I got your book

[Headless]

Lords of Olympus arrived to day.  And Gossamer and Shadow.

Looking forward to reading the.  Didn't get a chance to do more than flip through before I left but they look good.

[Headless]

It's sumdged.  Some kind of flaw in the printing.  Like the paper was wrinkled and moved ever so slightly between the first and second strike.  

Not a complaint.  The complaint will go to Amazon tomorrow.  Just FYI.  If you are interesed I can post a picture of the flaw. And let you know how I do in Amazon customer service land.

[Jason D]

Which book was the flawed print?

And let me know how you liked Lords of Gossamer & Shadow. It's still an active line, and the publisher just released a huge campaign pack and rules expansion for it.

[Headless]

Lord of Olympus was flawed.  I am half way through Gossamer and Shadow.  

I like it.  It lays the rules out will, I like Wardern and Master of the Grand Stair.  Socery is still a bit wierd for me but thats not a fault in the presentation of the rules.  Just me still wraping my head around it.

My only concern is I can't find the Center.  I don't know what its about.  That makes it harder to pitch to my players and harder to drive a story myself.

With Amber or Olympus I can say "read 9 Princes, or Watch Percy Jackson."

Maybe thats by design so the DM can make his own center, maybe its dealth with in the suplaments.

[Headless]

Sent the first copy of Olympus back.  Got a new copy.  New one is beautiful, no problems.

[Malleus Aforethought]

Finally got an actual hardcopy of LoGaS when I got my gold Long Walk offer. I highly recommend it if you at liked LoGaS. 200 pages. Lots of ideas even if you don't care for the campaign world as presented in the core book. Good details on the powers expansions. I'm definitely lifting Aetheric Projection as a Power line for my campaign.

One question Jason: I haven't found an actual definition of the term "expanse" in either book, yet its used frequently, often near "Domain" and would seem to have some significance with regard to the Grand Stair and its environs. While I'm pretty sure I've intuited what was implied, maybe you could clarify what you intended with the term.

[Jason D]

One question Jason: I haven't found an actual definition of the term "expanse" in either book, yet its used frequently, often near "Domain" and would seem to have some significance with regard to the Grand Stair and its environs. While I'm pretty sure I've intuited what was implied, maybe you could clarify what you intended with the term.

That's actually a later thing, that came after me.

The core book doesn't use the term in any sort of official capacity (the word only appears twice, IIRC), and is never capitalized. My use of it was in a general sense, like one might say "the expanses of East Texas".

Rob Donoghue's Lucien's Guide to the Grand Stairs codified the term, and Kit used it extensively in his own work.

[Headless]

@ Jason D

Did you wright Gossamer?

Are you saying there are more setting books?  Things that fill in the "center" I felt was missing?

[brettmb]

I didn't notice this thread until now. I'm glad you got a good copy of Lords of Olympus in the end.

[Jason D]

@ Jason D

Did you wright Gossamer?

Are you saying there are more setting books?  Things that fill in the "center" I felt was missing?

Yes, I wrote the Lords of Gossamer & Shadow core book and created the setting.

There are a lot of expansions, including two decks of Icon cards:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=gossamer&manufacturers_id=2373&x=0&y=0&author=&artist=&pfrom=&pto=

Most notably, The Long Walk just came out... an epic campaign and rules expansion:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/205541/The-Long-Walk-Life-on-the-Grand-Stair-Diceless?manufacturers_id=2373

Despite the publisher Steve Russell's untimely death, the line is flourishing and additional products are in the queue for future release.

[Headless]

Cool.  I'm glad you are supporting the line.  As I said in my review and in the thread about supers I feel this game especially needs a the players to be very familiar with the setting and the stakes.  How much of the books if for players and how much is DMs eyes only.

[Malleus Aforethought]

Thanks. I probably have the PDFs then, just haven't read through them yet.

[Jason D]

How much of the books if for players and how much is DMs eyes only.

Page 2 of the rulebook is a brief overview, and Chapter 13 is the overall guide to the setting.

Players should be free to read Chapters 1-11 without spoiling anything, and Chapter 12 is basically campaign/adventure construction notes... not really spoilery, but some people don't like to know how the sausage is made.

Chapters 14-17 are basically the NPCs/monsters/foes sections, so generally players should steer clear.

As for the other materials... too much to break down into those categories.