First update of 2021!

Hello guys, and happy New Year! Hope you all had a nice beginning of the year. I spent it home with my partner, for the first time in many years; we usually spend it with family so it was actually nice to have a quiet night eating good food.

It seems the Order is growing fast, and I really appreciate it! Let's welcome our new members: Nick, Richard Smithson, and Nicholas Consola! Thanks so much for joining, guys! I hope you like what you see!

So what have I been up to, game-wise? I've finally finished the layout for Nuctemeron #1 (the upcoming Seekers Beyond the Shroud zine, for those who don't know), but I'm waiting for the illustrator to send me the last pieces. Once that's done, I'll send it and the first issue of Marrow & Splinters (the Disciples of Bone & Shadow zine) to the print! I'm going to work with Mixam in the UK, because they offer good quality at decent prices and I own several zines printed through them, and they're good. They're also super-fast, I should have them printed about two weeks after I send them the files! So it looks like we will have them ready to be released next month!

Aside from that, I've started working on a new, super-secret project that will take Blackoath Entertainment to new heights! I really can't tell you what it is just yet because it involves more people, but contracts have been signed, so it's really happening. Can't wait to be able to share the news with you guys! You'll be the first ones to know, I promise. it is, of course, RPG-related.

I've also started working on the next Patreon content for Disciples: Active Events. As their name implies, Active Events are ongoing situations that are currently taking place when your character arrives at certain points of interest. These can be things such as an ongoing invasion, a natural disaster, or countless others. As part of a living world though, these Active Events will not be sitting in place for your character to find them; you may arrive at a point when it’s all too late for you to do anything about it, or if you’re lucky, just in time to avoid a crisis before it takes place. I'm making them very easy to implement and to keep track of, and they should really liven up the world. My main inspiration for these is the type of live quests that one can find in MMOs such as WoW or Destiny 2; you're just traveling around, minding your own business, when you get a notification saying that there's an event you can join. So this is the poor man's analogic version of that! 

This starting week I'll continue working on the secret project and the new Patreon stuff, and hopefully, wrap up Nuctemeron #1. As soon as it's done, I'll upload it here for you guys! I was actually very close to scrapping the idea of making a zine and simply release all the content as a Compendium or something like that, but I want this to be out ASAP and that would have meant much more time. So This first issue has all the new Outdoor Sites, Crystal Magic, the library, and a couple of other smaller things. 40 pages long! I'm planning on releasing the other stuff on issue number 2 in three months or so, since there's just so much material, and it takes a lot of space once you lay it on an A5 instead of A4 as it's currently.

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