Update - 27/10/2025

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. I went to another concert this Saturday (lots of shows lately in my town!), so it was fun, and spent the rest of the time working on getting Warlord Ascendant 2e done. I'm really close! I can guarantee you you'll get the finished text this week, even the appendices. After going a bit wild with the Lone Wolf mode (adding classes, new mechanics, powers, etc.) I decided to dial it down and keep it closer to the core experience. I didn't want an optional game mode to end up taking half the book, and if the game is successful, I can always release and expanded Lone Wolf expansion. The version of the game you'll get is the beta version, basically untested, missing most of the art, but fully playable. I will start proper playtesting and balancing this week, and I cannot wait! I could have done it already but I hate playing a game without a character sheet and David should be done any second now with them.

My dog is having the last of her staples removed today, and I'm hoping they'll finally give me the lab results today as well. Fingers crossed! She's developed a large lump on her shoulder but I think it's just a fat deposit, apparently it can happen after surgery and it happened to her before. Still, I'll ask them to check it out today as well.

And other than that, things are moving along nicely. Blackoath keeps being the house that Ker Nethalas built, and as such I think it's time to show the game some proper love, so I've decided I'll dedicate November to working on the Enhanced Edition of the game. This will be a free update for everyone who already owns the game, and the focus is to fix all the issues it has (badly explained trap and door mechanics, confusing rules placement, the dreaded damage mechanic, etc.), and leave everything else as it is. It is most definitely not a second edition, just a refinement of what we have, and fully compatible with everything else. I haven't announced this officially yet, though, so please keep it between us! I do think it's important to have a solid foundation before moving forward with the game into its third year.

And I think that's it for this week, I need to get back to finishing the layout for Warlord Ascendant 2e, the gear tables are killing me, haha. Have a great week!