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articleBody'> <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8pmX93rp5-IvJvnjG1qo3KI-IsdTupoz8LE37nFWKiVmNvsRwMc6kaq9EMf6Smo4trmlEmK-C8gJD7YMW-h_iFk2ctoIo-Bevce4z2KsMI0l93BKgjSzeT9m8av-SBP-3aTmHFOVQzZPI5Q1slZMtNZ7h3hVxCLpBvWSqlnt6mzgABCkjQ8ZQBj1O6fo/s3393/puppet3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3393" data-original-width="2993" height="431" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8pmX93rp5-IvJvnjG1qo3KI-IsdTupoz8LE37nFWKiVmNvsRwMc6kaq9EMf6Smo4trmlEmK-C8gJD7YMW-h_iFk2ctoIo-Bevce4z2KsMI0l93BKgjSzeT9m8av-SBP-3aTmHFOVQzZPI5Q1slZMtNZ7h3hVxCLpBvWSqlnt6mzgABCkjQ8ZQBj1O6fo/w380-h431/puppet3.png" width="380" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Two Problems</h2><p><br /></p><p>Although I haven’t exactly been quiet for the last few years—I’ve created a supplement about downtime and a launched a first season of a podcast on megadungeons—I have been stuck on releasing new issues of <em>Through Ultan’s Door</em>. I’ve been flummoxed by two things. </p><p>The first was that my Zyan material is a tightly integrated weird setting designed at each step to pull players deeper and deeper into exploration. This makes presenting material in an episodic fashion a nightmarish question of information design. The ideal solution to this problem would be to release single giant version of the setting in book format. Then you could get it all at once, and have everything you need to run an entire 5+ year campaign in Zyan. </p><p>But the issue is that I don’t have the time to do that. It would take even longer than it took for <a href="https://www.breakrpg.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">BREAK!!</a> to come out. Working in smaller chunks is how I make progress. The small scale of the zine format is a huge stimulus to my productivity. It gives me a timetable, forces me to think about how to present information, and gets me writing. Just as importantly, the zines also fund my purchase of art, editing, and layout. But I’ve faced a lot of decision paralysis, and flip-flopping, about what to tackle first and how to carve up the material. </p><p>The second issue is that fulfillment for the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/through-ultans-door/through-ultans-door" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Kickstarter for <em>Through Ultan’s Door</em> 3</a> burned me badly. It ate up a larger portion of my life than I can afford to give again. Since I’m not a full time game designer, my other commitments put uncomfortable limits on how much time I can afford to devote to my hobbies or (when money is involved) “side gigs” like rpg publications, even where these are labors of love that bring me joy. This didn’t stop me from running a Kickstarter for, and printing and fulfilling <em>Downtime in Zyan</em>. But that was an intentionally scaled back project: a single zine, possible to ship with minimal packing in a single rigid mailer. The thought of publishing and fulfilling multiple zines, along with reprints of past issues, has been paralyzing.</p><p>So I’ve been trying to figure out how to surmount these problems so that I can, at last, develop and share my Zyan material with you.</p><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Two Solutions</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Solution 1: Move to Patreon</h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I’ve considered two possibilities, neither ideal. I’m genuinely torn between them. If I moved to a Patreon format, this could motivate me to release things in bite-sized pieces in the same way that zines do. In fact, since less work would be required for each release, it might work a lot better than zines for this. I think I could release a nice chunk of Zyan material once a month. Since no physical printing is involved, it would allow me to set aside logistics until we arrive at the final printing of the actual project.</span></p><p>The model here would be <a href="https://www.patreon.com/wizardthieffighter" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Luka Rejec</a>’s <em>Ultraviolet Grasslands, </em>or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/InPlacesDeep" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Miranda Elkin</a>’s <em>Nightwick Abbey</em>. They both have used Patreon to good effect, supporting longterm, ambitious dream projects. The support here would be both financial and social in terms of building an enthusiastic base of supporters who helped to take the actual physical launches over the top. The modern social media landscape is very alienating and fragmented, and I do worry a lot about reaching people and drumming up support for my projects. While not solving all problems, Patreon would give me a leg up. </p><p>I could use Patreon money to commission editing, art, and layout for the posts I release as I go along. So people would get real value, and I would make real progress towards what I hope would be a jaw dropping final physical release. I could involve a graphic designer for layout, and some artists, on a more regular basis and just get working. As you’ll see below, I probably already have almost a year’s worth of material that I could get into shape to share in (say) bi-monthly posts starting as soon as next month. </p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Solution 2: Continue with Printed Zines in Batches</h3><p>One problem with Patreon is that people have connected with <em>Through Ultan’s Door </em>as a physical object. I’ve worked really hard to fuse the physical quality of the zines and the luxurious imaginative content into a single unique package. What buzz they have created has, I think it would be fair to say, been in no small part because of their quality as embodied artifacts. My suspicion is that there are a not insignificant number of people who would buy physical zines, but who would be disappointed by the digital format of a Patreon. I would potentially lose momentum by moving into a purely digital format on an entirely new platform. Although it involves a lot more work, and the zines cost so much more to print than other people’s zines, I still suspect I could better financially support the project, and build buzz, by just getting on with printing more zines. </p><p>If I stay the course with physical zines, to overcome the first problem, I will need to release them in batches. Where a zine needs more context to actually use, the idea would be to release multiple zines to provide that context, to the extent possible. My standard in general will be to give people enough to actually begin playing the new material. It won’t ever be perfect, since anything published will always point towards further unpublished material. But it will be enough so that each new release can be profitably used. </p><p>As for the problem with logistics, I will need to run Kickstarters, so as to know how many physical copies I should print and to raise the money for printing. I will also need to partner with a warehouse that can do Kickstarter fulfillment for me. This would free me from the most agonizing and unmanageable portion of the process: packaging and shipping the zines. </p><p>At one point Matt from Exalted Funeral offered their warehouse for this purpose, as has Andy Action, so I’m hopeful that one of those two might provide a solution. I’ll still be printing the zines locally, so I’ll also have to figure out how to package them securely and ship them by freight to the warehouse in question. They also have a lot of separate parts, including encounter cards and so on, so I’m a bit nervous about having a warehouse do it, as it would be an ungodly number of pulls for each order, unless I did some pre-packing. I’ve never worked on these kinds of logistical difficulties before! But it will be well worth it if I can outsource fulfillment. In truth, there’s no other way I can move forward with the project if it remains in physical form. </p><p>Given that physical zines are a formula that I know works for me if I could just solve the logistics problem, I lean in this direction, although the Patreon option is veeerrrrryy tempting. </p><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">The State of the Zine</h2><p>There is so much in development, it’s almost comical. </p><h4><br /></h4><h3 style="text-align: left;">Republishing Downtime in Zyan</h3><p>Since <em>Downtime in Zyan </em>is out of print, I have plans to republish it, hopefully by the end of July. I should be able to put it back up for <a href="https://throughultansdoor.bigcartel.com/products" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">sale in my store</a> by late August. So that’s good news!</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">New Issues of Through Ultan’s Door</h3><p>Temptations to switch to a Patreon model aside, I have been working productively on the zines this summer. I’ve gotten to a point where I’m inching up on four or five zines worth of content. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s in the hopper.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><em>Through Ultan’s Door 4</em></h4><p>This issue of Through Ultan’s Door takes you to the threshold of the White Jungle, presenting the hanging merchants, a launching pad for exploration of the White Jungle that lies just beyond the harbor that ends issue 3. It’s a jostling set up, full of Vancian shenanigans, with writeups of four backbiting merchants from the city of Zyan, and a few other notable NPCs, their wares, rumors for adventure in the White Jungle, possible otherworldly patrons who might sponsor jungle exploration, and more. It also shows how I would use the downtime system presented in <em>Downtime in Zyan</em> to build what I call a “basecamp”, a way station or home away from home, where one can engage in downtime activities on a smaller scale. It also shows one way to integrate that system with a table of campaign events and rising threats that keep the pressure cooking, while bringing a medley of strange visitors to the merchants, along with many opportunities for downtime and adventure. In some ways, although the issue is constrained to a single location, it’s also the most ambitious of Zyan materials I’ve penned to date.</p><p>The rough draft of this issue is 90% done. So it’s pretty close!</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><em><br /></em></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><em>Through Ultan’s Door 5</em></h4><p>This issue presents rules for exploring the dreamlike environment of <a href="https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2017/04/zyan-below_23.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">the White Jungle</a> that hangs from the bottom of the flying island on which Zyan sits. The White Jungle consists of four stacked hex maps that allow movement in 8 directions (the normal 6 hex faces plus up and down between maps) in a giant wilderness exploration hexcrawl where falling is a constant danger. This issue also presents the first level of the white jungle, the Brambles, a nighted level filled with hanging mossy isles, bramble thickets with wilted albino roses, and many strange locales. This issue includes a massive d100 encounter table for this level of the jungle, a hex map, and a hex key with entries for each of 51 numbered hexes for this level. </p><p>The rough draft of this issue is 50% done. Right now I’m working on expanding encounter tables and further developing the hex key, one bloody hex or encounter entry at a time. It’s grueling, but I’m making progress! (This is what I’m currently working on.) </p><p><em><br /></em></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><em>Through Ultan’s Door 6</em></h4><p>This issue presents three adventure locations from The Brambles in greater detail: The Cenotaph of Shirishanu, The Tower of the Golden Spore, and The Cages of the Empty Witch. Think of them as three 1- or 2-shot location-based adventures that can be found on the hexmap from issue 5. They integrate deeply with factions from the level, intimate significant lore for the setting, and give characters a crack at getting some wild magical objects with campaign altering significance. Having run each of them now several times, in several different dreamlands campaign, I think they’re a lot of fun. </p><p>The rough draft of this issue is 80% done. The work that remains here is much less grindy than on Issue 5, since it mainly involves polishing, expanding, and perfecting already existing material. </p><p><em><br /></em></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><em>Through Ultan’s Door 7</em></h4><p>This issue presents the second level of White Jungle: The Depths. The Depths are the beating heart of this vertical jungle. They present a fever dream of rich beautiful and dangerous flora and roaring fauna. It also hosts some of the farthest out hex locations imaginable, including Lake Yannu that hangs like a teardrop in the jungle; a holy dungeon in the body of a giant snake; and the wreck of a ship that once traveled the Oeneiric Seas and is now leaking the Id of its former crew into a corrupted portion of the jungle. This issue also introduces some otherworldly factions that have only been hinted at in earlier issues, like the Phantamorians, beings from the dreamlands of the dreamlands, and the spirits of the air, demons of the Endless Azure Sea. </p><p>The rough draft of this issue is 50% done. This is the level that has seen the most play in my campaigns, so it needs less grindy filling in than issue 5, as more hexes and encounters already exist. But I also haven’t polished it at all yet, so there’s a lot of work to be done here. </p><h4><br /></h4><h3 style="text-align: left;">Pale Echoes</h3><p>Finally, when I published <em>Through Ultan’s Door 3</em>, I promised to pull together a new line of zines called <em>Pale Echoes </em>that would explore different campaign premises, set in different versions of the waking world. </p><p><em><br /></em></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><em>Pale Echoes 1</em></h4><p><em>Pale Echoes</em> 1 presents an alternate campaign frame, called “Elspeth’s Letter”, where the players travel to the dreamlands through the memories of a dead adventurer, the titular Elspeth. The party inherits her estate along with a host of problems. I have been play-testing this campaign frame with a full campaign for the last 3 years, and it is working just splendidly. This issue showcases a tight integration of local setting in dreary waking world, downtime actions, campaign events, and a campaign calendar, where most of the tension comes not so much from the waking world as from Elspeth’s past itself. It’s a premise designed to work less with an open table and more with a dedicated stable party of 4-6 characters.</p><p>This is 75% done. I’m still trying to crack the best version of campaign events, which are a devil to design with enough detail to be interesting, while also being flexible enough to support half a decade of play. I’m getting there, but there’s still some distance to cover. </p><p><em><br /></em></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><em>Pale Echoes 2</em></h4><p><em>Pale Echoes 2 </em>presents in much greater detail the campaign frame that I originally employed, called “Ultan’s Door”, where the adventurer’s travel to the dreamlands through a door that has recently opened. In this issue I present the waking world setting of which <em>Through Ultan’s Door 1 </em>provides only the slightest glimpse. In this issue, expect writeups of the fickle <a href="https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-chatelaine-of-storms.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Chatelaine of Storms</a>, her seven colorful wizard <a href="https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-chatelaines-apprentices.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">apprentices</a>, the state sanctioned religion of sleep and dreams, and the <a href="https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-festival-of-sybarites.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">quaint customs</a> of this ancient city. This setting is dominated by the fact that this is not the <em>first </em>such door to open, and that the last time it opened it brought the Chatelaine and prevailing religious order to power. This premise can be run either with a dedicated stable party, or with an open table. Most of the pressure comes from the fact that the campaign begins with a very unstable situation that threatens the involvement of many possible rival adventuring parties, and eventually the Chatelaine herself. The integration of downtime actions and campaign events is tied to the pressures that arise from this unstable starting situation.</p><p>This is 20% done, so quite unfinished. While I look forward to working on this, it’s definitely been on the backburner. </p><h4><br /></h4><h2 style="text-align: left;">Thoughts?</h2><p>So that’s my exhaustive update on everything in development. I would love to hear your thoughts on this situation. While I don’t make decisions by consulting polls, I do value your opinions. What are you most excited about seeing published form? How do you feel about Patreon vs. physical zines? If you are a publisher how have you navigated fulfillment headaches?</p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-future-of-through-ultans-door.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-future-of-through-ultans-door.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2024-07-10T05:02:00-07:00'>5:02 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-future-of-through-ultans-door.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 15 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=534355321182291032&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Downtime%20in%20Zyan' rel='tag'>Downtime in Zyan</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Pale%20Echoes' rel='tag'>Pale Echoes</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, July 19, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4loTft_Xr-p-ga4hsPzaKtEGe2Y8yq9P6NOrU0fqa7LgNgvIvQaEutIA4qHXEnsVP-infZWSYqKWIZ16VH15pOWYfb1mbyNolKxEsU4JIWazsTiVi-rNfi7oLRESrvZGnwJRqhThXWo/w454-h384/Screen+Shot+2021-07-19+at+9.56.13+AM.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='5638354521529275990' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='5638354521529275990'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/07/through-ultans-door-returns-to-print.html'>Through Ultan's Door Returns to Print</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-5638354521529275990' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4loTft_Xr-p-ga4hsPzaKtEGe2Y8yq9P6NOrU0fqa7LgNgvIvQaEutIA4qHXEnsVP-infZWSYqKWIZ16VH15pOWYfb1mbyNolKxEsU4JIWazsTiVi-rNfi7oLRESrvZGnwJRqhThXWo/s1236/Screen+Shot+2021-07-19+at+9.56.13+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1236" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4loTft_Xr-p-ga4hsPzaKtEGe2Y8yq9P6NOrU0fqa7LgNgvIvQaEutIA4qHXEnsVP-infZWSYqKWIZ16VH15pOWYfb1mbyNolKxEsU4JIWazsTiVi-rNfi7oLRESrvZGnwJRqhThXWo/w454-h384/Screen+Shot+2021-07-19+at+9.56.13+AM.png" width="454" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>At long last, <i>Through Ultan's Door </i>is back in print. All issues (1-3) and <i>Beneath the Moss Courts </i>are available in Print + PDF on my Big Cartel store. <a href="https://throughultansdoor.bigcartel.com/">Get them here. </a>What's more, for a limited time you can buy this glorious 24x18 inch poster from Huargo of the White Jungle that hangs from the bottom of Zyan. It is an appropriately lurid fever dream of a poster, which takes inspiration from Jimmy Cauty's justly famous <i>Lord of the Rings Poster</i>:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLhFYL6qKZmiuGPK0kLEfAHOH4-kfi-sSdhk_gY19-_qiksLgcHSyfsSfNSsaSj9gYNw-B1ZP14QfckEOxs8iyaxnOdU6UbYsCcA4HaJZJrz5D51B8tk8iE74IRJsQvU2u223ZdSnntE/s1302/Screen+Shot+2021-07-17+at+4.10.28+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1302" data-original-width="982" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLhFYL6qKZmiuGPK0kLEfAHOH4-kfi-sSdhk_gY19-_qiksLgcHSyfsSfNSsaSj9gYNw-B1ZP14QfckEOxs8iyaxnOdU6UbYsCcA4HaJZJrz5D51B8tk8iE74IRJsQvU2u223ZdSnntE/w335-h446/Screen+Shot+2021-07-17+at+4.10.28+PM.png" width="335" /></a></div><br /><p>You can also find PDFs of <i>Through Ultan's Door </i>and <i>Beneath the Moss Courts </i>at both <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/13761/Through-Ultan039s-Door">DriveThruRPG</a> and <a href="https://ben-laurence.itch.io/">itch.io. </a></p><p>I will mail zines and posters as I am able. Since I now have a thermal printer and no longer have to stand in line at the post office, it's much easier for me to fulfill orders. So I hope they will ship within 48 hours. </p><p>I also fulfilled my last rewards for the Kickstarter this morning. So it seems like I've come out the other end without having bungled things, although there were a flurry of snafus this morning! </p><p>As always, if you want to join the mailing list for the zine, just drop a note to throughultansdoor AT gmail DOT com. </p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/07/through-ultans-door-returns-to-print.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/07/through-ultans-door-returns-to-print.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2021-07-19T08:06:00-07:00'>8:06 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/07/through-ultans-door-returns-to-print.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 8 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=5638354521529275990&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, February 5, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu30bChn-l8aVj9dXoYHJYuyUy9Pdm6p7Jlb5QAheyZGAXtjXUZ2QdcZCmN6lX1Ma03Cq_rkZoB4BwEUiijaYEVT7x4r1DcRjioB061jBjrTOG34w7vi5_zzuy_3LsnrJa0KUToHRB4iU/w380-h400/Untitled.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='7715087830355130281' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='7715087830355130281'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-abandoned-sweet-works-and-pale.html'>The Abandoned Sweet Works and Pale Echoes</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-7715087830355130281' itemprop='description articleBody'> <br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu30bChn-l8aVj9dXoYHJYuyUy9Pdm6p7Jlb5QAheyZGAXtjXUZ2QdcZCmN6lX1Ma03Cq_rkZoB4BwEUiijaYEVT7x4r1DcRjioB061jBjrTOG34w7vi5_zzuy_3LsnrJa0KUToHRB4iU/s1206/Untitled.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="1147" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu30bChn-l8aVj9dXoYHJYuyUy9Pdm6p7Jlb5QAheyZGAXtjXUZ2QdcZCmN6lX1Ma03Cq_rkZoB4BwEUiijaYEVT7x4r1DcRjioB061jBjrTOG34w7vi5_zzuy_3LsnrJa0KUToHRB4iU/w380-h400/Untitled.png" width="380" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Check out this amazing new piece of art by Dharia Khlebnikova that just came in!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Well, <a href="http://kck.st/3r79QRI">the Kickstarter for </a><i><a href="http://kck.st/3r79QRI">Through Ultan's Door 3</a> </i>is off to a strong start. While <i>of course</i> I owe the greatest debt of gratitude to people who purchased the early issues and expressed the enthusiasm in the past that's kept me going, one of the things that makes me the happiest is that about half of all pledges are from people who are picking up the back issues as well, i.e. people who have never experienced (at least the print versions of) <i>Through Ultan's Door</i>. We have blown through a huge number of stretch goals. I wanted to tell you a little bit about what's to come. So far we've unlocked three sets of stretch goals that I'm super-excited about. <p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">#1 Expanded Maladies and Afflictions</h3><p><i>Through Ultan's Door 3 </i>presents a rules-light system for maladies and afflictions that includes ways of tracking the progress of a malady and its mechanical and narratival effects. In the zine I present six exquisite maladies and afflictions of Zyan, from furniture pox to shadow blight. The first set of stretch goals will produce an illustrated, folded pamphlet (also PDF) with the full <i>Through Ultan's Door </i>house dressing and printed on French Paper Co. paper. It doubles the number of afflictions covered in the zine from 6 to 12. Although this is subject to change if more ideas occur to me, right now the additional afflictions include: onoma ague, penury blindness, spin worms, ruinous anomie, tempest catalepsy, and speculo obsession. The good news is that I already have this 2/3 written since some of these were cut from the original zine for reasons of space. </p><h3><br /></h3><h3>#2 Increasing the Pay of Artists and Graphic Designers</h3><div><br /></div><div>For the second set of stretch, I am increasing the pay of all seven artists and the graphic designer for this project. </div><h3><br /></h3><h3>#3 The Abandoned Sweet Works</h3><p>I expect that this will be the stretch goal people backers are most excited about. <i>Through Ultan's Door 3 </i>presents a sewer crawl that connections the dungeons of issues 1 and 2 with 7 other locations. For the third set of stretch goals, which just funded, I am collaborating with Gus to create an 8th sewer location in the form of a one-page dungeon. He will do the cartography and layout, and collaborate on the keying of this location, which we dreamed up together. It will be printed on French Paper Co. paper and included in all print copy pledge levels (also as a PDF). I want to share the capsule write-up of the location, which I jsut finished:</p><p><i>In Zyan, confectionery jostles poetry and opera for the title of highest art. From the tumblers and molds, the sugar torches and glazing racks of the candy works, pour traditional favorites, from elegant drop candies in flavors of horeshound or lilac brandy, to candied orchis, or the jellied meats in Zyanese delights, and rosewindows of stained sugar glass. The Sweet Works was an underground workshop that once poured its sugared waste into the sewer river. Its sunken garden provided the narcotic white honey for their once famous cough drops. Long abandoned, the garden has grown wild among the ruined works, drawing to it honey ghuls from Zyan, where gangs deal white honey to addicts. Having lost the manners and customs of humanity, the honey ghuls are now jealous slaves to the hive. </i></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Possible #4 Elspeth's Letter and <i>Pale Echoes</i></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But the truth is that I'm just as excited about what comes next--if we manage to unlock the next set of stretch goals. The next set presents an alternate frame for a mini-series or campaign set in Wishery. Instead of traveling through Ultan's door, the party receives an inheritance from a former dreamer that includes the recipe for potions of penumbral transmigration. These potions allow them to use the memories of the dead dreamer to fashion priaducts that take them through the Oneiric Sea to different locations in Wishery. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If this set of stretch goals are unlocked, this will be only the beginning. For the last stretch goal (at present, more may be added) involves a commitment to work on a new, episodically released, zine called <i>Pale Echoes. </i>It takes its name from the term that the Zyanese use for the drab waking world, which they call derisively "Pale Echo". </div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Pale Echoes </i>will be a zine taking you the other way through Ultan's door to explore different campaign frames and premises for the waking world of your game. In addition to numerous different "campaign starters" and house rules that will connect Pale Echo with Wishery, I hope in its pages to present the waking world from own home campaign, i.e. the city-state of Rastingdrung, where Ultan's door first appeared in my own campaign. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To be clear, even if we hit this stretch goal, this zine will not be included in the Kickstarter. This is rather a long-term commitment I will make, on the basis of the interest expressed in the Kickstarter, to launch this zine in the future.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So if you're thinking about jumping on board the Kickstarter, now is a good time! <a href="http://kck.st/3r79QRI">You can find it here. </a> Feel free to share it with those you think might find it interesting. If we continue blowing through these stretch goals, who knows what else might lie beyond the veil of sleep!</div><br /> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-abandoned-sweet-works-and-pale.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-abandoned-sweet-works-and-pale.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2021-02-05T09:53:00-08:00'>9:53 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-abandoned-sweet-works-and-pale.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 4 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=7715087830355130281&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door%203' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door 3</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/ZineQuest%203' rel='tag'>ZineQuest 3</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zines' rel='tag'>Zines</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Saturday, January 23, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRsI-PoYx2CfKCjtA8qLsagFcs-yAKX8s1k8c_4o7OaBZqtblHhSl_ItZ_nY0OFvqyEe_pa6q71ZdmSdHGxsM5MRmNQEl5T8ijuXMz4nKQ5BJ9dj8Fi7MxNADOJB63Ji6nUbjUKxUvF4/w309-h400/Pointcrawl+Map.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='6656023040835096501' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='6656023040835096501'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/cartography.html'>Cartography! </a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-6656023040835096501' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> This post is about the MAPS of <i>Through Ultan's Door.</i> It's a glimpse into some of the wonderful cartography in this upcoming trio of zines. It also tells you a little something about how I collaborate when things are going well.</p><p>The zine uses detachable covers with maps printed on the interior of sturdy cardstock covers that can stand up like little screens. Gus L has done all the cartography for the zine from the very beginning. His maps grace the interior cover of <i>Through Ultan's Door 1 & 2. </i>For issue 3, I sent Gus a pointcrawl map of the sewer river that just had a series of circles with words in them connected by a single line, along a capsule summary of each point. It was like a child's scrawl. Check out  this psychedelic, three-dimensional map, Gus came back with, which will be reproduced on the interior of the cover of <i>Through Ultan's Door 3 Part I</i>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRsI-PoYx2CfKCjtA8qLsagFcs-yAKX8s1k8c_4o7OaBZqtblHhSl_ItZ_nY0OFvqyEe_pa6q71ZdmSdHGxsM5MRmNQEl5T8ijuXMz4nKQ5BJ9dj8Fi7MxNADOJB63Ji6nUbjUKxUvF4/s1584/Pointcrawl+Map.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1584" data-original-width="1224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRsI-PoYx2CfKCjtA8qLsagFcs-yAKX8s1k8c_4o7OaBZqtblHhSl_ItZ_nY0OFvqyEe_pa6q71ZdmSdHGxsM5MRmNQEl5T8ijuXMz4nKQ5BJ9dj8Fi7MxNADOJB63Ji6nUbjUKxUvF4/w309-h400/Pointcrawl+Map.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><p>One thing Gus said when he sent the map is: "You're obviously going to need to write the harbor up as a bigger site." To which I replied, "Yes, I will."  Truth be told, in fact, it's in part by staring at this map and thinking how my text could live up to this cartography that we ended up having a double issue for <i>Through Ultan's Door 3</i>. I thought, "I have to do this map justice."</p><p>My collaboration with artists works that way too. Once I have a working relationship and trust with an artist, I say, "Here's the text I'm hoping you'll illustrate. Here are some visual references. But actually what I'm most interested in is how YOU will imagine it. I'll rewrite the text to match what you draw." Zyan, in its published form, is an aesthetic collaboration. </p><p>Next, take a look at Gus' delicious cartography for the wreck of the Verdant Purveyor, the base of operation for the Regulators of the Black Hand, dread sewer pirates led by Free Hand Hesock. It is reproduced on the interior of the cover of Gus' companion module <i>Beneath the Moss Courts</i>. He dreamed up the Verdant Purveyor and wrote the accompanying text, so this is all his vision. (Note: the area numbers haven't been added yet on this version of the map.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjblhW_j_tb6Br4YDhZNDjrwtXeF03lUh8WOkuZRCHvueUYRYH0auIMg4bzQPQCbHPCZElqZOk49JaWzsSckxxwDBLvM0k65wsT24vcgR94s5UQMR32_tEDYkUcPQxlPjRPRaNjP8bhYCQ/s1584/Verdant+Purveyor+Map.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1584" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjblhW_j_tb6Br4YDhZNDjrwtXeF03lUh8WOkuZRCHvueUYRYH0auIMg4bzQPQCbHPCZElqZOk49JaWzsSckxxwDBLvM0k65wsT24vcgR94s5UQMR32_tEDYkUcPQxlPjRPRaNjP8bhYCQ/w400-h309/Verdant+Purveyor+Map.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>This map has none of the slickness of contemporary digital maps. It is not a battle map. Rather, it's intended as an aid to be used at the table (physical or virtual) in describing the rooms for play in the theater of mind. Look at how lovely the exploded design is, with each deck and their inter-relations so clearly illustrated, and so much visual information about the contents right on the map. </p><p>What is most striking though about Gus' maps is the way they bring alive and vividly evoke the sense of place. Note those decorative, weird, elegant sewer reeds reaching upwards, and the shattered, water-filled lower deck, or the weird repurposed rooms, like the one with a pentagram on the floor.  I have always thought that even without the keys, you could design great adventures just by staring at Gus' maps and letting your imagination roam guided by sense of place his maps conjure. </p><p>You can <a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/through-ultans-door-does-zinequest-3.html">learn more here</a> about what, besides these maps, will appear in double-issue 3 and Beneath the Moss Courts. A pre-launch page for <i>Through Ultan's Door 3 </i>is now up on Kickstarter. If you are interested in following along with the Kickstarter and getting an announcement when it launches on Monday February 2nd, please click on this link: </p><p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/through-ultans-door/through-ultans-door">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/through-ultans-door/through-ultans-door</a></p><p>In closing, here is the cover of <i>Beneath the Moss Courts</i>. This illustration of the wreck of the Verdant Purveyor is by Huargo. Obviously. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2f51ZKp9GQfPKbwXGNdOfJrAoX76DCfIglKFjP2AfLkkWxT6K3A6qOT40VkD0PgbxdIsJ8bsW0ZF4Joc3bVb-PVT86KaUemQ2XAHVa-CS_2X9PfTWqOMVHnGXUKlhIm6EL8aTvQXbX2c/s1219/BtMC+cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1219" data-original-width="790" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2f51ZKp9GQfPKbwXGNdOfJrAoX76DCfIglKFjP2AfLkkWxT6K3A6qOT40VkD0PgbxdIsJ8bsW0ZF4Joc3bVb-PVT86KaUemQ2XAHVa-CS_2X9PfTWqOMVHnGXUKlhIm6EL8aTvQXbX2c/w259-h400/BtMC+cover.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/cartography.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/cartography.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2021-01-23T15:33:00-08:00'>3:33 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/cartography.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 4 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=6656023040835096501&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Beneath%20the%20Moss%20Courts' rel='tag'>Beneath the Moss Courts</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Cartography' rel='tag'>Cartography</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door%203' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door 3</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zyan' rel='tag'>Zyan</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zyan%20Between' rel='tag'>Zyan Between</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, January 13, 2021</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84K9G3GIpmkhLnz8yUtqX_5vh__P6UvgJw1_Tws6VopUVMTLZHsBECy_i97RIC_5nG3mDeItYxtAkdNO1_rG_xr2oZ0HJy7fqR8EVQlwvs_6sWfBYZV_pI6-KWxu0rEJJrMDTQN62tq4/w400-h225/Ultan%2527s+Door+KS+header.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='1736815679954102265' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='1736815679954102265'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/through-ultans-door-does-zinequest-3.html'>Through Ultan's Door Does ZineQuest 3!</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-1736815679954102265' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84K9G3GIpmkhLnz8yUtqX_5vh__P6UvgJw1_Tws6VopUVMTLZHsBECy_i97RIC_5nG3mDeItYxtAkdNO1_rG_xr2oZ0HJy7fqR8EVQlwvs_6sWfBYZV_pI6-KWxu0rEJJrMDTQN62tq4/s1024/Ultan%2527s+Door+KS+header.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84K9G3GIpmkhLnz8yUtqX_5vh__P6UvgJw1_Tws6VopUVMTLZHsBECy_i97RIC_5nG3mDeItYxtAkdNO1_rG_xr2oZ0HJy7fqR8EVQlwvs_6sWfBYZV_pI6-KWxu0rEJJrMDTQN62tq4/w400-h225/Ultan%2527s+Door+KS+header.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I will be launching <i>Through Ultan's Door </i>Issue 3 on Kickstarter for ZineQuest 3. </p><p>I know this has been a long time coming. This new issue is more ambitious than the previous issues. I hope it's worth the wait. <i>Through Ultan's Door 3 </i>presents a pointcrawl along the Great Sewer River that winds its way beneath Zyan, flying city of the dreamlands. The pointcrawl connects the dungeons from issues 1 & 2 with 7 other locations. </p><p>It introduces an entire settlement, the Sanitarium of the Benefactors, and numerous factions including the the sewer wyrm Cephaia, Prophetess of the Muddled Waters; her rival the Cranemay, melancholy fey witch; the Regulators of the Black Hand, dread sewer pirates; the Sons and Daughters of the Vigilant Watchers, ancient sewer mercenaries; and, best of all, the Lurid Toads, ominously polite cannibalistic parasites. It has a big sewer encounter table that brings the otherworldly sewer-of-the-dreamlands vibe hard. It even has rules for playing an opium dreaming wizard. </p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6iFfZGs5tOKnCwb-2anWP2agTCiNimVLxGDNJHdhQSt-nF_gLi_ezIekdg-WkYPpwDETkKZG18ccIHsXna-Rb1i2PFrOC7ShtZcd8NU3iaFOLZ_12q9PiCHa8RvrGfqxP1UsnN4XuHM/s2048/Through+Ultan%2527s+Door+3+.+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1319" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6iFfZGs5tOKnCwb-2anWP2agTCiNimVLxGDNJHdhQSt-nF_gLi_ezIekdg-WkYPpwDETkKZG18ccIHsXna-Rb1i2PFrOC7ShtZcd8NU3iaFOLZ_12q9PiCHa8RvrGfqxP1UsnN4XuHM/w258-h400/Through+Ultan%2527s+Door+3+.+2.png" width="258" /></a></div><br /></div><div><i>Through Ultan's Door 3 </i>was just too much Zyan to contain in one zine. So it's a double issue, with a <i>Part I </i>and a <i>Part II</i>. Each of these parts is its own 28 page zine, with a detachable cover with a map printed on its interior like an old school module, and a separate encounter card, so you can have the map, key, and encounters all open simultaneously at the table without any extra printing when you run. </div><div><br /></div><div>This extra room has also allowed me to commission more exquisite art for the zine than ever before. <i>Through Ultan's Door 1</i> had two artists, Huargo and Gus. <i>Through Ultan's Door 2</i>, had five artists, Russ Nicholson, Huargo, Gus, Jeremy Duncan, and Orphicss. <i>Through Ultan's Door 3 </i>has no less than seven artists (!) who are creating the best art the zine has ever had. I'll introduce them in another post, but suffice it to say that Nicholson, Huargo, Gus, and Orphicss are back along with 3 amazing artists new to the zine. </div><div><br /></div><div>As if all this weren't enough, Gus has written an entire companion adventure to <i>Through Ultan's Door 3, </i>titled <i>Beneath the Moss Courts</i>. It picks up one of the hidden locations from the sewer point crawl, the wreck of the Verdant Purveyor, the base of operations for the Regulators of the Black Circle, dread sewer pirates, and expands it into an entire siege adventures that also reaches up into the law offices of Zyan Above. It contains the first published glimpse of the city that sits atop the dungeons and sewers of issues 1-3. This adventure is also being printed as a 40 page zine, with its own detachable cover, encounter card, and a second map insert with notes on running a siege adventure. So that's three separate zines with a total of 96 pages of the dreamlands. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLJQT1IPOiXV-8pCLNcb_uNx5IOJWvFdE4NcwKNapJ5Cy9AyCpd-C9NeZOCOrUfG6q0XaotefbUgMs_mgLJGeONi7nvdWCRWXa17dqGvV4pTTqhDwxMvAG3kGATLVtqIVMXyI3RUI1Ts/s516/Issue+3+1+cover.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="330" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLJQT1IPOiXV-8pCLNcb_uNx5IOJWvFdE4NcwKNapJ5Cy9AyCpd-C9NeZOCOrUfG6q0XaotefbUgMs_mgLJGeONi7nvdWCRWXa17dqGvV4pTTqhDwxMvAG3kGATLVtqIVMXyI3RUI1Ts/w256-h400/Issue+3+1+cover.png" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I will also be reprinting <i>Through Ultan's Door</i> 1 & 2 for the Kickstarter. So if you missed physical copies the first time around you'll have the chance to get them. Together, the first three issues are enough to launch your own campaign in the dreamlands and sustain maybe the first 30 sessions of lucid dreaming sandbox play.</div><div><br /></div><div>The good news is that layout on <i>Through Ultan's Door 3 </i>& <i>Beneath the Moss Courts </i>is done. All the remaining art pieces have been commissioned, and all should be in hand by the end of February. What the Kickstarter will allow me to do is scale up the printing, so that I can print large quantities of all three issues of the zine, including the first two back issues, and Gus' companion adventure. I'm also going to pay to have the local printer I work with assemble the zines this time around. </div><div><br /></div><div>Don't worry about the physical quality of the zine. I'll still be using my fancy French Paper Co. paper, a full pallet of which arrive not long ago. The printing technique and quality of the images will be the same as previous issues. The only difference will be that they are folded, stapled, and trimmed by professionals with the proper tools to do it at scale. In other words, each issue will just contain a little bit less of my sweat and tears. I don't think they make the zine taste any sweeter.    </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkAxi5gtve6_oEPJ8LqtESD5_sWpMFeJcbH5wtKTBfFGilxKecQYyxYr_x1Smfdl8mJkBPsqK7X1SPjbBoLlW3T7vzDlHQrl8_RQiCJvHFdGC9alh2vWcwLMXZ-egr3PYjSfMitiv6pNM/s2048/IMG_5727.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkAxi5gtve6_oEPJ8LqtESD5_sWpMFeJcbH5wtKTBfFGilxKecQYyxYr_x1Smfdl8mJkBPsqK7X1SPjbBoLlW3T7vzDlHQrl8_RQiCJvHFdGC9alh2vWcwLMXZ-egr3PYjSfMitiv6pNM/w400-h300/IMG_5727.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In case you are wondering, this is what a pallet of paper looks like</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>I will be shipping the zines worldwide, bagged, and in cardboard boxes as USPS first class packages, hopefully with tracking. (Given the zine specs I can't use media mail, or mail them as letters, or even flats.) Shipping prices being what they are at the moment, shipping won't be cheap, which I hate. I also understand there may be some of you who would like to buy the zine but are unable to do so on Kickstarter. Don't fret. Right after I ship out the zines to backers, I will put it on sale on my normal big cartel webstore, and upload the PDFs to DriveThruRPG and itch.io. </div><div><br /></div><div>So anyway, look for a Through Ultan's Door Kickstarter on ZineQuest 3 in the first week of February! Although I will admit to having had a couple of stress dreams about running my first Kickstarter, I'm getting excited.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/through-ultans-door-does-zinequest-3.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/through-ultans-door-does-zinequest-3.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2021-01-13T07:04:00-08:00'>7:04 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/01/through-ultans-door-does-zinequest-3.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 12 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=1736815679954102265&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Beneath%20the%20Moss%20Courts' rel='tag'>Beneath the Moss Courts</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door%203' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door 3</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/ZineQuest' rel='tag'>ZineQuest</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/ZineQuest%203' rel='tag'>ZineQuest 3</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zines' rel='tag'>Zines</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, May 18, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiwZIjRtYyPi36xttHqwQ09ypcBcyOjByaOmgrDImr1WJeF1ECZH5fCj5wSJNDBPvw2-WVMH5idRRJeSLtZMoDOInAx056hZ8q50pMqjPCG-oSe8iMZD_hwr9lRenkBS1RJ3TlG6ZAusQ/s320/clipped+cover.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='8388942329198502827' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='8388942329198502827'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/05/whats-happening-with-through-ultans.html'>What's Happening with Through Ultan's Door 3?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-8388942329198502827' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiwZIjRtYyPi36xttHqwQ09ypcBcyOjByaOmgrDImr1WJeF1ECZH5fCj5wSJNDBPvw2-WVMH5idRRJeSLtZMoDOInAx056hZ8q50pMqjPCG-oSe8iMZD_hwr9lRenkBS1RJ3TlG6ZAusQ/s1600/clipped+cover.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="922" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiwZIjRtYyPi36xttHqwQ09ypcBcyOjByaOmgrDImr1WJeF1ECZH5fCj5wSJNDBPvw2-WVMH5idRRJeSLtZMoDOInAx056hZ8q50pMqjPCG-oSe8iMZD_hwr9lRenkBS1RJ3TlG6ZAusQ/s320/clipped+cover.png" width="184" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> This a <i>long</i> overdue update on issue 3 of my zine, <i>Through Ultan's Door. </i>I want to tell you what's in the zine, why it has been delayed, and what my plans are for the future. Let's start with the fun part.</div> <div> <br /> <i>Through Ultan's Door i</i>ssue 3 takes you down the Great Sewer River that winds through the undercity of Zyan. The issue is big. In fact, it's big enough that I had to split it into two zines. So issue 3 will be a double issue, each with its own separate detachable cover with a map on the interior. The covers, each featuring one of a pair of rival NPC potentates, have already been completed. Huargo, who also did the cover of issue 1, is back again with a stunning depiction of the Sewer Wyrm Cephaia, Prophetess of the Muddled Waters. Orphicss, who did a gorgeous illustration in the interior of issue 2 is back with an illustration of Cephaia's rival the Cranemay, a fey sewer witch. (The illustration at the top of this post is a clipping from Orphicss cover.) Here's what the double issue contains:<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhejjSpBm7nb7Zj9g_uM8pEA9PtezUsgmaccSywz4lFFHYFavV-yfniCkP9ybp6jtS7Dq1RgBaIfXjSMtMJbAnFOYfVV1GVcaIfpthIdqMrEJ1-IlfmhXrGqLkeER8ii3ol20Mf5qlwHvs/s1600/Part+I.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1036" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhejjSpBm7nb7Zj9g_uM8pEA9PtezUsgmaccSywz4lFFHYFavV-yfniCkP9ybp6jtS7Dq1RgBaIfXjSMtMJbAnFOYfVV1GVcaIfpthIdqMrEJ1-IlfmhXrGqLkeER8ii3ol20Mf5qlwHvs/s320/Part+I.jpg" width="206" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY4WMP9CnwsBopIoVSzkWVd2ROhbYit4O11rwVcRub9-Z9t0XyCs4omVFkWHO_zB9ItoJTWYQQy3B1MmFqyAJqsQjtopb8qzo7cepzhE_PZJ81gefPlU-FGJudrZC4JXKqzKnW4hH5KrI/s1600/Part+II.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1036" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY4WMP9CnwsBopIoVSzkWVd2ROhbYit4O11rwVcRub9-Z9t0XyCs4omVFkWHO_zB9ItoJTWYQQy3B1MmFqyAJqsQjtopb8qzo7cepzhE_PZJ81gefPlU-FGJudrZC4JXKqzKnW4hH5KrI/s320/Part+II.jpg" width="206" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /></div> </div> <div> <ul> <li>A lovely sewer pointcrawl map by Gus L</li> <li>Rules for pointcrawling the river</li> <li>A huge and lavishly illustrated sewer encounter table</li> <li>A light treatment of four points on the pointcrawl, two of which were features in past issues (The Ruins of the Inquisitor's Theater, Catacombs of the Fleischguild), and two of which are brand new (The Churning Gate, the Harbor).</li> <li>Three separate hidden locations on the Sewer River each of which introduces a major faction or NPC: the Ruins of the Verdant Purveyor, a wreck that serves as the base for the Black sewer pirates; the Fen of the Cranemay from the cover; and the lair of the Cranemay's rival, Cephaia, from the other cover. </li> <li>A full treatment of the Dam of the Lurid Toads, ominously polite parasites who have established an infestation and blocked the sewer river with their slime, demanding payments in fresh meat. </li> <li>A full treatment of the Sanitarium of the Benefactors, an entire disturbing settlement on the river with the possibility to transform a campaign. It has its own keyed map by Gus, three opposing factions, numerous NPCs, encounter tables, and so on.  </li> <li>An article with houses rules by Gus L for playing opium dreaming wizards.</li> <li>An article on the maladies and afflictions of Zyan, describing some diseases and conditions of this city of the dreamlands, including Furniture Pox, Floral Buboes, Shadow Blight, and more!</li> </ul> </div> <div> As if that weren't enough, Gus L has also written an entire delightful companion adventure, <i>Beneath the Moss Courts</i>, that expands the wreck of the Verdant Purveyor into a full adventure location and the Black Hand pirates into a major faction. The adventure also reaches up into the law of offices of a corrupt Fee Inquisitors in Zyan Above. (This will thus be the first published glimpse of the city.) Gus played in my original dreamlands game. He has been a collaborator on each issue of the zine, volunteering valuable feedback on the manuscripts, supplying art, and drawing delicious maps. He helped me launch the zine, he gets Zyan, and he is also one of my favorite retro-gaming authors. This issue raises the level of collaboration between us to bring you a fragment of Gus' vision of the dreamlands. </div> <div> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZXnLPFOKp9ZYMfK-puBNZ2szGAQfsPgedLWWmDPhTyuJ5ZGY56GAVbWznQXuVPWHEiqfdIE8EiGMLpP7GKjxIOUInyp6OGn-A-TLtchEpku-sGUojwDBcVOxGBO4VIcOZOBJg3Da5I0/s1600/20200130_090535.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZXnLPFOKp9ZYMfK-puBNZ2szGAQfsPgedLWWmDPhTyuJ5ZGY56GAVbWznQXuVPWHEiqfdIE8EiGMLpP7GKjxIOUInyp6OGn-A-TLtchEpku-sGUojwDBcVOxGBO4VIcOZOBJg3Da5I0/s320/20200130_090535.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gus's illustration of the pirate captain</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> This companion adventure will be available as a free PDF on DTRPG and Itch.io, but it will also be available for purchase as a zine in the same house style as <i>Through Ultan's Door</i>. In other words, instead of a single zine, I will be releasing three separate zines simultaneously: Issue 3 of <i>Through Ultan's Door </i>parts I & II, and Gus' <i>Beneath the Moss Courts</i>. And yes, I will also be reprinting Issues 1 & 2 of <i>Through Ultan's Door </i>as well. So actually that's five things all together.<br /> <br /> Realistically, with just issues 1-3 and Gus' companion adventure in your hands, it's probably enough to sustain roughly 30 sessions of play beyond the veil of sleep. It's enough to launch a full campaign in the dreamlands.<br /> <br /></div> <h3> DELAYS</h3> <div> <br /> I have run into a series of delays bringing these five things to you. The first was caused by the size of issue 3. At first I clung stubbornly to the idea it would all be in a single issue. When that didn't work I started carving off parts to put in issue 4. Finally, in consultation with Matt Hildebrand, I hit on the idea of a double issue. Then I had to reorganize the material into that format. All of this delayed the zine quite a bit.<br /> <br /> The second delay was caused by the fact that I have to change my printing process this time around. Thus far, I've been digitally printing the zine and hand assembling it. I realized that with five items coming out at once, there was no way I could handle the assembly of the physical products. I also realized by consulting with other people and shopping around that I was overpaying for my printing. I really would love to do offset printing for the next run, and have the print shop fold and staple the interior of the zines. (I think I probably still have to do the covers myself.) It took me a long time to get a series of quotes from a few places. The long and the short of it is that I still don't have this settled. I can get my zine digitally printed and assembled for the price I was paying just for the unassembled zine, so that's an improvement. To do offset printing I have to shoulder some significant costs to do a higher print run, which I might well do. But it's a commitment and I'm not sure.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwkrQ7Eazj8TcJNKiL4bp-qusp2hKnowQb9sfYETUjwsIdN_eCNt8ikJ1NT98S8Yb1JlNee5kJNkhOpvcbQp-bt_a5hH4zOr_iSAa0gUSHSgznjMEiMl93Vl1xmYjWNwE-xK5oiqoebw/s1600/OffsetPrintingPress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="186" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwkrQ7Eazj8TcJNKiL4bp-qusp2hKnowQb9sfYETUjwsIdN_eCNt8ikJ1NT98S8Yb1JlNee5kJNkhOpvcbQp-bt_a5hH4zOr_iSAa0gUSHSgznjMEiMl93Vl1xmYjWNwE-xK5oiqoebw/s320/OffsetPrintingPress.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> The third delay was caused by the fact that Matt Hildebrand, who did the layout for Issues 1 & 2  had too much work on his plate, and had to put <i>Through Ultan's Door</i> on the back-burner. I couldn't have launched the zine without Matt, who designed the entire house style of the zine, and worked closely and quickly with me to put issues 1 & 2 together with great skill. It's a good thing, because it means his work is rightly in demand, but Matt has too much on his plate to handle the zine right now. This took a while to figure out. Then I had to find another layout person. Luckily, Lester Smolenski who was an original player and a playtester on all issues of the zine has agreed to do it. He's a wonderful graphic designer.<br /> <br /> Then came the fourth delay: the quarantine. I suddenly had two weeks to redesign two lectures courses in an online format. Since then I have been churning out lecture videos at a sickening pace, while simultaneously providing full time childcare. Unfortunately, we're on the quarter system, so I am having to teach two entire 10 week courses under quarantine. I put my two games on hold and set aside working on the zine as well. I needed to take a break from any "deadline" stress in D&D to focus on crisis management. During the quarantine I've enjoyed playing in Nick K's megadungeon campaign, The Twilight Age, which has been a blast. (More on that another time.) I've also been able to do a little more blogging, and tinker with other projects, like thinking about a possible future sword and planet campaign. But I'll be done teaching in 3 weeks, and I'm gearing up to get back to the zine. I'm excited to finally pull it all together.<br /> <br /> There is a fifth thing, but I hope it won't be a delay. I need to work out a better system for printing labels and pre-paying postage. With so many products, I can't handle hand labelling everything and getting exactly the right postage on each piece of mail. I need to pay a service that will allow me to print postage and labels. This especially true because I've decided to handle my own international shipping at present. Since this involves filling out customs forms, I need to do everything I possibly can to economize on the time I spend on shipping. I'll still make the boxes pretty, but I need to pick up the speed with more efficient systems.<br /> <br /></div> <div> <h3> Future Schemes</h3> <br /> This brings me to a report of my plans for the future. I have commissioned a poster from Huargo, who has done the most artwork for Zyan. He has immersed himself in the setting. He understands the vibe well and I find the art that he does for the zine immensely evocative. The sketches he provided at the start of the quarantine were brilliant. We'll see where it goes. When it's available I hope to have it for sale through my Big Cartel store.<br /> <br /> I have a pretty good idea where Issue 4 will take us. I think it's going to focus on the religions of Zyan. There will be a writeup on each of the Unrelenting Archons. It will also contain the Temple of the Archons found at the back of the flooded caves occupied by the Lurid Toads. It's a dungeon of portals that takes you to the interplanar precincts holy to several of these alien deities.<br /> <br /> Issue 5 is likely to be another double issue. It will contain a second pointcrawl, through the Apartments of the Guildless to the south of the Ruins of the Inquisitor's Theater from issue 1. I have plans for future collaborations with other authors, including an exciting companion adventure that I hope will be released with issue 5. I like this format of modular companion adventures that thematically fit with Zyan, but also give glimpses of Zyan from the fever dreams of other authors. It lets me keep my authorial voice while expanding the circle. Let a 1000 Zyans bloom!<br /> <br /> Issues 6-10 will likely take you into to the white jungle, a 3-D hexcrawl through an inverted alien jungles of the dreamland! I'm very excited to share this material with you, which is, I think, my best material.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnHK_dF5aWyZqeDyJFi5R1mhZccVHWCJ-N2A4X6JrJqm4b3AcFWTGY5wrFihyphenhyphensZIK_NBAVz9begU0F2xYefnZThSJ9AZNCh4WgCXiuPujdrA461wQMXv3mHOHX1cclhULNFHdofy2JzM0/s1600/0abfddf995c9a0502a6793b87342b8a7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnHK_dF5aWyZqeDyJFi5R1mhZccVHWCJ-N2A4X6JrJqm4b3AcFWTGY5wrFihyphenhyphensZIK_NBAVz9begU0F2xYefnZThSJ9AZNCh4WgCXiuPujdrA461wQMXv3mHOHX1cclhULNFHdofy2JzM0/s400/0abfddf995c9a0502a6793b87342b8a7.jpg" width="266" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/05/whats-happening-with-through-ultans.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/05/whats-happening-with-through-ultans.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-05-18T04:09:00-07:00'>4:09 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/05/whats-happening-with-through-ultans.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 28 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=8388942329198502827&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, July 11, 2019</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiBKC6z7q2j4cIK_657oL4JCikEshilr-4EKgYmeovnQy04sNEicrQuF5Pamv3srpz45fCwEBDXqZVscwfZ2RZfnd7OMppkUQTFDrbOOYpRpnRKlJAzyz2s_CQRiykUf6hr53wCB39pA/s400/Dreamland+6B.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='6038202852584000539' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='6038202852584000539'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-are-issues-1-2-of-through-ultans.html'>How are Issues 1 & 2 of Through Ultan's Door Connected? And other news</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-6038202852584000539' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiBKC6z7q2j4cIK_657oL4JCikEshilr-4EKgYmeovnQy04sNEicrQuF5Pamv3srpz45fCwEBDXqZVscwfZ2RZfnd7OMppkUQTFDrbOOYpRpnRKlJAzyz2s_CQRiykUf6hr53wCB39pA/s1600/Dreamland+6B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="1600" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiBKC6z7q2j4cIK_657oL4JCikEshilr-4EKgYmeovnQy04sNEicrQuF5Pamv3srpz45fCwEBDXqZVscwfZ2RZfnd7OMppkUQTFDrbOOYpRpnRKlJAzyz2s_CQRiykUf6hr53wCB39pA/s400/Dreamland+6B.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <h4> First, some news: </h4> <br /> 1. DriveThruRPG has finally approved the PDF of Issue 2 of Through Ultan's Door. You can now purchase electronic copies of <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/13761/Through-Ultan039s-Door">the zine here</a>.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMIKxe3lHG1ZK0Q9K2xMszZegTLtpX5aEWKKQtNUeYMDk2KO_OeJFukdsbo5BI9We_nzlqYrdYoxTvtgm8p-diKFezm-w2wMbtcq75WyikA74WDEcSQhipmAtZgAb8m2EqwTsSqd2khg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-07-11+at+10.31.26+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1600" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMIKxe3lHG1ZK0Q9K2xMszZegTLtpX5aEWKKQtNUeYMDk2KO_OeJFukdsbo5BI9We_nzlqYrdYoxTvtgm8p-diKFezm-w2wMbtcq75WyikA74WDEcSQhipmAtZgAb8m2EqwTsSqd2khg/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-07-11+at+10.31.26+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> 2. I have heard the voice of the people, and chosen to add shipping directly from <a href="https://throughultansdoor.bigcartel.com/">my Big Cartel store</a> to Canada. Note: it is not really any less expensive than buying it from <a href="https://www.melsonia.com/">the Melsonian Arts Council,</a> and I'm not sure how much faster it'll get there. But should you want the option to buy it closer to home, you can now do so. Everyone else outside the U.S. should go to The Melsonian Arts Council.<br /> <br /> But now, on to the main topic. I've received some questions about the Catacombs of the Fleischguild featured in issue 2 relates to the Ruins of the Inquisitor's Theater in Issue 1. The short answer is that the Catacombs are down river from the Ruins of the Inquisitor's Theater. If you just hop in that ornate green canoe at area 25 of the Inquisitor's Theater, and paddle with the current downstream, in 15 minutes you will find yourself at the entrance to the Catacombs of the Fleischguild.<br /> <br /> Originally, I had been planning on including a map of the sewer river with issue 2. But it's a point crawl map, which necessitates descriptions of quite a few nodes, and a big old encounter table. It proved to be too much material to include in issue 2, and I decided to bump to issue 3. I was also encouraged to do this because Gus drew a crazy great map of the sewer river that really fired my imagination. So this made me want to give it the space to breath in an entire issue. This has produced the awkward situation that I'm giving you a second dungeon on a pointcrawl map without giving you the map or rules for transit between destinations. C'est la vie.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia6fnaeDLQva7m83qpWtVImvheLVrccKuCrXM0Pz2Km8vHKNCmqW1MN4Z1_q0TZFkrElK59EiLKpnbNA-M27EXfsuv1KejJ38gh0So5GapzwFhc-C-8Z7SsyuLleAOUJZB8mGQUDVpHQY/s1600/Gus+Map+Fragment.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1600" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia6fnaeDLQva7m83qpWtVImvheLVrccKuCrXM0Pz2Km8vHKNCmqW1MN4Z1_q0TZFkrElK59EiLKpnbNA-M27EXfsuv1KejJ38gh0So5GapzwFhc-C-8Z7SsyuLleAOUJZB8mGQUDVpHQY/s400/Gus+Map+Fragment.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Teaser of one part of Gus' deliciously crazy sewer map</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> I will try to rectify this by making some more material about the sewer river available here in advance of issue 3, which is, naturally, still a long way off. But it's worth saying this too:<br /> <br /> The Ruins of the Inquisitor's Theater is intended as a slow burning entree into the strange world of Wishery that lies on the other side of Ultan's Door. The Catacombs of the Fleischguild is different. While it "lifts the curtain" on further mysteries of Zyan, it is much more of a self-contained "jewel box" of a dungeon. For all its implied Zyanese theology and culture, it is more amenable to being dropped in to existing campaigns without the aid of Ultan's door to the dreamlands. Of course, for me, it is and always will be part of Wishery. But the waking world is full of echoes of Wishery (or is the other way around?), so perhaps this dungeon can find its way directly into your Living Greyhawk or Duskvol or City State of the Invincible Overlord. I would be the last to imagine that I could contain such phantasms by placing them on a map. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-are-issues-1-2-of-through-ultans.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-are-issues-1-2-of-through-ultans.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-07-11T09:18:00-07:00'>9:18 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-are-issues-1-2-of-through-ultans.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 7 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=6038202852584000539&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Catacombs%20of%20the%20Fleishguild' rel='tag'>Catacombs of the Fleishguild</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Ruins%20of%20The%20Inquisitor%27s%20Theater' rel='tag'>Ruins of The Inquisitor's Theater</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Wishery' rel='tag'>Wishery</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zines' rel='tag'>Zines</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, July 8, 2019</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIXN2sDj0I3YHu2QnbQ6s89J3WAbg8Hn5cz4oDamZ0IWhoP8RjFrTC2I02MQ7-dIOfpiC7XLhyphenhyphenHxXZCGtfXaRDdjKGxI3LBjltWB4uWzOnOvw73fuy10PHF4alAr7R4-XUXCcODOyJSM/s400/IMG_1685.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='5974950053950650995' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='5974950053950650995'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/07/through-ultans-door-issue-2-is-finally.html'>Through Ultan's Door Issue 2 is Finally Here!</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-5974950053950650995' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIXN2sDj0I3YHu2QnbQ6s89J3WAbg8Hn5cz4oDamZ0IWhoP8RjFrTC2I02MQ7-dIOfpiC7XLhyphenhyphenHxXZCGtfXaRDdjKGxI3LBjltWB4uWzOnOvw73fuy10PHF4alAr7R4-XUXCcODOyJSM/s1600/IMG_1685.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIXN2sDj0I3YHu2QnbQ6s89J3WAbg8Hn5cz4oDamZ0IWhoP8RjFrTC2I02MQ7-dIOfpiC7XLhyphenhyphenHxXZCGtfXaRDdjKGxI3LBjltWB4uWzOnOvw73fuy10PHF4alAr7R4-XUXCcODOyJSM/s400/IMG_1685.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> The long wait is over! I am now releasing into the wild issue 2 of Through Ultan's Door.<br /> <br /> Go through Ultan's door in this second issue into the Catacombs of the Fleischguild, replete with fiendish butcher traps, blood demons, flayed heretics, and much more! It is a 31 room dungeon for a party of 3-5 characters of 2nd-3rd level, written for Advanced Labyrinth Lord, but broadly compatible with any older version of D&D or their retro clones.<br /> <br /> This 36 page zine also has house rules for playing in the dreamlands, a treatise on the undead of Wishery, and new spells and magic items. It is brought to life with a gorgeous cartography by Gus L and lavish illustrations by Huargo, Jeremy Duncan, Orphicss, and Matt Hildebrand. Like issue 1, it comes with a detachable cover with a map and a separate encounter card so that you can sit right down and play! I have also reprinted issue 1, so you can finally purchase physical copies of that as well.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaow8yF_juAK2vnK9IRxFSLCFw55_OqAwQXPVGu87PuozcUDMz59Rp692NKMPbFwXgsYRnUC2ogeEWg3QFQI3u7R2iiv3ve5IY_Syu89j1qH3sioGK5hlfe2m_wEaUX1NEQOLh3rPdm0/s1600/IMG_0229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaow8yF_juAK2vnK9IRxFSLCFw55_OqAwQXPVGu87PuozcUDMz59Rp692NKMPbFwXgsYRnUC2ogeEWg3QFQI3u7R2iiv3ve5IY_Syu89j1qH3sioGK5hlfe2m_wEaUX1NEQOLh3rPdm0/s400/IMG_0229.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> At the moment, where you should go to buy the zine depends on whether you wish to buy a print + PDF, or PDF only. you can purchase the zine.<br /> <br /> For customers wishing to purchase print + PDF copies, please visit my Big Cartel webstore here: <a href="https://throughultansdoor.bigcartel.com/">https://throughultansdoor.bigcartel.com/</a> International shipping can be pricey, and although I've discounted it to the extent I've been able to, it's still much higher than I would like it to be.<br /> <br /> For this reason I've also distributed some copies to The Melsonian Arts Council which ships from the UK here: <a href="https://www.melsonia.com/zines-2-c.asp">https://www.melsonia.com/zines-2-c.asp</a><br /> <br /> For customers anywhere wishing to purchase a PDF only of the zine, please visit DriveThruRPG here: <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/13761/Through-Ultan039s-Door">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/13761/Through-Ultan039s-Door</a> (at present I'm still waiting for the PDF to be approval, I'll update here when it's available)<br /> <br /> In the U.S. and Canada I have provided people the option to have their single zines shipped bagged and in a box for a small extra fee ($2). Orders of multiple zines will automatically be shipped in a box. Unfortunately, I do not have the capacity to honor other shipping requests: for a single zine it's either in a simple envelope, or bagged in a box; for multiple zines they will be sent in a box. Please keep in mind that if you order the print version in the U.S., I will be manually emailing you the PDF, and I may need up to 24 hours to get the digital copy into your inbox.<br /> <br /> If you are stumbling upon the zine for the first time, and are curious, there were many reviews of issue 1. Here are just two:<br /> <br /> The first, by Patrick Stuart, of False Machine <a href="http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-review-of-through-ultans-door.html">can be viewed here.</a><br /> <br /> The second, by Byrce Lynch, of Ten Foot Pole <a href="https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=4505">can be viewed here.</a><br /> <br /> If you want to see a preview of the contents of issue 2 before purchasing the zine, you can head over to the DriveThruRPG link above, where the preview includes a hefty chunk of the dungeon. If you wish to receive email updates about future releases, send an email to throughultansdoor@gmail.com.<br /> <br /> See you in Slumberland!<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ruVK_y7CExv_BYfhaaZZkCdDZxu59haZ7Irxp7rjON2Qv0aLFwah3F6kk-bpPRArphbZjAVzFgVvuLjbo5j7odA6eGFjEPi-r34ScoGsUvjZAQ9Q1TS_ssLc_XhY5BtE9gk1ZOzPGGY/s1600/tumblr_pu8m3mDAz61si5vllo1_640.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="623" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ruVK_y7CExv_BYfhaaZZkCdDZxu59haZ7Irxp7rjON2Qv0aLFwah3F6kk-bpPRArphbZjAVzFgVvuLjbo5j7odA6eGFjEPi-r34ScoGsUvjZAQ9Q1TS_ssLc_XhY5BtE9gk1ZOzPGGY/s320/tumblr_pu8m3mDAz61si5vllo1_640.png" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/07/through-ultans-door-issue-2-is-finally.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/07/through-ultans-door-issue-2-is-finally.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-07-08T07:41:00-07:00'>7:41 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/07/through-ultans-door-issue-2-is-finally.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 6 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=5974950053950650995&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Catacombs%20of%20the%20Fleishguild' rel='tag'>Catacombs of the Fleishguild</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zines' rel='tag'>Zines</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, June 14, 2019</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwk5t4EwACEnZ-6Sf8C6swtbbiePADe9hpHF5kyJyBYUGBesQqbNPuYJh-bfzPsqlY48TFk4pM22feptd2UmgppFuaWNd_Dj9Y9mV1XS4h6GgpDIvpA3F6qIPXS6Q0LR_WUtGjB7Mu8wE/s400/IMG_1685.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='3790190267623793768' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='3790190267623793768'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/06/through-ultans-door-issue-2-nearly-there.html'>Through Ultan's Door Issue 2: Nearly There</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-3790190267623793768' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwk5t4EwACEnZ-6Sf8C6swtbbiePADe9hpHF5kyJyBYUGBesQqbNPuYJh-bfzPsqlY48TFk4pM22feptd2UmgppFuaWNd_Dj9Y9mV1XS4h6GgpDIvpA3F6qIPXS6Q0LR_WUtGjB7Mu8wE/s1600/IMG_1685.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwk5t4EwACEnZ-6Sf8C6swtbbiePADe9hpHF5kyJyBYUGBesQqbNPuYJh-bfzPsqlY48TFk4pM22feptd2UmgppFuaWNd_Dj9Y9mV1XS4h6GgpDIvpA3F6qIPXS6Q0LR_WUtGjB7Mu8wE/s400/IMG_1685.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /> It's been a long time in the making, but Issue 2 of Through Ultan's Door finally made it to the printers! I wanted to talk lift the curtain on the process and give you a glimpse of the finished product.<br /> <br /> I tried a new, more rational method for printing issue 2. With issue 1, I edited the manuscript, had layout done, and commissioned art, all simultaneously. This was good for speed, since the delays in these different areas were simultaneous, but it was also the source of the considerable problems I ran into, problems that produced more stress than I could handle. (I talked about some of the problems <a href="https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine-part-ii.html">here</a>.) This time I told myself I would be more patient. My basic principle is to move to the next stage of the process only once I had finished the previous stage.<br /> <br /> With issue 1 there were a ton of errors in the text that we only caught slowly after production had begun. This time, once I finished a rough draft of the text, I sent it to Fiona Maeve Geist for editing. I was a little worried, since I have intentionally adopted a pretentious, purple-prose style for this zine (and my blog), and I knew she was a fan of more muscular and direct writing. But she is a subtle wordsmith. She performed the remarkable feat of suggesting substantial changes to almost every paragraph that <i>preserved my style 100% </i>while simultaneously making objective improvements everywhere, giving verve to what Patrick Stuart rightly characterized as my overly professorial voice. (Of course, she also caught a bazillion errors.) Everyone should employ Fiona.<br /> <br /> Once I had the edited draft in hand, I sent it to Matt Hildebrandt who did a preliminary layout including the spaces and dimensions for all artwork. Matt is amazing talented at layout; he's another gem whom game companies should absolutely employ. (I was astounded to find that he is also a wonderful illustrator, since at the very end he threw a couple of his own gorgeous pieces in the zine when a last minute layout changed opened up extra space.) Once we had the layout done, I only then commissioned artwork.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzzDPt6kCfqa1_X-ZCvaiwoQqa1ySwAdheQ4yGW50ftUr-y3MLp2X2RMJHvi6svkgUpz9QLmLWT3E9w5qQP9mq82c0JYQgJUjCfLbq4XwgggBpUsuX80SF_WMXgcFYkP0W1BkVunIVOgo/s1600/IMG_1692.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzzDPt6kCfqa1_X-ZCvaiwoQqa1ySwAdheQ4yGW50ftUr-y3MLp2X2RMJHvi6svkgUpz9QLmLWT3E9w5qQP9mq82c0JYQgJUjCfLbq4XwgggBpUsuX80SF_WMXgcFYkP0W1BkVunIVOgo/s400/IMG_1692.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This piece is by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_orphicss/?hl=en">Orphicss</a>.</td></tr> </tbody></table> The artwork took a while, as artwork does. After receiving the artwork, Matt finalized the PDF. I then took it yesterday to the printer, hauling box after box of French Paper Co paper. The printer and I had already come to an understanding with issue 1. What he is able to print for me is much higher quality than what I can manage myself on a home printer, without any of the heartbreak. I am giving him huge orders (about 13,000 sides this time around!), and so he's happy to give me a very fair price on the volume. For anyone in Chicago, the printshop I use is Indigo Printing. It's a locally owned small business. The owner is an extraordinarily careful professional.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcL7NB_LzcpZtyQH3kOB_XFb3UGoO-Xb3ZGMQE3MEb-lM56B0JEbir-rJ3iBNu6eBZRi1n6qkvAVWj7eBB9tx4DOblc8TwWLY6AKgFwuLGo_GDMEsnQzs6FJbi2mrKqX5_siKN4H2Yu0g/s1600/IMG_1664.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcL7NB_LzcpZtyQH3kOB_XFb3UGoO-Xb3ZGMQE3MEb-lM56B0JEbir-rJ3iBNu6eBZRi1n6qkvAVWj7eBB9tx4DOblc8TwWLY6AKgFwuLGo_GDMEsnQzs6FJbi2mrKqX5_siKN4H2Yu0g/s320/IMG_1664.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <br /> Now that the printing is finished I am folding and assembling all my zines by hand, before I begin selling them. This saves me the mad crunch as my stock dwindles and life presses in, and somehow I have to find time to fold, staple, press and cut 30 or 40 zines. It's been wonderful to get the gear and tackle and trim on the table and to discover that I still have the hang of using it.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyAimC6Ik929Bx_25ZmHQSSWUCJnf4838Q8Auix6t8PglnpbjPJJvx-cKdTYTqq7SRC0VVLNB3IQY0jWAfyePyeffyiUjjSSYse8ckTIZvUMA2rsQ1tkT3Gg_kZA8giuGHQ8ADxDGCqc/s1600/IMG_1678.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyAimC6Ik929Bx_25ZmHQSSWUCJnf4838Q8Auix6t8PglnpbjPJJvx-cKdTYTqq7SRC0VVLNB3IQY0jWAfyePyeffyiUjjSSYse8ckTIZvUMA2rsQ1tkT3Gg_kZA8giuGHQ8ADxDGCqc/s400/IMG_1678.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDXjvIBFAW8X08Ffa-rur9W6mkSw1DxWFGeyqKtNxHWe1VPCcAmhmPjR6E2_KV441-_XMmb2XJ47Fq2ZTE2iLyxEO9ngQ_SmaoomnJEdkNtWooaVmAz2QEv50uqbsbHUAFXgwoHgAsv-g/s1600/IMG_1672.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDXjvIBFAW8X08Ffa-rur9W6mkSw1DxWFGeyqKtNxHWe1VPCcAmhmPjR6E2_KV441-_XMmb2XJ47Fq2ZTE2iLyxEO9ngQ_SmaoomnJEdkNtWooaVmAz2QEv50uqbsbHUAFXgwoHgAsv-g/s400/IMG_1672.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGeuVc50F01vpwyvP7vLB2sWrT3c2kqX9iEGYpKc4glyFASwUU28tN3yqtNQ3CEO4y4h1kRb2zvGhDZGA2RlpJVV4lcKce6LoJlF6f-H6k3g5S0CL5IvWyAZv1VzhI3IOs0DL1kDkhvug/s1600/IMG_1675.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGeuVc50F01vpwyvP7vLB2sWrT3c2kqX9iEGYpKc4glyFASwUU28tN3yqtNQ3CEO4y4h1kRb2zvGhDZGA2RlpJVV4lcKce6LoJlF6f-H6k3g5S0CL5IvWyAZv1VzhI3IOs0DL1kDkhvug/s400/IMG_1675.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-M_O7_cQ5rzCujYzbLxdw-V0FfMzj4wYk4VPnC8f2rLYQZ59SBuYyPEBOyhWXhdeR_V46calweLX-tIz4_7YEJsVOtwpDSLaoyFdYJmIlfCY5R7aAlJuPcXbMUDlq-uFG2_XBNNQUc9E/s1600/IMG_1679.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-M_O7_cQ5rzCujYzbLxdw-V0FfMzj4wYk4VPnC8f2rLYQZ59SBuYyPEBOyhWXhdeR_V46calweLX-tIz4_7YEJsVOtwpDSLaoyFdYJmIlfCY5R7aAlJuPcXbMUDlq-uFG2_XBNNQUc9E/s400/IMG_1679.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> The only anarchic element--anarchic in the <i>best possible sense</i>--was Gus L's contributions, since he contributed so much for free in a spirit of brotherhood, from substantive revisions to the text, to a not one but two amazing maps, and a couple of unsolicited delicious interior illustrations. In fact, his map of the sewer river was so evocative that it fired my imagination, leading me to decide that I needed to give the pointcrawl of the sewer river its own separate issue of the zine. So that's going to be issue 3 now. Issue 2 is squarely focused on the Catacombs of the Fleishguild. I'm not going to show you the sewer river map yet, but here's a glimpse of his map for the catacombs in issue 2.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwm6G2X5UzteneTqh91n5VxCn1LJD84SHYmaitjcNelUTO3TQnlMEOJnbJxo7G5Vv0qKBAFydANHZ8dDbRuUnQsPR0HByu27QGIAZnIo-4UylW1lTc-LYyPhuOKbUHOSaOiZamd1YAsM/s1600/IMG_1691.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwm6G2X5UzteneTqh91n5VxCn1LJD84SHYmaitjcNelUTO3TQnlMEOJnbJxo7G5Vv0qKBAFydANHZ8dDbRuUnQsPR0HByu27QGIAZnIo-4UylW1lTc-LYyPhuOKbUHOSaOiZamd1YAsM/s400/IMG_1691.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot damn look at that thing</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> One consequence of employing this more rational approach is that delays in the process, instead of running simultaneously, stacked one after the other. What was a week here and week there for issue 1, accumulated into a few months of delay in Issue 2. I think it is worth it, since I have not yet been stressed out (!), and I am convinced that issue 2 is better than issue 1. But I'll let you be the judge of the question about quality. By the way reprinted issue 1 as well, as promised. Here they are together.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ZtxXfJUS1zEFncL4pfVuiNuT0I28HvbIdLWHkjifESiCFKaXWYfZBSK-0BLlQXuu8Dbve7s47RRF9FUhnGgKcaJoI6Rbr-h1A7HNn9snmSl6BRwEotVEh6lpEVzbVDJewRAEz24yzgw/s1600/IMG_1690.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ZtxXfJUS1zEFncL4pfVuiNuT0I28HvbIdLWHkjifESiCFKaXWYfZBSK-0BLlQXuu8Dbve7s47RRF9FUhnGgKcaJoI6Rbr-h1A7HNn9snmSl6BRwEotVEh6lpEVzbVDJewRAEz24yzgw/s400/IMG_1690.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> Right now, here are my priorities:<br /> <br /> <ol> <li>Fold enough zines to send a shipment to Daniel Sell at the Melsonian Arts Council, who will be distributing them for me to locations outside the U.S. at better shipping prices than I can manage.</li> <li>Test shipping costs under various permutations. This time I won't be shipping media mail (the zine doesn't actually qualify), and I'll also be offering a more deluxe priority mail option for those who want their zines bagged and shipped in a sturdy box. Both will be more expensive than shipping was last time, but for the cheaper option, not too much more expensive I hope. </li> <li>Finish folding all the zines I have (400 of issue 2, 200 of issue 1). </li> <li>Put the zine on sale for U.S. customers through my Big Cartel store. </li> </ol> <div> I hope to have this all done by the last week of June, and be shipping zines from then through September. After that I'll probably put things on hiatus again for a while. I hope this summer I can also get some work done on Issue 3, maybe finish at least a draft of the text. We'll see. For now, full speed ahead!<br /> <br /> For the curious, in closing, here is a list of the table of contents for Issue 2:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDeiahid2viR9j3UrNU_mPxw-1PQgDAnmS3uaWlp_htHkvEV3XZ6XCwy-ytZbh2958mTN58FzK-VO_IXVfQe36FDEIMoUthZ2AC66dfEcD7p9rEUsp-v_HnPS-ppVzJ0l0GnafY9I8E8U/s1600/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1036" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDeiahid2viR9j3UrNU_mPxw-1PQgDAnmS3uaWlp_htHkvEV3XZ6XCwy-ytZbh2958mTN58FzK-VO_IXVfQe36FDEIMoUthZ2AC66dfEcD7p9rEUsp-v_HnPS-ppVzJ0l0GnafY9I8E8U/s400/Untitled.jpg" width="258" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/06/through-ultans-door-issue-2-nearly-there.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/06/through-ultans-door-issue-2-nearly-there.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2019-06-14T05:35:00-07:00'>5:35 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/06/through-ultans-door-issue-2-nearly-there.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 27 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=3790190267623793768&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20Hobby' rel='tag'>the Hobby</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zines' rel='tag'>Zines</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Sunday, October 28, 2018</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZoT6SH6-KfSp9JM5KJMyfBm7IXi_BR28qeXx5ABctfQYQAm8iixivQTy_TlPBGXmEwqcyQDEVhnNpv5XrhUctnrJHfdzjNACYcAsRpvOP7D1L4Fc2d2Nt4IQYJiFNLNzo8Av8Wvnsqws/s400/head-in-hands.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='8400971149761347263' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='8400971149761347263'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine-part-ii.html'>So You Want To Make a Zine: Part II</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-8400971149761347263' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZoT6SH6-KfSp9JM5KJMyfBm7IXi_BR28qeXx5ABctfQYQAm8iixivQTy_TlPBGXmEwqcyQDEVhnNpv5XrhUctnrJHfdzjNACYcAsRpvOP7D1L4Fc2d2Nt4IQYJiFNLNzo8Av8Wvnsqws/s1600/head-in-hands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="500" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZoT6SH6-KfSp9JM5KJMyfBm7IXi_BR28qeXx5ABctfQYQAm8iixivQTy_TlPBGXmEwqcyQDEVhnNpv5XrhUctnrJHfdzjNACYcAsRpvOP7D1L4Fc2d2Nt4IQYJiFNLNzo8Av8Wvnsqws/s400/head-in-hands.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto" , "robotodraft" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.87); font-family: "roboto" , "robotodraft" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although my zine is out, and has been well received thus far, I have had a number of serious misadventures that all could have been avoided. So I though I would share my experience with this for posterity, so that my suffering would not be in vain, and you could avoid the problems I brought on my own head.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">The whole problem arose from the following immense miscalculation. I planned on doing a print run of around 200 zines (plus a few more for contributors copies, and so on). I worked out all the kinks in production to my satisfaction. Things were humming along. I had produced around 100 (half) of the zines I was going to sell. I had the product sitting there, it was all ready to go, and I was really itching to share it with people. So I decided to start selling them, figuring that I could just keep producing the remaining zines until I hit my goal of 200. Hahaha. Here are the problems that accrued: </span><br style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">(1) </span>My zine sold very quickly, much faster than I thought it would. So supplies started to get low very quickly. Meanwhile, <span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">UPS lost an order of the cardstock I was using to print the cover of my book. Then the paper supplier told me they had run out of it, but found a couple of replacements. They charged me for it...and of course, then UPS finally found my package. So production was delayed and now I've got a lot of cardstock cover paper, more than I need. Not the worst problem but...</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2) In the meantime, my brand new printer broke. Like a catastrophic failure. So I ordered a new one, since it was under warrantee, and got the replacement for free. So production was delayed and I wasted a lot of paper in the process of trying to make the broken printer work. Not the worse problem but...</span><br style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">(3) So I set about using my brand new replacement printer for my brand new printer. It turned out to be a little finicky, to get high quality prints on the paper I'm using for the interior it's requiring me to forgo duplex printing. This make each zine take twice as long to print. That's not the worst problem but...</span><br style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">(4) The pages are coming out skewed, tilted to the side, using the fancy paper I've been making the interior of the zine from. When I try it with ordinary copy paper, it comes out straight. I assume somehow the replacement printer can't handle the fancy paper. I try everything to correct it for a couple of hours. And then it dawns on me. The fancy French Paper Co. ream of 1000 sheets of simple white 100t has been MISCUT, and is not in fact an 8.5x11 rectangle at all, but rather some kind of hideous parallelogram. You can see the skew of the paper sitting on the perfectly square bed of my scanner/printer below. Luckily, they are good people who immediately overnighted me replacement paper. That's not the worst problem but...</span></span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJJxAfHZTAzWyno_89J61bu8tO8-Pg6MG2_Yne9Vip06RT-ygurpCsymkaASLBXS-rsOzXaA6GEuJP4r31pB8K-pDcIXRdedWGA6nIcdWMDHICW0fsLXrW24CmhX4AYa-Cttqv0mftp5A/s1600/IMG_0279.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJJxAfHZTAzWyno_89J61bu8tO8-Pg6MG2_Yne9Vip06RT-ygurpCsymkaASLBXS-rsOzXaA6GEuJP4r31pB8K-pDcIXRdedWGA6nIcdWMDHICW0fsLXrW24CmhX4AYa-Cttqv0mftp5A/s400/IMG_0279.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;">(5) All of this slow down in production with my zines was putting me under constant stress, because it was always the case that if I didn't fix the current problem quickly, I would be unable to fill existing orders. Under this stress I raced through things, trying to be as careful as I could, but working feverishly to fill orders. One person has reported to me that the pages were out of order in his zine. I also caught a zine without staples in it just today. So I'm about to send out a quality control email to each purchaser of a physical zine, to ask them to check the page order, stapling etc., and tell me if there is a problem so that I can send them a replacement immediately. The last thing I want is someone out there feeling unsatisfied. I'm trying hard to make a thing of quality, and I want it to arrive in the purchaser's hands exactly as it should be, period, end of story. So please let me know if there's a problem and I will fix it. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">My main reason for wanting to tell this story is that all of this could absolutely have been avoided. Had I merely printed my entire print run before selling, then I could have solved production problems in a leisurely fashion as they arose. I also would have been able to do a quality control test for each zine. In fact, I would recommend not only doing your entire print run before you begin selling a single zine, but also going down an explicit quality control checklist zine by zine, maybe every 5 or 10 zines you produce. Check that each is stapled, has been pressed and trimmed (if that's what you're doing), check that page order is right in each one, check that there are no print nozzle errors (white lines) on each of the major illustrations, etc. It pays to be patient, anal, and very careful. Otherwise you'll constantly be scrambling. I'll never do that again, and you shouldn't either. </span></span> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine-part-ii.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine-part-ii.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2018-10-28T12:42:00-07:00'>12:42 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine-part-ii.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 10 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=8400971149761347263&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20Hobby' rel='tag'>the Hobby</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zines' rel='tag'>Zines</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Monday, October 15, 2018</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikE8-_0_kmYF0_i62boknjZkvFgxX52T5JNuooC-8rtd5zpptiYUY1T5O8jy88waXMWM4dl2XAi1YXia91_WA6LjrzJSp8VmQGwteMYHo4FmJNYv4-1V7nL0zIcVVi-eFFefifoOGblvM/s400/Untitled+3.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='6551776417179778118' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='6551776417179778118'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/at-long-last-through-ultans-door-issue-1.html'>At Long Last, Through Ultan's Door Issue 1!</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-6551776417179778118' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikE8-_0_kmYF0_i62boknjZkvFgxX52T5JNuooC-8rtd5zpptiYUY1T5O8jy88waXMWM4dl2XAi1YXia91_WA6LjrzJSp8VmQGwteMYHo4FmJNYv4-1V7nL0zIcVVi-eFFefifoOGblvM/s1600/Untitled+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1391" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikE8-_0_kmYF0_i62boknjZkvFgxX52T5JNuooC-8rtd5zpptiYUY1T5O8jy88waXMWM4dl2XAi1YXia91_WA6LjrzJSp8VmQGwteMYHo4FmJNYv4-1V7nL0zIcVVi-eFFefifoOGblvM/s400/Untitled+3.jpg" width="258" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> At long last, I present to the waking world <a href="https://throughultansdoor.bigcartel.com/">issue 1 of my new zine</a>. Go through Ultan's door in this inaugural issue into the Ruins of the Inquisitor's Theater, a 30 room dungeon replete with oneiric puddings, delicate shadow puppets, giggling white swine, and much more. This zine contains everything you need to launch a D&D campaign in the Zyan, flying city of the dreamlands. The issue is printed on deluxe paper, and comes with a detachable cover that has a map printed on the interior by Gus L., and a separate card for encounters. Brought to life with stunning art of Huargo and brilliant layout of Matt Hildebrand, it is an object that may itself have come from beyond the veil of sleep.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRevHRgTw5nRqRvU3wmkXQFgFcE83WJzRIkzun88ZBD61W3R8dh8DfXlT9mooazBgQIoVHoRda3gaX9gV7g2n_pgt_6O-x1Z_Gkfxl_mOk0iT3A6L32T1xABqKMZomHcG9OVyToEu38f0/s1600/IMG_0230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRevHRgTw5nRqRvU3wmkXQFgFcE83WJzRIkzun88ZBD61W3R8dh8DfXlT9mooazBgQIoVHoRda3gaX9gV7g2n_pgt_6O-x1Z_Gkfxl_mOk0iT3A6L32T1xABqKMZomHcG9OVyToEu38f0/s400/IMG_0230.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> This is the first of good things. I'm already at work on issue 2. I'll let you know about that soon. In the meantime, you can purchase both print versions and PDFs <a href="https://throughultansdoor.bigcartel.com/">here</a>. <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/at-long-last-through-ultans-door-issue-1.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/at-long-last-through-ultans-door-issue-1.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2018-10-15T08:58:00-07:00'>8:58 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/at-long-last-through-ultans-door-issue-1.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 7 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=6551776417179778118&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zines' rel='tag'>Zines</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, October 5, 2018</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIC2BwrIPeciXN-6gs0U0H1BJYe3mb8lR9i0ZOOk8iY49Mx2RS74k8t7r1Bmt-tEkC63cGWBjRz4JJvUGKiqVoGfREw4n_B_1GAF6tp5Dlv13KZTGiLPg_tc_pkKqtCI2cHB2Kdir5ZVA/s400/IMG_0229.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='1242929273581184499' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='1242929273581184499'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine.html'>So You Want to Make a Zine: Paper Selection and Physical Assembly</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-1242929273581184499' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIC2BwrIPeciXN-6gs0U0H1BJYe3mb8lR9i0ZOOk8iY49Mx2RS74k8t7r1Bmt-tEkC63cGWBjRz4JJvUGKiqVoGfREw4n_B_1GAF6tp5Dlv13KZTGiLPg_tc_pkKqtCI2cHB2Kdir5ZVA/s1600/IMG_0229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIC2BwrIPeciXN-6gs0U0H1BJYe3mb8lR9i0ZOOk8iY49Mx2RS74k8t7r1Bmt-tEkC63cGWBjRz4JJvUGKiqVoGfREw4n_B_1GAF6tp5Dlv13KZTGiLPg_tc_pkKqtCI2cHB2Kdir5ZVA/s400/IMG_0229.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> So I've been working away on my first zine, Through Ultan's Door, and the first issue is ready for physical assembly. Along the way, I got a lot of good advice from other people about techniques and gear. I then fiddled around with their suggestions, learned about different kinds (weights) of paper, found out about the maddening limitations of various printers, and thought about weird stuff like how you actually staple on the incredibly narrow spine of a folded piece of paper. I thought I'd share the fruits of my experience with you, because you might want to try your hand at the zine game. This is the post I wish I could have read when I was embarking on this. <div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Selecting Paper</h3> <br /> Suppose that writing, art, and layout are done. You have a PDF ready to print. The first thing you need to think about is what kind of paper you want to use to print the zine. This is obviously true if you're printing at home. But if you're printing at a print shop, you'll still need to select paper from their stock or provide your own. <div><br /></div><div>Broadly speaking, paper is divided between "paper" and cardstock. Cardstock is the thicker stuff, literally the stock for business cards and wedding invitations. There are <a href="https://paperworks.com/about-paper-weights">three different weighting</a> systems that people use to classify the thickness and sturdiness of paper. The most commonly used in the US is a system that simply puts paper and cardstock on a single spectrum by weight: 20 lbs is normal printing and copier paper, 28 or 32 lbs is what you might print a nice resume or brochure on, and 60 lbs + is cardstock. Another weighting system, used for example by French Paper Co, employs a separate scale for paper and for cardstock. On this system paper is called "text", so there'll be a weight and then the letter "t", and cardstock is called "cover" ("c"). So, for example, on this system 80t might be much less thick than 60c. Confusing, I know, but the link above converts the various measures for you.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> This really matters because the weight of paper you use has all kinds of consequences, including aesthetics, price, the viability of trimming your zine, and what your printer is able to handle. The most important thing to say is that you really need to test out different paper weights and types on the printers you intend to use. Luckily, you can usually order single sheet samples of paper pretty cheaply from paper sellers (like $1 a piece). As Nick Kuntz taught me, if you want <i>really</i> fancy paper, the French Paper Co. will send you samples of every single paper style at every single weight they sell for $30 plus shipping. </div> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSyo00kT7wRQvGY87sV8TjAQc3poMLlj8ltoOvh8X8TX8hbD7dNQtJBN3PCevNVEMxpmHBcch-hv_bUfIX8aSDEDWfAR6EgHjHjXK1RZPzeGuB7782DK_iRcGFP3v0gmtq2oKVPQo-Fi4/s1600/5_16_13_FrenchPaper_1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSyo00kT7wRQvGY87sV8TjAQc3poMLlj8ltoOvh8X8TX8hbD7dNQtJBN3PCevNVEMxpmHBcch-hv_bUfIX8aSDEDWfAR6EgHjHjXK1RZPzeGuB7782DK_iRcGFP3v0gmtq2oKVPQo-Fi4/s400/5_16_13_FrenchPaper_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You'll get a huge box like this if you do.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> People usually use a sturdier cardstock for the zine cover, and lighter paper for the zine interior. If this is your first attempt and you have a limited budget, my advice would definitely be to go with a 20 lb interior and 60 lb cover, both of which you can purchase on Amazon with free delivery if you have prime. 20 lb is normal paper for the interior, and a 60 lb cover is just enough of a difference to give it the feel of a cover. These are the normal, baseline weights for most zines I see.<br /> <br /> The first issue of my zine consists largely of the dungeon that lies on the other side of Ultan's door. I really wanted the zine to be usable at the table. So I decided to produce a zine with a detachable cover with a map on the reverse, like old school modules, that could even stand up like a tiny DM's screen. I also decided to include a separate card with the encounter table reproduced on it, so that you could have the map, random encounters, and key all open at the table, running the whole thing straight from the zine.<br /> <br /> For this reason, I went with a French Paper Co. 100c cover, which it turns out my inkjet printer can handle printing. (<span style="color: red;">EDIT from future Ben: hahahahaha NO, this broke my printer eventually</span>). It has a very sturdy feel and stands up nicely when opened at the table. In the end, for the interior I went with French Paper Co. 80t "smart white" paper, which is roughly 32 lb interior on nice looking paper because I could. This zine's been three years in the making, and so I want it to be nice. I'd say 32 lb is about the most deluxe you might want to go on the interior paper if you want it to look anything a zine, and still be able to trim it. <br /> <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Physical Assembly</h3><br />If you print at a print shop or at Mixam you can have them assemble your zine for you. But suppose you print it at home, or you get it printed at the print shop, but do the assembly yourself at home. (<span style="color: red;">EDIT from future Ben: I started out with issue 1 printing at home, then switched half way through to printing in a print shop for the remainder of issue 1 and on to issue 2. But for both issues I assembled everything by hand at home.) </span>In that case, once you have your zine printed, you will need to fold it. I find that it's hard to get a really neat fold if you try to fold all the sheets at once, there's a lot of rounding and stress marks on the paper, and it's hard to keep the fold perfectly straight. However, an amazing device called a Score Pad recommended to me by Keith J. Davies solved that problem for me. It comes with a handy little bone folder to score the paper.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz8ajVjZEt5zs9bQfmcgZqzQQy0uhFfnrWLlkudoP7kty6DXRjyiylr9V_uEk002OFs-Sl6VIlS25LzBxpTdsRZcNLjGtT7wyvbBKhReKDF-ySENKK2Ty83h6TlxZ4kS49sAz4YehG2P0/s1600/IMG_0203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz8ajVjZEt5zs9bQfmcgZqzQQy0uhFfnrWLlkudoP7kty6DXRjyiylr9V_uEk002OFs-Sl6VIlS25LzBxpTdsRZcNLjGtT7wyvbBKhReKDF-ySENKK2Ty83h6TlxZ4kS49sAz4YehG2P0/s400/IMG_0203.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> You lay the paper or cardstock on the score pad, which has a ruler along the top with tiny little grooves running along each 1/8" marking. You can then run the bone folder lightly along the groove you selected (5 1/2" in my case) to make a light score that doesn't damage the paper. You then can fold it over using the guard rail to the right to make a perfect, neat fold.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2W2dCI6hZYyq0hDV9P25pFgT7YPg7EraKUYc0dBRg6y90_UEXPxhjwWSbb5HWBXui02CJyJ1OAHzjq96qL_HJpMXVDPhyRJCwoiyk9Y-cVHTS9-cUXJrBamLiokIQaJhTpHuRYr-GDY/s1600/IMG_0208.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2W2dCI6hZYyq0hDV9P25pFgT7YPg7EraKUYc0dBRg6y90_UEXPxhjwWSbb5HWBXui02CJyJ1OAHzjq96qL_HJpMXVDPhyRJCwoiyk9Y-cVHTS9-cUXJrBamLiokIQaJhTpHuRYr-GDY/s400/IMG_0208.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhENgBDVkbBH1_7ZQPd2cZvjTCH97QWxT5RpSVcPyJ5Jq6q1Et46Ow7L6ZzH306nGhH0f1QLH32blo4pjC3J5Lt8FzmRPfj7T4I0Pn-av_loDrmngVgiK725sHTYkZ5QrSanqZqt-Z7eAw/s1600/IMG_0209.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhENgBDVkbBH1_7ZQPd2cZvjTCH97QWxT5RpSVcPyJ5Jq6q1Et46Ow7L6ZzH306nGhH0f1QLH32blo4pjC3J5Lt8FzmRPfj7T4I0Pn-av_loDrmngVgiK725sHTYkZ5QrSanqZqt-Z7eAw/s400/IMG_0209.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> If you score it heavily enough, it'll fold immediately over into a perfect fold. But that might damage the paper and cardstock, so I use a second tool to flatten the page. Jarret Crader recommended this next amazing device to me, a Cosmos 4-inch Rubber Brayer Roller. It's a little roller that does the job very quickly and neatly by running it along the front of the spine of the paper like so.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeZni_1BwuA7-2MZbFaB8Grq_fAvLsQ2j-1ibGxwn9g2_GZZk88BHNdImCGj7TCn6zurmvAOk6hYOHbtync9Sd01ci_bWFgviK8wurhdqpBAjsTIxqetw-ZQkpNyBDgawms7VwkCaocU/s1600/IMG_0210.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWeZni_1BwuA7-2MZbFaB8Grq_fAvLsQ2j-1ibGxwn9g2_GZZk88BHNdImCGj7TCn6zurmvAOk6hYOHbtync9Sd01ci_bWFgviK8wurhdqpBAjsTIxqetw-ZQkpNyBDgawms7VwkCaocU/s400/IMG_0210.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> I do this process for the cover and every page of the zine, stacking up the finished pages until I have a complete booklet. Next comes stapling. I tried two techniques. Many folks recommended the Bostitch booklet stapler to me.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJSzDR7rH9pZ2Pifvtj01QIMawyBOjM1GHh_7kGX7Klxd3C0FIRE5oN2ivcvCzKuBIei9cSeM_U8TUsXVakcAFskD2HSZNCNsuDn3rxvcqNICB2FQvklkHnnu6T3WS593HBZVqpyIFGU/s1600/IMG_0217.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJSzDR7rH9pZ2Pifvtj01QIMawyBOjM1GHh_7kGX7Klxd3C0FIRE5oN2ivcvCzKuBIei9cSeM_U8TUsXVakcAFskD2HSZNCNsuDn3rxvcqNICB2FQvklkHnnu6T3WS593HBZVqpyIFGU/s400/IMG_0217.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> But I found it really hard to use so as to get a perfect staple right on the crease of the spine. This matters, because if it's not on the spine, then the pages of the zine don't turn properly towards either the front or the back. The technique I hit upon instead uses the more traditional longarm stapler. I'm using the Swingline model. It comes with a ruler and a guide. I calibrate the ruler precisely to the right distance and then line the zine up with the Score Pad as a rail to keep it straight. After stapling the top, I just rotate the zine and do the bottom. Although it's not 100% fool proof, I've found it works pretty well to deliver almost perfect staples even for someone clumsy like me.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1oCfaiD9_67nUhTOhUSPm76vfLMS8PQTTU4Z2f9ocTytWdZJPyAI5S3NC2sM9vgc7qUBhjL_kTub_K8RhVzXBw3Dy5HguT1ORLC690ZIXOeQc_v8XJDLA8SrBT6F-3s745BLVb4g8f8/s1600/IMG_0213.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1oCfaiD9_67nUhTOhUSPm76vfLMS8PQTTU4Z2f9ocTytWdZJPyAI5S3NC2sM9vgc7qUBhjL_kTub_K8RhVzXBw3Dy5HguT1ORLC690ZIXOeQc_v8XJDLA8SrBT6F-3s745BLVb4g8f8/s400/IMG_0213.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JTBBeGYETpqWE0nH0h_qjFRVgCny_fN5njBpG09_claOwQRIlNqN9rOtoGRy1WZndF_Nnim88zNAODbceA57rtiXsNCGoD72VjX_qu8RkgO3JgXebJGVV_V_1ymbDfoBCorYur4tapg/s1600/IMG_0215.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JTBBeGYETpqWE0nH0h_qjFRVgCny_fN5njBpG09_claOwQRIlNqN9rOtoGRy1WZndF_Nnim88zNAODbceA57rtiXsNCGoD72VjX_qu8RkgO3JgXebJGVV_V_1ymbDfoBCorYur4tapg/s400/IMG_0215.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBn7sPznum6WvFDaK7pdPctxm6_iqxdsSjCaXtL7qWTNaesHFtK0U0aUYstn34X5psnzX6vYy8XuGkaEqnYiv9Xs-HTYIPN2he3-6GxeTGHXRsjzn6MNkbmN-9PQ3cSKs1mHalrp0Rv8Q/s1600/IMG_0216.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBn7sPznum6WvFDaK7pdPctxm6_iqxdsSjCaXtL7qWTNaesHFtK0U0aUYstn34X5psnzX6vYy8XuGkaEqnYiv9Xs-HTYIPN2he3-6GxeTGHXRsjzn6MNkbmN-9PQ3cSKs1mHalrp0Rv8Q/s400/IMG_0216.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> The next step, which Jacob Hurst recommended to me, is to press the zines down under a weight in order to get the whole thing compressed into a really neat looking zine. His recommendation was putting fives zines, alternating front and back, between two pieces of cardboard, and then putting a cinder block on top of that. Since I'm an academic I don't have any cinderblocks, but I do have some excessively heavy books.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBzDVimr7jf18va-2TYj9UBWPuxmcRNW8xeX26mi9Lpldq5VXdw9YJQyWQKPYL7p4Zu8bYV9VAIorrCyWGR2d_3xS8HsxhmY_9t_lPKb922_tqMrJSPXs-aKrAKVe_5nWuTiC7WzqW0Q/s1600/IMG_0211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBzDVimr7jf18va-2TYj9UBWPuxmcRNW8xeX26mi9Lpldq5VXdw9YJQyWQKPYL7p4Zu8bYV9VAIorrCyWGR2d_3xS8HsxhmY_9t_lPKb922_tqMrJSPXs-aKrAKVe_5nWuTiC7WzqW0Q/s400/IMG_0211.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyk74vr3gKpKWeW73oVrDGfA3iik57ARLDGc4otwmnrkk__-0VVrNUbtGYUHewUif1uVRoRiIOmVXmNNqj46EiqM8BVoxah0X4T5mF_UgrDKgy0iEc_CxfqWt9jeJfyqyF221HWjUZGuE/s1600/IMG_0218.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyk74vr3gKpKWeW73oVrDGfA3iik57ARLDGc4otwmnrkk__-0VVrNUbtGYUHewUif1uVRoRiIOmVXmNNqj46EiqM8BVoxah0X4T5mF_UgrDKgy0iEc_CxfqWt9jeJfyqyF221HWjUZGuE/s400/IMG_0218.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I knew the Complete Oxford Encyclopedia would come in handy one day.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> Once you have your neatly pressed zines, the next and final step is to trim them. When you fold a whole bunch of paper over, the thickness of each sheet pushes the next sheet forward, so that the sheets closer to the middle stick out. This is not very neat or pretty looking.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhVYWFQe9NoYr0rsnCtKja6DgG_3urmjS_y-poW9S179GuGZ09wDKbhystjZnBNz7nu3UvcGahx8B-l6wPmqFJwjjkifw4Yj-qiwNNylpgQ-QKQyuYjVlkvP05FbRr0DbHMEElqvTcqQ/s1600/IMG_0227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhVYWFQe9NoYr0rsnCtKja6DgG_3urmjS_y-poW9S179GuGZ09wDKbhystjZnBNz7nu3UvcGahx8B-l6wPmqFJwjjkifw4Yj-qiwNNylpgQ-QKQyuYjVlkvP05FbRr0DbHMEElqvTcqQ/s400/IMG_0227.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> So the final step, at least for perfectionist is to trim the zine. First it's worth saying that not everyone trims their zines. If you're cool with a ragged edge that screams DIY, that's great, you're done. But if not, and you want that neat trimmed edge, things might get complicated. Most affordable paper trimmers are not capable of handling the thickness of your zine. </div><div><br /></div><div>Issues 1 & 2 of Through Ultan's Door were each 36 interior page zines (big but not so big), that's 9 sheets doubled over, for a total of 18 sheets you have to trim through. That's a lot of sheets to shear clean through without error. And it's even worse if you're using a heavier paper weight, like I am. Most cheap paper guillotine trimmers can handle 15 sheets. So you would have either really force it, leaving a bit of a ragged edge, or trim half of the zine at a time, which may leave it looking uneven. Another thing you should know is that you really need to get a trimmer that has a clamp to hold the zine steady, or you might get an uneven cut. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can get a heavy duty paper trimmer with a clamp for around $110. That means that for a lot folks on a lower budget, trimming might end up being too pricey. One solution is that even if you print at home I've heard you can bring your zines to a print shop and have them trim them for you, so you might want to look into doing that.</div><div> <br /> Since I'm planning on doing this for a long while, following Gabor Lux's suggestion, my major capital investment was a very fancy paper trimmer. So meet the Terminator of office trimmers, the Dahle 564 Paper Guillotine, capable of handling 40 sheets, with a handy clamp. It even has a laser to show you exactly where you'll be cutting.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeOWXcMEIK-ZXmyRxo9XocX7EKlm40UemqNEn5w-9kcgMRJd0rW9rfnlLeAbocZdtIJdVdzqOQ8owlouLg9gXaqKes6dCoML6jEzBeFGBd3eIovfAFdY3isaZRaGfQ8TgykdpqYiWyezY/s1600/IMG_0219.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeOWXcMEIK-ZXmyRxo9XocX7EKlm40UemqNEn5w-9kcgMRJd0rW9rfnlLeAbocZdtIJdVdzqOQ8owlouLg9gXaqKes6dCoML6jEzBeFGBd3eIovfAFdY3isaZRaGfQ8TgykdpqYiWyezY/s400/IMG_0219.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> Here it is in action. Did I mention it has a laser?<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUKJ6kdPXSPjL2SgdvQQte6ItJ7KsCVjUkUVRqydq0p2_Zy-PTeCEo4Ac5GL0u3kZb0xaVWPwYcgsNss94_O9__i713GQ8evXeBrBqD8fGqpW5swSRe2_YHdHRxiqfuFZbhSnpoz1-QIU/s1600/IMG_0226.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUKJ6kdPXSPjL2SgdvQQte6ItJ7KsCVjUkUVRqydq0p2_Zy-PTeCEo4Ac5GL0u3kZb0xaVWPwYcgsNss94_O9__i713GQ8evXeBrBqD8fGqpW5swSRe2_YHdHRxiqfuFZbhSnpoz1-QIU/s400/IMG_0226.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> Be careful when you use a paper guillotine. The pricey ones all come with guards, but it's still very easy to cut yourself on them. And for goodness sakes, don't leave it where a child could get at it. Here's a before and after on the trimming. It makes a big difference.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjui8DcVGUfS3n0I4CwiSghq4CL61UQUrhLLZTWcoXOyk3yv0UKAjLQzk15_bX7_n78_8pP0CWSV0n8gScVdq8eU467Iay_IEQsgwO-9-_2agtzEpe9D9Cq4NgpoOFPJXRzLEh6592XAyc/s1600/IMG_0227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjui8DcVGUfS3n0I4CwiSghq4CL61UQUrhLLZTWcoXOyk3yv0UKAjLQzk15_bX7_n78_8pP0CWSV0n8gScVdq8eU467Iay_IEQsgwO-9-_2agtzEpe9D9Cq4NgpoOFPJXRzLEh6592XAyc/s400/IMG_0227.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKrSz59vw2Jr9-FTnPTTWqImqIuS_5S0qMChhiq4-FFVXCyiYd-PCSPmZfwjcqDKYG_IzOwwJhpKcNAmlZIBpzyFA6hN_E0iGIOeRY1csv0hEqzIKURqIKpHuVAtC9G9BEDXLxl5m2N_w/s1600/IMG_0228.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKrSz59vw2Jr9-FTnPTTWqImqIuS_5S0qMChhiq4-FFVXCyiYd-PCSPmZfwjcqDKYG_IzOwwJhpKcNAmlZIBpzyFA6hN_E0iGIOeRY1csv0hEqzIKURqIKpHuVAtC9G9BEDXLxl5m2N_w/s400/IMG_0228.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> And here's a pic of the finished product. It shows the map on the interior cover, the key, and the encounter card (propped up) all in action.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlJcdAGybAJIDkgeHOfUTreqWjoAYB45jgxnLZ3s1bZ8_thbXXPPz40ckZzkweg5585p04FQklDayJfQAWc3dc9nU0V9OEG7mtg1fZHrIAIYivFTWsqjlwAlllB17Y2MdKIcVC0uSq9U/s1600/IMG_0230.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlJcdAGybAJIDkgeHOfUTreqWjoAYB45jgxnLZ3s1bZ8_thbXXPPz40ckZzkweg5585p04FQklDayJfQAWc3dc9nU0V9OEG7mtg1fZHrIAIYivFTWsqjlwAlllB17Y2MdKIcVC0uSq9U/s320/IMG_0230.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> Now I just need to make 200 or so of these things. Not counting the time spent in the press when yo can be folding other zines, it takes me 4 minutes and 7 seconds to assemble each zine. With about another minute to stuff and hand-label the envelope, that's roughly 5 minutes a zine. So I guess that's 16.5 hours of zine assembly. See you guys in a couple of weeks.</div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2018-10-05T13:42:00-07:00'>1:42 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2018/10/so-you-want-to-make-zine.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 13 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=1242929273581184499&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/So%20You%20Want%20to%20Make%20a%20Zine%3F' rel='tag'>So You Want to Make a Zine?</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/the%20Hobby' rel='tag'>the Hobby</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door' rel='tag'>Through Ultan's Door</a>, <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Zines' rel='tag'>Zines</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> <div class='blog-pager' id='blog-pager'> <span id='blog-pager-older-link'> <a class='blog-pager-older-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Through%20Ultan%27s%20Door?updated-max=2018-10-05T13:42:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=12&by-date=false' id='Blog1_blog-pager-older-link' title='Older Posts'>Older Posts</a> </span> <a class='home-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/'>Home</a> </div> <div class='clear'></div> <div class='blog-feeds'> <div class='feed-links'> Subscribe to: <a class='feed-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default' target='_blank' type='application/atom+xml'>Posts (Atom)</a> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class='column-left-outer'> <div class='column-left-inner'> <aside> </aside> </div> </div> <div class='column-right-outer'> <div class='column-right-inner'> <aside> <div class='sidebar section' id='sidebar-right-1'><div class='widget BlogList' data-version='1' id='BlogList1'> <h2 class='title'>Gateways to Wonder</h2> <div class='widget-content'> <div class='blog-list-container' id='BlogList1_container'> <ul id='BlogList1_blogs'> <li style='display: block;'> <div class='blog-icon'> <img data-lateloadsrc='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vVSm2bkPX1a8GUng9MxSzwDm_eemAkabtCP_vDTwfrvAfyyyJOqXiDweRJBqUMnMc04D5cEZlMMnAAYlfY4x5R0nCT9hTip3h2jlabDn8fa0fmqiMg=s16-w16-h16' height='16' width='16'/> </div> <div class='blog-content'> <div class='blog-title'> <a href='https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/' target='_blank'> All Dead Generations</a> </div> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' height='72' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdefNACLWG2-bmVvBwiN8kWUVaFsWzKikiRtA6uuSraEDfGvHTjmtc99TbDbHKvEsxgEo-B0hX_vmaMnhF6pezIIizSZqthIW8_w4Art3uS5ynE5lMDrkIbVXyjgiS7wwoNcwptb19rip-x4SNgAORrE38nR6pRcMn2gN97HKQ1AhVNYJ4yJOuJ85ULiZs/s72-w297-h438-c/Stena.png' width='72'/> </a> </div> <span class='item-title'> <a href='https://alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2025/02/ive-been-running-ongoing-crystal.html' target='_blank'> A Few Crystals More 1 - 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It started when we were walking home from grade school in winter, through ...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-emergent-story-and.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPkmuYO0aq3a2-lnID9fIU6_eq1K9j8OvvGEDimTVc3qUvnF7iUoosaBRBhTcd4U4YNulhIaP9u9KGJZUFGaA7Xw0lya2OI7X-nSAO-Ki6g-8Vm0UvgkF_ZfK1fGSWTWbimcbgs3QwoLA/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/Explored_lvl1.jpg'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-emergent-story-and.html'>Pleasures of the OSR: Emergent Story and Open Worlds</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> This is the second post in a series where I explore the OSR play style by considering the different pleasures it makes available....</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-secrecy-and-discovery.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYcoBrWIAJaUZ_ubXCrE9B5aI2cVlyLMVtn-7TwhtB0UNuA-Feq1VQZK6HnimIwAiQshFpXSc52yl8Plr7SDM8pD9OAezTSFZ2jO1kGq7hOM8nud4G2NIUOu5rhSzBxnzEZn-pumT9NY/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/14715642732_bbfb2cb415_o.jpg'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-secrecy-and-discovery.html'>Pleasures of the OSR: Secrecy and Discovery</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> This is the first in a series of posts that try to say something about the theory of the OSR style of play. I promise never to use jar...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/02/crossroads.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwI5QHbZsik290-Wy_J7V8EjKthPxK6_FYqBlMsqDv9RhAdLGvgBb-pvV31aDXVSt0xzh5Y7poeTA9oeWRzgpgp7pTZkCcBFWbRJc46p9mPxLkfNS07gfVPkbsVJGwSxx3Lp9-Xq8LLoI/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/0_ln2VfaxAoPMIZ6Zv.jpeg'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/02/crossroads.html'>Crossroads</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> I believe Mandy, Jennifer, Hannah and Vivka. If you haven't read their harrowing accounts of Zak Smith's abuse, you should go d...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/08/using-landmarks-in-wilderness-travel.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-238OGfUAm0RuCf9gRARkb5KFLFZT7lKhTDHP78mjImnCmXPvrJxNx1eHNpdB6-yUmAZXScuh58JrMqcylSf68GR99Vk6zPjVzIIYleW-M4eQZ73zGbYqgTpOYaOOky2r5n8rsx_ZqGE/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/5145.jpeg'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/08/using-landmarks-in-wilderness-travel.html'>Using Landmarks in Wilderness Travel</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> I've been continuing work on my Jorune: Evolutions ruleset. Recently I've been working on wilderness exploration rules. One thing I...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2022/12/megadungeon-2023.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9qDYZdMOG10GotiAOI1WqD-n1-yTpCZmatYvK1zUw-sAgrj2HpXtMD8vQjG6vlHPl5REiM12i5ZopXFyodifvkO_HawroPMrXxAvKeqlT79nmJs57Y0d43Or0n9U7_aqef4L9UL5VqjiiYFKPdDnMxwdfVVvxi4FPkAZnFn5AD5ehSDXD-Sdjtfs_/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-05%20at%208.26.09%20PM.png'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2022/12/megadungeon-2023.html'>DUNGEON23</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> So Sean McCoy posted this on Twitter.  He wrote about it more on his substack here . Sean is calling the challenge #Dungeon23. The challeng...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> </ul> <div class='clear'></div> </div> </div><div class='widget BlogArchive' data-version='1' id='BlogArchive2'> <h2>Blog Archive</h2> <div class='widget-content'> <div id='ArchiveList'> <div id='BlogArchive2_ArchiveList'> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2025/'> 2025 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2025/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2025/02/becoming-human-mothership-downtime.html'>Becoming 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<ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  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