I totally promised the first article in the new format for November 3rd, but I just looked at my clock and realized it’s technically November 4th in my timeline, and I’m still not finished some last-minute editing and I’m dead tired. So let’s say November 5th, instead.
The new Shadowrun Supplemental site is now live - we’ve bug-tested it a fair bit, but if you notice anything out of the ordinary, please leave a comment or send us an email.
If you use a RSS Aggregator, you can keep track of Shadowrun Supplemental news via our RSS Feed - or, of course, you can just keep checking back here!
If you are a LiveJournal user you can easily read our news by adding sr_supplemental to your friends list.
We hope to have our first release in the revised schedule ready for November 3rd.
Over the next few weeks we’ll also be building a searchable index of previous articles, and also getting BeCKS v2 online in HTML format!
Well, this is a bit of a pre-announcement, but here we go: Due to the way real life works, we are abandoning - at least for the forseeable future - the “magazine” concept. That is to say, instead of publishing a handful of articles together as one release, we are going to publish individual articles on a “when they’re ready” basis, still under the banner of The Shadowrun Supplemental. We will aim to have very little lag - a day or two at most - between posting the PDF and HTML versions of an article.
This will, hopefully, eliminate many of the bottlenecks that have plagued the magazine for years. Instead of taking 100+ man hours [often spread over several months, in our available time] to put together a 20-30 page magazine, we’ll focus on one article/piece at a time. Some articles will be small - a page or two - while others will run longer. In many ways, this is easier on us - we no longer have to worry about finding enough good articles at one time to compile into the magazine, and we don’t have to worry about an extra-large article overshadowing the rest of the magazine, etc.
We have no set publishing schedule - I’d like to have something new online every other week, but I do not know if that’s currently feasible. However, this will enable us to publish reviews and other such material in a much more timely manner.
We currently do have a backlog of articles, however our Submission Guidelines have been revised to reflect our new publishing plans.