Broken!

[TheLe]

BROKEN is available now at Rpgnow and Dtrpg with an MSRP of $9.95.

However, anyone reading this thread can get it now for $7.95 (20% off). Just use the link below to add it to your cart at the discounted price:
http://enworld.rpgnow.com/index.php?discount=78042

The coupon expires 8/31/2007

~Le

 

[Sigurd]

If I wasn't first, I was damn close.


First look says it has a lot of crunch to it. I'm not sold on some of the graphics but the concept is too much fun.


Sigurd

 

[afstanton]

Glome...heh. Gnomes seem to get around.

If you go back to the very first edition of D&D, you find out that gnolls are a cross between gnomes and trolls. True story.

 

[Bloosquig]

I'm more tempted then I should be without a gaming group to play with. I've been playing with space/fantasy combos in my own homebrew for a long while and this looks like it could solve a lot of the crunchy problems and just be a lot of fun. Plus its pretty cheap. Argh the temptation.

Maybe if I can find some guinea pi... err, players I'll give in.

 

[Charke]

If I wasn't first, I was damn close.
First look says it has a lot of crunch to it. I'm not sold on some of the graphics but the concept is too much fun.

Well congratulations. I wish the PDF's were numbered so you could be sure.
The book has a fair amount of crunch, IMHO. My focus was on providing the tools needed to work the environment. As for the graphics, well.. ...cry, I guess all the reviews can't be awesome. My artwork continues to improve and I did return to this first book and make many modifications and upgrades before it went out the door. I learned an unbelievable amount from this book in creating it and all that's going into the expansions to make them even better.

Glome...heh. Gnomes seem to get around.
If you go back to the very first edition of D&D, you find out that gnolls are a cross between gnomes and trolls. True story.

Thanks for the fact. Makes sense though. When you run out of monsters you just start cross-breeding. Maybe Glomes will make an appearance in 4th - here's hoping.

Maybe if I can find some guinea pi... err, players I'll give in.

Give in to the void....


Mark Charke

 

[Sigurd]

It took me a bit to read it through but I left you guys a review. Don't take my criticism of your artwork as a reason to stop. I don't want to be cruel but you have to look at your competition. The feeling in the work is great and I think, over all, it was a glowing review.


Sigurd

 

[Charke]

Thanks for the review Bo! The portrait version was missing the bookmarks and I've sent `Le a corrected copy of the PDF. (It was build off the print-version which has no PDF bookmarks.) Also be aware that the Table of Contents and Appendix are all linked. You can click on any item to jump to the right page as well.

Mark Charke

 

[DMH]

The book will indeed be available in Portrait (Easy to print)

Our difinitions of print friendly must be very different. All the PF files I have seen so far are generally B&W, have nothing in the background of the text and some have reduced art (ie some or all the art has been removed).

#2 is what really gets me. I can print it in greyscale, but that psuedo-parchment will screw up the printing. I am thankful you allowed cut and paste- I might just do that with the chapters I want to print.

As to the content, I like it a lot. I wish the geography chapter was first after an introduction so that I didn't have to go back and forth from the first 2 chapters to chapter 6, but that is a minor thing (and something I have seen time and again with other settings).

I hope there will be future supplements.

 

[Charke]

Our difinitions of print friendly must be very different. All the PF files I have seen so far are generally B&W, have nothing in the background of the text and some have reduced art (ie some or all the art has been removed).

#2 is what really gets me. I can print it in greyscale, but that psuedo-parchment will screw up the printing. I am thankful you allowed cut and paste- I might just do that with the chapters I want to print.

That is a misunderstanding. The "print version" is the protrait version created for Lulu.com and that is the format you will get if you order a print copy of the book. (Lulu doesn't do an 8.5 x 11 landscape binding).

I'm going to propose a "printer freindly" version to `Le - something with no backgrounds (just white), portrait version. We're going to update the file anyway. I, cough, forgot to embed the bookmarks in the portrait version when I built the table of contents.

As for expansions, I'm currently working on Broken: The Lost Moon (playtesting) and Broken: The Pipedream. There is a lot of work left to be done. I'm playing with some new mechanics for both expansions and I've got some new art tools to work with.

Mark Charke

 

[TheLe]

and Broken: The Pipedream.

Ooo! You didn't tell me about that!

Does it have to do with plumbers?

`Le