Update - 12/05/2025

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was fine, just had to deal with some ongoing uncomfortable family stuff but other than that I spent it working, as usual. Work on Riftbreakers 2e continues, ahead of the Kickstarter's release this Thursday! I'm working hard on getting some promotion going for the campaign, and I have a YouTuber planning a video overview of the current Alpha PDF, and two interviews, hopefully they'll all be ready before the campaign goes live!

I'm currently wrapping up the Gear & Loot chapter, which means I'll soon be able to jump to the Bestiary chapter, the last one! I've streamlined the magic item generation a lot and it now works like in Ker Nethalas. This means less wild combinations, but much easier magic item generation, which is my core design goal behind this second edition: streamlining the gameplay, without losing any of the game's cool aspects. I think I'm managing so far!

This is going to be a busy week, with the Kickstarter going live, and all the different promotional tasks I have ahead of me. So far I think there's a nice amount of interest in the game, though, so let's hope it does well! I'm hoping it does well enough to not only cover Riftbreakers' expenses, but to cover the art for more Machine Gods books. Regular sales have gone down by quite a lot, around 60% compared to before the tariffs business for myself at least, and for what I know all publishers are starting to struggle. Let's hope people recover some confidence and sales recover. I can survive if this becomes the new normal, but I'm going to have to rely much more on successful Kickstarter campaigns, and I'll be less able to try risky stuff.

I'm afraid I don't have much else to tell, please make sure you guys share the Kickstarter campaign once it goes live (and remember, you don't need to back it! Evocatus members will get the PDF and higher tiers will get both the PDF and the at-cost PoD).

Have a great week!