Update - 09/06/2025

Hello, everyone! Welcome to another weekly update. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I spent mine working; there are lots of things to fix regarding Riftbreakers 2e (I've been doing a lot of playtesting, and so have you guys, so I'm getting lots of feedback), and I've also been working hard on Tales from the Green and Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults. I just need two more sections in the current exploration chapter of ATHV, and that would mean there are only two chapters left to go!

I'm really excited to release Riftbreakers 2e, because I see people are having lots of fun with it so far. The art is coming, but slowly, so I don't think I'll have it ready before the planned Winter 2025 release, unfortunately. Fortunately the Kickstarter funds should arrive this week. I can really use them right now, sales are pretty awful lately and I really looks like I'm going to have to rely a lot more on KS again. The problem with that is that people will also get fatigued, even though I rarely hit the same customer base when I organize a KS. According to KS itself and their data, only about 4% of backers are returning backers, campaign after campaign. This means that with each game I'm reaching new people, but that they rarely stick. Not sure how I feel about that, haha.

In any case, I'm making good progress with Riftbreakers 2e, and the intro scenario should be ready later this month. KS backers will get the beta files before that, of course. I'm sure that the influx of hundreds of players will mean discovering a lot of new things to fix, though. I want this game to be perfect, and as soon as I think it is, I'll commission the Ability cards, and make some official aids.

This week will be more of the same: fixing details for Riftbreakers, and working on Tales from the Green and ATHV. I'm also working on some other side projects, but nothing that is ready to be discussed. I really want to get back to Machine Gods' Advanced Rules ASAP, though. I want to continue exploring that setting, everybody seems to really like it. So many things, so little time!

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