Recent content by appelcline

Yeah, I definitely know that I have diminishing returns on my own reads, once I stop rewriting and move on to just corrections.

Thanks again folks. This is what I just sent over to Sandrine. The errors listed by @Yatima that are not on here (which was just a few of the early ones) are already corrected in the April 19th update (which I believe also corrected the MacOS issue). Per @ThornPlutonius, I think it's a real...

Thanks Folks! I don't know how many times I've been over the book (likely at least four drafts on each chapter, plus a review of the initial edit, plus a few weeks worth of overview on the layouts), let alone Matt & Charlotte plus various beta readers. So it's really great we live in a world...

I wasn't. Thanks!

Yep. I've been a system administrator and technical writer for most of my professional life, with a few years out doing layout and editing at Chaosium. I still do technical writing a few days a week to pay the bills so that I can work on projects like This is Free Trader Beowulf.

"first ... steps" wasn't meant to imply first publication, but of course writing is all about communication. Should be easy enough to to s/the first/its earliest/, thanks.

AFC is correct. I think the C properly stands for combat? At some time in the editing it looks like my original sentence "an interest group for armored fighting vehicles" got changed to "an interest group for 'Armored Fighting Vehicles'", causing the confusion. Another item for my minor list of...

Ha. It looks like I did indeed know better. I don't say High Guard is the first, unless I'm missing another reference than what's on page 41, I just mention it because of its interesting description of the a centralized Imperium as an assumed setting. I'm going to have to think about...

Huh. I bet I pulled that from the interview explaining the name without double-checking it. Thanks. And thanks to Sigtrygg for other nitpicks. (In particular, saying something is "first" is often such a rathole that I usually know well enough to avoid it.)

I did use some of the various mailing lists on occasion, but they're real bears to search through, so it was mainly when I was looking for a very specific thing. I don't think I hit Dave's discussions on the TNE list, but then he was really talkative about why they were doing things in Challenge...

This is Free Trader Beowulf is definitely the history of the game. 300 dense pages worth covering all the major iterations of the game, the publishers, the licensees, and the fandom. Whether there will be an audiobook is a question for Mongoose. (We do have audiobooks for my main Designers &...

Definitely on the threads. There's also a good one on Chuck Gannon talking about his lost work. I consider face-to-face interviews a last resort. Basically, the further you get away from the time period, the less reliable any accounts become. So, announcements, design notes, and news at the...

As Matt said, much, much more. I started from ground zero with the new book, spending the first four or five months simply reviewing and recording source materials before I wrote a single word. Over the course of a year and three quarters I worked my way through about 300 Traveller/GDW/Mongoose...

In progress no longer. I sent it to Matt last week. (Mind you we'll have plenty of editing, revisions, and art direction still, I expect.)