Eric, a question or two, if I may.
1. Is there a plan to publish the finalized MM as a physical book, with art? Without art?
2. What are the odds of either getting a reformat (or allowing one of us to reformat) for booklet format? Right now, given the font size and layout, the only really practical format is A4/Letter or above. My first and heavily-thumbed printjob was in booklet, but I had to do a letter-size to give my eyes a break.
3. I'm redoing my personal print copy of the work (I do very crude bookmaking with my printer, needle and thread). What would you say are the things to include in a comprehensive booklet of the work? Right now, my list would be:
3A. MM v1.0, Extranumero Issue (?). This is right, isn't it? Not version Zero, but version 1 from the "other location".
3B. Your drop tables from...where? Where did I get them? The Crime & Community City Events Tables, Townspeople, Plots, etc.
4. Not a question: Once again congratulations on a hugely enjoyable game. Of course we know that you stand on the shoulders of Mehrstam and Black, but I own all three, read all three constantly, and yours is the one I keep coming back to. (My sole important criticism of the work is that the format, and to an extent your writing choices, can leave very important mechanical concepts "hidden in plain sight", such as the rule that NPCs actually get an attack of their own if they haven't otherwise been invoked by a PC's failure).
Thanks for reading,
Bill The Rat.
I'm doing the layout on the final version, and yes, there will be art :)
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ReplyDeletePaolo Greco Wonderful! Any thoughts from you or Eric about the form that the book will be in? Physical book? Dimensions? I'm big on physical books, but when I can't get them I'm really big on printing and binding myself, using sewn binding, in booklet format. (I haven't yet tried binding multiple signatures, but that's only for books with many pages anyway.)
ReplyDeleteMain thing about booklet format is that it doesn't work too well with things laid out tightly in A4 with small fonts, as obviously you're cutting the font size in half. MM is an obvious candidate for a breezy layout with lots of whitespace.
Who asked me, anyway?
And I realize now that something is confused, besides myself. Eric Nieudan, you say elsewhere a few things on Not-Initiative and Who Gets A Turn. Can I try to precis you and you tell me if I'm right?
ReplyDeleteYour concept is:
(A) Mr. Monster does not ever actually get a turn of his own, but
(B) His "turn" must be accounted for, ie his action in the round described, unless such "turn" is moot because Mr. Monster already "took a turn" in the form of being provoked into dealing damage to a PC by that PC failing in her action.
Is this correct?
If it is, does the accounting for the unprovoked Mr. Monster include giving him an attack? I'd say so, in part because otherwise Mrs Player Character can game the system by never attacking the obvious badass and thus never being exposed to his attack. And also because I just don't like it, and I doubt that it's what you intend.
If it is incorrect, could you clarify...again? Sorry.
William & Polly Shires It will be A5. The A4 document you have is just a dump of the text for layout purposes. I thought I'd share it with everyone while we're waiting for the book.
ReplyDeleteLet me answer the initiative question in the dedicated thread.
3. If you do this you'll have the contents of the final book, pretty much. Only thing I didn't include is the community events and city crawl tables
3B. The drop tables are in Extra Shot, which you can download from DTRPG.
4. Thank you! Glad you find a use for this humble hack =)