Guide to the Hidden: A New Direction
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Guide to the Hidden: A New Direction
Hi everyone.
NOTE: This project has undergone a name change. It is now called The Outcast's Journal.
Last... Ouch, was it really December? Anyway, last december, I announced that I was starting a project called Tobias Blackburn's Guide to the Hidden. It was inspired by the idea of giving calibans some extra abilities and quickly grew into about 4-5 chapters. Then 6 chapters.
Then I sort of disappeared.
During that time, work on it halted. Life got in the way (left job, moved, going back to university to finish my degree) and I found that the actual writing was becoming a terrible slog through the mud. I found that I was coming across as either too generalistic or too preachy. It's difficult to write direct statements about a group which is grouped together only by the way they are treated.
The new netbook has a slightly different view on the Hidden. First , it points out that Hidden is a social class. After all, doesn't a half-vistani in Invidia or a sorcerer in Tepest suffer the same (possibly more) prejudice as a caliban in a Barovian village. The rest focuses on calibans and other overtly different characters, but all can benefit from the abilities presented.
The project is now a 9 chapters long, and the outline is complete. Most of the basic mechanics have been put in place and merely need fine tuning. I am intending to begin writing the assembling fiction (which will be the easy part) within the next day or two.
I hope to have the first chapter (possibly two, but no promises) ready for release in late December. I intend to release the project one chapter at a time and then re-format the entire thing into a pdf file.
Sorry about the lack of news thus far. Figured I should give an update.
Oh, and the following url is the first rough draft for one of the 4 PrC (Hunted Outcast, Fiend Born, Hag Spawn, Finder of the Twisting Form) and 2 core classes (The Occultist, The Witch) planned for the book.
The Hunted Outcast (I know it was posted under the screen name Wilder, I just decided to switch names back)
NOTE: This project has undergone a name change. It is now called The Outcast's Journal.
Last... Ouch, was it really December? Anyway, last december, I announced that I was starting a project called Tobias Blackburn's Guide to the Hidden. It was inspired by the idea of giving calibans some extra abilities and quickly grew into about 4-5 chapters. Then 6 chapters.
Then I sort of disappeared.
During that time, work on it halted. Life got in the way (left job, moved, going back to university to finish my degree) and I found that the actual writing was becoming a terrible slog through the mud. I found that I was coming across as either too generalistic or too preachy. It's difficult to write direct statements about a group which is grouped together only by the way they are treated.
The new netbook has a slightly different view on the Hidden. First , it points out that Hidden is a social class. After all, doesn't a half-vistani in Invidia or a sorcerer in Tepest suffer the same (possibly more) prejudice as a caliban in a Barovian village. The rest focuses on calibans and other overtly different characters, but all can benefit from the abilities presented.
The project is now a 9 chapters long, and the outline is complete. Most of the basic mechanics have been put in place and merely need fine tuning. I am intending to begin writing the assembling fiction (which will be the easy part) within the next day or two.
I hope to have the first chapter (possibly two, but no promises) ready for release in late December. I intend to release the project one chapter at a time and then re-format the entire thing into a pdf file.
Sorry about the lack of news thus far. Figured I should give an update.
Oh, and the following url is the first rough draft for one of the 4 PrC (Hunted Outcast, Fiend Born, Hag Spawn, Finder of the Twisting Form) and 2 core classes (The Occultist, The Witch) planned for the book.
The Hunted Outcast (I know it was posted under the screen name Wilder, I just decided to switch names back)
Last edited by Tobias Blackburn on Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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No problem Joel. Take your time. Project has jumped even a little further ahead, so I figured I was comfortable announcing it (and not worrying about nothing coming of it).
And Mina says hi.
And Mina says hi.
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I remember this... . In fact, as I recall, I'd offered my assistance with some of the project... .
Anyway, glad to see it's still going ahead. We look forward to the completion of your efforts .
Anyway, glad to see it's still going ahead. We look forward to the completion of your efforts .
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She comes at night when you are all alone
And when she whispers
Your blood shall run cold
You better hide before she finds you"
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Your heart turns to stone
She comes at night when you are all alone
And when she whispers
Your blood shall run cold
You better hide before she finds you"
-- [i]Ice Queen[/i], Within Temptation
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I have the worst luck with some things. A two month bout of pneumonia and the following scramble to catch up with my university projects have left me far behind in getting the rough drafts done, but my notes are complete.Jason of the Fraternity wrote:Actually, I was recently wondering the same thing. We haven't seen much in the past few months, and I was curious as to what the state of this project was.The Nightmare Man wrote:So, any updates for this project?
At least I can increase the feat section to refer to the Aberrant feats in Lords of Madness, Races of Eberron and absorb anything new in Dark Tales, Disturbing Legends.
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