I think my favorite thing about Gen Con is that I can haul back a bunch of books and ride the high for weeks, maybe months. Today I finally cracked open Cults of Freeport, a supplement by Green Ronin for their Freeport setting, which is well-written and interesting stuff, especially if you like the idea of a Cthulhu/pirates mashup.

(Total aside: what is it with me and Cthulhu hybrid games/settings? CthulhuTech is bliss, and I really dig the obvious Mythos references in the Freeport setting. If there were benchmarks for modern day Cthulhu cultists…)

Not sure if I’ll use anything directly from the book for my True20/Freeport setting, but it definitely gets the gears turning. Also worth checking out is a tip or two for running 4th edition D&D in Freeport, hinting that they may make a 4e guidebook one day. That has the potential for fun stuff.

Otherwise, more house prep work, and more gaming. Slowly getting the ball rolling again on the play-by-IRC/wiki game in my custom/Freeport setting hybrid, need to do some plotting (and maybe even real writing!) for CthulhuTech. Awesome times.

I think the whole house-buying thing finally set in today, meeting with my buyer’s agent whom I am surprisingly well-connected to (well, if two independent acquaintances count). Not one of those “oh crap, what am I doing?” moments, but certainly “oh man, this is the real deal.” I hope I didn’t look too much like a deer in headlights.

Things are coming along nicely, though, in that they’ve started and I haven’t gone screaming for the door yet. Paperwork to read and more people to talk to, though. Buyer’s agent has been awesome so far, truth be told; I’m really quite excited.

Also about houses, House starts up again in two weeks. I really need to fix the media PC by then.

So I did that thing I mentioned in my last post, with the aggregation. The front page now combines RSS feeds from my blog, gallery, and wiki, and my page on Delicious in addition. More to come, likely.

Also, hooray for others making an edit or two to the wiki. Friend codes (thanks, Nintendo, for the most annoying online experience, by the way), but more interestingly, Dan has touched the CthulhuTech section a little bit, which I’ve been negligent in updating. But thanks for that, and stuff. There are CthulhuTech things I’ve been meaning to put up that I have yet to.

Also, the front page has reminded me of how much MoinMoin’s RSS feed sucks. I wonder if I can replace that…