I'll give you guys an update hopefully today. ;)
Ech, I suspect that you are already tomorrow while writing this :/
Not in Australia Wojcech...
I am pretty sure you are - I wrote my response on Monday before midnight meaning that you wrote your post on Tuesday early morning.
So you are tomorrow, but I am still today. ;)
UPDATE
* I received an NPC from Mike McKeown that will fill out the NPC section - Havoc's Tavern.
* Given that I need to finish my work on my stretch goal material for the Ultimate Witches and Warlocks Kickstarter, that is taking priority for the next week or so. After that I'll be tackling the final maps for Mark Hudson's adventure.
Sorry James, I know I am like a maximized, extended, mythic continual delay spell. I'm job hunting like crazy and RPGSS took up some of my time. Now I'm culled I'll get back to it. ;)
Hey James!
At the risk of sounding terse*…. I'm still trying to work on the maps for the large adventure - I see that there are some blank maps for the encounter round of RPGSS that might help me lay them out.
Again, apologies to all the contributors (including your good self) that have been so patient and haven't sent to the Master of Demon Mountain for some tiefling assassins to rearrange my soul….
* :)
Of course not...we still need you to get the magazine goin first...
Not at the moment. Still working on maps.
The enemy of Good is Perfect.
Thanks Ben. Of course the enemy of my enemy (here known as "complete") is my friend. ;)
Just how many issues of your Ars Magica fanzine (Sub Rosa?) have you under your belt. Coz I really, really don't want to know. Gaaaah. :)
So any news? (After your latest mail, I mean).
You need maps? How many?
I know a guy...
That's not shady at all...
I was interested when it was announced 2 years ago. Now not so much.
Just my 2 cp. YMMV.
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@Everybody - here is an update. I had a mad rush at this in an effort to get it out before GenCon, which was...hopeful. Still it is much closer than it was a month ago. Turns out working night shift 5ive nights a week for the past six months is hard on your publishing. It also seems to make you post numerals for letters like you are twenty years younger than you actually are.
* I decided to drop a large adventure in the interest of GETTING THIS DONE. The adventure "Brewfall" will appear in a special #1.5 of Yggdrasil. There are still two smaller adventures that will appear.
* Had to get one art piece resent in a different format as the original was all scratchy - is fixed now. Thanks to the artist.
* Had a few articles updated to reflect the release of Pathfinder Unchained.
* Apart from that, everything else is merely taking a long time. :)
Again, many apologies to all those who submitted articles.
I'll keep you all posted.
I was interested when it was announced 2 years ago. Now not so much.
Just my 2 cp. YMMV.
Understood silverhair2008. It's a long time coming. Since even before we lost the KQ forums. Apologies. Hopefully when you see it you will have your interest rekindled.
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I think people need to keep in mind that Morgsn is doing this all SOLO. That is a HUGE task, if done alone. Consider that for Wayfinder, I have an assistant editor, two layout persons, a dozen volunteer editors and proofreaders, and a roster of 30-40 volunteer artists. And one issue takes us 6 months to produce in our spare times.
I would encourage any future efforts to be community efforts. I speak from experience here. ;-)
OSW, Tim's absolutely right. If you want a hand from now on, I'm willing to do what I can. :)
If you got the impression that I was casting dispersion's on OSW, you are very wrong. My main reason for saying not so much interested is I am no longer playing in a Midgard Setting game. When it does come out I will take a look at it. But I should be allowed to express my feelings and opinions without reprisals.
OSW understood my meaning.
It 's all good, and yes, I understood perfectly silverhair2008. :)
@Qstor - Marc has offered much advice, help, one article and two folders of stock art. He's helped a great deal!
@Tim - thanks for the further support! To tell the truth, this has been a community effort from all the free art, cartography and submissions - at least a few people offered to proofread, edit and more along the way. Mostly it has been my own inability to just get it finished - in real time, yes it takes some hours to lay the thing out and format it in InDesign, but when you spread that out over "spare time" it takes....months. Evidently.
The only bottleneck has been me. :)
Then again Ben McFarland seems to get his Sub Rosa Ars Magica fanzine out with a certain amount of speed...
Anyway, back to it...
Are you considering submissions for 1.5?
Not at this time. If I do, any submissions would probably be adventures, side-treks, NPCs or other GM related Midgardia.
Need an editor perhaps?
If I do I'll let you know. Thanks for the offer!
The only bottleneck has been me. :)
Then again Ben McFarland seems to get his Sub Rosa Ars Magica fanzine out with a certain amount of speed...
Issue #17 is targeted for release in the next 2.5 weeks-ish, presuming art continues to arrive apace. We're still not as fast as I think we'd like to be. We want to be quarterly, we're more biannually.
But I don't do it alone. I work with another fellow from the Ars Magica Authors' Pool. We both write, other people sometimes write, I wrangle art, he does the layout in a software program I acquired and have, too. Sharing becomes a must. Sometimes we're forced to "go to the woodcuts" for art, or make old public domain maps fit the plan. Because there's two of us, we make each other hit the deadlines we set.
-Ben.
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Sorry, I wasn't responding specifically to you silverhair. Running Waywinder for 10 issues now, I was simply adding my own perspective from experience to help explain to people the kind of task OSW was taking on.
Yes, you are perfectly entitled and justified in your feelings and opinions. My post was not a reprisal to you. I simply looked up thread and saw a lot of comments that conveyed frustration or disappointment. I am well experienced with that, too. Just tried to weigh in with my perspective, that's all.
Apologies, I guess......
No, Timitius, no apology needed. Perhaps my skin was too thin that day. However, in the past I have expressed an opinion and got blasted for it. If I have an opposite opinion I try to present in an intelligent and non-controversial way. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
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I think people need to keep in mind that Morgsn is doing this all SOLO. That is a HUGE task, if done alone. Consider that for Wayfinder, I have an assistant editor, two layout persons, a dozen volunteer editors and proofreaders, and a roster of 30-40 volunteer artists. And one issue takes us 6 months to produce in our spare times.
I would encourage any future efforts to be community efforts. I speak from experience here. ;-)
I concurr.
OSW, you could assemble a great team to make this project work. Call it Oceanshieldwolf's 11. :^ )Seriously, we can do so much more together than we could separately. We learned that through Open Design. There's enough interested talent available who love Midgard and desire to create quality fan material. Just ask and see.
Sub Rosa 17 just came out-- but see, even when I know what our plans should be, we didn't get it done for nearly 6 weeks, when I thought it might be 3 weeks. It can certainly be tough sometimes.
-Ben.
Oh, sorry Qstor (and James) - I'm about to start a new job next week that has the strangest hours - during the day!!! So I will have time to finish a few....overdue things.
Let me look at the files tongiht and I'll get back with a summation of what needs doing.
Layout is mostly finished, and I have a resubmitted piece of fiction to edit/polish - mostly what I need are a few art pieces - I'll do some scouring around to find them.
Ok. I'm going to give myself a deadline of two weeks. If not done by then I'll hand it over to someone else. As I said upthread, it's 90% done. Those articles needing art (two I think) will get stock pieces if I can find them. Thanks for sticking by me James and Qstor.
I am always here!