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Post by vastariner on Aug 4, 2021 8:11:28 GMT
Maybe it's like 95% full one night? Would look like a full moon. Could make all the difference in the world if you happen to be a werewolf. It's important to be precise about these things. What happens if full moon is during the daytime? No transformation?
I'm not sure anyone's thought this through.
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Post by vastariner on Aug 4, 2021 8:13:09 GMT
It does seem strange that there is an area of Titan that is just like Japan. Note that the Isles of the Dawn have shapes just like the Japanese islands, but arranged in a different order.
But that they are more Chinese than Japanese.
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Post by sylas on Aug 4, 2021 16:17:05 GMT
Isles of the Dawn is more Chinese. Hachiman is more Japanese.
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Post by sleepyscholar on Aug 4, 2021 16:31:36 GMT
Isles of the Dawn is more Chinese. Hachiman is more Japanese. Nice to see that my joke got spotted! I don't know why the Isles of the Dawn were stuck on the Titan map. It means 'Land of the Rising Sun', and the isles look like Japan. But Jamie and Min had already done Hachiman on the mainland. Which was why when Steve W and I were looking for somewhere to set Black Vein Prophecy, I settled on the Isles of the Dawn. Steve wasn't much interested in China, but I thought it would be funny to make IotD more Chinese than Japanese. I grant you, not a great joke, but I was scrabbling around for whatever I could get in those days.
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Post by sleepyscholar on Aug 4, 2021 16:33:17 GMT
The test could be kept in as a reward - a well-hidden path - for players who roll up honest characters and adhere to the rules come what may. There could also have been a (harder) way included to get the multicoloured scales (or whatever) for those players 'unlucky' enough to roll 10, 11 or 12 for LUCK. They have 50 50 rolls to make readers lose in AOD, RTFM and arguably BVP itself, as well. Perhaps BVP, with its other technical errors, deserves a revised edition? The thing is, the book is well-balanced except for the Luck test(s). I'd happily do a revised edition... except that it's not like there's actually a market for it nowadays.
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Post by dragonwarrior8 on Aug 4, 2021 19:08:16 GMT
They have 50 50 rolls to make readers lose in AOD, RTFM and arguably BVP itself, as well. Perhaps BVP, with its other technical errors, deserves a revised edition? The thing is, the book is well-balanced except for the Luck test(s). I'd happily do a revised edition... except that it's not like there's actually a market for it nowadays. Id buy it! So there is one at least. Im sure many others here would also but I realize in the big picture that probably isnt even a drop in the bucket. Id feel better if all the proceeds went directly to yourself however as opposed to "General FF Revenues", but I assume thats probably impossible.
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Post by sylas on Aug 4, 2021 22:22:09 GMT
Black Vein Prophecy is one of those additions that is so outlandish to the FF series that you might possibly be able to delete all links to the FF world and still have 97% of the adventure intact. It could also function pretty well as a diceless adventure in the vain of the Virtual Reality/Critical If series since there's so little necessary dice rolling required.
I think more people would buy it than you think. Sure, despite being a masterpiece it wasn't to everyone's taste, but current FF being managed by Scholastic doesn't feel like the correct way to move into the future. The revised re-release of an old classic could prove quite popular. I'm sold anyway.
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Post by tyrion on Aug 5, 2021 6:57:58 GMT
How many people bought keep of the lich lord when it was repub!ished in fabled lands? And that wasn't on many people's top tens.
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Post by sylas on Aug 5, 2021 14:53:54 GMT
No idea. But I've never been a fan of Fabled Lands either.
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Post by sleepyscholar on Aug 9, 2021 8:00:13 GMT
How many people bought keep of the lich lord when it was repub!ished in fabled lands? And that wasn't on many people's top tens. Not enough. It's actually Dave I'd been talking with about the idea of republishing FF books. He's given good advice, but it didn't make me feel enthused to press on.
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Post by tyrion on Aug 9, 2021 17:12:18 GMT
How many people bought keep of the lich lord when it was repub!ished in fabled lands? And that wasn't on many people's top tens. Not enough. It's actually Dave I'd been talking with about the idea of republishing FF books. He's given good advice, but it didn't make me feel enthused to press on. Obviously people on this board would buy anything you republished, but that's a small number. So it would be a labour of love rather than anything to make money. Is there anything major you would need to do in, say, black vein prophecy?
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Post by sleepyscholar on Aug 10, 2021 1:22:06 GMT
Not enough. It's actually Dave I'd been talking with about the idea of republishing FF books. He's given good advice, but it didn't make me feel enthused to press on. Obviously people on this board would buy anything you republished, but that's a small number. So it would be a labour of love rather than anything to make money. Is there anything major you would need to do in, say, black vein prophecy? Um, read it? My memory of Black Vein Prophecy mostly comes from what I've read written by fans in the last couple of decades! Actually the book I did start working on was Magehunter, based on it being the only one I have a digital version of, and the idea that its rareness might mean that there was more interest in it. But a bit of research and reflection suggested to me that what attracted collectors to it was the rareness, and there weren't necessarily so many people that interested in the contents of the book. Further, by stripping the FF elements (and of course I'm lucky in that it's relatively easy in Magehunter, because I renamed the Titan monsters, and used a place in Titan that Steve W and I created) I would actually further decrease the number of people interested in it. Paperback books have lowish margins, even when produced by large companies in volume. I know from my Heart of Ice experience that to even break even, you have to charge a price that most people consider rather excessive for a paperback. Dave's advice was that you have to add value: providing additional bits that weren't in the original, and which elevate it to being a prestige product. An example might be colour interior illustrations. As you say, it would have to be a labour of love. Producing a new version of the book -- I would happily do that as a labour of love (which was effectively what I did with Heart of Ice). But social media marketing and commissioning of new artwork? That starts to look to me like an abusive relationship.
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Post by tyrion on Aug 12, 2021 19:26:30 GMT
As you say, it would have to be a labour of love. Producing a new version of the book -- I would happily do that as a labour of love (which was effectively what I did with Heart of Ice). But social media marketing and commissioning of new artwork? That starts to look to me like an abusive relationship. I'm assuming you don't have the rights to the original interior illustrations? Obviously you have a cover ready to go! It would be nice to see a rework of magehunter. Maybe it could be set in fabled lands or legend (crescentium springs to mind as an alternative to kallehmer) - if Messrs Morris, Johnson and Thomson didn't object. Speaking of which, I'm off to read the demon's claw.
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Post by CharlesX on Sept 8, 2021 16:11:46 GMT
I'm a fan of Battleblade Warrior, because I feel the difficulty level is about right, and I like the story. My main problem is the weird rule you cannot eat unless given the option to. It seems like even the author forgot or something, because there aren't enough chances to do that. That's why I normally disregard the rule; few other FF books do that (WOFM implements it better, but I can see why it was very often dropped). It's also a bit short. I make a judgment call about when I as an adventurer have the time to eat one or more provisions.
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