Update - 17/08/2020

Hello guys! Another update, and this week's a good one! First of all, I'd like to welcome all the new Order members: Ols Jonas Petter Olsson, SageZero, and Brad Ames! Thanks so much for joining, I hope you enjoy what you see!

It's been an exciting week because Exalted Funeral has finally started selling the physical copies of Seekers Beyond the Shroud! There were many people who missed the Kickstarter and I was frequently asked when they'll be available, so it's great to be able to point people to the EF store! There're even a few hardcover copies left (although I know it was less than 50).

At the same time the Seekers copies went up, EF decided to also start selling the Narrative Playbook for Disciples of Bone & Shadow. It's only the PDF for now, as we continue to wait for the cover templates, but the cool thing is that purchasing the PDF gets you a discount code for the physical book! So since the PDF is 15 USD, you'll get $15 discount from the physical copy. Pretty neat! This also means that the Master level Patrons now have access to the Narrative Playbook as well. I also went ahead and updated the files for the other games to their respective latest version.

Aside from this great news (I cannot wait to see how the Narrative Playbook changes people's Disciples games), this week has seen more progress on the upcoming scenario for Seekers, Trees are People Too. There was a bit of back and forth between the different stories I want to tell, and I even created a whole clock system to track the progress of events, only to decide it wasn't necessary and go back to basics. Still, I think I know everything that happens now and I'm around 2/3rds done now with the writing. I will be done by next week for sure, so within the next two weeks, the file will be up here on Patreon for you guys to play with!

I'm also very proud of this simple yet effective map I've made for one of the storylines: 

Considering I really do not know how to draw, I like it! it's all done by hand and then scanned, and I added the bright green with Photo. It was fun!

This week I've also experimented with creating some rules to make Seekers' combat a bit faster (which you can find in the Blackoath's Discord). If they work out well, I'll incorporate them into the core book in a future update as an optional rule. I've also been working on the random weapon generation rules for Under Ashen Skies, and I think I've decided that some weapons and pieces of gear will not only have cool traits that help you, but also negative traits that you'll want to get rid of. This will cost you Mneme, which is the game's universal currency; the problem is, you need Mneme to level up, so it's a delicate balance between fixing and upgrading your gear or saving it up to level up (among other things, Mneme has many uses!). Another day I'll get into all the details about Mneme if you guys are interested!

Okay so it's a long one this week, hope I didn't bore you! Have a great week!