Second Thoughts

[TwoCrows]

[C.W.Richeson]

One option is designing in public on a LiveJournal.  For an example, check out Chad's work on S7S here: http://chadu.livejournal.com/tag/s7s

[Eero Tuovinen]

Not that you asked for design advice per se, but I'm curious: what's your relationship to D&D? Seems to me that that's where the Fantasy Heartbreaker is, if it's anywhere at all.

[TwoCrows]

Not that you asked for design advice per se, but I'm curious: what's your relationship to D&D? Seems to me that that's where the Fantasy Heartbreaker is, if it's anywhere at all.
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[brainwipe]

Brad, if you need a nice way to track who is visiting your progress, try Google Analytics. Really easy to get running!

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[TwoCrows]

[Eero Tuovinen]

The Publishing forum is the one where we do most of our tech talk. Some rare instances concern the design itself, in which case we discuss it here. If you have particular problems with web tech related to your design and publishing, we have plenty of people around who can help with that.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you have a deep relationship with D&D, that always makes for a more solid kind of Fantasy Heartbreaker. Now go make your game; it's no use tarrying too long if you want to create a genuine Heartbreaker. If you're not careful, you might learn too much and it won't be a Hearbreaker after all

[Valamir]

With your indicated history of D&D play, I'd be surprised if you haven't already written your fantasy heartbreaker.

If you're at all like me you've got binders and binders full of house rules, dragon articles, rewrites, and alternative ways of doing things that if you took them all out, dusted them off, filed off the seriel numbers and compiled them into a "new game" you'd pretty much have your Fantasy Heartbreaker.

Near as I can tell that's how Forge: Out of Chaos got written, anyway...and they actually paid to print the thing.

I mean, when D&D3.0 came out I picked it up, read it, and said "Holy Shit...they stole all of my house rules"...seems I'd written about 80% of 3.0 a good 20 years ago.  So that would have been my Fantasy Heartbreaker. 

[TwoCrows]

With your indicated history of D&D play, I'd be surprised if you haven't already written your fantasy heartbreaker.

If you're at all like me you've got binders and binders full of house rules, dragon articles, rewrites, and alternative ways of doing things that if you took them all out, dusted them off, filed off the seriel numbers and compiled them into a "new game" you'd pretty much have your Fantasy Heartbreaker.
Quote from: Valamir

Near as I can tell that's how Forge: Out of Chaos got written, anyway...and they actually paid to print the thing.
Quote from: Valamir

I mean, when D&D3.0 came out I picked it up, read it, and said "Holy Shit...they stole all of my house rules"...seems I'd written about 80% of 3.0 a good 20 years ago.  So that would have been my Fantasy Heartbreaker. 

Tell me about it. I still got a few left though