Wow! I feel like I entered the wormhole in March and got dumped out in July? Existence has been...busy... but I'm excited for the summer break from my day-job and the chance to focus 100% on Blue Planet for a while. I'm also excited to share some more previews...
Favorite Things
Here's a slice of life scene inspired almost entirely from one of the backer art suggestions. One of my favorite things about Blue Planet is the day-to-day, lived-in nature of the setting - how it feels like a real word exists around the characters and life goes on in countless familiar ways despite the fantastical environment and technologies.
Speaking of technology, another of my favorite things about the setting is how the tech vastly expands character capabilities and yet fades into the background in deference to the storytelling - serving more as stage dressing or MacGuffin. The use of remotes for example, allows characters to engage in unprecedented ways - an urban sky swarming with a thousand drones on a thousand errands, a battlefield won by robotic tanks or a previously unknown species discovered by an autonomous underwater vehicle. Each of these adds such depth of focus to the Poseidon that exists in my mind's eye.
Military micro-missile platform, agricultural bot and cetacean hover remote.
Final Mechanics
This link takes you to a text file of the final game mechanics, and I'm sharing it for two reasons. First, I figure you've already paid for it, so why not get what I can to you as it becomes available? Second, and more importantly, for the hardcore among you who want to dive in, now is the last practical chance to make major revisions to the rules.
The file has been line-edited, but still has to go through final proofreading, so don't worry about those kinds of errors. If you are motivated however, I would greatly appreciate any input about specific, omitted or confusing mechanics. I would also welcome any helpful observations about the structure and presentation of the chapter. Please share any comments or suggestions via the Kickstarter message system.
I am looking forward to the rules improving for having having been assimilated by the nereid hive mind...