Progress update - May 2019

[Rob Lang]

I've all my progress in recent months. It does feel like editing Version 5 is going quicker in small amounts than trying to do the whole lot in one go with layout getting in the way.

I'm pleased that I have the combat systems largely sorted out, although it does need another round of editing.

I'm currently wading through the background, which needs some serious love. I think it might be a kitchen-sink method of writing, rather than keeping to just the poignant stuff the GM and players need to know. I think there might be something of a hard-edit going on there! I won't _throw_ anything away, I'll move stuff I don't need _now_ into a snippets file and then I can call on it later. It's more about condensing the fat.

[Onix]

Cool! Good to hear you're making progress. I've started writing for The Artifact 4e in google docs but I'm not sure where I want to go with layout. I should go with Affinity Publisher but the one thing I can't easily import tables and I have a lot of them. I know what I should do, I'm just a little reluctant to switch over.

[Rob Lang]

I enjoyed your blog post on the matter, sir. Does AP do a copy-and-paste feature that will accept tables? Have you asked on the AP forums? There seems to be something of a community there.

[Onix]

That's a good question, my last attempt was from google docs to AP. I tried what I could think of and ended up typing them by hand. The big issue is formatting each table so I had a few that I would copy and paste to keep the format. Sometimes I could copy the text from a docs table into an AP table but it was hard to get right. I can't imagine that a lot of people interested in publishing software need a lot of support for tables!

[Rob Lang]

[Onix]

Yeah, not doing layout as you go is really hard to resist. I'm hating how my google docs writing looks as a standard page but leaving it is the "right" way to do it I keep telling myself. If only I could get myself to believe it.