There have been a slew of 4ed products released as well as on the horizon. I kept a keen eye on these releases and wondered how they could release them so fast and be safe from the inevitable erratas on their product. Then I realized how many pages they were and are...48, 60, 105.
30,000 words. 70,000 words.
Then I felt better why we were not going to make the October minimum ...
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Making things more difficult...
If you open the players handbook, you will see two pages that represent the elvish and dwarven scripts-the basis of their written language. Of course, what it really boils down to is just a simple substitution cipher. Twenty-six letters and 10 numbers. Why is that? Ten digits, sure, but 26 letters. Less than a half-dozen languages in the world are like...
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 3 months ago
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 3 months ago
"Do you accept electrum?"
"We accept silver, copper, gold, and huge bags of sh#$, but no sir, not electrum."
Blatant clichés aside, I am here to talk money, specifically the point of currency. Now, we're not going to remove the gold piece or the copper or the famous platinum. A stamped piece of currency worth its weight in the mineral it is made from is actually a realistic approach. ...
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 3 months ago
History of a Game. Part 1:
I wanted to take a moment to talk about the history of Amethyst…in the real world, that is. Amethyst began in the shower after I had watched the film Dragonslayer. Yes, that long ago. Okay, the film was on CBC and it was probably 1994 or 95. I had this strange habit when I was young where I would take ideas I had seen on television that was not science ...
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 3 months ago
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Originally Posted by Voadam Is there a current anticipated release date? December or so or 2009? October but not on the 1st?
Anything like "not sure, depends on a lot of things, but definitely not before X"? December or so or 2009 maybe? Not October.
Not sure, really. It depends on a lot of things, but definitely not before X--I-I mean......
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 3 months ago
History of a Game. Part 2:
Throughout all of this, I never thought of Amethyst as a serious setting. I set it on Earth because the original treatment was set on earth. It was easy to mess with. There was not much of a story, just an obvious McGuffin to keep the players moving place to place.
Then I ran into David Fidler. My best friend from years past, we had drifted apart because...
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 3 months ago
By the end of the weekend we're be nearing the end of the primary draft.
I once said to my staff that if we didn't make the October release but we worked our asses off, then I can at least say we are putting out one hell of a product that will justify the time spent and validate the patience fans have invested with us.
By today, we hit 255,000 words, thats 50,000 words more than the...
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 2 months ago
I know you will all understand that many of these previews are early stage. With the first draft actually done, we are going back and seeing all the stupid sh@$ weve written. Sometimes its goofy grammar (I admitted I have bad spelling, maybe even a mild dyslexia...or just ham-fat-fingers and too tired all the time), sometimes its a minor alteration. Already we have made large changes to a ...
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 2 months ago
I know. Not much has been said in the past few days. As you might have read here already, the book is done but now needs testing. Artwork is currently flowing down from the mountain as the long train of testing begins. For those that have already received the play testing package, we have made so many changes to the rules, we are not able to release an update file and will actually have to print...
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 2 months ago
A question posed I realized I should answer concerns the setting differences between the 3.5 Amethyst and the 4.0 Amethyst. Would there be any? Should there be any? The answer is yes on both accounts. The follow-up question could be what but the important question that should be asked is why. The answer is that we had to make certain sacrifices with the old system to accommodate the rules....
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DiasExMachina replied 1 year, 2 months ago
Time to give credit where credits due. Although I have talked artwork before, I dont think I have personally done it justice...so here I go, without a net.
When Amethyst was in its infancy, I went searching around for inspiration. Online artwork was a good place to start. I toured through GFX, Deviant art, Epilogue. During my surfing, I came across dozens of artists that reflected what I ...
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