What
exactly is new with the enhanced edition of the 3-year old mission,
“The Seeds of Chaos?” For one thing, I've added in a lot of
color. Originally, when Solar Echoes released in 2012, I was avoiding
color as much as possible because I was working on printing the books
(and color is more expensive.) Now that I'm focusing on digital
sales, I've colorized each of the few art pieces in the mission,
added in John Fell's cool new page borders, and this is the first
mission featuring John's great new stat-block borders! Stat-blocks
are the little colored blocks that include all the details for NPC's,
vehicles, robots, alien lifeforms, and even the hacking grids. I used
to highlight these areas in the missions with a grey background
color, and more recently, I added a drop-shadow colored border. They
didn't look bad, but I wanted something with more character. I've
looked at a lot of other RPG game books and was surprised that
everyone is doing essentially the same thing I was: different colored
backgrounds but no artistic border. So, I contacted artist John Fell
and talked with him about my idea—I wasn't sure it was even
possible. He sent me a few rough ideas and I experimented with
sizing, sending him images of what I was able to do and how much
space I needed to make it work. He adjusted the sizes, left the
interiors blank so I could add in whatever color background I was
happiest with, and then began working on designing the art for each
border type.
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