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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 1487541" data-attributes="member: 168">I have spent most of the last few days getting ready to run a Wheel of Time adventure for the OKC gameday. I understand that people will be showing up – but precious few bothered to post to the thread. I hope it is fun either way.I have been working with the various artists. The interior is nearly done – but as noted above I will need to at least double the amount of interior work since the size of the book has doubled.The character studies are getting started, plus I hope to unveil the logo for “The Last Dominion” line sometime this week. It is strange when you can talk to an artist and they can pull an image right from your head, only better. Lee Smith, one of the artists, also let me know that he reads this thread.  ;p I am officially revising my publish date. There is no way that I can make the May 30th dead line. The revision is good for me cause it takes a huge amount of stress off me. I am still pondering the new release date but I expect that to be July-ish, prior to the Gencon drought.The cover is also coming along well. We had to make some revisions and move a few things but I could see what I wanted in the rough pencils. Let’s go back to Lee for a minute. Last night he told me he would rather have an AD [Art Director] tell him what was wrong or if an image needed to be changed rather than just accept it and then either:A) Not publish it.B) Voice dissatisfaction after the fact.That came in handy today and last night. It is good knowing that professional artists (not all of them obviously) feel this way. It takes a load off me when I want something a little different. IT was much easier sending a reply saying “how bout we move this here and cut this guys hair.” I probably would have accepted it before and felt slightly disappointed. A warning though, artists are such for a reason – non artists should listen carefully to why they did things the way they did. I also dislike quibblers…..a fine line that one.Second part: Writing. Writing. Writing but what am I writing?Working with others is a real pain in the hindquarters. Even more so when what you are doing is not standard and you are a demanding freak  JFirst, I did get the adventure outline done and firmed up. Second, most of the writing was about how to write for The Last Dominion.  I have a setting bible that gives some flavor and explains some things but I really needed something that said – these are the themes, these are the moods, these are the motifs and symbolism that should be used in The Last Dominion. I am nearly done.Here is a question for anyone who wants to pipe up and offer their opinion. The “Writers Guide” will have information that if given to readers and players would “spoil” some of the fun of the setting. How do I manage this? Do I require a NDA? Gentleman’s agreement since I don’t have the money to sue anyone anyways? It is kinda tricky.Anyway --- I am very interested in what you have to say on this subject.BTW – only White Wolf [WoD] tells the writers/freelancers “how to write” for the WoD. Kinda strange. I have some more ideas on PR and Line Direction and as usual these are not things that I have seen done before (probably for good reason). It will be interesting to see what I think after the game day – I am gonna talk to some folks and run the ideas by them.</blockquote>

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