Hey there folks!
As we get down to the nitty-gritty, I figured it would only be fair to let you know how things are going with our work concerning the "last-minute" efforts to get the Magic and Martial Arts book complete! (I say last minute in quotes because, in truth, we're still talking several months here, due to the workload and process time, even once all the production work on our end is done.)
This little thread will serve two purposes: it will inform you as to the progress, and it will motivate me to get more and more done on a daily basis so that I feel I have some good stuff to report...
As of this moment:
What's still left to do:
In addition to what I've mentioned above, the main issues still left to tackle are the final editing pass by Aaron, and then me again, the final layout in In-Design, any last-minute artwork needs (to fill in spaces we've discovered during layout), and then final Table of Contents and Indexing... Yikes!
What I'll be working on today:
Today my goal is to finish all the Disciplines of Ritual number 9 (Command the Weather), and hopefully get a start on Ritual 10, the Ritual of Warding (possibly the last Ritual, depending on whether or not Yishai and I decide to leave his work for a later treat)...
Here are the rituals we've done thus-far:
Dreamwalking (for seers)
Ritual of Omen (for seers)
Heal the Body (for healers)
Heal the Duháma (for healers)
Summon Demon/Summon Spirit (for summoners)
Summon Suthra (for summoners)
Summon Elemental Power (for summoners)
Ritual of Endowment (for mages)
Command the Weather (for mages)...halfway done
I'll let you know how all this goes,...as it goes!
Don't be surprised if this ends up being a daily update, just to keep up the level of enthusiasm on all sides!
Scottie
As we get down to the nitty-gritty, I figured it would only be fair to let you know how things are going with our work concerning the "last-minute" efforts to get the Magic and Martial Arts book complete! (I say last minute in quotes because, in truth, we're still talking several months here, due to the workload and process time, even once all the production work on our end is done.)
This little thread will serve two purposes: it will inform you as to the progress, and it will motivate me to get more and more done on a daily basis so that I feel I have some good stuff to report...
As of this moment:
- Our writer-friend Dylan Birtolo has finished all 33 of the new Martial Arts Styles narrative sections and historical sections. These have been implanted into final document, and await a last editing pass to make sure everything's consistent.
- Dylan has also created fictional snippets for each of the Chapter beginnings, which need to be implanted and edited within the final document.
- Chapter 2 (the martial arts section) needs the last of its images for each of the 33 styles to be created and/or edited to make sure we have the same level of quality throughout.
- The descriptive fiction sections for each of the Martial Style categories has been finished by Dylan and is now awaiting editing.
- There has been a detailed breakdown of the Combat Turn created (thanks to the input of you lovely folks here on the forum, as well as my local play-testers), and this needs its final edits and placement in the Martial Arts Chapter (2).
- About 90% of the art for the additional 90 Animal Templates for Chapter 3 has been created, with only a few left to go! All need to be properly edited to ensure consistent quality throughout.
- Speaking of Animal Templates, my friend Andrew Bowman continues to assist in the completion of the data for the remaining templates, and we're not far from being done on that! Editing on all of them still requires attention, however (once Andrew hands them off to us), along with the final layout of all this data AND the final images into the template format in Photoshop.
- I am currently in the middle of editing ritual number 9 of 10 (possibly 11, if I add another my friend Yishai is working on) for Chapter 1 (Magic)... Each ritual has half a dozen or more individual "disciplines" detailed within to show the type of powers achievable when performing the ritual, so you can imagine the level of writing and editing required. I'm very happy with the edits on these rituals, which expand upon the basic four magic rituals in the Basic Compendium and help add specific details to how all the Disciplines within are played.
What's still left to do:
In addition to what I've mentioned above, the main issues still left to tackle are the final editing pass by Aaron, and then me again, the final layout in In-Design, any last-minute artwork needs (to fill in spaces we've discovered during layout), and then final Table of Contents and Indexing... Yikes!
What I'll be working on today:
Today my goal is to finish all the Disciplines of Ritual number 9 (Command the Weather), and hopefully get a start on Ritual 10, the Ritual of Warding (possibly the last Ritual, depending on whether or not Yishai and I decide to leave his work for a later treat)...
Here are the rituals we've done thus-far:
Dreamwalking (for seers)
Ritual of Omen (for seers)
Heal the Body (for healers)
Heal the Duháma (for healers)
Summon Demon/Summon Spirit (for summoners)
Summon Suthra (for summoners)
Summon Elemental Power (for summoners)
Ritual of Endowment (for mages)
Command the Weather (for mages)...halfway done
I'll let you know how all this goes,...as it goes!
Don't be surprised if this ends up being a daily update, just to keep up the level of enthusiasm on all sides!
Scottie