Quote:You should have seen it before I took a blue-pencil to some of the more wordy entries...
Ye gods, 122pp? I didn't think we were that wordy!
Quote:Fair enough. I wasn't sure what to leave out, so I tossed in everything I thought useful - on reflection, this does result in something a bit too big.
If this is something you want to give to gamers, or even just a "Writer's Bible" to stick on the Fenspace page, it needs some significant trimming.
Quote:Fair enough... but I'm going to need a list of the major players. (I'm not objective here; I know what I have planned for my characters, after all.)
3.1: Noteworthy Fen
3.1.1-x: No more than half a dozen of the major players in Fenspace, not the entire cast of characters. By "major players" I mean active PCs or high-level NPCs like Haruhi.
My list of major players would be "Mr. Morden", Blackstone, S. Malaclypse Fnord, Duane E. Peters, The Professor, Katz Schrdinger, Bob Schroeck, Noah Scott, Haruhi Suzumiya, Wire Geek, and Eric Zhu. Who did I miss, and who doesn't belong here?
And if we go this route, I'll need someone who's actually watched the entire series to write an entry for Haruhi.
Quote:But not World Watch One, Candy Apple Red's, or Galaxy Express 999? I can see leaving off WW1 since the Jet Car's on the list, but the other two are reasonably important for the flavour of the setting.
3.2: Noteworthy Fenships
3.2.1-x: Again, a selection of the more impressive objects in the Fenspace fleet. My personal shortlist would be the Jet Car, Inelegant Truth, Ptichka (o ego!), Miranda, Hephaestus, Grover's Corners, Stellvia & the Island.
I'll separate out the Big Book of People and the Big Book of Ships as soon as I see or come up with better names for them...
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
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