Category: Elite Encounters
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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…
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Ratio of Steps Forward to Backward
Hi everyone. Apologies for the lateness of this update. It’s been an up and down month, to be honest. I’m going to keep this one brief, because once again the day has flashed past in a blur of stuff to do. I’m only including an RPG progress report as well as a couple of notes…
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Welcome to 2014
Hi, y’all! Welcome to the first scheduled update of 2014. It’s been a busy month, not only in book writing terms, but in many other things too! First, a progress report on the book. Writing has continued as fast as I can manage, and I’m proud to say that I broke the 80,000 mark today!…
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Rings Ahoy, Audio Books Ahoy!
Hi everyone. Hope you all had a great Christmas. Now we’re in that slow week where every TV channel is doing “best of 2013” programmes. The only thing to do is to tune in to the irregular broadcasts of the Encounters Channel, where the news is always exciting! Dice Rings The greatest news ever…