Post Mortem & Results

[The1True]

I'm going to be a total ass and say you should consider another title. It's clunky and not particularly enticing. Also, I don't love the cover art --- too "air brushy"?

Welcome back, buddy. Not an ass; it's a fair critique. My artist friend sent me a sketch more than a month ago, and I haven't heard from him since.
I guess I am a little protective of the cover art in that I did spend a couple of days modeling the jellyfish and landscape in 3D, messing with the lighting, screwing around with the borealis fx, and then massaging the composition in a photo editor to get a slightly more painterly effect than the raw rendered image. But yeah, it needs trees, which eat memory like a mother and are frankly, an utter bastard to distribute across a large landscape. But hey, it's the crappy human-made art everyone's been yearning for amirite?

As for the title. Ech. It was inspired by the contest that inspired all the other contests. It's clunky and weird, but so is my adventure.

I have removed the Adventure Design moniker at the top, cool as it was, I didn't want guilt by association to rub off on our host, and alternatives looked too much like a ripoff of Adventures Dark & Deep. I kept my internet handle, which I'm still not really sure is the right thing to do and am unclear how far-reaching the consequences of that decision are. I killed the ISBN, fun as it was, and changed the back cover blurb to something less glib. I'll wait a little longer for the cover, but I'm not holding my breath. And for all my pro-AI talk, I find myself balking at an AI cover.

 

[The1True]

you just add a design element that ties the sections together, like a unique header or something.

This is a really good suggestion. I'm going to give it a try, but I've done a lot of work in Acrobat now, which makes going back to Word to fix things increasingly unattractive. Also, the layout is pretty rigid at this point. Adding headers and footers in Word nukes everything. I added the page number footers in Acrobat. Basically, if I can pull it off in Acrobat without drama, I'll do it.
I was inconsistent with the map and table labeling format. Once again, not keen to mess around with this. I just really need to get this fucker out the door. I'll see if I can at least standardize things in the PDF.

 

[Beoric]

The 2009 is a total mystery to me as well. We've been here forever, but surely not THAT long...

It's on all our bios. You joined April 21, 2019, four days after me. Most of the current regulars joined that April, which must be when Bryce set it up.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

And I joined April 15th 2019 - 2 days before you, Beoric. Great minds think alike, it seems. Or maybe I am secretly Beoric*

*Disclaimer: I am not Beoric.

 

[The1True]

Irradiated Paradox of the Volatile Skies is LIVE! It was suggested that I price at $9.99 US (it is huge and comes with a map pack and conversion guides...) I haven't figured out how to edit the size of the damn picture in the listing, and the preview is not the page range that I indicated in setup. I'm also trying to figure out how to hand out a few friends'n family discounts. Anyway, if you've got listing advice, I'm listening, but editing the listing has so far not been easy.

 

[Malrex]

Irradiated Paradox of the Volatile Skies is LIVE! It was suggested that I price at $9.99 US (it is huge and comes with a map pack and conversion guides...) I haven't figured out how to edit the size of the damn picture in the listing, and the preview is not the page range that I indicated in setup. I'm also trying to figure out how to hand out a few friends'n family discounts. Anyway, if you've got listing advice, I'm listening, but editing the listing has so far not been easy.

Siiiiiickkkkk!!! I added it to Bryce's list!

Yes...those sound like common problems...its a total pain in the ass.
I might be able to help with discounts...but after work....

Congrats man for getting it out! Shia already called me and said he was stoked.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

YOU DID IT BUDDY!

 

[Beoric]

Irradiated Paradox of the Volatile Skies is LIVE! It was suggested that I price at $9.99 US (it is huge and comes with a map pack and conversion guides...) I haven't figured out how to edit the size of the damn picture in the listing, and the preview is not the page range that I indicated in setup. I'm also trying to figure out how to hand out a few friends'n family discounts. Anyway, if you've got listing advice, I'm listening, but editing the listing has so far not been easy.

Is there supposed to be two empty pages after the cover, or is one of them supposed to be a title page?

EDIT: You keyed 690 hexes with individual mapped and unmapped movement cost, encounter chance, encounter chance, navigation difficulty, and spot distance? I now feel insufficiently nerdy, and will be creating a random generator to populate my hexes with all that, specific to each of the 80 types of terrain I am currently using.

Also, the waste is 69 miles from north to south. Nice.

EDIT2: Aww, you actually only did it for 28 hexes? Lame. (jk)

I should probably finish reading it before I write anything more.

 

[The1True]

EDIT: You keyed 690 hexes with individual mapped and unmapped movement cost, encounter chance, encounter chance, navigation difficulty, and spot distance? I now feel insufficiently nerdy, and will be creating a random generator to populate my hexes with all that, specific to each of the 80 types of terrain I am currently using.

Thanks for taking a look! I actually have keyed all those other hexes including all the stuff you guys brainstormed back in the day! They don't have the simplified hexploring layout you see in IPVS, but they do have all the core data necessary to do so. A full Wastes gazetier would be fun someday. I might put out a very rough notes + map for PWYW if enough people ask for one in the meantime.

 

[Beoric]

Thanks for taking a look! I actually have keyed all those other hexes including all the stuff you guys brainstormed back in the day! They don't have the simplified hexploring layout you see in IPVS, but they do have all the core data necessary to do so. A full Wastes gazetier would be fun someday. I might put out a very rough notes + map for PWYW if enough people ask for one in the meantime.

I quite like your maps, btw. I'm also pretty sure I can make this work in my game, I already have a spot picked out for it and everything.