The layout phase is drawing to a close, and any day now Bruce will submit the book to the printers. In Stranger Skies is the name of the first book for the +World of Calidar - hopefully the first of many more to come. The first shows the most common words used in Calidar: In Stranger Skies, including both the story and gazetteer sections.įirst draft cover design, with art by Ben WoottenĪ few hours ago, I completed and submitted the last tiny diagram for +Bruce Heard's Calidar: In Stranger Skies. This led me to think about how I could visualise all of this, so I came up with these word clouds.
Still, hopefully it will all be worthwhile when the book comes out, and readers get to skip around the PDF version using the index and bookmarks I've put in place.Īll of this sifting through the text has given me a somewhat unique perspective on strange and useless trivia such as which character name appears the most (Captain Isledemer d'Alberran, naturally!), how many pages the word Calidar appears on (22 out of 132), and which skyship has the second most mentions in the book (Meryath's flagship, the Eternal Glory).
The software does help, but it's 90% human input. Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth. If you're anything like me, you probably think an index is something generated automatically by software - throw some keywords and it and let it do its magic. Specifically, I have spent many hours in InDesign creating an index for the PDF version of the soon-to-be-released first +World of Calidar book, In Stranger Skies. This is usually a sure sign that I'm busy working on something, and in this case that something has been indexing. I've been very quiet for the past ten days or so. Kickstarter exclusive PDFs, titled Under the Great Vault, will likely be delivered at the same time.
Due to the way DTRPG works, it will likely be another two weeks or so before these can be ordered. I'm sure Bruce will be posting more about this soon.