This morning, I just finished the final piece of fresh writing for Advanced Rules, the design sequence for Slickware. There are still some tables for me to flesh out, but the bu...
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about 1 month ago
March Development Update
Good evening everyone!
This is a development update for Advanced Rules. You can always view the current draft at the link below.
• https://www.rvgames.company/advanced-rules
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3 months ago
A Successful Campaign! 295 Backers! $7,781 Raised!
Thank you everyone who made this such a successful campaign! We ended up with 295 backers, raising $7,781! I thought that this was a niche book that I would be lucky to fund for...
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3 months ago
$7k Raised! All Stretch Goals Unlocked!
With a little over 24 hours left, we have unlocked our final goal of adding a pet tracker!
Thank you everyone for your support with this campaign. This book is the culmination ...
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$6.5k Raised!!! Suitcase for Drugs and Cybermod Tracker Unlocked
We’ve unlocked our penultimate stretch goal with about three days to go!
We’ll now have a print & play player aid for tracking drugs and cybermods. These are quarter sheets mak...
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$6k Raised! A Solo Adventure is Unlocked
We thank everyone for their support. We have reached a new stretch goal! Violet will now be writing a sample solo adventure as a digital supplement, providing an example of the ...
This morning, I just finished the final piece of fresh writing for Advanced Rules, the design sequence for Slickware. There are still some tables for me to flesh out, but the bulk of the content is complete and integrated, and no more sections will be added to the book. Roz is working through copy and line editing, and I’m going to turn my attention towards finalizing my prototypes of the player and Warden aids to get to David Wilkie for layout. We are on a good track for me start typesetting and for Roz to start indexing the book next month. Once all of this work is done, I will start writing the sample solo and wardenless adventure: Return to STAR Station.
This has been a two year journey for me since I first started developing small rules pamphlets and newsletters based on ideas from my home game and the Mothership Discord.
I’m so excited that this book will be getting into everyone’s hands soon. As always, you can view the current manuscript live online at the link below.
If you know anyone who is interested in backing, BackerKit is open for Late Pledges. Late Pledges do not get charged until we send out the surveys to charge for shipping and to allow for folks to purchase add-ons. This is another reminder that we will not be sending surveys out until books have been printed and are at our warehouse, so that as soon as you complete your survey and pay for shipping, we can send you your book. Orders from Canada, UK, and EU will be sent a little later than orders from the U.S. and the rest of the world since they will be going through fulfillment partners rather than straight from Amplifier via Shopify integration.
Our most recent update includes drafts of design sequences for AI, Cybermods, Robotics, and Drugs in addition to including the newest update to Mini-Ships by Greenspore.
The following sections are our todo list for development.
Print Content Development
This is our main development focus at the moment. We want to get everything needed to complete the physical book first.
d10 AI Contractor Trait Table
d100 Drug Name Table
Slickware
Revision to Zone Maps
Revision to Grid Maps
Revision to Dynamic Tables
Alternate Loadouts
d100 Patches
d100 Trinkets
Copy and Line Editing
As I finish writing or compiling sections, Roz Leahy will take an editorial pass through them. We are in the early stages of this.
Typesetting
Due to the way this book is being assembled, I refer to the process of a getting the manuscript ready for print as typesetting instead of layout. I'll write an essay for The Adventure Gaming Periodical about this process in the near future. As Roz moves through sections for editing, I will move through the completed sections for typesetting.
Indexing
We have not started creating the index for the book. We won't start this until all the sections have been edited and typeset.
Final Proofing
We'll take another editing run through the book looking for typos and formatting errors. We'll make sure all of the accessibility features work properly.
Final Approval from Tuesday Knight Games
Once we have a finalized copy of the book, we will need to get licensing approval from Tuesday Knight Games. This may result in another round of revisions.
Print Production
Web Site Polish
We will ensure that the formatting for the live web page format is ideal. Development is prioritizing formatting for print right now.
Supplementary Digital Materials
These materials will hopefully be available at the same time as the physical book, but they may end up being released at a later date at no cost to backers or retailer purchasers.
The prototypes for the majority of the player and Warden aids have been developed and will soon move to D.N. Wilkie for layout.
There is now a title for the example solo adventure: Return to STAR Station. This will be a semi-sequel to our module Mitosis: Escape From STAR Station by Chris Airiau.
Late Pledges
If you didn't back during the campaign, you can still express your interest in a Late Pledge either through the link on the campaign page or using the link below; you will not be charged until surveys go out and Advanced Rules is complete and ready to be shipped to you.
We are on track with development, and it's nice to be able to provide a detailed update about the status of the project. We'll return with another update next month!
Thank you everyone who made this such a successful campaign! We ended up with 295 backers, raising $7,781! I thought that this was a niche book that I would be lucky to fund for a run of 100 books, and we're now able to fund a full 500 book run.
Editing with Roz starts on Monday, and we can't wait to get this book onto your Mothership tables.
If you know someone who didn't get to back the book during the campaign, we will have late pledges available starting today. We will take late pledges all the way until fulfillment.
With a little over 24 hours left, we have unlocked our final goal of adding a pet tracker!
Thank you everyone for your support with this campaign. This book is the culmination of two years of creating and discovering house rules and player and warden aids for Mothership 1e. Starting these rules are what made D.N. Wilkie approach me about publishing something, so this has been a very personal journey.
I now have to finish writing the design sequences (a draft of the AI sequence is up on the Advanced Rules site) and a few other small pieces before we move into the process of editing, indexing, and physical production.
We’ve unlocked our penultimate stretch goal with about three days to go!
We’ll now have a print & play player aid for tracking drugs and cybermods. These are quarter sheets making them easy to print and keep at the table.
The drug tracker represents a briefcase like this one from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Fear and Loathing in Space
Our final stretch goal is unlocked at $7,000, and it unlocks a pet tracker that goes on the back side of our already unlocked contractor sheets. If we meet this goal, we will have unlocked all of the player aids that we want to include with Advanced Rules.
We thank everyone for their support. We have reached a new stretch goal! Violet will now be writing a sample solo adventure as a digital supplement, providing an example of the Advanced Rules solo methodology.
We still have two more stretch goals to go. One is a quarter sheet with a suitcase for drugs and slots for cybernetics. At $6.5k you can make a Fear and Loathing in Space campaign.
At $7k, we’ll add an AI pet tracker to the back of the contractor sheets.
We've unlocked another stretch goal! A bulk encounter tracker for tracking multiple encounters in a running log will now be included as a player and Warden aid.
It's really exciting that we get to flesh out the player and Warden aids that will really make this book sing! There's a lot of text, but examples of how to track and conceptualize things are so helpful. This leads to our next stretch goal. At $6,000 raised, I will be writing a solo programmed adventure to demonstrate how the solo and Wardenless procedures all fit together. This is a digital-only stretch goal, and it may end being available at a later date than the release of the main book.
We're also revealing two more stretch goals!
$6,500 Raised - Drugs and Cybernetics Trackers
D.N. Wilkie will create two-sided quarter sheets for drug and cybernetic focused players. The side for drugs will be a suit case for storing drugs, so you can create Fear and Loathing in Space. The side for cybernetics will make for an easy place to track your cybernetic slots and their effects.
$7,000 Raised - Pet Tracker
D.N. Wilkie will create a pet tracker that is designed to be printed on the back of the contractor sheets that were previously unlocked. Print and cut out a stack of these quarter sheets, and you'll easily be able to add pets or contractors to your game in a way that is easily trackable.
We've reached our $5,000 stretch goal within 1 week of launch!
This stretch goal unlocks a 4-up print and play creature tracker sheet laid out by D.N. Wilkie. Advanced Rules will now come with a character sheet, contractor sheets, and creature sheets giving player aids for all aspects of solo and Wardenless play. All of these player aids also help to streamline Wardened play.
$5,500 unlocks one final tracker!
At $5,500 we will unlock a tracker for tracking multiple encounters either within a single scenario or across an entire campaign as a running log.
$6,000 raised unlocks a print and play solo programmed adventure by Violet Ballard.
This adventure is an example of what you can create and playthrough using the solo rules. It will be designed for play with a single player and three contractors with open spaces played on a zone map, and a dungeon with a grid map and a dynamic table.
Writing Update
We have added some new sections to Advanced Rules: an alternate skill system using character backgrounds and guidelines for designing or playing using Wound only damage. We will also be adding a set of alternate load outs for the stock Mothership 1e classes and alternate d100 tables of Trinkets and Patches. Finally, we will have our own quick reference for rules for players and for designers looking to make their own Panic Engine games or pocket mods.
Stretch goal 2 has been unlocked! D.N. Wilkie will now be creating a four-up print and play contractor sheet.
The contractor sheets will help you to generate contractor personalities and to track them through play. They will work wonderfully for Wardened, solo, or Wardenless play using all of the guidelines in Advanced Rules.
Help us unlock stretch goal 3 at $5,000 raised. At this level, D.N. Wilkie will create four-up print and play sheets for tracking encounters. Advanced Rules takes an approach of providing player-facing aids that can be used for wardens rather than creating Warden only materials like screens.
