Finished the play test draft of Age of Heroes last night. The wonderful wife did her proof reading, I created the PDF and sent it off to my other two proof readers.
But I'm counting it as effectively complete, the first time ever that *all* the core rules have been assembled in one place and formatted for prestentation and use. Previously there was a spiral bound copy of the very most imporant core rules. Nice but about half the size.
It ended up a bit longer than planned, 242 Pages with 116,030 words. Nearly all of it rules although a bit of our settings got in the Bestiary with the creature descriptions.
From here I'll let my two remainingg proof readers point out any lasting typos they can find (knowing they'll never find them all of course) and then order a couple of bound copies for final playtest. I'll give it a few months mostly to make sure I didn't screw up something mechanically as there is some new stuff (in detail, not in concept) in there before I call it really really done, remove the playtest stamp, add the designer notes and handout hardcopies to the players in our groups.
Interesting feeling to be here, even with something I don't intend to market. Likely due to my never imagining that I'd write anything that would result in a bound hardcover. When I was born, it was just something out of the realm of possiblity for the typical person, and is only reasonable now due to Print on Demand.
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Are you planning to make it more widely available, eventually? I'm interested to know more about it.
I'll likely offer something as there is a bit of interest. I think I can sell about a dozen copies (mostly to my own groups and myself, but there are few others).
So when the play test is done, I'll put it up on Lulu for sale. Tack a bit of a profit on it so I can buy everyone involved a dinner (or at least a pizza) and call it good.
The play tests start in earnest in November, so I'm thinking March at the latest.
I won't market it, it's basically a 1980s design ( that would be because that's what it is) and wouldn't get a footing in today's online community.
I also won't be putting a PDF out there. If it's going to be used incorrectly as an design example by the likes of Ron Edwards again- he can dang well pay me for a hard copy.
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