Category: The Veil: Cyberpunk Roleplaying: Discussion

Update #12: Books Printed and Heading Out for Fulfillment & Final Address Changes

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Originally shared by CyberPunk

Good news and bad news today, friends.

Good news is that the samples have arrived, they look fantastic and they’re already printed and shipped. Hallelujah, right? I am extremely happy with the colours, the binding – and just the overall quality of the final product is fantastic. It’s more than I hoped for and when compared to POD, it’s night and day. Especially for artwork.

Bad news: You may have seen the proof I posted a couple weeks back. I proofed it once again using that copy and that was the update we put out of The Veil on drivethru without a notification. It’s very small things. Things like two words are in bold in an example, a show isn’t in italics. There’s one spelling error, etc. These did not make it into the print run because of a communication breakdown.

Kyle sent them the updated files highlighting a few pages with substantial page changes. Instead they made ONLY these changes. Swapping out those pages and not just using the updated file with all the changes.

It’s really frustrating for us knowing the print copies aren’t reflecting absolutely everything. I think it won’t detract from the print copy, but it’s nevertheless really aggravating. The printer has admitted “some” fault in this and want to keep a working relationship with Kyle, so they are working to find a compromise but it’s out of the question that they will re print the entire run. So we will see what recompense they come up with.

In the end what matters is that the book really is lovely and of exceptional quality. It also has fewer mistakes than the print copy of Altered Carbon I’m currently reading too, so there’s also that. But it does gnaw at me still.

I was contacted today because the final files for The Veil didn’t have bookmarks for some reason, this should now be corrected!

DrivethruRPG files should now be the 1.0 versions! Bookmarks, hyperlinks, corrections, and 3 pieces of art missing from the very first uploaded files. Probably more things I’m forgetting. Thanks very much for anyone who contributed to the proofing!!

Lowres is about 6MB, highres is 58MB.

And just for fun, here’s some sketches.

If you’ve got The Veil on drivethru there’s an update out for it. There’s 3 more pieces of art, bookmarks, hyperlinks, a bunch of corrections made it in for both playbooks and the main text, and the pages aren’t continuous anymore!

Please keep proofing the document with us as we also go through it. People have definitely spotted some stuff my editor and myself missed, so it’s greatly appreciated.

Update #11: PDFs via DrivethruRPG are out! Help Proofing and G+ Communities

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samjokopublishing/the-veil-cyberpunk-rpg/posts/1752184