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As of about an hour ago I've finished writing Forgotten Futures XI!

I now have to do all the boring stuff like convert it to PDF and HTML, put together all the other contents of the distribution disk, get it mailed out, etc. etc.

The bit I really hate doing is the last bit of writing for the main book - the back cover blurb.

Since Forgotten Futures is on line as a free download I don't have to worry too much about the blurb selling the game. But since I want there to be a back cover if people print it out, I need to write one. This is what I've come up with so far (all text up to and including my name is small caps, the title is slanted, etc. as in the icon):


FORGOTTEN FUTURES XI:

PLANETS OF PERIL

ROLE-PLAYING IN THE WORLDS OF
STANLEY G. WEINBAUM’S
1930S SCIENCE FICTION
BY MARCUS L. ROWLAND
  


Adventures across a Solar System where every world has life and many secrets:
  • Venus, where the fungi and spores will eat you if the plants and natives don’t!
  • Mars, home of cryptic friendly natives at least as intelligent as mankind!
  • Io, the jungle moon, where tiny natives view humans with hostile eyes!
  • Europa, an unspoiled Eden where mankind may be the serpent!
  • Ganymede, the tidal moon, where you either swim or die!
  • Titan, Eskimo hell, source of the most beautiful gems in the solar system!
  • Uranus, the great enigma, a huge habitable world that’s still almost unexplored!
  • Pluto, lair of the pirate queen Red Peri, and home to strange and deadly living crystals!

Includes full details of all nine worlds and the asteroids and major moons, complete spaceship operation and construction rules, a detailed adventure campaign, three long adventures and eighteen adventure outlines, twelve ready-to-use characters, and much more!

Forgotten Futures XI is supported by online downloads including deck plans, spreadsheet templates, and a selection of Stanley G. Weinbaum’s science fiction stories.

www.forgottenfutures.com ~ www.forgottenfutures.co.uk

This game has been put on line as a FREE download; you are asked to register if you find it useful. Please inform the author if you are charged any other fee to obtain it in any form.

The illustration will be a small version of the "Red Peri Passing the Moon" illo, which will also be my front cover, with a very faint spaceship outline behind the text.

Any thoughts?

Date: 2010-10-31 04:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] johnreiher.livejournal.com
No, it looks fine to me Marcus. I can't wait to get a hold of it.

Date: 2010-10-31 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Well, once I figure out why bloody NTL are blocking my site again, there may be some review files on line.

Date: 2010-10-31 08:21 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-10-31 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
I think way too many exclamation marks!

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