A Little Slow in Posting Updates

I will be getting on track for updates next week. It has been a very full week here, but not much to direct you to.

I posted the web page for Set 301, Channel 01. It includes the Guidelines, notes, sheet PDF, but no individual pics yet. The art is almost done, Sue has sent me two of the three pieces and just one to go. When I get the rest of the art I will post pics and replace the PDF.

We will be assembling and prepping a number of sets for second edition, as we get them done I will post them for proxy use. As fast as the old cash flow allows we will send them off to the printer for the actual cards.

The taxes are almost finished, and once that is behind me I can get more sets worked on.

Sue has also sent me the Second Edition rules to go through and begin layout work on. As with everything, this will take a longer time than I would like. My first time through took about twelve hours. I thought I would be able to do the whole thing in a day or two. The truth is it will be a week or two to get through it all. sigh, that life for you.

I can say it looks really good. Once I get through it I will be doing a full FAQ on Classic to Second Edition card usage. We have identified one Classic card that breaks Second Edition, several that will need to be used thoughtfully, and that is about it. Common Sense will have to be applied to Classic cards to determine if they are an Enhancement or use a "thing", but that is something you and your GM can judge in seconds, especially since the GM is always right in DS.

The Enhancement test is: Does the card stand on its own, or must it be played in combination with another card to work? If it stands alone it requires a "thing" to use it. An example is Good Moves. It stands alone, it costs a "thing" to play it. Those that can not stand alone, like Dragon Claws, are Enhancements and do not cost a "thing" to play.

The banned card is Make it Independent. It absolutely screws up what we want to do with making big "Ka-Boom" cards for high CP characters and Cast.

Thoughtful cards I am not ready to go into yet. You will have to be patient.

This also means that we can slowly release the Second Edition cards over time. By now everyone knows that the original DS and Kanchaka cards are dwindling and we can not reprint them, so we need new cards to sell. We believe we have a 1 to 2 year supply of the older cards, therefore we have 1 to 2 years to get Second Edition fully operational.

And one more note on the rules. +WIS bonus does not have a ceiling, but you can only add it once to a single contest roll. The add only once applies to all Stats.

Now, back to work.