09-05-2019, 12:42 AM | #1 |
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[Fanzine] The Path of Cunning
RogerBW and myself have committed a fanzine, and because one crime isn’t enough, it’s entirely about GURPS. Issue #1 was written by Rory "Refplace" Fansler and the editors, with artwork from Kurt "Quarkstomper " Wilcken, Dan Smith and Dover Books. It’s free for the downloading, from https://tekeli.li/path-of-cunning/, in PDF and ePUB.
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09-05-2019, 01:35 AM | #2 |
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Re: [Fanzine] The Path of Cunning
Nice! Been waiting for this to come to the light. Looks great.
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09-05-2019, 01:55 AM | #3 |
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Re: [Fanzine] The Path of Cunning
Very cunning indeed. Do you have a release schedule?
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09-05-2019, 03:51 AM | #4 |
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Re: [Fanzine] The Path of Cunning
We're looking at about 3-4 times per year, depending on the amount of material we get.
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09-05-2019, 03:59 AM | #5 |
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Re: [Fanzine] The Path of Cunning
Yay! Reading now!
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09-05-2019, 02:50 PM | #6 | |
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Re: [Fanzine] The Path of Cunning
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09-05-2019, 03:51 PM | #7 |
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Re: [Fanzine] The Path of Cunning
Not bad. It's got that 'fanzine' vibe. My only recommendation, and it's a 'makes it better for me' recommendation, is to better delineate when an article ends or begins. There were a couple of spots where as I skimmed past an article I had no interest in I stopped to read because I thought another article was beginning, when it was just another 'chapter' header of of the article I was skimming past.
Maybe some sort of header/footer scroll work used when a chapter begins or ends, or even just increasing the article titles another font size or two? |
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Having now read the first issue, I think 'The organisation and regulation of magic in the post-war world' is probably the most interesting article for me. Could be useful as a reference in other modern or nearly-modern 'Emergent Magic' settings, like the Modern Earth in Five Earths.
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09-05-2019, 09:31 PM | #9 |
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Re: [Fanzine] The Path of Cunning
I've downloaded the pdf and done some skimming. Interesting - and I too feel that the layout could use some work. Consider underlining article titles, italicizing sub-titles, in addition to making the font larger (for article titles,) as suggested above. I might also go with a smaller font size for the body text - it feels like you're using 12pt, drop that to 10pt. Consider using page breaks to always force article titles to be at the top of a page as well.
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