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2.24.2026: Delays and Reworking

I am feeling like a rock star because I am delaying further product for quality reasons.  What am I doing?

First, I have made some alterations to System Vivo.  Specifically, I have greatly simplified the physical combat rules to improve the flow of the game.  Vivo has always strived to do combat-as-war and not combat-as-sport, and I think these new rules reenforce this.  The social conflict system is pure gold and remains untouched.

Second, I am eliminating all AI visual work from Los Huachafos product.  I am making game books, not art books.  If I was doing an art book, I would not have considered AI in the first place.  A game book does not need art, but if it has art, the art is there for the purpose of adding beauty.  Beauty requires art, not AI filler.   In stead, I am working with some local artists to add some visual art to the game.  The new addition will have less visual work, but that work will be actual art.

The text for the revised System Vivo is ready, and I am beginning the layout process.  I hope to have a revised System Vivo book out by April 2026.  I also have a real job that is the source of my income, so we shall see if I can make that deadline.