Hello. C J here. The item cards I had planned for today will take a bit longer. I realized I don’t have recipes for any of the food items in real life. The food cards are supposed to be real life recipes themed after the setting region they are from. This will take a while. That’s fine. I guess I make some flatbread pizza later this week. Also I keep thinking I should write a smaller novel before I get to my current main novel project, The Relic Wars. I don’t have any of the setting done enough to do that yet.
Well, I sort of don’t. If I write a novel with spells in it then I need to take a break part way through to put the spells in the card game before I can write more of the novel. I need to do this so I don’t forget a spell. The card game is being built as well and it might make sense to go the opposite way. I have some of Roads to the Spirit World typed and I’ll have more this next week. I think it makes sense to write a novel with the spells and spirits from that Expansion to the card game first since it’s being made first.
This is easier to say than to do as that Expansion doesn’t really have a setting and having a spirit as a main character sounds like a hard thing to portray. The plans I have for it will probably make at least several hundred cards and I’m hoping that I can get about a thousand cards total out of Roads to the Spirit World. I need a setting and a plot though and then I can write a novel there. I can’t write The Relic Wars until Expansion three, the one set in Ascala, is out. That novel series takes up the entire Ascala continent and I need the Expansion to map that for me. I need something more short term. More soon.
C J Mcpherson
Hello. C J here. I've got four new recipes for everyone here. We have everything from Chinese chicken to homemade hot apple cider. Enjoy. The Emperor’s Potatoes Here we have the first food item I ever finished designing for Food of the World – Carthia. I tried three combinations of traditional Asian ingredients and pasta under the assumption that I was doing Italian-Chinese food for the book. I could not for the life of me get any of them to be exciting. They were fine. I don’t eat fine. I got bored of the pasta thing and then thought to myself, ‘what happens if I swap the pasta for another starch? What about a potato?’ It worked. Really well. It worked so well I named them The Emperor’s Potatoes. They’re mashed potatoes and I left the skins on because I like vitamins and then that got me thinking about the traditional medicinal food of Ancient China, ginger. Could I put ginger in a potato dish and have it work? Yes. I can. That surprised me. Be warned, these are almost dangerousl...
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