Update - 26/08/2024
Hello, and welcome to the last update of the month! Summer's almost over, and I feel like it really went by really quickly. I've been extremely busy, and even if I wanted to take it easier this month (I did relax a couple of days), I've been really busy with lots of different projects and tending to the Blackoath community. I really love interacting with people, but every day I spend an average of two hours replying to comments and messages across the different social media platforms, so it's very time consuming. I'm reaching a point where I could probably hire someone to help out with that sort of stuff, but to be honest I'm still not sure if this newfound success thanks to Ker Nethalas is the new normal, or a thing that will pass. I'm weary of making big structural changes to only find out in a couple of months that it wasn't a good idea. The next step I should take, though, is registering Blackoath Entertainment as a proper business. Up until now, it's just me registered as self-employed, which is more affordable (I still pay a lot monthly in taxes, but it's worse as a business). The cool thing about being registered as a business is that then I could hire myself and assign myself a salary. As well as not having all the financial responsibility fall on my shoulders if something were to happen. If a business fails, you declare bankruptcy and that's it. If I fail as a self-employed person, I could end up in trouble.
So yeah, lots of things to consider! Like I said, for now I'm not making any changes, but if things continue this way next year, I will definitely start establishing Blackoath as a business, maybe even hire some folks. Fingers crossed!
For now, and as usual, I'm focused on getting things done. Salvage & Sorcery is moving along very nicely: this past week I finished the Gear chapter! As I mentioned before, I didn't want gear to be randomly generated this time, so to keep things interesting I wrote a D100 Gear table, and a D20 Artifact table. That's over a hundred items in total, so it should keep us busy long enough to know if people want more in the future! I'm now working on the next chapter: opponents. I will finally start playtesting it this week, and I'm confident I'll have it wrapped up this week.
It does look like I'll need another few extra days to truly wrap up the book, because I'm still only halfway done with the layout. I will, as usual, share the WIP with Patreon members, and once the final version is done, you'll receive access to it as well. All via DTRPG, as usual. I can't wait to share this game with you, it's going to look gorgeous, and be a lot of fun!
Speaking of gorgeous, check out this spread! The art in this game is going to be incredible.