So after a prolonged hiatus I’ve decided to end Carpe GM. This is not a bad thing at all. I started the podcast earlier this year because I wasn’t gaming very much and wanted to do something to keep gaming foremost in my mind. There were a lot of great podcasts out there already dealing with gaming and I thought I’d try my hand at it. It was a fun experience and I’m glad I did it but boy is it a lot of work! I have a new level of respect for those producing content so regularly. I took the break because I was burnt out after only the better part of a year producing a thirty-minute show every two weeks; imagine what some of the “big boys� go through! I also am at the point that I didn’t want to be a “one-man band� anymore and did not want to make the financial and logistical outlays to take on co-hosts.

I’m pleased with what I produced and definitely have learned a lot from producing my own show (even if it was just with a karaoke microphone and a free copy of Audacity). I don’t want to offer up the cop-out of saying that I don’t have the time to produce Carpe GM, because I do. I’d just rather spend it playing games than talking about games and now circumstances are such that I can.

I don’t plan to disappear from the podcast scene entirely, either. I’m just not going to produce my own show.

For everyone who gave feedback and gave me encouragement I thank you sincerely. Some of you are now friends and will continue to be for a long time, I hope. Keep in touch, keep on gaming, and keep supporting gaming podcasts!

(On an administrative note, I’ll keep the libsyn page up for a while and move the shows to something like archive.org for posterity.)

I'm a big fan of Alter Ego Software's Metacreator software. It's hands-down the best piece of software for creating and printing characters in a wide variety of systems. I'm personally excited that they're considering developing templates for the Deadlands Reloaded and Rippers settings for Savage Worlds but they'll only make them if they get fifty pre-orders for each by 1-Oct-2007. I've recorded this announcement in the hope of reaching as many people as possible to help the goal be reached. If you have a podcast, I'd humbly request that you play this announcement before 1-Oct-2007, and anyone reading this should check out Metacreator!