My monograph submission "Swords of Cydoria" has been accepted

[Evilschemer]

Update: I completed round 1 of layout last night. I have a few additional illustrations to do, a table of contents, an index, round-2 re-layout and touch-up, and some final editing, and I’ll be done. As of round-1 layout, it’s 176 pages. It will be completed and submitted to Chaosium by the end of November.

[filbanto]

I am looking forward to this one. Thanks for all your hard work bringing it together!

[Evilschemer]

Round 2 layout complete. My wife made me re-do it at 10-pt font. 9-pt was just too small. At 10-pt it comes to 198 pages.

[Evilschemer]

Round 3 layout is complete. I realized too late that my margins were set to 0.5 inches, not the 0.6 inches suggested in the submission guidelines, so I had to re-lay it all out again. I'm also trying to trim some fat. It's up to 210 pages. I took out "Appendix One: Inspirational Material" and some other bits here and there, such as the apothecary profession, which had become redundant. I might trim the equipment section down quite a bit, and maybe the Gods of Cydoria chapter, which is all flavor and serves no real purpose.

I'm also working on the index, going through and tagging key-words page by page. That part is pretty tedious, but necessary. After that, I fill in all the "See Page XX" entries.

[trechriron]

Excellent News!

[Evilschemer]

The index for Swords of Cydoria is finished! Now to re-do all the "See Page XX", and maybe a character sheet, and I'll be done.

[Evilschemer]

Here are some of the illustrations I have drawn for the book.

[Evilschemer]

[Guest Vile Traveller]

Here are some of the illustrations I have drawn for the book.

Oddly, I can't see the images, nor can I open the website www.mecha.com.

[Evilschemer]

Oddly, I can't see the images, nor can I open the website www.mecha.com.

Yeah, it apparently went down for a few hours today. It's back up now.

[Guest Vile Traveller]

Hey, nice! Pretty old-school (that means in a good way).

[Evilschemer]

Here's a link to the intro chapter.

http://www.mecha.com/~conkle/cydoria/intro.pdf

[Agentorange]

Are all the creatures and races shown in the pictures actually statted out in the book ?

[NickMiddleton]

That looks awesome! I have, thanks to the endless waves of d100 versions being promoted / announced / released recently, been getting very cynical about the state of BRP / d100 gaming as we appeared to be going through a period of pointlessly re-inventing the wheel to no good purpose.

Swords of Cydoria and the stuff like D101's River of Heaven give me hope.

Cheers,

Nick

[Evilschemer]

Are all the creatures and races shown in the pictures actually statted out in the book ?

Yes. Although the big lizardy monsters are generically and collectively referred to at Teraxes.

[Puck]

Looks very cool. Sign me up for a copy.

[Evilschemer]

I have uploaded two versions of the character sheet to the files section. One is the official character sheet, the other is an unofficial sheet that I have optimized to my own personal preferences in my campaign.

[Evilschemer]

Update

My wonderful wife finished proofreading and editing Swords of Cydoria last night. All 200 pages of it! It took her about 2 months and she's done an amazing job. I hope to finish integrating her changes this week so I can send it off to Chaosium.

[Trifletraxor]

200 pages! That sounds promising!

[filbanto]

Great news! I'm looking forward to this one myself. Your teasers have been really cool.

[Evilschemer]

I'm uploading the inDesign package and PDF to the ftp site right now! I'm a little giddy! I'm so excited!

With index and character sheet it comes in at 204 pages. There are 117 illustrations and maps!

After it's published (assuming its published), I'll start sharing all the content I had to trim!

[Jason D]

Congratulations!

[trechriron]

Looking forward to this, the setting sounds detailed and exciting!