Update - 29/12/2025

Hello, everyone! So this is it, the last weekly update of 2025! And what a year this has been! It started off with my Machine Gods of the Noxian Expanse Patreon experiment releasing in January and February; I call it experiment because it was my attempt at writing a rules-light game that could be expanded with ease, and I made it a Patreon exclusive. While some might argue with my definition of rules light and think Machine Gods doesn't fit that categorization, it is for sure my lightest RPG, and pretty modular. The Patreon exclusive thing didn't work out that well, though, because it ended up pissing off a lot of people who didn't really understand how to get the game; most seemed to think that in order to purchase it they had to join the Patreon, when in fact it was given for free to anyone who joined. In any case, it was a good experiment, but not one I'll be repeating any time soon.

Next it was the scenario for Across a Thousand Dead Worlds released in March: Karum Station Blues. This one was written by my usual collaborator Richard Kelly, and it's been really well received. I wish I had the capacity to release more stuff more often, I would definitely ask Richard to write more scenarios for the game.

Later that same month saw the release of The Book of Masteries for Ker Nethalas, which really expanded the character options. I'm really happy with this little book, and the Gravebound Edition version of it is going to be even better!

In April I released the Ker Nethalas Quickstart, and it's been a great success, already downloaded by thousands of people! This will also be revamped in 2026 so it matches the rest of the KN books.

In May I released the expansion for Over War Ballark in Flames, written by the game's author Richard Kelly. It added a lot to the game, and I think it's a great addition! I can't say sales have been great, but I guess it was expected for such a niche game. It was in May that the Kickstarter for the second edition of Riftbreakers launched as well, so that kept me busy for a couple of weeks. The campaign went really nicely, so it was worth it!

The following months I was just busy working on the different Ker Nethalas projects and getting Riftbreakers 2e ready, because it wasn't until September that I organized the Kickstarter for Choir of Flesh, my Summer Vacation(TM) game. It did quite well, and it had the highest participation of any of my campaigns since Across a Thousand Dead Worlds. This was the month that also saw the announcement of my Momentum Engine, the D100 ruleset I will be using for most, if not all of my games moving forward.

In October I finally released Riftbreakers 2e, and it was really well received. I'm so excited about the community that is forming around it, with lots of people coming up with new mechanics, regions, and things to do for the game. It's sold nicely so I want to keep supporting it, and the game's first expansion, the Arenmist Forest zine, is already written (by Richard Kelly, who wrote the game's intro scenario).

And the year's last release was Choir of Flesh, which will most likely be my last release ever with a D20 ruleset. I really love the game, I think the setting is awesome and it has some really unique mechanics, but I am really done with D20 games, it is not fun for me to work with them when I must be explaining myself left and right. I would really love to revisit the setting in the future, using my Momentum Engine, but we'll see. Definitely nothing like that is in the works, and I still must release Apocrypha, which is fully done.

And that was it, maybe it wasn't that many new books released, but to me it really felt like a lot; Riftbreakers 2e alone was very demanding and took me a lot of time to get right. I really thought it would be easier, since I had already the starting point that was the first edition, but it was as much work as writing a new game from scratch. I actually thought I would be able to release both Warlord Ascendant 2e and Apocrypha this year as well, but the missing art delayed both books, so it looks like WA will come out in January, and Apocrypha in February.

2026 is going to be packed with releases, that's for sure! Aside from the aforementioned Warlord Ascendant 2e and Apocrypha, I'm hoping Into the Warp & Ruin will be ready by March. Then we'll have the new editions of Ker Nethalas, the Vaelorian Codex, the Book of Masteries, and the Quickstart, as well as the Warren of the Ratkin and the Book of Horrors. I have at least two other books I want to release for KN in 2026; as usual, though, the art is the real bottleneck there. I also really, really need to release Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults, and Sacrifice 2e. Ideally I'll also release Frostbound Exiles and Broken Shores 2e, and if I continue with my Fuck Around Fridays, Empire Undying should be available in some shape or form too. But you guys know me, I tend to improvise a lot and work on what's calling me, so who knows, haha. All I can promise is the KN stuff and ATHV, the rest we'll have to wait and see.

I think that's enough for today, I hope you all have a great start of the new year, see you on the other side!