Update - 30/09/2024

Hello, and welcome to another update! I hope you all had a great weekend. I spent it working intensively on both Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults and Sacrifice 2e (yeah I know it's still far off but I can't help myself). I did play a little bit of a new Dragonbane game I've started with some friends, with me GMing it. It's a nice little system and we wanted something fast to get into, so it fits the bill nicely. I'm actually using it to playtest a bit of the larger Ker Nethalas world, and do some extensive worldbuilding, since I'm using that as a setting.

This week wasn't great on a personal level. Turns out my dog has cancer, and although it doesn't seem to be aggressive at the moment, she'll need surgery at the very least. She already had surgery two weeks ago to get a tooth and cyst removed, so it sucks she has to go through it again, and this time major surgery. Aside from the cost, which is quite a lot, as you can imagine. I'm also having a lot of stupid family drama, unexpected bills to pay, and that sort of crappy stuff, so it's been a bit difficult to concentrate lately. I honestly can say that overall I've been a lucky person and haven't had a lot of blunders in my life, especially compared to other people I know, so when I see people pushing through pain and being able to just continue living their lives and fulfill their responsibilities, I find it incredible. I just hope I have the same strength when needed. It sucks getting old and all the people around you start either dying or having big issues.

Sorry for the drama, like I said, difficult week, and I'm now going to the vet to see what they tell me. Fingers crossed!

As I'm sure you are aware of already, I posted a poll on Saturday asking why you are here. And the results surprised me a lot! I knew most of you would be here thanks to Ker Nethalas, since it's my most popular game, but that doesn't match the fact that when I asked you guys in August if you wanted more Ker Nethalas or ATDW content as this month's reward, you asked for ATDW. I guess I need to remember that even though you might have come for this or that game, once here you might want to see content for a different game. In any case, there's a nice variety of answers, although the clear winner was KN (as expected).

So what did I work on last week? I spent most of the time working on the new character rules and options for Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults. As a Vault Runner, you'll be able to absorb the Cores of defeated enemies, which initially grants you access to a Role. There are four Roles in the game: Brute, Lurker, Ranged, and Psychic. They are pretty self-explanatory, I think! Once you choose a Role, you can have up to five different Abilities from that Role available to you at once. How do you get more Abilities, you ask? By obtaining more Cores, of course. Each Role has 20 different Abilities, so you should have a nice variety of builds available. And yes, you can swap from one Core to another, it only costs some resources to do so.

During my free time, I'm working on Sacrifice 2e, because I'm just stupidly excited about it. I've already commissioned some seriously great art, and this game is probably going to be the best looking game I've produced (although ATHV is looking incredible as well, as you've seen). I finished the new Corruption rules, which are now based on your moral choices, more than simply being influenced by demonic entities, and I think it suits the morally decadent setting better. Basically, the shittier things you do, the more corrupt you'll become, gaining subtle but clear physical marks that will eventually turn you into a monster.

So this week I'll keep working on ATHV, and probably sneak some Sacrifice development here and there as well. Both games are going to be incredible, you'll see! Oh yeah, and it's really likely that Salvage & Sorcery will become available this week, too!

Have a great one!