Are you interested in being a part of my wacky D&D world tour? I wanted to write a little about how it’s going to work moving forward, and what I need to know to get you on my list. You can reach me at Keith (at) Bossythecow.com. My goal with HDWT is to meet gamers from as many different walks of life as possible. As a result, I need to know something about your story. If I’ve got seven different invitations to your city, what makes you different? I’m looking for answers to the following questions: Who are you? What’s your name, general age, and occupation? Do you have...

I’ve fallen into a bit of a hole over the past few months, between travel and needing to catch up on work. It is my hope that in the next few months I’ll have the time to bring more content to the website. In the meantime – when I was at PAX, I ran into the folks from The Escapist, and to make a short story shorter, today the first installment in a new Have Dice, Will Travel series went online! Check it out here. In the next few weeks, I hope to post some additional house rules, Eberron FAQs, and information about those five games you’ve never heard about. So check back...

I’ve been completely buried with work, so I haven’t been able to post for the last week and I likely won’t be posting much more until November 1st. However, there’s an important deadline I wanted to bring up: There’s just 12 days to go in the Foreshadows project, and we still need your help. For those of you who follow Eberron, there’s a lot of familiar faces on Foreshadows. Jeff LaSala – author of The Darkwood Mask – is both contributor and the driving force behind the project. Don Basingthwaite (author of The Dragon Below and Legacy of Dhakaan trilogies)...

Over the last few years, I’ve posted a variety of things on Livejournal (which I haven’t used for over a year), the original Bossy the Cow site, and any number of message boards. In the interests of gathering these in one place, I’ll be posting one or two of these old articles here on HDWT. Here’s the first. So, for today’s question, Rechan wants to know about the Demon Wastes. Page 163 of the Eberron Campaign Setting provides an adventure hook about Cyran refugees attempting to resettle the village of Desolate. Given the extremely barren and inhospitable nature of...

I’m playing a character from Eston. How would he pronounce Cyre & what is a citizen of Cyre called? People from Cyre are called Cyrans. As for the pronunciation, the stance we’ve always taken is that there is no official pronunciation; it’s entirely regional, just like “Missouri” or “tomato” in our world. I personally pronounce Cyre “SEER-ee” (and its citizens “SEER-ans”); I’ve heard it “SIGH-ur”, “KYE-ur”, and “SEER”, and in my opinion those are all valid pronunciations somewhere in the world. With that said, you may already be aware of that...

The following email came my way recently… I have just finished the Son of Khyber. It was great book. I cant wait for the next one to come out. I know better than to ask about stuff, but I would like to make some requests. I would like to know more about Steel’s background. I’d love to write more about Steel’s background; it’s something I’d hoped to work into The Fading Dream, but it didn’t end up fitting the story. I’d definitely like to do more with Thorn. For that matter, I’d like to resolve some of the remaining cliffhangers from The Dreaming...

This comment came up on the previous house rules thread, and I realized it ties to another house rule I use that I’d forgotten WAS a house rule. As for recovering dailies – My players like to take extended rests frequently. It’s an urban campaign in Sharn, so (relatively) safe places to rest are easy to come by. I wanted to encourage them to stretch their resources a little further, so I was trying a method where you only regain a number of daily powers equal to the number of milestones you reached since your last extended rest. This worked okay, but does involve some long term bookkeeping....

First off, the winner of the Fading Dream drawing is Misty Anderson. Misty, send me an email with your address at Onesmallkeith(at)Gmail.com and I’ll get your copy in the mail! Thanks to everyone else who entered. While I don’t have spare copies to sell myself, if anyone especially wants an autograph I’m always happy to sign and return any book sent my way with an SASE. What I’m seeing from the comments is that more people have read the Dreaming Dark series than the Thorn of Breland books. At the moment, the DD books are out of print. The Thorn books are in print, but bookstores...

My new novel, The Fading Dream, hits shelves in a few days. The Fading Dream is the third and final novel in the Thorn of Breland series, covering the adventures of a secret agent in the wake of the Last War. The Thorn books are designed to stand alone, but as the culmination of a number of character arcs, you’ll certainly get more out of it if you’ve read the previous books (The Queen of Stone and The Son of Khyber). At this point, I don’t know when or if I’ll be writing more Eberron novels – as always, it’s going to depend on sales and on the continuing support...

I’m working on a number of different projects that I can’t talk about right now, but things are going well. I just returned from Boston and Baltimore, where I ran Eberron games for people at Turbine, 38 Studios, and Big Huge Games. While I was at Turbine I had a chance to meet the developers of DDO: Eberron Unlimited, and I look forward to continuing the discussion in the future. I’ll post more about DDO in a future entry. Now I’m back in Portland with a lot of work on my plate. In addition to that, I’m going to be at Conquest Oregon this weekend; if you’re going...