{Quest Log} There comes an age....the Dragon Age

Hey all! It's been months since I last updated and real life has been tumultuous along the way. Since my last entry, I was employed into a new job and work basically took over my life again. In the meantime, my group had stopped roleplaying but continued playing boardgames. However that soon also fell through as they seem to lose the enthusiasm for it and got busy with other commitments. After long periods without any gaming activity, I thought that it was about time that I started the urge again to roleplay as characters and roll some dice.

It was coincidentally that I was about to launch into new plans of gaming when Free RPG Day went by and some of the print offerings (which I missed because there's no store that participates in Free RPG Day here) had been put up as free PDFs by their respective publishers. So I thought that it was a good time to check for any quick-start rules of new games that we could try.

So it was there I decided to pick up Green Ronin's Dragon Age quick start rules and have browsed through it several times over the past weeks or so. What I really liked about the AGE system is because it uses an abundance of d6s, which means that it's open to new players who don't have their own set of polyhedrals.

Now I'm eager to try running it with the sample adventure attached at the back and I plan to do my prep notes and thoughts on the quickstart rules and the adventure here. Just so that readers here will have something new to read again at the Questing GM.

On the other side of things, the RPG Herald is almost 3 months old now and I barely noticed how time flies as I try to keep posting on the latest news in the RPG industry. There's been some times when it was hard to keep up, but at this point in time, I'm glad to say that I'm happy with how diversified my news items are and how much it has expanded my knowledge about the RPG industry along the way.

Although the hits are still very low, but I would encourage any gamer to check it out if they want to know on the latest news and products that are available on the market. It's definitely the news site to watch if you are into multiple RPGs rather than just being a loyal fanboy to one system.

I'd also appreciate it if you would spread the word around about the RPG Herald because it needs the hits that it can get.

In the meantime, I've already had some ideas of new features to be added in this blog for months but haven't been able to really implement them yet. Just thought that I should mentioned it so that I can remind myself to give this blog a new revival of content.

Keep reading the Questing GM on my prep for the Dragon Age Quickstart Rules

Announcing the RPG Herald

Things may seem to be going quiet on this blog but my blogging has been taking up a notch lately.

I believed that I have mentioned before that aside from maintaining this blog, as a personal journal about my gaming activities in where I live, I'm also a contributor to the Purple Pawn, which is a general gaming news site which covers boardgames, miniatures, RPGs and card games.

Since I've been mainly contributing RPG news that I come across to the site, I've been blogging more and more about RPG-related news and have got my blogging pace back again. However that meant that I have less time invested on this site, since I've been trying to keep track of RPG news (and believe me, sometimes there's so many things that can happen in the RPG world in one day).

So I've been tinkering with the idea about posting more RPG news on this blog but feeling that RPG news did not really mesh well with what I have intended to do with this blog, I thought that I should start another site, dedicated just for RPG news.

After some giving it some thought, I finally decided to create a new blog, the RPG Herald, which aims to be a one-spot supplier of RPG-related news for RPG gamers.

The site would be mainly focused on RPG news, previews of upcoming products and hopefully score some interviews with designers, developers and industry players to discuss about RPG-related issues.

At the moment, I don't know what would the launch of RPG Herald mean to this blog, but it is clear that RPG Herald would be more inclined towards informing readers while this blog would remain as a personal space to talk about my personal gaming life.

Although I don't intend to post up reviews of RPG products on the RPG Herald, to maintain some integrity on the reporting, but I am open to review those products on this blog since I would be more comfortable in expressing my biased opinions here.

To any game publishers, bloggers, podcasters etc who are reading this, I welcome you to send any press releases or information that you have about game products, contests, conventions or game news that you need a free shout-out for to me at my email.

My email address is questinggm@gmail.com.

For gamers and readers of this blog, I encourage you to check out RPG Herald. I try to cover all sorts of news regardless of system and genre, so you might read something new about what is going on in the gaming scene (perhaps near you) and would thank you for your support.

I will be planning to apply the RPG Herald into the RPG Bloggers Network in the future since the application requirement says that the blog has to be active for at least 3 months.

In the meantime, you can keep up to date with the latest postings of the RPG Herald through my Twitter account if you haven't already followed me.

Once you've checked out the site, feel free to drop any comments or feedback on how you would to like to see the site improve here, and I'll see what I can do.

I like to thank you all for your support throughout these years of my blogging journey and hope that you would continue to do so for my new endeavor.