Gentlemen, thank you for the interest. Rather than mass-quote several of you, I'll address today's questions in general.
The total word count on this book is around 85,000. Those of you who've previously bought
The Pacific Northwest will have a basis for comparison: that one was about 65,000 words. As a professional writer, I find word count to be a more accurate measure of content than page count, as it's easy to inflate page count with large fonts (looking at you, first edition 7th Sea) or lots of art. Those who were happy with PNW's look and feel should be comfortable with
Tara Romaneasca, as we reused my layout settings from PNW. I have a fondness for the classic 1e trade dress and I like to think I got pretty close.
There is no preview because Marc didn't ask me for one. He didn't ask me for one for PNW, either. In the interest of transparency, though, here are the major chapters and their respective word counts, rounded to the nearest thousand:
- Romanian History, Geography, and Culture - 9,000 words
- Romania's Twilight War History - 7,000 words
- Major Faction - Romania (military and government) - 9,000 words
- Major Faction - NATO - 7,000 words
- Major Faction - Warsaw Pact - 11,000
- Minor Factions - 8,000
- US State Department - 7,000
- Running Campaigns in Romania - 7,000
- Supernatural Options - 6,000
(I'm not listing word counts for the rules material because careers, weapons, and vehicles get screwy when assessed by word count.)
Again, those of you familiar with PNW will find the organization of many of these sections to be broadly familiar. It seemed to be a successful template, so we scraped a lot from it when we assembled the project outline for
Tara Romaneasca.
- C.