Update - 17/06/2024

Hello, everyone! Welcome to another weekly update! This has been another week focused on Carnage & Aether. I Finally wrapped up the Masteries section, and I'm pretty happy with it! I ended up removing two Masteries (Ritualist and Tracker) because I couldn't really make them work in an arena setting. But I did add three new ones: Force Tactician, Dreadshot, and Strategist, so that means the game has twenty one Masteries. Combined with all the gear Properties, that's a lot of customization options! Literally over two hundred of them in total. My goal is that players make different sets of gear for different occasions, but I'll not know how well it works until I can playtest it.

It's pretty clear now that I'll not be done with the game in time for this month, so I'm afraid Patreon members will be getting the first half (more or less) of the game this month, instead of the whole thing. You will, at least, be able to start learning the rules and planning characters. David has already started working on the character sheet so I hope it will be done before the month's over. Once I'm ready, I will be needing a lot of playtesting, so if any of you wants to help me out with that, I would really appreciate it! Let me know if that's the case.

Here's a finished spread for you guys, I think it's looking really cool!

It's going to be a while before the game is fully done because José Antonio is still working his way through the Ker Nethalas zine, and he still needs to make eight more illustrations for it. Once he's done with that he'll start working on the C&A ones. I only have the full-page illustrations for now, the ones that Marcin made for me a couple of weeks ago. I'm hoping the game will be truly finished by the end of summer, fingers crossed!

This last week I finally got the Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate Kickstarter funds, so today I'll send the WIP PDF to backers. It's actually really close to being done: it's just missing the stretch goal stuff, and about 10 illustrations. It's a good thing I started commissioning art for it about 6 months ago. It's definitely going to look gorgeous, and I hope people love it as much as I do. With the random trial rules in, this is the version of the game I envisioned when I started writing it. I can't wait to hold it in my hands!

So that's it for now, I'm going back to C&A, to see if I can wrap up the Patron rules, and the list of stuff you can buy with Patron Favor.

Have a great week!