Talking at Open House about BTS...

[mrloucifer]

As promised I asked a few question about the state of Beyond the Supernatural, and these are snippets of what was said/done (I don’t have much time before I out for the weekend again, so snippets will have to do.)

-Kevin said point blank that he has ideas and plans for at least 4 or 5 books and he wants to write them. His plan of action currently is to get the books out that he can write/publish quickly and once those are out then he can sit down to sink his teeth into the BTS books.
He also mentioned that BTS books typically take 2-3 months to write due to their complexity (which as I sit here still slowly progressing on my own writing for a BTS sourcebook I can vouch for the time involved).

-While helping set up the shop with Kevin he did ask me outright about how the progress of my sourcebook was coming along. Reading between the lines a little there it says to me that he’s still interested in the series rather than not.

-I had the privilege Saturday night to talk to Alex M., it was supposed to be a quick 5 minute conversation, but it quickly turned into one that went on for hours (Wayne finally kicked up out around 12:30am). Besides learning what a great conversationalist Alex is, I learned some of the back story of writing the BTS2 book and what research Alex and Kevin put into it and for the next books (I wont go into details, I’ll leave Alex to do that if he’s interested).
What I can say is that he said Tomb Grotesque and Beyond Arcanum would have come out soon after BTS2 did, but the Crisis of Treachery took place just as Kevin was ramping up to write them.

-Sadly, I didn’t get a great opportunity to get into the plans for the magic system of BTS with Kevin. But the few snippets I got made it sound like magic will work in a similar capacity like Psionics in that they’re weak and usually inept without the presence of the Supernatural to energize their abilities.

-Jeff Hanson is hard at work on the “Urban Jungle” book and it will be using the same core rule system as BTS (and the recent Dead Reign). I got to see his sneak preview of Urban Jungle and I think it will be a great addition to the series and will offer a lot in the way of gangster and police stats, weapons, equip and such for use in BTS. Those of you who haven’t read the “Warpath” book written by Jeff, I encourage you to order it on the Palladium site or Amazon as it’s a good book (I’ve read twice with plans for a third soon.)

-Besides myself, there were a few other blokes who seemed interested in writing a BTS sourcebook as well, so you never can tell what’s coming with BTS… its just a matter of time.

P.S. Speaking of my stuff, I introduced one of my entities that I’ve written for my sourcebook during my VIP night Ghost Story adventure, and it met with high praise along with other new things I plan to write in. Its nice getting confirmation from other gm’s / players who like what I’ve done so far.

[Lord Z]

Thank you for the news, M-to-the-fer. Some of that info, like the confirmation of our suspicions of the new magic system, is very useful. I'm surprised that you had time to do anything considering that you scheduled yourself to run eleventy-dozen games at the House. I was going to put the Urban Jungle novel on my X-Mas wishlist, but it was out of stock at the time; maybe sometime towards the end of the year...