So we ran a playtest on September 10th, people tried out the new races nobody even took a human. Folks seemed to like the new classes as well, the Hacker turned out to be kind of a Swiss Army Knife for the party. The guy playing the Hacker took the alien Robot race and we decided on some rules changes for them as different things came up that set robots apart from the other races.

I realized that the two rulesets that I was trying to smash together were more different that I thought, D20 Modern has a lot of D&D 3.0 relics in it, and Pathfinder is based on D&D 3.5 with some upgrades. So I've had to check the eratta for both systems, its not hard, just more detail stuff.

As the base rules begin to gel together, I realize that there is very little of the setting information in the core book manuscript yet. So that is something I need to address shortly.

I am very happy to be working with a couple of real art machines and

Both of these guys work fast and seem to know exactly what I'm thinking when we're working on a project.

One of these days I'm going to write a how-to from the patron's side on comissioning artwork, you always see from the artist's side how not to get burned, but nothing for somebody with money in their pocket and no idea what they would like to see drawn. I think the $20 bust comissions and sketch cards we see so often do so well because the customer doesn't have to do much besides name their favorite character.

I have after 3 months of email on and off hired my first freelance writer to work on a section of the book. Like the comic book pages I comissioned a while back, directing writers is way different than having an artist do one picture.

Paul