We're making excellent progress on The Carnival of the Damned! David has created an extraordinary amount of useful content, but with great word count comes great responsibility, and the sheer volume of text has required me to keep my editing nose to the grindstone. Happily, the major initial editing pass is now complete.
Now that I've poured over every word, I'm more convinced than ever that judges will find it a useful toolbox of ideas for their campaigns. Yes, there's enough content for days of tournament play, but it's trivial to carve out your favorite bits to fill whatever time window you have available. David's final task is to compile tips and tricks for utilizing the adventure in a variety of circumstance: knowledge that could only be picked up on gritty battlefields like GaryCon and DragonCon. I think judges will find the information very useful.
Finally, David has just signed up to run The Carnival at GenCon under the Purple Sorcerer banner! Now I'll have another reason to be depressed while watching all the fun in my Google+ stream. He hopes to see as many of you there as possible: the goal is to have print copies available at the event.
One reason I'm excited to get The Carnival of the Damned into the proofing and printing stage is that I'm itching to complete Against the Vortex Temple. The graphics, cover, and page designs are all complete; all that remains is to finish writing the darn thing! All my recent editing has fired me up to get back to writing myself. I have a good feeling that things will come together quickly.
I'm looking forward to an exciting summer!
That's great to hear! If you ever need another volunteer editor, hit me up.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear that you're back on the grind! Looking forward to reading both adventures.
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