Update - 11/11/2024

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! How was your weekend? I spent mine working, as usual. I keep thinking of playing one of the many games I own, but each time I contemplate doing so I'm honestly lazy and think "I'd rather just work on my own games instead". I know I need to get over this or I'm going to end up burning out, but it's hard. I think that I'll soon start playtesting the new Mastery Abilities from the Book of Masteries for Ker Nethalas, though, so at least that will be playing something. It's gotta count, right?

If everything goes as planned, I will release Carnage & Aether this week. The great Man Alone released a video overview of the game, and a lot of people are asking me about it, so I hope that is a big success! I'm honestly a bit scared because this is the most complex game I've ever released, it has a lot of options and potential outcomes. Going against the current rules-lite zeitgeist is scary! And yes, this would be the second game I write that I personally consider crunchy (the first one being ATDW).

Last week I was mostly occupied with the layout for Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults, since I want to share a few more pages with you guys this month. I also want to give you access to the Book of Masteries, and I've been working hard on all the new content. I'm very happy with how it's going so far, and I'm having fun fleshing out all the Masteries, and working on the two new ones (which are now done, by the way). It's allowing me to go deeper into each of the Masteries' power fantasy. I will need help playtesting this, I don't want to upset the balance of power too badly. I have tweaked some of the existing Abilities, though, with some of them being buffed and others nerfed. I think that they all feel pretty good now!

This week I'll continue working on ATHV, the Book of Masteries, and whenever I have a moment, Sacrifice 2e. I have continued working on Sacrifice whenever I have a free moment, and I'm currently adding Talents. once I'm done I'm going to have over 100 Talents that you'll be able to choose from when you level up! After that I think I'll work on the Combat Maneuvers, and then the Incantations and Rituals. Once that's all done it will be time to finally start detailing the game's Occupations. All in all, the Character Creation chapter is going to be pretty long, as it's usually the case with my games. probably 40% of the whole book will be character options!

I guess that's it for this week, I hope you all have a great one!