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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 2688920" data-attributes="member: 19130">Hey, author of the book here.  I'll field any questions anyone has.   <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=":)" /> You mean Dave1001's <a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=297060" target="_blank">Inventor</a> and <a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=200501" target="_blank">Tech Warrior</a>?  No, I am not that guy.  While I am rather fond of his work (which has some affinities with the Dragonmech coglayer, among other fantasy-technological takes, and which is notably superior to the usual technologist-as-wand-maker treatment), The Fantastic Science is somewhat different.This book leans more towards making devices work like spells than making them work like mundane equipment, and is both simpler and more complex than Dave1001's system.  Simpler in the basic design (technologist characters don't need to have ranks in a dozen different skills, and the flux of tech points the inventor uses can be a pain to keep track of) and more complex in implementation (a much wider variety of effects having been fleshed out).  I also like to think that my version makes more game-world sense than the WotC board version, but criteria of sense-making are in the eye of the beholder in this case.Did anything in the teaser particularly make you wonder, JQM?  I can probably spill the beans on a few details here without having Ryan yell at me for giving the book away...That's the plan.  The Fantasy Science has the dubious distinction of being ENP's lengthiest book to date, so PoD seemed like an obvious way to go.  We're having some trouble getting high-res versions of some of the illustrations (which are required for the PoD version but not the pdf version), but I'll make sure that matter gets sorted out one way or the other - I want to see my handiwork on my bookshelf, after all.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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