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Iron Crown Enterprises => ICE News and Discussion => Topic started by: Colin-ICE on July 30, 2020, 11:16:37 AM
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Hi everyone!
As you may be aware, this year's Gen Con is online only and Iron Crown Enterprises will be 'attending'. You can get badges and find out more here: https://www.gencon.com/online (https://www.gencon.com/online)
As part of our 'attendance' at Gen Con, we've set up a temporary Discord server to 'meet' fans and chat to people.
If you're attending Gen Con (or not) and fancy posing a question or having a chat, we'll be on the this Discord server (https://discord.gg/vUymjX) at the following times (in EST):
Thursday: 4pm - 5pm
Friday: 4pm - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 11am and 4pm - 5pm
Sunday: 10am - 11am and 3pm - 4pm
Hopefully we'll 'see' some of you there.
Colin - The marketing troll
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Kind of an insiders' chat today (but a productive one!). Personally, I'll be on the later Saturday slot for sure if people feel like talking RMU rules.
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I hope to be at the chats Fri-Sunday
--Terry
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Running session on Friday afternoon and Saturday, but would love to hear what you all sound like in real life, and hope to pop into the chat after my sessions to say hi.
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Running session on Friday afternoon and Saturday, but would love to hear what you all sound like in real life, and hope to pop into the chat after my sessions to say hi.
I didn't realize that this was a live voice chat. I think that you might be surprised.
Terry
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There's text and voice.
I'll come by on Sunday too. Just not sure about those morning slots. :)
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Fantastic. Thank you. I had stopped looking a few days ago, and hadn't heard about it. I'll spread the word as best i can to ICERPG subreddit and Discord (if the fine people there haven't beaten me to it).
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Apparently these links expire in 24 hours so here's a fresh one: https://discord.gg/AYaqXn (https://discord.gg/AYaqXn)
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Hi Colin,
If you click the Edit Invite Link right below the link, then you can change the expiration to a longer time.
Dakadin
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Cool, I'm playing an event Saturday, but will try to drop in on Sunday.
BTW, thanks to Hurin for running an excellent scenario today! We had a lot of fun and even managed to survive, despite Roll20's random number generator deciding that our crits almost never rolled above a 50. :)
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Here is today's link: https://discord.gg/AYaqXn (https://discord.gg/AYaqXn)
Hopefully see some of you there.
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Here is today's link: https://discord.gg/AYaqXn (https://discord.gg/AYaqXn)
Hopefully see some of you there.
Colin I tried the link and it was invalid. I hope to attend this afternoon
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Don't know if I'm too late but the link is not working
Here is today's link: https://discord.gg/AYaqXn (https://discord.gg/AYaqXn)
Hopefully see some of you there.
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Post if you're still having trouble. We're here now.
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Still having trouble. I am rather interested in hearing how everything (specifically Rolemaster) is progressing.
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I can at least tell you that Nicholas finished his edits of A&CL and got it back to me to wrap that up, and I will also be adding extended examples of character creation and combat. I plan to finish that in the next week. Colin is currently working on getting the art.
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Here is today's link: https://discord.gg/zN59Bw (https://discord.gg/zN59Bw)
Sorry for the delay, I'm having some connectivity issues.
Colin
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I will try to attend today, Sunday
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I cannot log into discord
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I am online in a chat room
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Sadly, I got busy and missed it. Anyone willing to post a report of common questions asked/discussed?
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Me too :( . I was really looking forward to chatting, but life intervened today.
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The plan is to establish a more permanent Discord channel, details TBD. For that matter, the channel is still there right now.
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The plan is to establish a more permanent Discord channel, details TBD. For that matter, the channel is still there right now.
Thx Jdale. At least I can see the text chat when I jump in later tonight.
I will have my report about my 2 RMU sessions up in the next couple of days. I got some good feedback from players and learned a few things too.
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I just read through the text. A few nuggets for those who didn't attend:
--Much talk about when RMu will be out. Editing is advancing and artwork is being commissioned, so we are not that far out. It sounded to me like 2020 is unlikely, but sometime in 2021 is likely -- possibly earlier 2021.
--The big question the developers were asking was what people's preference was for in the final version: Black and White, Standard Colour, or Premium Colour. The costs would be substantially different. I think more votes were for colour, especially when it was noted that if colour were chosen, customers could probably choose ad hoc whether they wanted the Standard or Premium version.
--Terry appeared but had some technical difficulties with Discord. He seems to be making progress on Emer IV.
--I was heartened to learn about plans for a Shadow World supplement/conversion for RMU, as well as products that would update older edition modules with RMU stats. That would be wonderful!
--Some brief discussion of the possibility of a Spacemaster Unified in the future. Authors would be needed for that, so if you have any interest, you might make that known!
There were a few other things mentioned too, but that's all I can remember right now.
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I just read through the text. A few nuggets for those who didn't attend:
--Much talk about when RMu will be out. Editing is advancing and artwork is being commissioned, so we are not that far out. It sounded to me like 2020 is unlikely, but sometime in 2021 is likely -- possibly earlier 2021.
Yep. I've done most of Nicholas' edits to A&CL already, most of what's left is just places he wrote "needs example." There is a clarification needed on charging that Dakadin brought up, that's the only rule question. So then it can move towards layout. Nicholas has just started editing Spell Law so that's next.
--The big question the developers were asking was what people's preference was for in the final version: Black and White, Standard Colour, or Premium Colour. The costs would be substantially different. I think more votes were for colour, especially when it was noted that if colour were chosen, customers could probably choose ad hoc whether they wanted the Standard or Premium version.
The way flash printing works, if there is color content you need to pay color prices for every single page, regardless of whether that page has any color or not. So you are paying double or more. Also, the art itself is more expensive. So the trade-off here is between a fancy and impressive looking book that hopefully makes a great first impression, or an inexpensive book that makes it easy to pick up. That said, the price difference for a color vs black and white PDF would be minimal, the hope would be to pay for the color art on sales of the printed version.
--Terry appeared but had some technical difficulties with Discord. He seems to be making progress on Emer IV.
--I was heartened to learn about plans for a Shadow World supplement/conversion for RMU, as well as products that would update older edition modules with RMU stats. That would be wonderful!
Someone still has to write it though. Probably it should be someone who knows Shadow World better than I do.
--Some brief discussion of the possibility of a Spacemaster Unified in the future. Authors would be needed for that, so if you have any interest, you might make that known!
More generally, Nicholas was saying there is a lot of turnover in freelance writers and not everyone who starts a work will finish it. So, there is a distinct need for more writers. If you have interest in creating material, this would be a great time! That could include rule stuff (i.e. Companions) but also he'd really like modules.
A Director's Briefing will come out soon, but those are my takes based on the conversations I was in.
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I'll believe it when I see it. By the time it is out though, I'm blind.