Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Enchantments of Black Tokyo: Revised, Expanded and Fucking Awesome!

Guys, I just finished layout and final editing on Enchantments of Black Tokyo: Revised Edition! This new sourcebook stands at 341 pages of ultra-dense content and just went on sale at www.rpgnow.com for $19.99.

I've gone ahead and sent the revised edition to all purchasers of the first edition and deactivated that product. I also chose to set the Revised Edition at the same pricepoint as the first edition despite the fact it's over 100 pages longer and has a lot more, and better, artwork.

Right now, I have a couple more magic items books in the works, which I've been tinkering away with for the past few months. However, I feel like 2018 is going to be the year of huge setting guides. I've got a solid draft of The Black Atlas, the revised setting guide for the Black Tokyo Campaign Setting that I've been sitting on for about 2 years now.  It stands at about 290 page as a Word document, and I want to add about 100 more pages of content before going forward, and add a lot more horrific and disturbing elements.

I'd also like to get out true, complete and well-illustrated guides for the Psi-Watch and Heavy Future campaigns, as they've never had really good world books. Likewise I'd love a decent gazetteer for the Otherverse America campaign, take the world out of San Francisco 2107 and into the country as a whole.

It took a while to get my creative mojo back, but putting out Enchantments of Black Tokyo: Revised Edition helped me do it.

Blessed Be,
CHRIS

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Yes, I'm Still Alive

I realized this afternoon it's been close to three months since I've updated the blog and about as long since I've put out a new product. Part of that has been due to a genuinely hellish winter: over the last few months I've dealt with the death of a coworker, a flu that took me out of action for most of January and most recently, a scratched cornea as a result of a biking accident.

Also, of course, I've been a casualty of the most insidious illness of all: PS3 addiction. Yeah, that thing is a major time sink.

Also, I've been doing too much revising and expansion on the revised Enchantments of Black Tokyo sourcebook - more content, more art, a fancier layout, set it up for POD.... all of which costs time and money that the book might never repay me for, as good as I want it to be. So I think at this point, I just need to get the book out as is, and put something outthere and break the log jam.

After that, I've got a few more magic item books in the pipeline, at various stages of completion, and a Lifer player's guide at the completed final draft stage.

So I'm getting back into layout for Enchantments of Black Tokyo tonight, and hope to have it out soon. Thanks for the patience.
CHRIS