Update - 24/02/2025

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a nice and relaxing weekend. I spent this last week working on getting The Voidspire Territories book ready for you guys, and it's basically done! The writing is done, and so is the layout, and the last bit left is to add the table of contents and all the PDF bookmarks, which will only take me a couple of hours tops. Which means the book will be ready this week! Without all the art, of course, since Simone is still working on the art for the first book... Which by the way, should receive an update very soon with more art and a few more tweaks and changes (small things like changing the name of "Combat Zones" to "Combat Ranges", because they weren't really zones like in Salvage & Sorcery and it was confusing some of you).

Since I'm basically done with this second Machine Gods book, I've hopped onto the Ker Nethalas quickstart. I'm currently editing the final version, and I'll start working on the layout soon. You guys will be the first ones to have access to this, and I'm sure you're going to love it. There are streamlined rules for a lot of things, and the new Domain is really cool, even if you aren't interested in the simpler rules. As I mentioned before, this is going to be a free PDF for everyone, but I'll give you guys at-cost DTRPG PoD codes, and I've decided to order a bunch myself and sell them directly via my site, for those wanting a physical copy.

I've also started tinkering with the Machine Gods advanced rules for the third book in the series, and it's going great. I've finalized the Mastery and Bane systems (more on that on a future post), and I've started working on the new combat options. I'm implementing a combo point system to make fights more interesting. You'll be able to pick an ability tree for your weapon (kind of what I did for Empire Undying, if any of you still remember the previews I gave you years ago... not sure anyone from that time is still a member, other than a handful of you, haha) and spend your combo points in different abilities during a fight. It should be fun!

So this week I'll wrap up the KN quickstart editing, and get the Voidspire Territories book done, and I doubt I'll have time to do much else, but if I do I'll definitely continue working on the Advanced Rules book. I have so many ideas I want to try! I'm still trying to go for a non-simulationist, simple approach, just wanting to add a lot of possible gameplay options to the game.

Have a great week!