Update - 15/01/2024
Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! How have you all been? I hope you had a great weekend. I had a game of Pathfinder 2e as a player for the first time, and I must say I had fun! I'm a sucker for character options and development, so this game's perfect for that. We're playing in a homebrew setting, so I can't really comment on how the game's original setting is, although it never really looked appealing to me (simply not my style). I also had an interview with the Dungeon Dive YouTube channel that was a lot of fun so yeah, I had a good weekend!
Speaking of YouTube, this last week felt like Warlord Ascendant's review week. Ithaqua's Bane has continued with his series of gameplay videos, and then I got an amazing surprise: Guerrilla Miniature Games, one of the best wargame YouTube channels out there, decided to review Warlord Ascendant! I'm hoping they'll make some gameplay videos as well, and it does sound like they will. It's super exciting, I hope this allows the game to reach a new, wider audience.
I've been working on a lot of little things this week, mostly organizing stuff, answering questions, and that sort of busywork that is necessary but doesn't really feel like I'm doing anything productive. The Across a Thousand Dead Worlds books are being shipped to North and South America backers, and I'm getting super close to being able to release Ker Nethalas: Into the Midnight Throne on DTRPG, since there's only one last illustration missing for the core book. As you know, last week I also released the second issue of Demonic, which so far people seem to be liking, and this week we'll be finally releasing Under Ashen Skies, after all this years! Very exciting, for sure!
I've been also trying to wrap up the character creation chapter for Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate. It's taking me quite long, but this is probably going to be about 40% of the book, so it makes sense. It's almost 20K words already. I just need to add the character progression rules and I'll be done, so this week I'll finally move on to the core rules. I'm using a modified version of what I wrote for Skill20, so it's going to be relatively quick. I am adding detailed critical hit tables for each type of damage that the game has, though, instead of just for Bludgeoning, Slashing, and Piercing. I think that should be a fun addition! Artists keep sending me new pieces, and the game's going to look really, really good. Unfortunately, I'm totally broke right now, so I'm going to have to stop commissioning any more art for the time being. I need the KS funds to be able to pay for all this, this is by far the most expensive art I've ever commissioned. I'm betting hard on this game, though, and I'm hoping the OSR crowd notices it and decides to check it out!
So that's it for this week, I'll keep myself busy with RHBF, and little else. Have a great week!