I’m finally starting to see some stability in schedule now.  I’m ABD, with a good head start on the research for the dissertation.  The personal life has weathered serious changes — mostly for the good.  One of my gaming groups was a false starter, as usually happens when there’s the promise of a new GM (pretty much every gaming group I’m in only survives because I’m running, set up a schedule that accommodates as many of the people as I can, and we stick to it.)

So now I have some free time for other projects I haven’t addressed.  There’s a novel or two I want start work on.  Then there’s the game-oriented stuff.  I’ve worked in the game industry before, mostly for Heresy and Cubicle 7, before I realized that I’m not much for working for no pay.  If I’m doing a labor of love…I’m doing for myself and my way.

So I’m at the point I’ve started thinking seriously about putting together my own game line.  Not because I think it’ll make me a ton of dough.  It won’t.  But because a few of the campaign settings I run over the years are worth kicking out a spatbook for, and it will be fun.

Right now, I’ve got an idea or two for pulp-style settings in an astrofuturism/ jet age past that didn’t happen, as well as a new game system and setting for modern espionage that I want to be able to handle everything from gritty reality to James Bond style action.  I might pump out a few splatbooks for free (or for contribution to help me keep doing the stuff) for some of the older game systems that I support on the website.