A few small hints...

To: Tom Gordon.
Subject: Good Guess. :)

Which brings up an interesting problem for this blog, in that some parts of the world need to remain hidden for the sake of the live game -- not just NPCs and adventures, but Mysteries To Be Revealed. It's not that I don't trust my players not to act on OOC knowledge -- they're much too good for that -- but rather, that it robs them of the fun of discovering the world. Ultimately, the game is about showing the players a good time, and anything which gets in the way of that is problematic.

So, while it surprises no one that something has survived more-or-less intact(ish), (It's such an essential trope of the genre that it must be included) the where, when, and how has to remain hidden for the nonce. (I also need to work out a few key details...)

As a side note, this is the kind of thing I loathe in commercial products -- the "setting details revealed in next supplement" marketing scheme. (Brave New World, I'm looking at YOU.) I'm not talking about things where the world is too big for one supplement to detail properly, I'm talking about things where core premises or major, major, plot elements are left out, not to give the GM freedom but to sell more books. If the campaign world has any big Secrets or Hidden Lore, they should be given up-front -- maybe not detailed to the nth degree, but there so the GM knows about them and can take them into account. Forex, imagine if the new Galactica were released as an RPG first, and the first sourcebook completely failed to mention that Cylons now come in fleshtone. (I also hate metaplot in game settings; give me the world at Point X, give me everything I need to know to start running it, and sell me supplements which simply expand on that base in terms of depth and detail. Don't "advance the timeline" to kill off major NPCs, nuke a city, or otherwise screw with my live game. If you think you've run out of crap to milk for sales, then, if you must, release a "future" setting or a "past" setting which basically kicks off a whole new baseline. (OK, I never use prepackaged supplements anyway, but when these tactics annoy me on a general level.))

Enough ranting. Elves later. (Been setting up a new computer, and, as usual, that sucks down most of my time and energy. Gack.)