Treebore said:
I just bought the Yggsburgh module during the Trolls awesome sale and I haven't gotten it yet, or the 4 other things I bought, inllcuding the Essentials boxed set (to see how your ideas of game design have changed, if nothing else).
So my question is, with your health issues and all the other complications of putting something like this together, with ghost writers, and what have you, can you give any kind of estimate on how long it will take for us to see the whole thing finished? Two years? Less than 20 years? Any kind of estimate?
I wrote the whole of the CZY book before I began to have serious health problems. It is sufficient wo serve as the basis for the detail modules, and rest assured I fed the designer team a whole slug of additional material, bith by group email and on the TLG board topic specifically for the design team. I lost about 12 wanna-bes along the way, so the 25 separate modules are being designed by about 18 writers..sufficient to vary the districts and give each some unique neighborhood "feel".
The last of the 25 town modules should becompleted in the spring of next year.
As for the abandoned Castle Zagyg and its dungeon levels, Rob has completed all the maps for the castles' levels and is working on the encounter text to send to me for develpment. I expect it to arrive in August. Rob is working fron a set of notes, level outline,and list of special encounters he is familiar with so create the underground portion. As each of those modules is done he will send them to me for developemt. The lot should take about three years to complete. If it so happens I am incapacitated, or deceased, I believe Trigee will seek the developmemental assistance of my sons Ernie (and possibly Luke) as well as a designer and co-writer I have worked with frequently, Jon Creffield.
Another thing I have been wondering about, have you created enough material and given enough "direction" that this will be completed even if your health deteriorates badly enough to make you stop working? From other posts you have made it sounds to me like you have, but I never caught a "straight answer" about this possibility.
See above and judge for yourself. I am currently quite able to spend a few hours a day developmentaly editing such material as needed. (In fact, I am doing a bit of that on my own work, the
Lejenadry AsteRogues Fantastical Science genre expansion for the LA game, engaged in it for the sheer fun of it!)
FYI, I am sensitive to the health issue, since I myself have issues that leave me wondering if I will live long enough to see it finished. I should, even if it takes 20 years, but you know how unexpected complications happen. With just life in general, let alone health problems. I have been living like this since 1993, and I turn 40 on the 10th. I hope to make it to at least my 90th B-day, despite the odds. Since I have already beaten as bad as 3 in 10,000 I am feeling pretty confident.
I hope my candor doesn't bother or offend you.
Whoa, Treebore. That's both bad and good news, eh? May you continue to beat the odds, prosper into a ripe old age. The docs have no idea how long I have, but as with you, I plan for many a year yer, even as I am greatful for each new day
My 69 birthday anniversary is only about three weeks away
Rest assured your candid questions were not in the least offensive to me.
Cheers,
Gary
