Upcoming Releases Volume XV: Pitter Patter Let's Get At'er

[Weirdo]

I feel like this is most likely something

I feel like this better suits the facts we've been given.

[Sartris]

[Cache]

Announcements of announcements are evil  ;D

Sort of like the teaser for the cinematic trailer.

[Sartris]

no, this is better. it's simply the announcement that there's going to be a trailer.



Us: WHAT is coming??

Ray: Yes.

[Sharpnel]

I feel like this is most likely something that will be easy to put out, so I'm guessing TRO: Dark Age or RS: Jihad or RS: Dark Age, or all three.

Recod Sheets books are not easy to put out as has been stated many times in the past.

[Weirdo]

Agreed. If they were easy, we'd probably have a lot more RS PDFs out, not to mention more Unabridged PDFs that are actually unabridged.

[Colt Ward]

DriveThruFiction's Deal of the Day is Lethal Heritage, 40% off the cost.

[Karasu]

I realise that I am slightly late, but I only just got BattleRun II.

I can't believe that they actually went as far as making a Leviathans reference.  There's a game that needs more help, whatever form that help may be.

[Greatclub]

they were planning a kickstarter sometime this year. I give it even odds that becomes a 2021 thing.

[Lorcan Nagle]

I realise that I am slightly late, but I only just got BattleRun II.

I can't believe that they actually went as far as making a Leviathans reference.  There's a game that needs more help, whatever form that help may be.

Did you ever see the Shadowrun April Fool's Day book from the year BattleTech got Free TaiSt Ives? In it the runners are hired to hijack a container ship carrying the most recent attempt to ship Leviathans to the market.

[wantec]

Just wanted to drop in and say—so that I can get some form of release—that we have lots of neat stuff in development and production. But—as many of you know—CGL culture has grown so used to keeping their cards close to their vest until the last minute, that even the writers, artists, and devs that work for me are always like "naw Ray, you can't show/talk about this yet," and I kick the nearest can and go sulk in the corner.

We expect in April and May you'll finally start hearing about a few things.

You can release info about the stuff I wrote, not that there's much that I wrote that hasn't been released

[Kit deSummersville]

Judging by that e-mail in my in-box, April is finally here!

[Adrian Gideon]

You can release info about the stuff I wrote, not that there's much that I wrote that hasn't been released

Soon^TM

[Daryk]

Did you ever see the Shadowrun April Fool's Day book from the year BattleTech got Free TaiSt Ives? In it the runners are hired to hijack a container ship carrying the most recent attempt to ship Leviathans to the market.

THAT is simultaneously hilarious and depressing...  :-\

[Karasu]

THAT is simultaneously hilarious and depressing...  :-\

It was, especially with the bit about the colour of Taiwan on the map being a particular delay...

[Daryk]

Not to approach Rule 4, but have you ever read any accounts of the negotiations for the cease fire in Korea?

[Colt Ward]

Not to approach Rule 4, but have you ever read any accounts of the negotiations for the cease fire in Korea?

Eh, MASH made a string of jokes about it which is about all you need to know.

[SCC]

Agreed. If they were easy, we'd probably have a lot more RS PDFs out, not to mention more Unabridged PDFs that are actually unabridged.

I figure that it's much, much easier to put an existing RS into a new product then it is to create a new RS from scratch, probably just copy/paste level easy, or at least close to it.

[GRUD]

We expect in April and May you'll finally start hearing about a few things.

And we're now at April 7!   :D

[Weirdo]

I figure that it's much, much easier to put an existing RS into a new product then it is to create a new RS from scratch, probably just copy/paste level easy, or at least close to it.

Everything we've ever heard about document layout from CGL folks says no. Easier than a scratch sheet, yes. Copy/paste easy? Heeeeeells no.

[Greatclub]

Don't actually understand why. Using MML is dead easy, and adobe makes a program that lets you insert pages easy(ish.) There's also freeware that does the same.

Then again, I'm not a professional, so I might be missing steps that need to be taken to get to published status.

[Bedwyr]

It's not simple in the same way people sometimes look at any profession and say Sir Robin of Holy Grail style: "Aw thas' essay! I can do tha'!"

[Wolf72]

It's not simple in the same way people sometimes look at any profession and say Sir Robin of Holy Grail style: "Aw thas' essay! I can do tha'!"

Aw coconuts! he went there!

I'm still one of the people who have not downloaded MML.  I used to use The Drawing Board, but that was a while ago.

[Istal_Devalis]

Don't actually understand why. Using MML is dead easy, and adobe makes a program that lets you insert pages easy(ish.) There's also freeware that does the same.

Then again, I'm not a professional, so I might be missing steps that need to be taken to get to published status.

As someone who does work in marketing these days:
For starters, the PDF you would use for printing at home, and a PDF marked up for professional printing are different beasts. A professional print job isnt printing out just one page at a time and needs special markups for that reason.

[Cache]

Don't actually understand why. Using MML is dead easy, and adobe makes a program that lets you insert pages easy(ish.)

Even using MML as they are, it isn't perfect.

[Colt Ward]

Besides the legal difficulties of using MML/SSW raises the spectre of the Unseen- simply put, are those programs owned or under contract to CGL?  No . . . therefore, not going to be officially used.

The abundance of alternate sources (MML/SSW/old HMP) and folk's ability to alter PDFs for printing is why I think it would be better to get what the RS would be- tell us what crit slot things will take up in a text chart- and let players fill them out.  The discussed units that have no official RS would get a 'RS' without having to clear that hurdle, players do the work filling in based on the description.

[GreekFire]

And this is why I hope the record sheet app unlocked in the kickstarter will be developed enough to be able to create record sheets that CGL themselves can use for their products.

[Wolf72]

And this is why I hope the record sheet app unlocked in the kickstarter will be developed enough to be able to create record sheets that CGL themselves can use for their products.

I have zero idea what would be involved for CGL to get a new Design program/update done, but I would support a kickstarter on that -- if it was feasible, there may be more to that process than I can possibly imagine.

[SteelRaven]

I have zero idea what would be involved for CGL to get a new Design program/update done, but I would support a kickstarter on that -- if it was feasible, there may be more to that process than I can possibly imagine.

CGL was at the very least looking into one, I remember that being mentioned sometime during the beginning KS but not a word after that. I'm sure they will make some noise one they have something more concrete. CGL doesn't like talking about 'maybes' as this forum/community doesn't always have the best reaction when things don't turn out as planned *RIP Battlechat*

[Weirdo]

CGL doesn't like talking about 'maybes' as this forum/community doesn't always have the best reaction when things don't turn out as planned *RIP Battlechat*

*CGL announces something*

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