Another week in the life of GURPS

[dr_kromm]

I'm sorry I've been so quiet in here! Bonnie is away, so I've had her portion of the household tasks to attend to as well as my own share . . . and owing to her departure and arrival dates, we've had to pause gaming for a couple of weeks, which is why I haven't posted any campaign recaps recently. To this, add a multitude of little troubles – family, health, computer, etc. Today certainly feels like Friday the 13th.

But enough about me. What about GURPS stuff? I'm going to keep this update short because I'm feeling harried (see the little mood icon up there?), but I think that the three items I have for you are cool enough to make up for my brevity:

• We released GURPS Spaceships 6: Mining and Industrial Spacecraft, by David Pulver. You couldn't do Alien without a mining ship or H2G2 without a constructor ship. Well, now you can do both!

• Nikki finished the rough PDF of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 8: Treasure Tables, by Matt Riggsby (wombattery). This means you should be rolling up random treasures by this time next month, if all goes well.

• I finished my interior content edit of GURPS Low-Tech. Oh, there will be tweaks as I edit GURPS Low-Tech Companion 1-3 in coming months, and of course there are 101 little administrative editing tasks left, but the stats and words are essentially finalized. Yay! To give you some sense of time, I started that in early September and finished today, and it's about 120,000 words. The Companion items tally just under 100,000 words.

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Sounds as if, with luck, you'll be finishing up just in time for winter break?

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

This seems unlikely. I'm leaving about two months for it. If I start Monday and work up to the winter break, that's a little over a month. Early February is probably more realistic, accounting for time off and barring illness, business trips, etc.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. It's midway through November, isn't it? I hadn't really updated my mental calendar; I'm still think of this as "the start of November". . . .

Friday the 13th strikes?

[hyrneson.livejournal.com]

"the rough PDF of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 6: Treasure Tables,"

Are you sure it's not DF 8? :)

RH

Re: Friday the 13th strikes?

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's not DF 8? :)

It would seem that Friday was truly cursed! Thanks for the catch – fixed.

[wombattery.livejournal.com]

I had been hoping to write backwards through time.

[thebeardedone.livejournal.com]

No news this week about Pyramid #13. Does that mean it is fully edited already?

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

See the previous update. :)

[seanmoon.livejournal.com]

So does that mean that low-tech is still several months from printing, if it's still getting tweaked throughout this companion 1-3 edit, which is about the same length as the book itself?

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

All four items go into layout only when I'm done editing all four. That will be February or March 2010. Layout takes a while. And let's not forget art. Then there's fun stuff like indexing – yay. I wouldn't expect any of this in PDF form before the third quarter of 2010, even in an ideal world (and our world isn't . . .). The printed Low-Tech would follow that by a few months for printing and another month or so for shipping.

In plain English, production cycles for huge projects like this one are measured in years.