I have excellent news, everyone!!!
The Magic and Martial Arts book is finally CONTENT COMPLETE!!!! As of yesterday, every bit of content, loads of new and exceptional art, and the copious amount of additional material we've added to the book (literally more than a hundred pages of extra material), have now been incorporated into the final finished InDesign document, and we're now doing one last read-through to spot-check for errors before getting our final printing quote and sending it off to the printer for production!!!
It will take about 12 weeks for us to get our hands on the hard-copies of the books, but we intend to have the PDFs available long before that!
Thanks so much for the incredible patience you have all shown... Though it was certainly unfortunate that Shard Studios ended up having to essentially halt all production for several years while dealing with circumstances surrounding the economy, Aaron and I taking other full-time jobs, followed by Aaron's departure from the company, and my subsequent purchase of the IP for SHARD itself,...eventually Andrew joining me as a new partner was unbelievably valuable in the efforts and support necessary to bring the SHARD RPG back to life once again!
Now that all the legal hurdles and months of laborious work have been a success, and we're fully up and running once more, it's so gratifying to see the results of his support and incredibly diligent efforts in laboring with me to get this book completed... And, of course, I must also mention with pride the additional work provided by good friends such as Griffin, my friend Robie, and many others, in seeing the production of Magic and Martial Arts through to a grand finish!
This new book is truly a thing of beauty!
We're so excited!!!
Scottie
The Magic and Martial Arts book is finally CONTENT COMPLETE!!!! As of yesterday, every bit of content, loads of new and exceptional art, and the copious amount of additional material we've added to the book (literally more than a hundred pages of extra material), have now been incorporated into the final finished InDesign document, and we're now doing one last read-through to spot-check for errors before getting our final printing quote and sending it off to the printer for production!!!
It will take about 12 weeks for us to get our hands on the hard-copies of the books, but we intend to have the PDFs available long before that!
Thanks so much for the incredible patience you have all shown... Though it was certainly unfortunate that Shard Studios ended up having to essentially halt all production for several years while dealing with circumstances surrounding the economy, Aaron and I taking other full-time jobs, followed by Aaron's departure from the company, and my subsequent purchase of the IP for SHARD itself,...eventually Andrew joining me as a new partner was unbelievably valuable in the efforts and support necessary to bring the SHARD RPG back to life once again!
Now that all the legal hurdles and months of laborious work have been a success, and we're fully up and running once more, it's so gratifying to see the results of his support and incredibly diligent efforts in laboring with me to get this book completed... And, of course, I must also mention with pride the additional work provided by good friends such as Griffin, my friend Robie, and many others, in seeing the production of Magic and Martial Arts through to a grand finish!
This new book is truly a thing of beauty!
We're so excited!!!
Scottie