I’ve been talking about the new setting for the Artifact, Tortuga for a while now but I was running short on time and energy to write it. That was the motivation for moving my posting schedule to Fridays only. The first two weeks made only a little progress but last week I got a good chunk of time to work and finished things up. Now the file is with the editor and she’s working through it and that’s a good thing too, because she’s already caught a lot of spelling and grammar errors.
Scale Problems
One of the things that was holding me up was that some of the equipment in the book breaks the scales that are established for humans in the main book and things stop working as well. I discussed a few ideas about how to handle that problem on the blog here but couldn’t come up with anything I liked. Then one day on a road trip I finally cracked it and so was able to give amended rules for this book. The nice thing is that they don’t conflict with anything in the main book but only extend the concepts.
Artwork
This book needed artwork and I had a hard time getting myself back to the drawing table. I have to focus on a drawing to do an acceptable job and I’ve been pulled in more than a few directions for a bit here. Oddly I’ve made a few breakthroughs that I’ve wanted to make for a long time in my artwork but I’m not very energized about them for some reason.
So I can’t proclaim that this book is packed with art but it’s enough to get the ideas across. I think the cover art is one of the better pieces I’ve done.
Publishing
I think I’ll be ready for putting the file out in two weeks if everything moves ahead as planned.
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