One of the key features of The Biographer’s Guide is the web of relationships that tie everyone together. Only three NPCs have no connections to others in the book- everyone else is connected to several other NPCs. Here’s a quick look at the 130 relationships that you’ll find.

Occupation is one of the many pieces of information each character has in the Biographer’s Guide. While normalizing entries in the second draft, I collected the list of those occupations to share. There’s currently over 150, and keep in mind that some individuals have more than one occupation.

I’ve finished the first round of edits on the second draft- 147 pages printed, corrected, and inserted back into scrivener. Now comes the difficult part- data normalization. For Example: Each NPC has 3 or more associates that can be found elsewhere in the book- for some (like a certain gnollish spy), this is easy- others are much more difficult. Now I have to circle back and update 40 or so NPCs which are lacking associates.

I’m going to be otherwise occupied for the next few days but wanted to give a status update. Steven provided a quick video for the indiegogo campaign- I was able to insert it into the kdenlive project without much hassle (as well as his artwork) and it looks pretty decent. Next week I’d like to re-record my section of the video to be a little better quality. I was able to get the indiegogo campaign updated with the artwork- it’s pretty close to ready.

Things just got a whole lot more real. I received the first batch of portraits from Steven De Waele today and wanted to share how awesome they look.

First up is Modif the Cobalt, Priest of Sanith:

While out of town on a work trip, I spent my down time working on the Biographer’s Guide.