On Tuesday morning I ordered three hundred copies of the Adventurer’s Logbook with my printer. That feels great. To know that one of the many components of the rewards is complete and will soon be in my hands is a big relief – it feels like I am on the downhill slope at last.
It was a lot of fun to create. Time-consuming, yes, but it meant that I got to skim through all four of my books and check that my notes were accurate, meaning that within the last two or three weeks, I have effectively filled my head with every single Steam Highwayman achievement and escapade – and it makes me very glad and proud. Sorry, perhaps, that almost ten years’ work can be read in a fortnight, but happy with the quality.
Although I produced hint sequences for the most of Highways and Holloways, there wasn’t space to include this amount of content in the logbook. I’ll release these digitally later, rather like the 94 things to do in Smog and Ambuscade I created a while ago. This was also taking a lot of time, so I haven’t yet created full hint sequences for The Reeking Metropolis or Princes of the West.
Still, I was able to grade each achievement on its complexity – largely to do with how many dice rolls or unique items are needed to achieve each one. A simple system of stars indicates each achievement’s difficulty.
After finishing, I edited some typos and made some corrections to Princes of the West that I had found as I read through it. The team of proofreaders and playtesters are doing a fab job – thankyou to each of you reading this – and in a few weeks I’ll be collating everything and doing a final edit.
I began editing the Players Companion to update it to include the write-in information for Princes of the West. There’s a lot! So far I’ve begun by listing codewords and possession boxes – of which there are around thirty.
So what next? I mean to continue editing the Companion, hopefully finishing that by next update, together with working on the maps and guidebook. I might even get to Harvest of Death.
This update is early because I really mean to be offline tomorrow! It’s been a mega-busy week and today took the biscuit, so I don’t want to have any jobs on my plate when I (eventually) get up tomorrow morning.
Next update due: 10.4.26
