Update - 19/05/2025

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. I spent it working, didn't do anything of interest other than that. This week was an exciting one, since the Riftbreakers 2e Kickstarter campaign was launched! It started pretty strong but then it slowed down to a crawl faster than I had hoped. Still, I think it's doing well and although I'm not sure we'll reach the last stretch goal, we should at least clear one or two more before it ends.

I also had a couple of interviews about the game and my work in general, and I have another one later this week, so that's always great! Oh yeah, and Ithaqua's Bane released a video about Machine Gods, so overall it's been a great week for Blackoath!

I'm working very hard on Riftbreakers 2e, trying to get it all done before the month's over, as planned. And I'm confident that I will! At the very least the writing should be complete this week. Except the introductory quest, of course, that one is going to take me longer (you guys know I suck at writing that sort of content). In any case, you'll be able to start playing the game soon! It's going to need a lot of playtesting, to see that it works properly, but I'm very happy with how it's looking so far. It's ended up looking quite similar to Ker Nethalas in many aspects, so all those wanting an overland KN experience can play this while they wait for the actual release.

Speaking of Ker Nethalas, the third Vaelorian Codex is looking good, and I'll have it ready for Patreon members in June. I think it will be ready for release in August! Oh yeah, and the Quickstart PoD version is coming, I'm waiting for DTRPG to approve the files. I've also started working on what comes after this, I'll discuss it once it's more fleshed out!

So this week is going to be a busy one. Aside from working on Riftbreakers 2e, I have a few other things to deal with outside of game development, but I'm hoping it will not be too distracting or time consuming. I will also be receiving the Ker Nethalas and Machine Gods offset copies, so there's a lot of packing and shipping to be done! I have a lot of things I want to work on once Riftbreakers is finished, too. My goal for june is to return to Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults, and continue working on the Advanced Rules for Machine Gods. Let's see how much I stick to it, haha.

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