Servants of Gaius: anyone running this?

RPGPundit · September 07, 2012, 10:34:20 PM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;580474And I should point out, Arrows of Indra will be our biggest book to date (somewhere in the range of 190-220 pages).

Are you sure about that?

I'm asking because my word doc. for Lords of Olympus was something like 330 pages, and the final PDF, which didn't omit any of the actual text, was only like 235 pages. So I'm guessing depending on what format you use, you can shrink down the size quite a bit. Of course, Lords of Olympus is really packed tight, you might use a different style.

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Bedrockbrendan · September 07, 2012, 11:19:57 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;580901Are you sure about that?

I'm asking because my word doc. for Lords of Olympus was something like 330 pages, and the final PDF, which didn't omit any of the actual text, was only like 235 pages. So I'm guessing depending on what format you use, you can shrink down the size quite a bit. Of course, Lords of Olympus is really packed tight, you might use a different style.

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It is possible my estimate is off. I gauge by word count based on our previous books. I could probably get it as low as 150 pages if we packed it tight, but it we like having some room in our layouts. Just going by our other books and the word count of the final manuscript, i think 190 is about where we will end up. Though that absolutely could change depending on the font and final page design.

Bedrockbrendan · September 07, 2012, 11:22:01 PM

But in either case it will still be our largest book to date. Right now Servants of Gaius is our biggest, at 117 pages.

RI2 · September 08, 2012, 03:53:06 PM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;580914But in either case it will still be our largest book to date. Right now Servants of Gaius is our biggest, at 117 pages.

I am going to make Arrows a 1000 pager. That font is going to be so huge, people will see the greatness.

Seriously, depending what I do, it will be a bit bigger than SoG. I wish I had more page flexibility with SoG, but Bedrock were slave drivers. ;-)

Richard

RPGPundit · September 10, 2012, 12:08:06 AM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;580913It is possible my estimate is off. I gauge by word count based on our previous books. I could probably get it as low as 150 pages if we packed it tight, but it we like having some room in our layouts. Just going by our other books and the word count of the final manuscript, i think 190 is about where we will end up. Though that absolutely could change depending on the font and final page design.

Well, awesome. I'm certainly not arguing that it needs to be ultra-tightly packed or something.

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RPGPundit · September 15, 2012, 11:45:16 AM

As for SoG, its been rattling around in my head; one of these days I'm going to have to take up the second part of my epic Roman campaign, and obviously having Gaius will be of use to me in the game, the question will be whether I'll actually stoop to running it with that system!

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Bedrockbrendan · September 15, 2012, 12:08:30 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;582726As for SoG, its been rattling around in my head; one of these days I'm going to have to take up the second part of my epic Roman campaign, and obviously having Gaius will be of use to me in the game, the question will be whether I'll actually stoop to running it with that system!

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Happy to hear you have an interest in running (even if only the setting).

Based on your posts and reviews on other games, I do think the Network System might not be suited well to your tastes. The only thing it has going for it that might interest you is people all pretty much agree it is very fast in play and doesn't intrude much either. But it is a d10 dice pool with all that entails (though taking the single highest result really makes things smooth).

Anyone thinking of running SOG (system or setting) may want to check out our blog as I have been posting lots of gameable campaign content there: http://thebedrockblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/rules-for-grittier-rome.html

I have everything from campaign examples to new optional rules.

Benoist · September 15, 2012, 03:14:36 PM

When the occasion presents itself I'll run SoG, no doubt. It's just a matter of opening and timing with the writing I'm doing.