In The Garden Living an RPG Life

Spoonflower Marketplace is open to the public!

Believe it or not those two things are quite connected.  The business in the world I’ve created to write about is all things fiber related.  Think Silk Road.  And, the fiber business is also my real life RPG goal.

Quick review: I like the order that playing  Dungeons and Dragons imposes on keeping track of lots of different personal (in the form of the characters) material.  The only place I can think that would have such useful tools as a skills sheet would be a school counselor’s office.  Unfortunately, the school counselor’s office wouldn’t have a place on that sheet for magic spells or equipment.

Funny.  I’ve never made that connection before.  The connection between school and RPGs.  OK, I have, but not in the way of what kinds of information I might actually get from school.  From a counselor or good teacher.  For me, the structure of the RPG fills in blanks I didn’t really recognize till now.  Mostly, I think, because I have a friend with some of the same blanks that I feel.  Like how to have so many ideas and not get overwhelmed by them.

I think this is what life coaches are supposed to be good for.  Me, I’d rather make up my own character sheet and do a personal inventory of all the skills I have to see if I have enough to level up. I also need to find other Adventurers who want to take this –what would you call it?  No one has aksed us (me) to slay a dragon or search for something or rescue someone.  Ooo.  That’s what I need to figure out?  Not what the task is, but who is asking it to be done!  Cool.

Meanwhile, I have my project completed for the next Spoonflower contest.  It’s a doll panel.  Nice combination of what they are asking for and what I like.  It helps that I also want to give it as a gift.  Or, that the actual image has sparked a few more ideas.   I don’t know what goes into the Etsy shop, now.  Have to take the Spoonflower market into account for fabric.  Final products?  I still have a few of those ideas to develop.

And this last novel will give me ideas and help focus my plans.  It’s about the business of the world and how it collapses.  We also get to hear more about goblins and dragons.  Drawing, too.  It’s all in there.  Isn’t that what Nano is about?  Getting it all in and editing later?

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