Always searching for new and better ways of spreading the message of Xtreme Dungeon Mastery, Tracy Hickman has called for the first XDM Guild Moot … an online conference call for XDMs everywhere!
Scheduled for February 5th, 2010 at 7:00 pm Mountain Time in the United States, this moot will allow participants to speak directly with the 496th level Grand Paladin-lord Horned Dragon himself! This historic discussion may even end up as a special edition of the DragonHearth podcast!
As XDMs we knew there are notorious players out there … and most of them with notorious Player Characters! We need to know them better … and how to handle them properly as XDMs and we need YOUR HELP!
Take this creature, for example. Who is he? Where did he come from? Why is he here? Where is he going? Is he even a he? What’s in his satchel? What does the sign behind him REALLY say? Based on the scant evidence from this poster … what can we deduce about this character and why he is so dangerous, Sherlock?
Here is where you come in! We will be posting characters like this one every few weeks here featuring some dramatically rendered (a.k.a. unreasonably quick) original art by Howard Tayler, each linked to a specific forum discussion thread. Whoever among our XDMs who posts the most intreguing, radical, awsome character background and description for the character posted (as judged with an entirely biased and partial eye by the Grand Masters of XDM will be invited to join Tracy Hickman in an online game event later this summer where they will be invited to PLAY one of the characters featured.
It’s ‘Assault on Santa’s Workshop’: an XDM adventure with a twist. This adventure has a new feature called ‘completiness.’ Like ‘truthiness’, ‘completiness’ means that we provide the bones of the adventure and are inviting YOU to participate in the design itself. We are inviting you to actually create parts of this adventure and submitting your additional encounters right here on our new special forum! Then fellow XDMs can visit this same forum and chose which parts submitted by their fellow XDMs will work in their game. Think of it as ‘pot-luck’ adventure design, where you get to not only chose what will work in your game but also submit your own ideas for the inclusion in other XDMs games as well.
So here is our gift to you this season … and thank you for your making this a great new beginning for XDM!
If you’re here at the X-treme Dungeon Mastery blog you probably already have a copy of XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery. But you may have friends who don’t. More importantly, you probably don’t yet have your XDM “God doesn’t play dice” poster.
We’re running a holiday sale at the Schlock Mercenary store. You can get 10% off of your entire order by entering the coupon code Schlocksale09. And you XDMs know exactly what you want to get with this additional purchasing power!
We start you off with a triply-autographed copy of XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery. It offers all the other benefits of an XDM book, and then allows you (or the person you’re gifting this to) to gain not one but three XDM levels via the stamp in the cover and the magic imbued via the title-page signatures of Tracy Hickman, Curtis Hickman, and Howard Tayler.
Then we hook you up with the glossy, 11×17 XDM promotional poster which proclaims “God doesn’t play dice with the Universe… We do.” And finally, every package includes one XDM Holiday card exposing the truth about Mr. Kringle. More importantly, the back side of this card has the special XDM Fortune Cookie Magic table.
We only have 100 of these bundles, so get yours now before they’re gone!
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Then we hook you up with the glossy, 11×17 XDM promotional poster which proclaims “God doesn’t play dice with the Universe… We do.” And finally, every package includes one XDM Holiday card exposing the truth about Mr. Kringle. More importantly, the back side of this card has the special XDM Fortune Cookie Magic table.
