Hi everyone!

Itch says that posting regular updates is a good way to keep people excited and informed about a project. And as I'm still very excited about BRIGHTHAMMER, I'm giving it a try.

I've been doing my best to write out the BRIGHTHAMMER rules in a notebook, rather than directly into the  Affinity Publisher layout. I have a bad habit of getting too caught up with the visuals of my games before making sure they're functional, which often results in me getting frustrated and losing interest in them when rules and text changes require me to completely redesign the layout. So writing the text out by hand is a way to try and prevent that from happening.

But when working with such a small space (A7 pages are only 74mm x 104mm) it's hard to know how much text will fit onto each page – especially given my sloppy, scrawling handwriting. Plus, each section has to fit onto a single page or a single spread. Having a line of text overflow to the next spread not only looks terrible in these little "pocketmod" booklets, but it eats up space that could go to something else.

I'm currently working on the layout for the GM Guide. You can see one of the finished spreads in the attached images, as well as the first draft of the awesome cover art by HODAG_RPG. I'm hoping to have the booklet done and uploaded by the end of the week, but we'll see if my kid allows that to happen...