Today we have another special preview for backers only! Scroll down to see co-creator Jonathan Tweet's preface, where he contemplates the many things he loves about Ars Magica …
Ars Magica Definitive Status
The dice are at press! All the dice proofs are approved, and our printer is working on mass production now.
In the core Ars Magica Definitive book, we now have indexes! SO MANY indexes, in fact … 8 pages of the Standard Index, another 4 pages of Spells Index plus a new Bestiary Index, and a Table of Artists tacks on another page. That's a whole lot of indexing work, so our thanks to staffer Ross Waataja for his fine job of collating all that info.
Meanwhile my co-producer Ben Hartfield is up to Chapter 10, in his thankless job of inserting page number references. I'm following behind him, on Chapter 4 for my final layout check (which goes much faster than polishing).
What's left after that is exporting the foil & embossing or UV files for all the covers, finishing the retail cover sheet for the ArMD set & separate Storyguide Screen pack so we can sell both in stores, adding page numbers to the Reference Guide and Storyguide Screen, and PDFizing everything for press. It's a short list!
Ars Magica's Open License also has this this new fan-created content:
ENDING THIS FRIDAY Oct 31 at 3AM Central -- crowdfunding for the Spanish translation of Ars Magica Definitive! This is a BIG project, launched by Blagdaross Ediciones under the open license. Though the company is new, they include veteran Ars Magica translators Éric Álvarez, Mario Donaire, and Óscar Estefanía. Visit it now, before it ends!
