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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 12:10 am Post subject: Re: Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Sourcebook |
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| Wajeb Deb Kaadeb wrote: | | That's a damn fine looking book. |
Thank you, though the layout was done by Meribak.
| Whill wrote: | | Only two more seasons to go now, right? |
That is correct. Third season has been 70% or so done since last year, then I started some other projects because I was getting burnt out on SWRe2. Then I started into GG:R1 which has taken a ton of time. Now I am slowly getting back into the creation part of things. My hopes are to have GG:R1, SWDr, SWRe3 and SWRe4 done before Nov-1.
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 1:14 am Post subject: Re: Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Sourcebook |
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| Whill wrote: | | shootingwomprats wrote: | | My hopes are to have GG:R1, SWDr, SWRe3 and SWRe4 done before Nov-1. |
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Its not as bad as it sounds.
Galaxy Guide: Rogue One: done, in editing/layout
Star Wars Droids: 90% done, needs layout
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Sourcebook: 70% done, needs layout
Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Sourcebook: have not started, estimate 14+ days to complete
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Going to look at this and post my reaction later.
Question - I might have asked this already in regards to the Rogue One Sourcebook, but I'll ask again. When you're doing these books, are you taking into consideration additional sources to learn about the backgrounds of various characters so that you'll be able to create "more accurate" stats. For example, Rebel Rising and Guardians of the Whill for Rogue One. Ahsoka, Thrawn, and the Darth Vader comics for Governor Pryce, Ahsoka, and the Inquisitors. I'd include the forthcoming Thrawn: Alliances, but that's more for Seasons 3 and 4. And would you be using the Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook as a reference for statting Thrawn and Rukh? |
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| Forceally wrote: | Going to look at this and post my reaction later.
Question - I might have asked this already in regards to the Rogue One Sourcebook, but I'll ask again. When you're doing these books, are you taking into consideration additional sources to learn about the backgrounds of various characters so that you'll be able to create "more accurate" stats. For example, Rebel Rising and Guardians of the Whill for Rogue One. Ahsoka, Thrawn, and the Darth Vader comics for Governor Pryce, Ahsoka, and the Inquisitors. I'd include the forthcoming Thrawn: Alliances, but that's more for Seasons 3 and 4. And would you be using the Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook as a reference for statting Thrawn and Rukh? |
I've wondered how well researched these books were myself. Are the Visual Dictionaries and the Incredible Cross Sections books consulted? |
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When it comes to additional sources we have included that information, but only where it was reasonable. For example, though Erso has an entire book about her history it really did not add much to the character or to that of other characters. We could have gone over things and added every nuance, but then a book about, say R1, now becomes a biography of Erso. Where important events and things about characters would add things, we have included them.
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| shootingwomprats wrote: | | When it comes to additional sources we have included that information, but only where it was reasonable. For example, though Erso has an entire book about her history it really did not add much to the character or to that of other characters. We could have gone over things and added every nuance, but then a book about, say R1, now becomes a biography of Erso. Where important events and things about characters would add things, we have included them. |
It seems the Visual Dictionaries and Cross-Section books would have lots of details important to these books. |
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| Wajeb Deb Kaadeb wrote: | | It seems the Visual Dictionaries and Cross-Section books would have lots of details important to these books. |
If you are specifically referring to the R1 Visual Dictionary, we used that a lot. R1 Cross Sections had little to offer when it came to additional information that was not already known or included in the Visual Dictionary. Though, we did use both.
If you are referring to a Visual Dictionary or Cross-Sections for any of the other projects:
1. Droids, based on the 80s cartoon and comics by Dark Horse has neither of those source available.
2. SWRe3-4 do not have those sources available either, though I believe there was a Visual Dictionary that came out for season 1, which I did reference while creating SWRe1.
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| shootingwomprats wrote: | | Wajeb Deb Kaadeb wrote: | | It seems the Visual Dictionaries and Cross-Section books would have lots of details important to these books. |
If you are specifically referring to the R1 Visual Dictionary, we used that a lot. R1 Cross Sections had little to offer when it came to additional information that was not already known or included in the Visual Dictionary. Though, we did use both.
If you are referring to a Visual Dictionary or Cross-Sections for any of the other projects:
1. Droids, based on the 80s cartoon and comics by Dark Horse has neither of those source available.
2. SWRe3-4 do not have those sources available either, though I believe there was a Visual Dictionary that came out for season 1, which I did reference while creating SWRe1. |
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Yeah, the R1 Visual Guide was my go-to resource for editing the R1 fanbook. There's no way I could have gotten anything done without that book.
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Again, you've delivered a spectacular looking supplement. The design is just spot on. I've only taken a quick flip through (especially the equipment because at heart I'm still a gear junkie). And I was delighted to see some of the sources that I worked on referenced.
I know it might seem like a small thing, but I've seen other places where someone has taken a stat, changed a +1 here or there, and then put it up as theirs, and it doesn't feel all that good. But you've really stepped it up here really been above board with where you're pulling from.
I appreciate all the hard work you and the team put into making this book. Fan projects aren't easy, ESPECIALLY if you are just cranking them out. And I know that they're easy to just side-burner forever if you're having a frustrating time with something technical. So, good on you for keeping at it.
Thanks again!
BTW, what was the techical trouble, and how did you fix it?
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| cheshire wrote: | | BTW, what was the techical trouble, and how did you fix it? |
The problem is an odd one. When someone sent me a link through gamil I would click on the file, it would open in the Google viewer and ask me if I wanted to download it. I would say yes, and work from that file.
When I used a direct link instead, whatever issues Lulu had with converting the files for print went away. So the issue had to do with downloading the file through the Google viewer.
An odd and I am sure, undocumented quirk.
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