Read the zine last night in one sitting. About to read Issue 02, it just arrived in the mail. Excellent work, I'm so excited to read and run this!
Two questions:
1. The table of contents (and other pages that reference page numbers) seems to be off by 2. For example, the Fixer starts on page 10, yet is listed as being on page 12. The Character Creation page and table of contents both mention Equipment as starting on page 22 - but in reality it starts on page 20. This is odd but obviously not an issue as long no content is missing. :D For reference, I have the 3rd printing, version 1.5, 2025.
2. Of all things, I was baffled by Break!! being mentioned as one of the inspirations. Not implying anything negative - but I'm just very curious how that work inspired you?
And one criticism in good faith:
The NPC & Bestiary has a lot empty space. Considering that some of the statboxes/descriptions are very small (ie Fire Mantis), the zine itself has examples of very small and economical entries, meaning that the empty space could have easily been filled up with like 4-6+ additional monsters. Further, the illustrations (ie Elder Drone and Myriad Shrike) are great but easily could have been made smaller to feature more monsters and better utilize the limited space. Hope this doesn't come off as too needy (especially as a lot of the content is purposely vague and DIY), but with the excellent art and layout throughout the zine in mind, this part was comparatively a bit disappointing.
Great luck with any and all future work - looking forward to more TEA content, especially a hardback!