You can find the Lantern here, on my patreon. It will be free for download until noon, Mountain Time, on July 22nd.
Thereafter, it will cost $7 USD, which may be managed either though contributing that amount to Patreon, or purchasing it here from Lulu. Lulu gets a cut if you do the latter, Patreon gets a cut if you do the former. Alternately, you can choose to give Paypal a cut, but I haven't used them in a while and I'll have to update my account.
As it states on Patreon, The Lantern is a monthly publication supporting fantasy role-play through the presentation of an early 17th-century game setting. Each issue offers firsthand narratives, regional reports and supernatural accounts written in the style of the time. In this debut edition: an adventure to the Old Priory near Cruwys Morchard, with humour and unnatural dangers. Presented for players and game-masters seeking historical texture and uncanny peril.
This publication is written, illustrated and assembled by me, in support of a larger goal: to offer players of fantasy role-playing games a rich, lived-in 17th-century setting, as an aid to worldbuilding. To that end, it conceptualises people, places, time period and relationships between the land and the events taking place in it.
I hope you enjoy it.
Hurry, before the halflings buy them all.
ReplyDeleteWhen it becomes available on Lulu, will it be available in both electronic and print form? Electronic is fine, but I vastly prefer something I can hold in my hand.
ReplyDeleteIt is available on Lulu now, the link in the third paragraph above takes you there. I can't provide it in print form, because it's in colour. In print form, with full colour, it would cost about $30+ to print (real colour is EXPENSIVE), and my fee would be on top of that, so it's not practical as a business model.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the PDF is perfectly laid out for print publishing, so if it's applied to a self-publishing model, you can print out your own copy very easily (it's surprisingly easy now to self-publish, compared to pre-covid, everything is streamlined). You have my permission to do so. I wouldn't expect anyone would make a lot of money (except the printer) if you tried to sell paper copies of the content.
Literally, to make the electronic version, I uploaded the PDF as you have it, without changes. Since I also personally laid out all my other books, I can assure you the PDF is print-ready. If you go to a real life printer, and tell them you want three both-sides "parent sheets", the PDF will provide that too. Because I've made the magazine 24 pages, divisible by eight, that makes four sheets on each side of a parent or "press" sheet; these can then be folded and cut to provide four "leaves" each, which is what a newspaper typically does. The leaves aren't then stapled, they're just folded inside each other, again like a newspaper. Provide a printer with the PDF, and they can calculate which pages from the PDF would appear on which press sheet for you.
I did this intentionally. I learned printing at a time when this was normal, when I was in university and working for the school paper.
I hope your emergency is over soon and everyone in the family ends up healthy.
ReplyDeleteThe Lulu link gives me a 404 not found page. When that's fixed I'll send it around to my nerdy friends. Some of them previously expressed that they really liked your work, such as the Jousting Piglet menu, but they only wanted to buy PDFs, not something physical. Hopefully this will be more up their alley.
Hey there . . . Like Max, when I get into Lulu, the link takes me to a "404 Page Not Found" message.
ReplyDeleteSorry. I click the link, I go to the page. But it has something to do with it being MY project. Can you please see if THIS takes you to the right page, I found it on the Lulu bookstore:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.lulu.com/shop/alexis-smolensk/the-lantern-august-1635/ebook/product-nv98em7.html?q=The+Lantern&page=1&pageSize=4
Yep, that link works.
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