Update - 21/10/2024

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. I spent it working and taking care of my dog. The surgery went fine, but she's in pain and has a huge wound held together by staples, lots of them. Unfortunately, this morning I noticed that she has some lumps on the other side of the chest, and it looks like more cysts. I'm honestly pissed off, I asked the vet to really be thorough, but he only checked one side of the body, the one with the original cysts. Most likely she's going to have to go under the knife once again for this. Aside from being really tough for her, this is also costing me a lot of money. I'm going now to the vet to talk to them.

Other than that, things are going well. I'm still neck-deep in packages, but I'll be done with the Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate orders this week, finally, and will start with the Ker Nethalas pre-orders. It's going slower than I had expected because I'm having a lot of issues with the different shipping companies. For example, the company I use for EU shipping (Skynet; I know, I should have known better, with that name) hasn't come to pick any packages since Tuesday, so that's almost a week of piling packages. They say they're looking into it, but it's really annoying. I'm hoping they'll come today, finally.

I've also made a lot of progress both with Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults and Sacrifice 2e. The layout for the character creation chapter for ATHV is done, and I'm now working on the core rules chapter. I also got some art from the different illustrators working on each project, and it's just ridiculously good. You'll be able to see it soon, since I'll be sharing stuff with you guys very soon! I'm extremely happy with the results.

I'm also happy to have finally come up with a nice way of adding proper hexploration to Sacrifice 2e. The first edition had it, but it was a bit confusing, I think, so this time I'm including a fixed map (like the ones from Forbidden Lands) with fixed landmarks and locations, and leaving the rest empty, for players to explore. There will be random tables for all sort of things, as you can expect. I'm dividing No Man's Land into four different quadrants, and the first one will be the focus of the core rules, with the other three coming in future expansions. I think it's going to work very well! Each quadrant has a main settlement that will work as your base of operations, and some minor landmarks, but like I said, the idea is that the players populate it via random tables, as they explore.

So this week it will be more of the same: preparing packages, and writing when I get the chance to do so. I hope I can get the core rules chapter for ATHV written this week, since it's just tweaking details from ATDW, and adding a few new things. I have most of the changes ready already, so it's just a matter of implementing them.

Have a great week!