Daily Blogging: Feral Cities, Eclipse Phase, Advertising
Today was evenly divided between Feral Cities corrections and Eclipse Phase. My copy of Creative Suite 4 arrived today, and I installed it on my laptop while working on my desktop. I hoped to spend the evening messing around with InDesign CS4 and learning some of the new features, but instead the evening was spent bouncing an ad for ICv2.com back and forth with David.
Not quite as productive — or as fun! — as I wanted to be on my goals for this week, but still a solid day of work. Feral Cities is looking cool, Eclipse Phase is also moving along, and we just got in a fabulous piece of cover art for a great Shadowrun that’s coming up early next year.
Also, Ghost Cartels on DriveThruRPG has been bouncing around their Hottest Items chart, and is currently sitting at #2! Thanks to everyone who has picked it up [and reviewed it] so far!
October 29th, 2008 at 07:52:55
Good to hear Feral Cities is coming along nicely. I’m really enjoying what you guys have done with the timeline in a lot of areas, it has so much more of a cohesive flow to it that some of the 3rd Edition stuff.
Along the lines of updating the SR4 universe, when can we expect to see something on the major continents again (echoes of SoNA, SoA and SoE) and what’ve the wyrms been up too since the crash? Oh and will we see a ‘Corporate Download’ type book in the nearish future?
October 29th, 2008 at 08:34:26
The Sixth World Almanac will be the next “zoomed out” look at the continents — and the entire world.
There’s an updated corporate book in the works too.
October 29th, 2008 at 15:52:43
I personally like the more international feel that Catalyst has done for Shadowrun.
Great stuff….
October 29th, 2008 at 17:53:19
Couldn’t agree more Terence! The world feels as small now as one would expect with AR/VR and Suborbitals :oD
Definate improvement over 3rd Ed, but it’s still hard to port my campaign over as some story arcs and threads can’t be transposed just yet.
But there’s a rich addition of stuff to sink my teeth into, and Ghost Cartels will hit the streets soon so that’ll appease players just as much :o)
October 29th, 2008 at 21:27:22
I agree, guys. Really, for so long, Shadowrun was “Seattle, Berlin, Denver, or Bug City.” Now, though, not only do we have alot of information on Seattle, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and LA, with Feral Cities going to give us stuff on Chicago and another city I cannot remember, but we have lots of short blurbs that give us alot of info that we can use to run in a bunch of other cities, and Ghost Cartels gives us a world hopping potentially campaign. I am currently running a game set in Neo-tokyo during the time period lined out in Emergence. It is just flat out cool that I can do that now, when I could not really do it in the past….since there was not enough information. 4th Edition is alot different from previous editions in its feel…and I really, really like it.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:02:05
The other city in Feral Cities is Lagos, in the Kingdoms of Nigeria — and the first time a location in Africa has been visited in depth in the SR world.
October 30th, 2008 at 16:13:14
Actually the first time an African city was visited in SR in detail is in Runner Havens(Capetown, Azania).
But if you want to go way back….Cyberpirates has some info on Madagascar, Liberia, West Africa.
Though I think Lagos is probably one of the most fascinating cities in SR Africa and I daresay probably the most dangerous city in the world….(I daresay too that Lagos is more dangerous than Bug City Chicago)….
November 1st, 2008 at 23:08:16
Note that Jennifer [who is one of our authors] said “in depth”, Terence. :-)