I sometimes envy the lighter job-set of a supplement city guide (which can build upward from a world already established), and also of city guides that can truly be village guides, because they can presume a narrow PC range.
#Hammondal has neither going on. That means it gets to be _more awesome_ ... but it does mean the climb is steeper. 😆 It has a lot more jobs to do, on every page.
The earlier guides I admire mostly walked similarly steep design terrain.
@victorgijsbers It's hard to say beyond "not done yet." 😃
I've written about 155,000 words, but most of those won't be in the final book. I've done work on 26 of the 31 maps.
I've written at least a little about every street, and about each of the 500 sites that will deliver the gameworld. But there's plenty more to write.
It's definitely over the hump; it's accelerating a fair bit now. But it's still too hazy to time the final ski-jump finale. 😄
@victorgijsbers Also worth adding, re massive: keeping the final output as small as possible is always the goal.
So my hope is: massive only on the design end, lean and compact on the writing end. 😊
I'd be overjoyed if the final book is 80,000 words or less. I don't know that I'll get it that small and still do all the jobs I'm asking of it, but: maybe.
The separate campaign book will be much smaller in any case, half to one-quarter the city guide.
S. John Ross
Victor Gijsbers