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Voting Time: Where To, After the UVG?

Hello folks, welcome to the new and condensed decision-making committee of the stratometaship.

I declare the results of the last poll in: 62 of 229 members voted. That's a round 30%. Of those, 51 (82%) voted full steam ahead for up to two posts a month, 11 said, yes, but they won't pay for the second one (18%). I'll take that as quite a rousing endorsement and relegate finding the perfect solution until such a time as the second monthly post becomes less hypothetical and more iminent.

Now, we're going to decide where to take the stratometaship next.

You've already seen art like this:

This is my proposed next "big thing". Where the UVG was an epic, long crawl across a massive world, I envision Red Sand Blue Sky at the much smaller scale of a city being sacked, occupied, and transformed by an imperial invasion. If the UVG envisions a world where the great powers are, at least in the wilderness of the UVG, in abeyance, RSBS marks the moment when the struggle between two great powers ends and one becomes the hegemon. Think the sack of Persepolis, the salting of Carthage, the pillaging of Rome, the fall of Xiangyang.

In structure I've already mentioned:

- overlapping time (100 weeks) and space (~30 neighborhoods)
- flowchart style tomb, palace, and temple maps (~50 total)
- a structure of random events, encounters, and treasures

I haven't mentioned yet that I'll be working to a layout of A3 spreads, with each notionally sufficient for a session or two of delving. Each chapter I publish should be a couple of neighborhoods and some adjacent tables. Much like the UVG, around 6-8 pages, including art (hahaha ... right, right, sure, and then I'll publish some stupid 32-page chapter dedicated to the mime dance magicians of the flesh god's subterranean warrens).

The more stratified and complex societies also means:

- more magitech machines and golem armors
- more cults and organizations
- more real estate dealing 

Which should all work with the UVG, too.

Ok, that's main poll. Red Sand Blue Sky: yay or nay?

But I'm also doing a subsidiary poll. I'm going to list a few different ideas I have for other things I could write and art—you can vote by commenting, pushing the 'like hearts', or just writing your own suggestions. This part will be messier, but that's how it goes... bear with me, it'll take me a few minutes to write them all down.

Let the voting begin!

Comments

Side note: I'm really curious about your monster shorthand, could you please walk us through how you use the adjectives mechanically (e.g. (AC 12, HD 1, salty))? Or are they just roleplay cues?

Well, that one seems to be locked in - but what would you like as the secondary short project?

WizardThiefFighter

Ah booger I missed the poll but I would have voted for Red Sand Blue Sky!

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