La Voix De Rokugan

Ding On a écrit :Le Bestiaire en VF était à la Gencon.
Plutôt cher pour un copier/coller des Voies Naga et Nezumi et des bestiaires antérieurs.

Shawn CARMAN a écrit :Boy, you know this must be important for me to make it a Sticky. We've got too many of those already.

Well, let's just go ahead and start with the bad news. As of today, Emerald Empire is not projected to hit the streets until August. We have been given a date in August, but I see absolutely no point in sharing that when we do not have any idea if the printer will be able to hit that date or not. No point in saying anything about the date per se until we know more, but August is what we're hearing right now.

Take a moment to grow wroth with fury.

Now, let's look at the good news. Why is this happening? It is happening because we have taken your words to heart, and really went beserk on the editing of this book. This is a major milestone in our RPG line, after all, and we can't afford to let it get all wonky. On the same day it went to the printers the first time (which we announced in another thread a while back), it also went to Todd for a final read-through. Todd made the decision to put the brakes on until we were absolutely sure that the manuscript was where it needed to be.

I feel comfortable in saying that this book has been edited more thoroughly than any in the L5R RPG's history. No less than seven people that I know of have gone over the entire thing with a fine-toothed comb and pulled out every single grammatical mistake, inconsistency, mis-wording and outright error that could be found. The resulting document was considerable! Just last night, I spent about five hours going over the manuscript and making notes about what needed to be changed in order to make sure that everything was perfect. Rodney the Layout Guy is going to be in the office on Thursday to implement my changes, as well as to address some problems here and there with things like font changes and header size inconsistences... all that jazz. And then, finally, on Friday, it will go back to the printer. This time for real!

So there you go. That's what's up with The Emerald Empire. The cover is amazing. The artwork throughout is fantastic. The final page count according to the PDFs I have is 272. As I said in another thread in another sub-forum, the rough percentage of mechanics to raw cultural information is 5%, so this sucker is all about Rokugan. Have you ever wanted to know what the main source of protein for samurai who live in the Dragon provinces was? This is your chance!

Just as a taste, let me give you the chapter titles:
Chapter One: Geography
Chapter Two: Customs
Chapter Three: Society
Chapter Four: Politics
Chapter Five: Commerce & Economics
Chapter Six: Law & Order
Chapter Seven: Religion
Chapter Eight: Education
Chapter Nine: War
Appendix
Index

Usagi a écrit :Vous pensez pas qu'ils ont voulu faire un vrai bon truc... sachant que c'est vraiment ce qu'attendent les joueurs (i.e. acheteurs qui les font vivre)??