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Systems & Settings => HARP SF => Topic started by: flyingcircus on July 17, 2010, 08:32:56 AM
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Who is doing this now? I only ask because I bought the Beta a long time ago and was promised a final version but have heard nothing and now its not even listed on the site anymore. :(
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Guild Companion Publications Limited has taken over the entire HARP SF line from Mjolnir/ICE. We have the list of beta purchasers and gamma purchasers. Once the first HARP SF volume is completed, I will be contacting purchasers of previous versions in order to ensure that they can collect their shiny pdfs. As a beta purchaser, you will be contacted twice, once for HARP SF, once for the HARP SF Xtreme volume.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Any dates when this will be available to the general public?
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Any dates when this will be available to the general public?
As soon as we have cover and layout finished, we will launch HARP SF. I have three top artists working on the interiors and cover for HARP SF Xtreme, and they are scheduled to complete in September, so layout will follow in short order all being well.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Very exciting...I wonder if I am a beta/buyer.....I purchased a beta book that was rushed to gen-con
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The beta purchasers were those who paid to receive access to the public playtest files for HARP SF (which at the time included the material now in HARP SF Xtreme), and received various pdfs during that period. Gamma purchasers were those who bought the sans-art pdf of the HARP SF volume that Mjolnir/ICE sold on its web store following the end of the public playtest.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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I'll probably buy it anyway.......if it looks enough like my current book I may not even have to tell my wife!
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Just seems to be taking just a little too long for my part.
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Just seems to be taking just a little too long for my part.
I would have liked it to have been ready for launch the moment the HARP SF line moved from Mjolnir to Guild Companion Publications Ltd, but that was an obvious impossibility as we could not have had freelancers work on a project on-spec without surety that it would have been published by us in due course. That's not fair on any type of freelancer.
Once it did transition, however, we've been able to contract people to edit the manuscript, to create the artwork both interior and cover, and to do the layout. All of which takes time because all of the freelancers have day jobs and there's a lot to HARP SF and HARP SF Xtreme, but we are getting there and it will be completed and it will be worth the wait and it will be a supported game line.
I am impatient too.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Is there any more news on the release of this yet?
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Is there any more news on the release of this yet?
I am a bit curious about that too. :hm:
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An update on HARP SciFi is in the October editorial of the Guild Companion. And the update that I would make to that update is that Joel cracked the problems of the HARP SF front cover yesterday.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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As soon as we have cover and layout finished,
I, for one, like what was put out with the Beta Book. It was both futury (new word! :D) and pretty. The only thing for me was the interior art. I understand why just want new stuff to go with the new setting and stuff. The artists that did some of the interior work for Marc Millers Traveller series, especially the book Anomolies, would be great. Also, the artist for the old Manhunter RPG would be great. I will get you their names as soon as I get back home. (Yes, I realize it is probably late in the game, but maybe they can be utilized for future products.)
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OK here they are:
Bryan Gibson (MM's Traveller, Anomolies)
Jerry Bingham (Manhunter RPG)
Both do great work.
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As soon as we have cover and layout finished,
I, for one, like what was put out with the Beta Book. It was both futury (new word! :D) and pretty. The only thing for me was the interior art. I understand why just want new stuff to go with the new setting and stuff. The artists that did some of the interior work for Marc Millers Traveller series, especially the book Anomolies, would be great. Also, the artist for the old Manhunter RPG would be great. I will get you their names as soon as I get back home. (Yes, I realize it is probably late in the game, but maybe they can be utilized for future products.)
The Gamma version used a lovely Hubble starscape for the main portion of its cover. When stared at long enough, I became concerned that the straight-on view of a portal was giving the wrong impression. Also we really needed to have something different to make it clear that what we will publish is the final definitive version, not another stepping stone to a final version.
What Joel has been doing for us has been incredibly hard work but the end results are astounding.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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I’ll be happy to just be able to order me a hard copy of the final edition. I have the gencon-thingy (or whatever it was called), but having the proper harpsf physically in my hands is going to feel great!
Virtual copies are great, but the real thing is even better!
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I’ll be happy to just be able to order me a hard copy of the final edition. <snip>
Virtual copies are great, but the real thing is even better!
I agree totally on both parts. I will be happy to get a Hard-Back copy, I just like the feel and heft of the hard-backed books. (You can smack an unruly player with them in a pinch! ;D)
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So...when's it going up for sale? ;D
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We are very hopeful that we will have the first volume on sale in November with the second volume following after. Beta and gamma purchasers will find me turning up in their inboxes as soon as we have pdf versions ready for release.
As to when they come out in print, we will be using OneBookShelf for true print-on-demand, so we're on their schedule for making that service available to customers.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Nice; looking forward to it.
MDC
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So a few more months have passed ... how close is it now? :p From the Guild Companion website, you're in final edit mode, but how long from that to pdf?
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We're very much in a (Heisenberg uncertainty) countdown mode in that still to be done on HARP SF:
Updated credits page
Installing the remaining art / eliminating formatting widows and orphans & fixable table breaking
Integrating the Master Character Table
Integrating the Index
Updating all page headers
Integrating front and back covers
Last check for any residual errors and broken cross-references
Final pdf sent for approval from Aurigas
Then the PDF released via OneBookShelf and coupons sent to beta and gamma purchasers
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Any chance a character sheet could be released? I have the beta book....but no character sheets
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Yes, though I'll have to get Thom @ ICE to upload it into the Vault.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Files are uploaded and can be found at:
http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=cat643
Please note that I'll soon be doing an update to the vault organization structure and will try to remember to come back and update this reference link once completed.
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Cool. Thanks
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I now officially apologize. I thought this project had slipped into the category of UFO's, bigfoot sightings, and honest politicians. ::) Good job on the cover art!
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I now officially apologize. I thought this project had slipped into the category of UFO's, bigfoot sightings, and honest politicians. ::) Good job on the cover art!
Thank you! It was a lot of fun to create. Wait till you see HARP SFX.
By the way - funny sig. I still have a pair of percentile dice that I've had since the early original RM days...