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[D. Moonfire]

Bah, I've been trying to work on Scroll of the Lands for months now. Seriously been trying for a month, but I keep not getting to it. If it isn't overtime at work, its wife things, or game-writing contests. I've been struggling with my commissions for the same reason, but... well, I don't know.

Part of the problem comes from the fact I'm not playing Exalted anymore. Actually, I'm not playing any RPG of any form, which means I don't really have the inspiration to work. When I had my game, knowing that I could use the rules in a week or so really helped with inspiration and moving forward. But now, well, I don't really have that drive to move forward. I mean, I want to finish and say its done, but I can't really tell if its going to be a few days or a few weeks before I stop. Then, I don't know how long before I'll get a breather to do it.

I've been staring at the Scroll of the Lands documents for an hour now and I'm just not sure where to go with it. I can't even offer to run a PBEM game to try out the rules; I still have too many things going until my life settles. With this financial market, that could be weeks or even closer to a year. But, being spread across two states, paying for two houses, and being apart from basically my life is really killing my creativity.

I don't want to have people waiting for me to find inspiration. So, I figured I'd post this and let people realize what's going on. I don't know what's going on; I wish I did. I really do. I want to finish this (and the Glorious Saber arc) mainly because I like finishing things. But, there is probably months left on this project (and a month on GS) and I'm not sure I have enough (or if I'll keep getting distracted).

That said, I honestly wouldn't take it personally if you wander off, or even fork it, or take all the files and finish up it. I wish I could say better, but until I get back into a game (which requires me to figure out where the hell I'm going to live), I don't think I'm going to be really use in finishing this.

[Black Razor]

No problem pal.

We'll continue the discussions, when you want come and help us again!

[D. Moonfire]

Feel free to keep using the forum and I'll give anyone who wants it write access to the SVN if you want to use that as the repository.

[Thundaka]

That's a real shame.  It's been fun debating the mechanics with you, even if we've had very different visions for the project at times.  Do still visit every now and then, okay?

I'd be glad to keep the project going in your absence, though it may take a few days for me to build up steam again.  (I recently got a new job and will be moving into a new aparment; I'm sure you can sympathize.)  For now I'll keep my work confined to the stuff on the forum, since I don't have much PDF experience, but when we get closer to a fully playable SotL I may try my hand at the PDF.

[D. Moonfire]

No problem. I mean, I'm still on the forum (RSS feeds are win), and I'll probably hop up on conversations, I just can't really sit down and write anything for (potentially) a long time. It will be painful, of course, if you switch to a base-5 system. I still like discussing things, and if people just want to talk about rules and not see anything written (i.e. what's happened in the last six months), then I'm still open for participation. The problem is, at some point, it really helps to actually write something down since we have about 5 pages worth of notes that need to be integrated. But, I can discuss things without a problem.

I use OpenOffice.org for writing out the documents. That is what I use to create PDF's.  If we do want hard mechanics written out, I could probably set up a Wiki site and make it a bit collaborative.