Toadmaster
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Several months ago I started working on a little project related to early 20th century travel. It was originally just a forum post for Call of Cthulhu about the state of roads and headlights in the 1920s United States. Should have been 2 pages tops.
Well being a serious history nerd, I get into the history of everything from the development of the ball point pen, to the founding of the nation. It doesn't matter to me, history is cool big and small.
Anyway on this "little" project I went down a rabbit hole and what started off fairly simple has now grown to encompass Air, Sea and Land travel from the post civil war era to the 1940s, with some inclusion of travelling abroad (mostly travel to and from the US). I'm presently up to 13 single spaced pages, and still going, it could easily be 20-25 pages by the time I'm done.
I've now got a lot of time into this and am thinking maybe it would be worth developing it into a real little booklet (pdf). Laid out in a more pleasing way, with a few illustrations, some tables summarizing important facts from the body it would probably top out around 40 pages. Entirely systemless, basically a series of short essays about travel during the period.
I don't expect to make much money off if it, but if it paid for a game now and them that would be nice. I've never done any thing like this before, so it would be nice to hear from some who have, get some tips, encouragement, or an honest assessment of not worth the trouble.
A couple pieces of trivia as a reward for reading all the way to the bottom, did you know there were still sailing ships hauling cargo in the 1950s? In 2019 it is only 2 hours faster to travel from New York City to San Francisco by train, than in the 1880s.
Well being a serious history nerd, I get into the history of everything from the development of the ball point pen, to the founding of the nation. It doesn't matter to me, history is cool big and small.
Anyway on this "little" project I went down a rabbit hole and what started off fairly simple has now grown to encompass Air, Sea and Land travel from the post civil war era to the 1940s, with some inclusion of travelling abroad (mostly travel to and from the US). I'm presently up to 13 single spaced pages, and still going, it could easily be 20-25 pages by the time I'm done.
I've now got a lot of time into this and am thinking maybe it would be worth developing it into a real little booklet (pdf). Laid out in a more pleasing way, with a few illustrations, some tables summarizing important facts from the body it would probably top out around 40 pages. Entirely systemless, basically a series of short essays about travel during the period.
I don't expect to make much money off if it, but if it paid for a game now and them that would be nice. I've never done any thing like this before, so it would be nice to hear from some who have, get some tips, encouragement, or an honest assessment of not worth the trouble.
A couple pieces of trivia as a reward for reading all the way to the bottom, did you know there were still sailing ships hauling cargo in the 1950s? In 2019 it is only 2 hours faster to travel from New York City to San Francisco by train, than in the 1880s.