Zebulon's guide to the Frontier

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Deryn_Rys
November 20, 2010 - 1:26pm
I was thinking about how I should approach this. I already have about 33 pages done which is mostly information from the core SF books and the Alternate time line I created for the Frontier. I made a few changes in the descriptions to account for material created by me specifically for my version of the Frontier, and though I touched on the cadres of the Frontier, they are not something I've ever been to fond of.

I've decided to make several volumes of these books each one dedicated to a specific region of the Frontier. I want to have one for the Core Worlds, one for the central systems, one for the outer systems, one for the Rim coalition, One for the non affiliate Frontier worlds (the trade worlds, and the various empires within the frontier), and one for the Badlands and beyond. The question is how much information should be in these books. I figure I'll have the basic information on each system, and information on the major worlds in each system, but should I detail each planet in the system, or just the inhabited ones? Also should I just list examples of the various creatures on the planet and put the stats in a separate creature book, or should I put the sample creature's stats in the book.

Of course artwork is something I am not good at, so if you guys want to put pictures to the descriptions, by that would be awesome. I think if the vision of what this project will look like comes to fruition it's going to be huge. Anyway I'm curious as to how much information should be in these books, how much should be left for individual Administrators to flesh out?
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w00t (not verified)
November 29, 2010 - 10:57am
If you have Word or Inkspace, get good at vector art. A lot of the art in the magazine is done this way.