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<blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 1453503" data-attributes="member: 168">Udate 1.5 - Why now?Why now?It’s sorta funny the way this all came together and has some small bearing on our story. I had made two decisions in the last month that were key to this – the first is having Dr Midnight of Enworld fame design a banner for my Wheel of Time site and the second was having Clay of Morningstar maps draw a region of my homebrew. This is doubly funny since most consider me an excellent cartographer but I am much too critical of my own stuff.So here I am shelling out money to make my homebrew stuff look professional. I had also plunged into a brand new campaign and things were really clicking together well. I was inspired to “re-imagine” my fantasy world because of a few threads here on Enworld; the ones that have to do with the “origins of monsters,” the numerous “best way to start a game threads” and the various threads on the “rightful place of magic in D&amp;D” also known as high magic vs. low magic and grim and gritty stuff. I had done buckets of research and brainstorming some of which uncovered some real gems, if I do say so myself.Money, time, and effort. I was putting as much into this as any other print of PDF product. Why not make it one? Why not? Being an adult with adult responsibilities, I had to consult the wife before any decisions were finalized. I told her my ideas, I bribed her by watching our 3 children letting her get some personal things done, I promised golden toilets when I got rich and famous and in the end, I wooed her over. That must mean she knows nothing of RPG publishing</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eosin the Red, post: 1453503, member: 168"] [b]Udate 1.5 - Why now?[/b] Why now? It’s sorta funny the way this all came together and has some small bearing on our story. I had made two decisions in the last month that were key to this – the first is having Dr Midnight of Enworld fame design a banner for my Wheel of Time site and the second was having Clay of Morningstar maps draw a region of my homebrew. This is doubly funny since most consider me an excellent cartographer but I am much too critical of my own stuff. So here I am shelling out money to make my homebrew stuff look professional. I had also plunged into a brand new campaign and things were really clicking together well. I was inspired to “re-imagine” my fantasy world because of a few threads here on Enworld; the ones that have to do with the “origins of monsters,” the numerous “best way to start a game threads” and the various threads on the “rightful place of magic in D&D” also known as high magic vs. low magic and grim and gritty stuff. I had done buckets of research and brainstorming some of which uncovered some real gems, if I do say so myself. Money, time, and effort. I was putting as much into this as any other print of PDF product. Why not make it one? Why not? Being an adult with adult responsibilities, I had to consult the wife before any decisions were finalized. I told her my ideas, I bribed her by watching our 3 children letting her get some personal things done, I promised golden toilets when I got rich and famous and in the end, I wooed her over. That must mean she knows nothing of RPG publishing [/QUOTE]

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