The Campaign Builder's Guild

Ah, okay, that explains the Fimbulvinter thing. Good luck with it all, hope you'll get back to us soon!

Hm hm hm. It's been a really long time - almost long enough to feel nostalgic. Think we'll ever see hide or hair of the Cadaverous Earth again, Steerpike?

Man, I wish I had the time, really.  You never know - I won't say never - but it's tough to make a commitment.  This summer I'm working full-time and also writing my dissertation.  After that it's straight into a TAship and more writing.  And I'm still running a regular face-to-face Planescape game.  I absolutely loved running CE, and would totally go back to it, but at it's peak I was probably spending like 5 hours or more a week prepping and than another 3-4 running it, and I just don't have that time to spare.  I'm a prep-heavy GM, especially in sandbox games like CE; I write out descriptions in advance whenever possible, map a lot, try to figure out multiple contingencies so that I have a really firm foundation.  I'm not confident enough in my improvisational abilities to try and run something more seat-of-the-pants, at least not something like CE, and I don't think an improv-heavy game would work well in IRC anyway, where it's already laborious to type things out and wandering player attention is an inevitability.

That said, my Planescape game won't last forever, and once that ends I'll probably get an itch to run something.  Could very well be CE.

I would enjoy a return to CE. I'm reading Perdido Street Station and it drips with CE (or rather, CE drips with New Crobuzon). It's given me a newfound appreciation for the setting in all its weirdness. And Kryzbytn was really fun to play.

But I can definitely relate to being super busy, so I get where you're coming from. Right now I couldn't even manage a CE game (or any game) anyways, but do keep us posted if you ever deem it in the cards.

Kryzbytn was certainly an entertaining character as well.