Update - 16/10/2023

Hello, everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was spent making packages, as you can imagine. As most of you know by now, I finally got the Across a Thousand Dead Worlds books (they look amazing), after a lot of struggling with the shipping company. They had basically lost them for a week, and they're just inventing different excuses. Now that's over though, so I have 90 boxes spilled across my living room. It's going to be a fun few weeks, that's for sure...

The books are incredible, and I cannot wait for people to start receiving them. I expect that to be this same week, as UPS and DHL tend to be really fast with delivery. Exciting!

In other news, Egrastea Reborn, the Broken Shores expansion, is just about done. I'm missing a single illustration, so as soon as I have it, I'll upload it to DTRPG and send you guys your PDF codes (and the PoD codes for Master and Grand Master Patreons as soon as I have them as well). 

I've also been busy with Under Ashen Skies, and the layout is coming along nicely. I still hope we'll be able to have it all done before the month's over. I'm really excited to play the game with Alan's changes, on paper it all sounds more streamlined and mysterious. 

For some reason, this weekend I've been pretty obsessed with Against the Darkmaster. It's no secret that Rolemaster is my favorite RPG of all time, and even though I've owned Against the Darkmaster since it was released, I didn't pay much attention to it. I think it's the default setting, that implies an epic, heroic campaign against, well, a Darkmaster. You all know I prefer grittier, less heroic themes, and I always felt lazy to play it. But the mechanics are so perfect, since they managed to streamline the admittedly unwieldy Rolemaster, that I need to do something about it. Since they've released their game license (Open00) in a completely open format, I'm seriously considering releasing my own take on their system. I would preserve the mechanics, and just adjust it all to a darker setting. I know that the last thing I need to do right now is work on a new game, but the heart wants what the heart wants, haha. We'll see what happens... I have some ideas already, so it all depends on how pervasive they are.

Warlord Ascendant is also coming along nicely, art-wise. Simone has sent me the first batch of finished illustrations, and some sketches for the next ones. Here are a couple of sketches that I REALLY like:

Once they're properly finished, they are going to look amazing. Can't wait!

The same goes for Ker Nethalas: Into the Midnight Throne. José Antonio keeps sending me amazing art, and I really hope I can set up the Kickstarter next month. I don't want to start a new KS campaign until I have delivered UAS, so it all depends on that, but I'm guessing it will work out correctly. 

So that's it for now, this week I'll keep working on UAS and shipping packages. I'll keep you guys posted if anything interesting happens!