We will be premiering this new era in the Ruminant Production website with the Hard Times Diaries! The Hard Time Diaries is a literary work set in the world of Vanished Lands. Taking place right after the Vanishing, the Hard Times Daries will focus on an intrepid heroin, Jane, as she chronicles the fall of society.

Other content, along with the Diaries will be posted regularly on the website, so keep an eye on your feeds and make sure to come visit us now and again. We’re looking at releasing encounters and adventures for your Vanished Lands D20 games, as well as other useful supplements and props that will help you tell great stories with your friends. Best part about it is, it’ll all be free and easily findable here at RuminantProductions.com.

Also keep your eyes peeled on other parts of the site. You might find goodies for you to take back to your own computer here in the near future.

I am happy to announce that we now have news feeds available for your consuming pleasure! Its a new page on the website which lists all the current feeds we’re supporting for you to plug into your favorite feed reader. That way you don’t have to constantly keep checking back at the site to check for the latest news, just check your feeds and click on through! Enjoy.

We like to think that.

But then there are these guys. These guys who contribute their time and skills towards making our products even better! As if they could help fix perfection right? Right? Guys?

In all seriousness I’d like to announce the Ruminant Productions Contributor’s Page. This page highlights the people and companies who have helped get Ruminant Productions where it is today. We’re glad to have had their help in the past and hopefully in the future as well.

So now you’ve taken a look at the page and gone. “Wow. Those guys are kinda cool. I want be up there on the list too.” Well in the near future we’ll be rolling out a contributions page telling you exactly how you can help us to make some awesome games. In the mean time though you can do your part by telling your friends about us and Vanished Lands and participate in our contest!

Yes I said Contest! Ruminant Productions has rolled out its first contest. Entrants who take this survey are entered to win one of our awesome books for free. The contest runs until March 14th so take the survey soon!

Those of you who wander the site regularly might see a bit of dust and debris about. We’re in the middle of phasing in some new pages and content and re-structuring some of our old content. Because of that we might spill a little paint here and a bit of ASCII there. So please, don’t mind our dust. And feel free to point out any scratches in the paint you might see here or there. You’d be doing us a kindness.

Stay tuned. There is always more to come!

So we’re all hard at work on our next upcoming book. A full fledged announcement and press release will be coming soon, we suspect.

We’re also somewhat hard at work on a new back end for the website you see and love. Not much will change for our end users are first but as we start ramping up, you’ll start to see a few small things here and there change. Don’t worry, we’ll be keeping you up to date!

In the mean time, while you’r waiting in anticipation, why don’t you go wander over to the Vanished Lands page. You know I bet it’d make a great holiday gift for that grumpy little gamer who needs a little something both old and new at the same time.