Update - 19/01/2026

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was uneventful, just working and watching Spartacus: House of Ashur, which is pretty fun. Last Friday I went ahead and released Warlord Ascendant 2e, somewhat unexpectedly, since all the DTRPG and Amazon proof copies arrived at once early in the morning (that's definitely a first). Although Fridays are traditionally not considered a good day to release new games, I wanted to test it out anyway. Sales so far are fine, nothing to write home about and I'm certainly very far from covering expenses, but I guess I'll get there. I hope people do play the game though, because I think it turned out really good and it offers some stuff I've never seen in other skirmish games.

I also sent out the Apocrypha PoDs, and with that, Choir of Flesh is done. I really enjoy the setting, but I just don't want to work on D20 systems anymore. Something that is actually irritating me, to be honest, because I took a look at what I had written for Sacrifice 2e (as a D20 system) and it's honestly really, really good. But it is still marred by stupid target numbers and that sort of thing which I just don't want to have in a game. I suppose I could try to adapt the things that make the game unique to my Momentum Engine, but it will definitely be so different from other Momentum Engine games that I'm not sure it could be considered one anymore. We'll see!

For the time being, I'm focused once again on Into the Warp & Ruin, which will also use the Momentum Engine, although with a flavor closer to a boardgame than an RPG (it's definitely not an RPG). I finished the Book of Masteries revision, so I'm dedicating the rest of the month to Into the Warp & Ruin, to see if I can get it finished for next month. I'm currently working on the actual gameplay chapter, having finalized the character creation and core rules chapters. I'm sure I'll have to go back to them, though, because I left a few things in the air. It's honestly being quite difficult to finish the game because I feel I'm completely breaking ground with it. I don't have any point of reference, other than the extraction shooter videogames I've played, and making sure it doesn't turn out clunky and difficult to play with lots of small rules is one of my main goals. Still, this is a crunchy game with lots of detail, because that's the whole point of the game: you go into an Incursion, loot everything you can, kill anything trying to kill you, and you get out. The other day someone was asking if Carnage & Aether was all about combat, and well, that's exactly the point of that sort of game... to optimize your build so you can get better at fighting monsters, so you can get components to craft better gear to fight bigger monsters, etc. It's like if someone plays Monster Hunter and complains about the game being about hunting monsters... I love sandbox games, but I don't think all games need to attempt to do it all, having a narrow focus on a specific type of gameplay allows for more detail and a much more curated experience.

And that's exactly what I'm going for with Into the Warp & Ruin. I think this should be the first ever tabletop extraction shooter game, and I hope it finds its audience. But for that, I must first make the game fun! I'll have more pages to share with you guys later this month.

I think that's it for today, I'm going back to work. Have a great week!