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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 845077" data-attributes="member: 571">To answer a few questions:At this time Alan's Dragons will be self published as a number of PDFs, one volume per dragon group until all three (or four, depending on if the oriental dragons have been SRDed, I'll have to check and see) are done. At which time all the wyrms will go into one huge PDF containing all the information.Money raised from the sale of the PDFs will go towards financing hard copy publishing. Which I'm planning as a series of books. As things stand, I'm thinking one 60 pager per species, with 2-4 pages of general information, 1 page per Age Category (coming to 40 pages since I'll be using the OGC from The Slayer's Guide to Dragons by Mongoose Publishing), front and back cover (that'll take care of 4 pages alone<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />), and write-ups of dragons, at one each for selected Age Categories.Now, if I do the PDFs as booklets, this will change things. (I have the Post Script printer driver from Adobe. I'll be able to send the PS files to a good person (who's interested in profit sharing) for conversion to PDFs. Or (once I have the 513 page PDF manual printed out) I can do the beasts with Nisus Writer (which also does booklets) and use my own PDF distiller (PrinttoPDF) for conversion.) As booklets each 'chapter' will get done as a separate PDF which folks will be able to print out as they get them and then bind them however they wish.Unfortunately, people do tend to view booklets as being amateur, no matter how they're done, so such would not be viable as a print product.Now, an important thing to keep in mind is that I'm not doing a splatbook. Everybody does splatbooks. Do some crunch, add some fluff to fill out the 48 or 96 pages, and plop in a few pictures for eye candy. Not my thing.Alan's Dragons will be a book on dragons as dragons. Not as combat monsters, as dragons. Their ways and their wiles, their habits and habitats. It will cover dragon life, dragon sex, and dragon child rearing. Dragon treasure, dragon security measures, and dragon pets (aka, 'The Staff'<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) ("My employer uses something more powerful than Charm Person, job security."). It will go into detail.In short, Alan's Dragons will be a book or books with lots of stuff people can use to bring dragons to life in their campaign. To make dragons people to be reckoned with, and not just critters to be mugged.In other words, it's my book and I'll write what I want to.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Besides which, it'll be 100% OGC (minus the title and (any) art, of course), so you'll be able to use what you like in your own stuff.That's it for this installment. I've got a chapter to re-do, then the chapter on black dragons to start. I'll return to answer questions as soon as I can.</blockquote>

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