Sword of Air Update!


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Publisher, Frog God Games

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The pdfs are finished and will be mailing out to Kickstarter backers in the next 48 hours. The book is huge! Over 500 pages of color goodness will be hitting your email boxes very soon.

The book is at the printer in China--and will be mailed out in real form as soon as we get it. The book will not go on sale until we send it to backers, but pre-orders can be made here and on our website in a couple weeks.

Its been a journey, but the roots of my home campaign are finally in print. This material predates most of Rappan Athuk, and may be my best work ever.

Next time I want to write a 500 page book--someone slap some sense into me:)

Bill


Bill Webb wrote:
Next time I want to write a 500 page book--someone slap some sense into me

No way. Who else is going to produce books for me that require reinforced steel bookshelves?

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Yeah, I think it's time to flip the sagging shelf in my bookcase- the Rappan Athuk, Slumber Tsar, Tome of Horrors combo is killer. :)


Can't wait. Really looking forward to this.


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Great news! Looking forward to my copy!

Scarab Sages

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Steve Geddes wrote:
Who else is going to produce books for me that require reinforced steel bookshelves?

If you really want reinforced bookshelves, you should build one using FGG books - those things are indestructible!

Scarab Sages

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Thank you Bill.

I know you feel it was a long journey but I have to say that I have contributed to many kickstarters and the Frogs are the quickest at fulfilling their projects. I greatly appreciate that and this comes at the perfect time. I was out of things do read so I had started reading old 3.0 adventures (which I think I will convert and throw at them anyway) from Necromancer Games.

My group is lost in the Lost Lands now and I plan to keep them there for many years to come.

I read your teaser chapter and was very happy. Cannot wait for the PDF in the next couple of days, I will print it immediately and start reading in preparation.

I am really looking forward to the regional map too.

Thank you again...


It's been, what, 13 years since this was first announced?

Very glad to see it make it to fruition.

Scarab Sages

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Bill, how many thousands of pages of notes do you have left?

Time for another kickstarter... :)

Shadow Lodge

Steve Geddes wrote:
Bill Webb wrote:
Next time I want to write a 500 page book--someone slap some sense into me
No way. Who else is going to produce books for me that require reinforced steel bookshelves?

I think the Nuclear Edition is a steel-reinforced book, is it not?

Scarab Sages

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Printing Now...

Scarab Sages

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Still printing, very excited... (had to get a new toner cartridge and slowed me down).


Kthulhu wrote:
Steve Geddes wrote:
Bill Webb wrote:
Next time I want to write a 500 page book--someone slap some sense into me
No way. Who else is going to produce books for me that require reinforced steel bookshelves?
I think the Nuclear Edition is a steel-reinforced book, is it not?

I believe so. Any FGG book that requires a blacksmith to publish is on my "must have" list. :)

Scarab Sages

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And the reading begins.

Publisher, Frog God Games

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Nuke book is blacksmith bound, yes--will take me a few months still, as these are custom.

Dave--2001 announced; so yes


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Got my PDF copy and started reading it, enjoying it very much so far.

Is there a map of the whole region though?

Publisher, Frog God Games

Yes--map should be out to you all soon...notice I said ALL. Since we were two months late, we are letting all backers have the map. Normally it added cost, and not everyone bought it.

Happy New Year!


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Thanks Bill, will it be available in PDF form as well?


Just started reading - love the premise!

Should be a fun ride....


Bill Webb wrote:


Next time I want to write a 500 page book--someone slap some sense into me:)

I'm going to throw myself in front of any slaps headed in your direction so that will be futile.

Scarab Sages

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I am only on page 6 but...

I am very happy and excited. Tomorrow I will spend the entire day reading.

Publisher, Frog God Games

Already have a winner on Trivia question N0. 1! Steve Wells wrote this am:

The Crystal Cave was first seen in Crusader #5.


Where are the Trivia Questions?

Publisher, Frog God Games

hidden in text--keep looking

Publisher, Frog God Games

ps--308,596 words...

Scarab Sages

Pathfinder Maps Subscriber

This morning I made a decision.

My group has fled from the Tomb of Abysthor to Bards Gate in our last session.

I will give them an invitation to begin the Sword of Air (they are 4th to 7th level - only one 7th level character). If they bite then we will go into this and if not they can continue the Tomb and possibly make their way back to Rappan Ahtuk when there are done, or maybe Tsar which will make more sense at that point.

Dark Archive

Bill, I have to say that I really dug the Gamma World reference in the mutation section since I hold that game near and dear to my heart (re-writing a version of it as I type this).

Other writers hedge about it as an influence without actually saying its name (which is frustrating) - you just listed it. Very cool.


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What I really loved about Gamma World was the one box set that had a regional map of the US, the Northeast Ohio/Western PA area, and my hometown was on the map.

As a 12-year old, I thought that was the coolest thing ever.


I see that "Sword of Air" is available as PDF from the Frog God Games directly, but not yet on DriveThru or RPGNow.
I like the latter two because any updates and such are automatically available... how does that work with FGG?


Is it *really* available as a PDF on their website?

Sometimes a very new/soon to come product seems available, but then errors out when trying to order it.

Has anyone (non-Kickstarter) tried to get the Sword of Air PDF from the FGG website?


Arnwyn wrote:

Is it *really* available as a PDF on their website?

Sometimes a very new/soon to come product seems available, but then errors out when trying to order it.

Has anyone (non-Kickstarter) tried to get the Sword of Air PDF from the FGG website?

I successfully ordered it.


Thanks!

Woo-hoo!


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Thank you! Loving it so far!

Publisher, Frog God Games

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Glad to hear--the dead tree versions should be out in 45-60 days. Mostly depends on how long it takes to clear customs. This stuff will go on sale at other venues at that time.


Bill Webb wrote:

Yes--map should be out to you all soon...notice I said ALL. Since we were two months late, we are letting all backers have the map. Normally it added cost, and not everyone bought it.

Happy New Year!

Just bought the PDF version via the FGG website (i.e. I'm not a KS backer)... do I get a Regional Map too? :-)

Publisher, Frog God Games

The regional map should be up for sale soon--Kickstarter backers got it for free


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Thanks for the map Bill!

It doesn't quite line up correctly with the Sinnar region map, which surprised me a bit. I had to squeeze the Sinnar map to get it to line up (using Photoshop). Any reason why this would be?

Also, I was a little surprised to see towns (Elise and Glaivr) so near to Tsar and the Desolation! The way it was explained in the Slumbering Tsar seemed to indicate that Bard's Gate was the closest place of civilization, and anything north of Bard's Gate was avoided.


Tsar being about 950 miles away from Bard's Gate lines up exactly with what I had it for my Slumbering Tsar game.

Yay! :)


My read: Bard's Gate avoids things to the north. The text for Elise and Glaivr indicates that goods are traveling back to Bard's Gate by sea. So the roads and wilderness aren't exactly navigable by most people and the rumors don't help to encourage people to go overland to make it safer.

Bard's Gate is the "nearest" Imperial city which I'm sure they'd say makes them the nearest civilized spot.

Publisher, Frog God Games

Elise and Glaivr are not very big:)

It actually lines up exactly (give or take a border hex that got cropped.


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When I line up the water to the left of Eastwych on the Akados Region map with the water to the left of Stormshield on the Sinnar map, the "Great Bridge" road and the Great Amrin River to the left of it do not line up.

Scarab Sages

Pathfinder Maps Subscriber

Yes, I had the same problem but I do not know how to "squeeze it"

Publisher, Frog God Games

hmm..perhaps my edits were a bit off?


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If you import both maps into Photoshop you'll see that they have different dimensions. I standardized them at 5077x6000 and 6000x5077 respectively and they match up identically once you get their pixel sizes the same. (Ok, I added two pixels of black for the Coast Road where it didn't connect...).

I'd love, love, love to have an unlabeled version of each for players if that is at all possible in the PDFs. Pretty please with a cacodaemon on top.

And as there was mention of hex numbers in the future. Would it be possible to let us know the starting number and pattern so the over achievers can get a jump on things?


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Just out of curiosity -- and so I can prep my wallet via a tax return -- when is the next KS planned to go live now?

I know you were delaying it until you got caught up on everything else, and wanted to know if you have a timetable now with SOA on the slow boat from the Orient.

Shadow Lodge

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Well, they still have two other Kickstarters still to be delivered. I'd love it if they'd NOT have one for a while. Kickstarters is expensive. Plus I have this 30% off coupon and nothing to spend it on.


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Thanks AEIOU - your dimensions worked better than my solution!

Scarab Sages

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I believe the next one will be the Northlands Saga but don't know when they are planning that.

And the one after that I believe will be the Blight adventure stuff.

Then I hope to see the campaign setting.

I was looking at some old posts and I believe Greg said that the Campaign setting would be out late 2014 at the very earliest and that was optimistic. so with that little ray of sunshine I am hoping to see it before the end of the year. I am really looking forward to the regional map that includes everything.


You're welcome, Curmudgeonly.

Scarab Sages

Pathfinder Maps Subscriber

AEIOU, thank you. I used different dimensions but making them the same for both maps worked great. I used 6000x7091 (which are the dimensions of the new map).

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