Well, I’ve posted over on our news page and in our forums, but I guess I should post it here, too. We’ve made the new site live. There are still a few kinks that need to be worked out - getting all the products into the storefront, migrating some threads from the old forums to the new, etc. But at this point, folks should be able to use the new site. If you run into any problems with it, please report it to us - we can’t fix it if people don’t let us know!
So, time to write here again after a few months of allowing Jeremy to write it all at the DevNotes. I finished Phrenic Scourges (which is in editing now) and when I left it, it was around 20 pages worth of material. Looking forward to seeing the new art by Rich (he did some great work for us earlier) and how it turns out.
I’ll be working on a final “High Psionics: Fleshcrafting & Symbiotes” release to tie in what I have written from before (they were meant to be two seperate releases before the news of 4E hit), and I will turn my material on Psicrystals Expanded 2 into a series of articles for our upcoming Inner Eye section on the new website. You’ll get Soulshards, the psicrystals used by soulknives (and a few psychic warriors with the mindblade feats) as well as a memorable monster who has merged with a psicrystal swarm and the accompanied template for other such creatures. You’ll also get a few specialty levels for some classes (the Hive Mind, a variant on the Society Mind that implants psicrystals into people and attach them into the Hive Network).
Now, the big project I am working on is called Unleashed Potential - Psionics for Mutants & Masterminds. We will be taking a long look at mortal, human psions, what it means to be psionic in a world of superheroes as well as the organisations that take up the fight against superpowered villains and masterminds, even though they are as fragile as any other human, their only resources being their psionic mind and ingenuity. It will also cover mortal character creatio rules for M&M, some new spiffy equipment, suggestions for inserting mortals into M&M campaigns as well as a mortal villainous organisation.
Graphics for The Mind Unveiled: Mind Blade Feats and Untapped Classes: Worldthought Adjuncts are in! Both of these have gone through a large amount of editing and proofreading already, as well as having initial layout completed, so I expect to have UC:WA released later this week, with TMU:MBF out next week.
In addition, the cover art for High Psionics Compilation: Volume 1 is in! I’ll be posting a preview of that this week, as well. Layout is still in the works for the compilation - with 100 pages and 8 distinct releases joined together, it takes a lot of nit-picking to make sure everything has consistent formating. I imagine this will likely be released early next week, although this week is a possibility. I may put this off slightly and only release to folks who have already purchased the separate releases, just to make sure they all get their copy 
Some other things going on behind the scenes - we’ll see how they pan out before I post anything.
In addition, I’ve posted our annual “State of Mind” for 2008. Feel free to go read it if you feel so inclined. I say annual, despite it being the first time we’ve done it. The plan is to do it every year.
2008 has officially arrived. Dreamscarred Press has successfully survived its first full calendar year as an independent publishing company. We’ve seen a lot of change in that year, released about twenty products, and have our sights firmly set on the future.
I want to reiterate to everybody that we are in the process of completely overhauling the site. Andreas has been working on this and the new site is now live, although we are still putting in all the important data - news items, products for purchase, forum information, etc. Once we’re comfortable everything is in order, we’ll start the official transition to the new site layout. The new site offers a lot of things that our current site doesn’t do - for example, we can now have a newsletter subscription, a photo gallery, easier online articles (for our Inner Eye series that should be coming shortly), a more robust storefront, private messages, more robust forums, an integrated Developer’s Blog, and much, much more. I am extremely excited about this transition and hope everyone finds the new site worth the wait!
2008 also brings a new series of supplements: Rajrin! That’s right - we’re going back to the Island of Dreams introduced in Untapped Potential: New Horizons in Psionics. We’re going to explore the only known city of Rajrin: Su’vah. We’re going to go on adventures into the wilds of Rajrin. And we’re going to learn about the varied residents of the island - especially those most to be feared!
In addition, early 2008 should mark the complete release of The Mind Unveiled serialized line of supplements, with the end of the first half of 2008 having the compiled version released!
This is only a small part of what we’ll be doing in 2008, so stay tuned, it should be an exciting year!
Well, I just finished putting the draft for Untapped Classes: Worldthought Adjuncts through a full round of proofreading. Overall, very little that needed to be modified - a couple typos, a couple things that need to be added in, a couple formatting items, and a few layout changes. Overall, a very good draft! I expect to have this one ready and through layout by the end of the week. The hold-up will be graphics, which are already started.
For those wondering, Untapped Classes: Worldthought Adjuncts will contain two classes: the Initiate of the Worldthought and the Isolated Mind. Both deal with a worldthought network, although in very different ways. Both classes are only 3 levels due to being very narrowly focused.
The Initiate of the Worldthought acts like a support structure for a society mind. He has the ability to increase the size of a worldthought network, take over a worldthought network if a society mind should fall, and eventually, even create his own mini-network.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, the Isolated Mind is an anti-society mind. He is devoted to finding, usurping, and destroying worldthought networks. Whether it is by ejecting members from the network, wresting control of the network from the society mind, or force his way into a network and destabilize it, the isolated mind is the opposite of a society mind.
While I haven’t done full layout on it yet, it looks like it will be between 15-18 pages, or around 20 pages finished, when the cover, title page, and OGL are included.
I really like these classes - although I’m probably biased since I created the initial concepts and part of the mechanics. Shane did a great job with this one and I look forward to seeing how well it is received once it is released in January.
The holidays are here and I’ve taken off a week from work. I’ll likely get a fair bit done on some of our projects during this time, which is nice.
I’ve put the Mind Unveiled: Mind Blade Feats through a full cycle of editing. Overall, only a few items need to be addressed which I’ve sent to Andreas for clarification. Graphics for it are also started and should be done in about a week, which means around the second week of January, it should be done. The Mind Unveiled: Morphean was released, although a typo slipped through proofreading, much to my chagrine. I’ll likely start on The Mind Unveiled: Halo Knight next.
The custom cover for High Psionics Compilation, Volume I is close to being done! I’m awaiting some feedback on the layout, then it’s a matter of cleaning up the tables, doing another check for typos, and putting everything together. I’m hoping this will be ready next week.
Untapped Classes: Worldthought Adjuncts is done from the writing stage and is entering the proofreading / editing stage. Graphics are also started and should be done in about a week. I’m really glad I took the opportunity to pass this project off to Shane. He did a fantastic job re-writing the class mechanics (or writing those I hadn’t finished yet), as well as doing the descriptive text and the stat blocks that I abhor. Clean-up on it shouldn’t take long, and this one should end up being around 15-20 pages, which will be one of our bigger Untapped Classes releases. And once it’s out, I’ll be compiling it, Soulbinder, and Society Mind into a Untapped Classes: Complete Society Mind. The cost for just Worldthought Adjuncts will likely be around $2.5, while the Complete will be around $3-4.
Progress has been coming along on Rajrin, as well. I’ve been detailing Su’vah, with Andreas giving excellent ideas, critique, and an entire series of plot hooks. This is probably going to be the biggest work I’ll be doing, since it involves actually writing instead of layout & editing. The nice thing is that it’s been coming pretty easily.
All things told, it should be a busy week or two.
Untapped Potential introduced us to the concept of an island from the Region of Dreams, Rajrin, which has unexpectedly appeared in the real world. Since that first book, little has been done to expand on this idea. Until now.
I am very happy to announce that Andreas and I are working hard on Rajrin material. The first release, Su’vah, Gateway to Dreams, will detail the only known city of Rajrin. Unlike normal cities, Su’vah is a series of levels built vertically using ferroplasm and deep crystal. The residents of Su’vah, creatures of the waking world who have journeyed to Rajrin, include those capable of manipulating the very fabric of Rajrin, as well as those who teach of godminds, and even those who have touched upon the creatures of dreams, the qael.
Rajrin itself, being from the Region of Dreams, is an ever-changing landscape where dreams and nightmares literally come to life. Why is Su’vah static, while the land around it shifts and alters? Discover the truth within Su’vah: Gateway to Dreams.
Included in Su’vah: Gateway to Dreams will be a host of adventure ideas incorporating material from Untapped Potential: New Horizons in Psionics, The Mind Divine, and The Mind Unveiled.
What exists within the unchartable areas of Rajrin? Explore for yourself and find out!
We expect to have Su’vah: Gateway to Dreams completed and released in February, 2008.
In addition, work is starting on a new adventure for use with Rajrin. The timeline for this project is still up in the air.
Well, unfortunately, I didn’t make as much progress as I’d have liked on The Mind Unveiled last week. Dreamscape was sent for a final round of proofreading. Once that is done, it should be ready for release. Morphean is getting some final tweaks and edits and then it should also be ready. I really look forward to getting this out there. The morphean class is really quite interesting and the supporting material dripping in flavor.
The last couple weeks were pretty good in getting releases out. Phrenic Creations: Special Materials and Races of the Mind: Half-Giant were both released. In addition, a second proof copy of The Mind Divine has been ordered, correcting some mistakes. If it looks good, then we’ll be ready to order the first set of those for all the pre-orders and to have a few extras on hand. I don’t know if I’ll get it this week, more likely next week, but hey, it’s a step in the right direction.
This week, I plan to focus on The Mind Unveiled’s first two releases - the free Dreamscape release and the 20+ page Morphean release. I’ve already incorporated much of the edits into the morphean and Dreamscape material and hope to have thos ready this week.
In addition, I’ve started putting in more time into High Psionics Compilation, Volume I. Mostly, this is layout, but tables also have to be updated to reflect the change in formatting, and any necessary errata need to be incorporated. I expect this to be ready this week or next week.
All-in-all, should be a good week!
So, a fair bit of progress has been made on some projects and at least one of them should be out this week - Races of the Mind: Half-Giant is pretty much done. Once I give it a final pass, it should be out today or tomorrow.
The Mind Unveiled, as mentioned previously, has been broken into smaller sections for publishing. The first two releases, The Dreamscape and The Morphean, should be out this week or next week, depending on how long it takes to implement changes from proofreading and finish layout. The Mind Unveiled: Dreamscape is likely going to be a free 5 page release giving the details of the Dreamscape concept. The Mind Unveiled: Morphean is larger - roughly 20 pages, and contains the new morphean base class, a new morphean PrC, the morphean power lists and new powers, new feats, items, and creatures.
In addition, High Psionics Compilation, Volume I has been making significant progress. All that it really needs is layout, but taking 8 distinctly different releases and compiling in a logical manner is harder than it might sound. I expect to have a proposed draft ready next week which I can send for some feedback and hopefully have the finished version ready the following week (around December 8th).
The Mind Divine print release suffered a minor set-back due to a mistake on my part. Thankfully, it’s a relatively minor change and I should have it corrected this week and sent to press for another proof. As long as that proof looks good, I’ll get it all ordered up!
Busy times!