Update - 04/11/2024

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was nice, on Saturday I had not one but two different birthday parties (lunch and dinner) so I spent the whole day out. Sunday I compensated and spent it working the whole day. I'm currently trying to get the Karum Station Blues scenario for Across a Thousand Dead Worlds done. I should have the layout finished this week, which means the artists can start working on all the art! I should be able to release it next month, as planned. It's a really, really cool addition to the game, and a lot of fun. I hope people enjoy it!

I also finally got approved on Amazon for Carnage & Aether, but the hardcover on DTRPG was flagged, so I'll need longer before I can order those proofs. Still, I'm hoping the game will be ready for release within the next two weeks. I'll keep you posted!

After a lot of discussion about Salvage & Sorcery on the Blackoath Discord, I decided to add a little thing called Scalation Mode that makes the game more difficult, for increased rewards. It will be added to the game's downloads for free, as it's just an extra page. I think it should help those who think the game is too easy to find a bit more of a challenge!

This week I'm hoping I'll finally be able to ship all the pending orders. We couldn't do so for a couple of days because of the brutal floods here in Spain. Even though I'm far from the affected area, transport companies are still having issues, and they didn't come to pick up any packages. I'm lucky and nobody I know has been hurt, so thank you all who wrote me and asked me about it! Since the politicians are doing the usual and just spend their time arguing about it, it's the common folks (the working class) who have taken matters into their own hands and are all heading over there to help with everything they can. It almost makes me believe in humanity again, when I see this amazing outpouring of solidarity and support. My boxing gym has organized a collect and in a single day the whole damn place was PACKED with bags of food, water, and all sorts of supplies. They are now renting some vans and driving to Valencia to deliver it directly to the folks who need it. This is what means to be part of a community: direct action. While the king and the politicians went there for the usual photo sessions, the people are doing all the actual helping. And the incredible emergency services, of course. Firemen and all those who risk their lives for others are the true heroes of our time.

I'm thinking that I'm going to try to have Ker Nethalas' Book of Masteries ready this month for you guys. I don't plan on releasing it until next year, but I'm excited to test it and I know a lot of you are as well, and I'll probably need a lot of feedback. I have realized though that this new expansion is going to completely invalidate the existing Mastery deck, so I'm not sure what to do with it. If I release a new deck of Masteries with all the new ones, it would actually invalidate the new book itself, so I would probably have to price it higher than usual. I wish I could offer some sort of cards+zine pack on DTRPG, but it isn't really an option. I'll have to think what I do!

So that's it for now, I'm going back to working on the layout for Karum Station Blues. Have a great week!