Update - 09/12/2024

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was pretty nice, we went out for dinner to our favorite restaurant (a rare treat), and even got to play a bit of Path of Exile 2. I've just played a couple of hours, but so far I've had fun! I never play games anymore because I don't have time and honestly I don't enjoy it that much anymore, but it's been fun so far and I hope I'll play a bit more this week.

Last week I spent it working mostly on Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults. I'm making really good progress with the hexcrawling and exploration rules, and I think it's going to be pretty fun. While most of the content is randomly generated, I'm also creating fixed locations that you can choose to explore. These offer challenges of all types, as well as missions you can accept. The goal behind everything is to get enough Ship Components for you to be able to rebuild your ship and leave the Corescape. My design goal with all this is to emulate Skyrim: you have a "main quest", but you can just ignore it and just explore the place, do sidequest, "dungeons", and that sort of stuff.

For some reason, Marcin is taking really long to finish the art for Karum Station Blues, so I'm seriously doubting it will be ready for this month. I guess it will be out in January, though! At least, the cards for the Book of Masteries are already ready, and I've ordered the proofs, so whenever the book itself is done, I should have the cards ready to go as well. It's also looking like it will be released in February, though. Art takes a long time to get right! I did update the PDF here on Patreon for you guys, so you have the release version of the text.

This week I'll keep working on ATHV and little else. I'll do some more progress with Sacrifice 2e during my free time, but that's definitely in the backburner. In a way, though, part of the work I'm doing for ATHV is useful for Sacrifice 2e, like for example the hexploration stuff, which will work similar. There aren't any survival mechanics in ATHV, though, and those will play a crucial role in Sacrifice 2e. It's going to be more granular in Sacrifice 2e, for sure.

So that's it for this week, nothing else left to report. I hope you all have a great week!