Update - 20/04/2026

Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I spent mine working, although I did play a bit of Old World, the Civ-like videogame. It's really fun! Other than that, it's been pushing forward with The Array Thicket, and it's finally coming together. I will be really close to being done with it this week, so I'm really hoping I'll have the Kickstarter launching on Tuesday 28th. I'm just waiting for the printer to give me the box specs so I can see if I can make a mock-up to have something to show, let's hope they do send them in time.

I'm pretty happy with how the Thicket exploration rules came out. Essentially, you randomly generate a sector of the forest, and travel between the different nodes in search of things of interest and value. It's simple and it works, so that's all I can ask! As usual, I'm struggling with keeping it all very light and not just adding a million different tables to it, so this is a good exercise of design constraint. It really looks like I suffer from "rules horror vacuii" or something like that, haha.

I also dedicated some time to figuring out how the new Grand Master exclusive content will work, and I honestly had a blast. As I've mentioned before, I'm working on rules to play as ratkin, but of course, it's not going to be just a re-skin of the existing method. I wrote some background about ratkin society, and where you would fit there playing as one. Ratkin society is tightly knitted together thanks to Venom; it creates a sort of hivemind that connects every individual. For some reason, though, certain individuals are immune to Venom, and can't connect with the hivemind. These outcasts end up alone and usually dead pretty quickly, but some of them learn how to live as true individuals. As you can imagine, you'll be plating as one of these. Instead of Masteries they have Roles, based on the cast system. I'm still not done writing the whole thing but like I said, it's being a lot of fun doing so and I can't wait to jump back into it!

So this week I'll keep pushing forward with The Array Thicket, and probably little else. Between that and replying to the dozens of messages and emails I get every single day (aside from paying attention to the Discord and social media), I'm always incredibly busy. I can't complain, though, I love the little community we've created together!

So that's it for this week, have a great one!