[Fanzine] The Path of Cunning

[johndallman]

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.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Nice! Been waiting for this to come to the light. Looks great.

[Daigoro]

Very cunning indeed. Do you have a release schedule?

[RogerBW]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

Very cunning indeed. Do you have a release schedule?

We're looking at about 3-4 times per year, depending on the amount of material we get.

[Refplace]

Yay! Reading now!

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by johndallman

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.

OK, I've bookmarked that page on the assumption that the links to new issues will also be there. Thank you for doing this.

[evileeyore]

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?

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by evileeyore

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?

I also think that that would be quite helpful, please.

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.

[namada]

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.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Prince Charon

I also think that that would be quite helpful, please.

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.

I too found it the most interesting read, but also one that poked the most at my pet peeve: yet another setting which makes magic look more like psi in Babylon 5's Psi-Corps than as *magic* in magical settings.