Assassins killed my last revision...
When Covid hit, my work started ramping up to crazy levels and sadly this project was a casualty of that. It's long over due and I feel horrible about that, I had such high hopes. In my mind by this time I would have been working on Vol2 and a few other projects, but sadly that was not the case.
The upside was that I was able to go back and see the project with fresh eyes. What I saw were some glaring mistakes I had made, so I recently finally used some PTO and took a few days off to work on this project. I focused on some clarifications and formatting for press (plus learning to use Affinity Publisher).
I thought I had nailed this.
Then I went back to work on a basic character sheet.
"oh shit..."
My goal for a character sheet was inspired by Powered by the Apocalypse games (Dungeon World, The Sword, The Crown and The Unspeakable Power, etc). I wanted something that was a one page sheet that could be used without the rule book as much as possible.
Once I started working on these, I noticed that I had neglected one of my design goals entirely, which was to replace plus and minus rolls with advantage and disadvantage. So I quickly went back last night and changed all of those out in the rules.
I also worked on a layout for the character sheet and I think I got it down. If this works out, I'll finish up the others so I can put them up on DriveThru RPG at the same time as the PDF.
Eventually down the line I'd like to do a form fillable one, followed by one with some hand drawn art.
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