May, not a great month

I am back after more than 1 month from my last post... what a shame!

I had several other businesses to follow in the recent past and I dedicated only few days to my project (d'oh!). I will make a status update just to have a picture at the end of May:

  • the proofreading is still on progress; I didn't get the texts from my friends but only short feedbacks; the worst one is that one of them withdrew... too bad! I still have 3 friends helping me! I will hopefully get their works in June and do the editing between July and August. I'd like to have the playtest edition with all the amendments coming from the proofread, with the original "highlighting style" I had at the beginning and with some few (good) artworks to make it a little bit "sexy".
  • I didn't make any progress on the optional rules; I just wrote some other good notes on my notebook but I didn't work on the book itself.
  • I started the book of the cosmogony, I revised the "backbone" of the book and wrote a chronology of the setting keeping in mind that this would serve both the cosmogony and the game setting itself. I am happy with the outcome!
  • I did some overall housekeeping in my notebook as there were too many notes thrown in it without any order and, in some cases, even contradicting in some events (!!!). Therefore now I have a notebook ordered and with consistent contents! (i removed or changed the "wrong notes" and re-wrote them again). This is a good part of the material to complete the cosmogony and starting the writing of the setting!

Last but not least, I did get in touch with Simone who is a great fellow I knew years ago (nearly 20 years now!) and who will help me in some parts of the setting! We met again after years of silence and I had the impression that only few days passed since I heard from him the last time... What a pleasure for me! ...and I do not want to be too optimistic but I have a good feeling about the support he can provide me!!! 

I will get into details of the setting with my next posts...


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