up and down or will have forgotten it by then.
I'm heading to bed. But there will be delicious cake. And I shall have to eat it. I just have to survive the day. And possibly dodge kobold-rigged traps.
Just finished a nifty old school-esque map, with details here: Oshar's Mines
More awesomely, on Monday, I sent in a turnover for my assigned section of an upcoming book for a certain purple golem that be rockin' the ICv2 charts ( www.icv2.com/articles/markets/… ). You might have heard of that tabletop game thing they do. Because of how long the editing, arting, layouting, and printing takes, it won't be out until March of next year. I'll likely either be jumping up and down or will have forgotten it by then.
I'm heading to bed. But there will be delicious cake. And I shall have to eat it. I just have to survive the day. And possibly dodge kobold-rigged traps.
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Published in Adventure Quarterly #3
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DeviantArt is still an art-focused website, so it's difficult to display writing that's been done freelance (and thus can't really post the whole manuscript) for someone else, especially when I clearly and honestly didn't do the cover art on such things.
That said, I was published in Rite Publishing's Adventure Quarterly #3 (DriveThruRPG: rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.p… / Paizo: paizo.com/products/btpy8w9i?Ad… ), a tabletop gaming periodical of adventure scenarios for the OGL-derived Pathfinder RPG. My adventure, 'The Read Leaves Enigma' gets the snazzy cover art and the first third of the book devoted to its 7,000 words.
It was mentioned in the Demiplane of Gaming Podcast #11 (starting at ~55:48):
Steve: "And then we actually did, for the first time (because we've had Tim Hitchcock, Adam Daigle, work on our first issue; I did work on the second issue along with Jonathan McAnulty, who again, has done work for Kobold Quarterly), we're trying to get a lot of really talented people to come in and write our adventures when we first started off, but we brought in our first brand new guy, a guy named Alex Putman[sic], who was the first one to do an open submission with us."
Owen: "Right."
Steve: "It's something we have for Adventure Quarterly: anyone can come in and submit. I don't make the decision, the editor-in-chief Robert N. Emerson, who's a great guy that I've worked with a really long time, heads up Adventure Quarterly and does just a really great job of picking and developing to create a really great murder mystery. I'm a huge murder mystery fan; I like his work with that."
A short C.V. of my other gaming writing credits may be found here (paizo.com/people/AlexPutnam) for those curious. Thanks again to Mssrs. Emerson and Russell.
That said, I was published in Rite Publishing's Adventure Quarterly #3 (DriveThruRPG: rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.p… / Paizo: paizo.com/products/btpy8w9i?Ad… ), a tabletop gaming periodical of adventure scenarios for the OGL-derived Pathfinder RPG. My adventure, 'The Read Leaves Enigma' gets the snazzy cover art and the first third of the book devoted to its 7,000 words.
It was mentioned in the Demiplane of Gaming Podcast #11 (starting at ~55:48):
Steve: "And then we actually did, for the first time (because we've had Tim Hitchcock, Adam Daigle, work on our first issue; I did work on the second issue along with Jonathan McAnulty, who again, has done work for Kobold Quarterly), we're trying to get a lot of really talented people to come in and write our adventures when we first started off, but we brought in our first brand new guy, a guy named Alex Putman[sic], who was the first one to do an open submission with us."
Owen: "Right."
Steve: "It's something we have for Adventure Quarterly: anyone can come in and submit. I don't make the decision, the editor-in-chief Robert N. Emerson, who's a great guy that I've worked with a really long time, heads up Adventure Quarterly and does just a really great job of picking and developing to create a really great murder mystery. I'm a huge murder mystery fan; I like his work with that."
A short C.V. of my other gaming writing credits may be found here (paizo.com/people/AlexPutnam) for those curious. Thanks again to Mssrs. Emerson and Russell.
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The Treachery of Images
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This is not a journal entry. Instead, it's a notice and an apology for those watchers flooded with photographs, after I finally got around to unloading the little 3.2 Mpixel camera I sometimes carry with me. Enjoy, comment, and don't feel bad about clearing the deviation notice messages.
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