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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ltheb Silverfrond" data-source="post: 2998741" data-attributes="member: 39867">U_K!Wow, it is quite intimidating when ten things jump you all at once.This tends to happen to me quite more than I would like. Your best bet is just to plug away at what needs to happen. A few corners may be cut here and there, But as historian said, your level of professionalism (release dates aside) and product quality are vastly superior to most every publisher I can think of.I think the issues lie in that you do all the work. You can only do so much at once, and if one problem arises, it affects the project as a whole. Granted, hiring other people to assist with the production of the book reduces your net profit significantly, which is something I know you don't need.However, I am sure there are a few in your gaming circles and some on EnWorld who would like to contribute to such projects, possibly without making any profit themselves. Your skills lie greatly dispersed in many areas, but trying to cover all of those areas at once is futile. Your stuff is great; don't get me wrong, I don't think that many of us are as inspired as you are when it comes to these things. Though, once Ascension is released, I am sure that all the tasks after this will go quickly, especially if you plan to release the Immortal's Index books, which, for the most part, will just require generating large numbers of deities and recording the information of their teachings, with a handful of new material thrown in. (Like in the Bestiary, new PrC's Weapon powers, and some unique divine+ abilities)The real difficulty in creating a work this large is (at least as it seems to me) arriving at the ideas themselves, not writing the mechanics. The evil eye power is potent, cool, and mechanically simple. I'd place my bets on your creating the idea of deity of fate "cursing" via divine decree another deity and hindering his actions. I doubt it started as "Hey, what if a deity could make his foes roll all 1's," or at least not directly. <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=":)" /> If I were you, I doubt I would have even arrived at the Idea of such powers. Until I saw the Immortal's Handbook, the Idea of things greater than Over gods, and the like, were beyond my train of thought. I really hope this all works out for you, but don't give up. Then you can't win.(If it matters any, a friend of mine, told me he may be purchasing Ascension soon, probably around when Chapters 3-4 are totally done.) (Of course, it could be worse. Enworld could start charging you for all the bandwidth your threads use up. <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" />) (And sadly, with my posts being as long as they are, they would likely also float me a bill too<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=":)" />)</blockquote>

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