>Anyway, make with the quarterly update, SJR, and I won't bug you
>until July.

:)

Well, in the local campaign, the players are currently playing their
characters' girlfriends, rescuing their regular characters from evil lawyers.

I'd say "it's a good deal more serious than it sounds" but that'd be a lie
in this case. The look on their faces when they realized why I was handing
them pregens was pretty classic, though. Since we're nearly to World War II
and one of the characters is Asian, I figured it'd be nice to have
something light on the plate before things get ugly.

Oh, you mean the GAME game ... The system's still done; the sample
adventures are taking shape; the GMing and playing chapters are nearly
fleshed to capacity, and the 800-pound gorilla remains the enormous black
timesink of the resource chapters, which are quite the lesson in why games
on this scale are normally done by teams of a dozen or more people, plus a
separate team for the graphics and layout and indexing. Of course, it
doesn't help, either, that my models for the game's density are each in
their fifth edition. Quixotic much? Guilty. Still, all in all I'm really
pleased with the shape of it. There's something awfully satisfying and
certain about it, these days, since it's been slapped into its current
shape by tons and tons of for-real campaigning. I dunno if it'll feel like
a fifth edition right out of the gate, but it'll be at least the equal of
most games in their third or fourth ...

And due to unexpected turns of fate, I'll probably have a complete FRPG
available sometime between now and the FFE release, although in that case
all the setting and resource material was already written three years ago,
and I'm just hammering out the cool combat rules :)



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