Update - 01/07/2024

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was spent writing, as usual. I'm now once again completely focused on writing for Carnage & Aether, after I spent the last two weeks working on the layout for Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate, and the first four C&A chapters. I finally uploaded the text-complete version of RHBF to DTRPG and backers are already playing the game. So far everyone seems to like it! I've received a lot of useful feedback as well, so I'm happy with how it's going. I'll be sending it to print later this month, once I get all the missing art (which I think should be done before the month's over, or at least that's what it looks like). I still think this game is going to be a sleeper hit, considering how gorgeous it's going to look, and that the core rules are familiar to most folks.

The first half of C&A is here on Patreon, finally, and I've received some very useful feedback already. I've finally finished writing the Gear chapter, so the only one left is the one dedicated to all the stuff you'll be fighting! I think that what I'm going to do is write the core behavior rules (actually just refine them, since those rules were the first thing I wrote for the game), write a couple of enemies, and start playtesting it all, before I actually go ahead and write the whole bestiary. A few of you have offered playtesting the game, so I'll make sure you get this playtest version as well (which will be the whole game, sans most of the creatures). I think that having 3-4 enemies and an Elite to fight should be enough to see how the game plays. There are several aspects that I know I'll have to tweak based on how they feel, with Favor, Exhaustion, Shock, and overall progression being my biggest concerns.

So this week I'll try to wrap up those core elements necessary to start playtesting C&A, and if everything goes as planned, we should be able to start playtesting next week! I just hope life doesn't get in the way too much and I can actually dedicate my full attention to this, because I have a few appointments with an administrator that's going to help me and my partner solve some bullshit. Even though she's from an EU country, you cannot believe how annoying it is to get any sort of paper, and we've been trying for over a year to solve it ourselves but it's just impossible. So let's hope this person can help us!

So yeah, this week is going to be both fun and boring, haha. In any case, I'll keep you posted via Discord about my progress with C&A!

Have a great week!