What happened in February and what is happening right now?
Meeting with the Comic artist and writer
That was fun, I lore dumped on both of them and ideas started to fly around, it was fun to see all the things they were coming up with, some of them I hadn't even thought of! That's the kind of spirit I want to bring with this module and it was nice to see it happen live. The writer already gave me a draft, turned it back with some notes to tie it more into the Mothership RPG feel.
One of the ideas that came up was to have the comic as an intro to The Iron Hive, an intro that you can continue by playing, the party in the comic will comprised of one of each class, it'll ship with character sheets for each of them and your trusted warden will be able to continue where the comic left off! I personally love the idea a lot and can't wait to have it realized. I'm not planning on writing a loooot on how to continue the story, and I want it to be open ended enough for there to be a lot of options for the wardens
Operation Golden Cut Cross-Collab Content!
We are around 70% content-wise, 50% on the graphics, it's coming along really nice and I'm liking the index card-sized format, here's a sneak peek on the image for one of them:
HiveCorp Industries Exploration Pod, made by Abrah Nassiff
The Iron Hive Content
The content itself is not really supposed to suffer a lot of changes, some of you requested for it to have a map of the station, and I think I found a nice middle point. The initial idea was for everyone to map it as they imagined it, but it is also fair to have a starting image, but then I thought, why have only one map? I was thinking on just making a lot of sketches of how The Iron Hive might look like and include them all on the Index page, with a little note saying something about how the station doesn't have a predetermined shape and you can pick, choose and do whatever you want!
Other than that, I asked the printer how much the price would change if we added 4 more pages for us to have a bit more room to do creative stuff like sections and have fun with layout and design, I should've had an answer by now so I might need to ask again.
Timeline!
March is the end of Q1, so how are we looking? Fine, I'm juggling between trying not to think too much about it and keeping it present, the pace we have feels right, I'm still needing to meet with Alex about the Ruzt Ratz catalogue and we should do that this week.
Small oopsies
We had an error with digital content not being delivered to those who had bought it through the Pre-Order Store, that was fixed as soon as we found out it was happening, if you bought anything that included the PDF and you haven't received it yet, feel free to contact us!
