Update - 09/02/2026

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. I didn't do anything special, stayed home and worked. I finished the Ker Nethalas Quickstart revamp, so I'll be sharing it with you soon. I think I've managed to preserve the simplified rules, while at the same time making sure they in line with the new Gravebound Edition ones, so now all the resolution mechanics are the same, instead of having two different ways of doing things, as was the case before. I think this will really ease people into the core rules, which is, after all, the goal of any quickstart. My original idea of offering an alternative way of doing things for those who found the core resolution mechanics too complicated was fine, but I think it confused newcomers because they would learn how to do something, grab the core rulebook, and see that it's done in a completely different way. Now it's all the same, there's simply less stuff to keep track of, so once you move on to the full rules, you at least have a functioning base to build upon.

Aside from that, I've been quite focused on getting the Arenmist Forest expansion for Riftbreakers done. I've commissioned a new map from Glynn, so now we'll have the regional map, and the one for the Prime Quest. All in all, I think this is going to be a great little expansion, adding quite a few new things to do while in the forest! As soon as it's done, I want to get started with the next region, which I think will be Kar Helos.

After years of struggling with it, last week I finally decided to revamp the Grand Master tier. This had really become a necessity, because I was barely getting any new people joining at that tier, and most of those who did just grabbed the books and disappeared. Which like I said before, I can't blame them, the system was set up to incentivize that type of thing, there was no reason to stick around. I hope that the new changes are more appealing! It appears so, because a few of you have already switched to it! Either way I'm really excited to have our first live chat in two weeks! I've also started working on the exclusive quarterly content, which will be a small Ker Nethalas Domain this time around.

Speaking of Ker Nethalas, I forgot to mention that the Spanish version received an award as the best solo RPG of 2025 (the Spanish version was released in 2025)! This is really cool because the people organizing the rewards only pick a few games, and it's the people who vote which one is the best one. Considering that I was going against Astroprisma and Doom Pilgrim, among some other really cool games, it's fantastic! Ker Nethalas got over 50% of all the votes, so it wasn't even close, haha. I'm glad to see the Spanish community is enjoying the game, and I hope we can repeat this success when it's released in Italian in a few months!

This week I've also managed to do something that was really nagging at me: Across a Thousand Dead Worlds now has both hardcover and softcover versions on Amazon (premium color both, since Amazon doesn't offer other option), and DTRPG will soon have both softcover and hardcover, standard and premium color. This will give people more options, so now the price range of the books range from 50 to 80 bucks, if I remember correctly. I still make basically no money from these (5 bucks on average per sale, regardless of the format), but at least I get the book on people's hands. The trick to all this was changing the book's format to 7x10 inches, so it's larger than the offset version. Not by much, but enough to be noticeable. The original offset version uses a custom size, something that was a rookie mistake. Back then I had no books on DTRPG or Amazon, so I didn't think I would need to use a specific format if I wanted proper distribution. Live an learn!

So this week I'll keep working on the Arenmist Forest expansion, and play around with Into the Warp & Ruin and Empire Undying when I have time for it. I'm going a bit slower with things that I would like to; I keep adding notes and details here and there but not really making any proper progress, since I'm having trouble concentrating on anything lately. I guess I'll just have to push through it, though!

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