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The Nights Grow Dark
Hello everyone and welcome to the October Update. It’s been a busy month for a variety of reasons, and this update will highlight a bit of a patchwork month as far as progress goes. Progress Since I’ve mentioned the progress, I’ll deal with that first. Progress is a stop-start, halting kind of thing at the…
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Live Streaming RPG Session
Hi everyone. Great news! To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Elite’s original release, there will be a LIVE streaming session of Elite Encounters this Saturday, 27th September, starting at 1pm. Taking part in the session will be: James Vigor: RPG fan and the congenial host of the live feed Anthony Olver: creator of the Elite…
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Beta Release In The Wild!
Hi everyone. Just a quick update to let you know that the BETA rules are now out. Those of you who have purchased BETA access will have had an email from me explaining where the rules are and how to download them. For the rest of you this is a significant milestone. The second phase…
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Convention / Playtest Reports
Hi everyone! This special update is mainly a report on Fantasticon and the second LIVE test of the Elite Encounters game system. I’ll warn you now, it’s a lengthy one, and is a fairly detailed overview of the live games of EE that were played at the convention. OK, I’m a week or two late.…
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Betas Galore! It must be August
Hi everyone. Welcome to the August update. I was gonna keep this short, but every time I say that I end up writing War and Peace. So I’m just going to “chain of thought” type. LaveCon At the start of July there was LaveCon. And it was good. Oh my god it was good. Loads…
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Milestone Reached!
Hi everyone, and welcome to another rip-roaring Elite Encounters update! First, as you may suspect from the title up there, I reached a significant milestone this week. With LaveCon just around the corner, the RPG has been printed out for the first time! In relation to that, the first draft is DONE! Apart from about…
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I’m running out of ideas for titles
Greetings, Commanders and welcome to another monthly update from the world of Elite Encounters. It hasn’t been a great month this month. The envisioned deadline of May 31st has been and gone and the content STILL isn’t finished. Every time I finish one section, it seems like there are two more sections to take its…
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So Long April – How Little We Knew Ye
Hi all. Apologies for the April-May update being a little late. You may or may not know, but it’s been a very busy couple of weeks in the world of Elite Dangerous and its associated projects! I’ll get other media announcements out of the way first. Firstly, Elite Dangerous will be entering the final Alpha…
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Headlines and Deadlines
Monthly update time again! This is going to be a long one. I’m going to start with a quick status update and events information. The book’s technology overview section is complete, lighting the way for expanding and improving the equipment lists, and the word count so far is 108,800. Since I’m focusing on the writing…
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Happy Anniversary…
A year ago, on 3rd March 2013, I spent the evening in front of the computer and watched as the campaign to fund the project of my dreams broke through its stretch goals and finally confirmed that I would get to write the Official RPG of the Elite Universe. A great night, and one that…