WARNING: This text is unedited. I'm just getting a PDF ready for playtest.

The opening spread for a chapter in Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple.

The first two pages: Here you can see an overview of the character creation process.

Here you can see a breakdown of the character sheet and the first step of character creation. Each step begins with a check mark and an inset of the character sheet, noting where you should be writing the info. Also, there are frequent "Think about" questions throughout this chapter to help inspire some new ideas.

Each step ends with an example of play, as you can see on the right. The examples of play begin very simply at first, just to introduce the reader to the format.

The next few pages show the step in which you choose your pilgrim's origin. Liz Hooper is drawing different characters as examples of each Origin, some of which you can see below.

And this is a slightly longer example of play, spreading across two pages. I don't think examples of play will be much longer than this. Here you can see the example players talking back and forth as they help each other figure out their character's backgrounds.

This is an example of a more text-heavy double-page spread. Lists are called out in a sans serif font and blue type.

This is only about a quarter of the full chapter. Hoping to finish it all by Thursday before I go out of town for Friday. Liz is gonna try to finish the drawings by Saturday morning, so that'll probably be the last thing I gotta do. Saturday night is the drop-dead deadline.

Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies is a delightfully original roleplaying game.

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