Update - 12/02/2024

Hello, and welcome to a new update! How was your weekend? I hope you all had the chance to play some games. I did play a couple of sessions of our Pathfinder campaign, so that was great! But other than that, I didn't do anything particularly interesting. I finally started watching Delicious in Dungeon, and it's really a blast. Folks were telling me to check out the manga years ago but I never had the time, so being able to just watch an episode a day and enjoy it that way is great. It's the best D&D show I've watched, tons of fun and it's cool to see the dungeon's ecology. Check it out if you haven't!

As usual, though, most of my time was spent writing. I finally finished the exploration rules for Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate, and I think I'm happy with them. They are simple and easy to follow, and with a lot of tables to make your travels interesting. These tables exist more as a backup, though, because I want the focus of the game to be on exploring the curated Trials, Hunting Grounds and Divine Decrees (all different sorts of quests and locations, essentially) that I'll be adding as soon as I'm done with the settlement building rules I'm working on now. Yes, the game has a base building aspect, although I'm still not sure how deep I want to go with this. Essentially, as the leader of your home planet, it falls to you to earn enough cash to be able to develop your capital city further. This will allow you to unlock a series of benefits for your character. Ideally I would add territory control, counselors, population demands and that sort of thing, but it might be too much, at least for the core book. I'm trying to somewhat limit the scope of the game so I can have it done in a timely manner instead of working on it for the next six months. I'm starting to doubt I'll have it completely done this month, as I intended... there's just so much content already, and I need to wrap up the list of buildings for your settlement and start working on the locations and quests. After that it will be the bestiary, and then the gear chapter. Which is another complex one since I'm adding living weapons, which means a way to evolve them... As you can see, this games has a lot going on! I can't wait to start playing it, though, hopefully later this month I'll be able to start with the playtests.

We finally managed to fund Over War, which is fantastic since I really want that game to be published with decent art and layout. We still have a couple of days to go but I'm not sure we'll be able to reach the first stretch goal, although it would be great if we did. In any case, the game is going to be released and that makes me happy. 

I also finally released Ker Nethalas: into the Midnight Throne this week, and it's doing well! Quite a few people are already playing it and reporting having received their books, so I'm super excited about it. I hope we get a few actual play videos, that would be fun!

So that's all for this week, I'll keep myself busy with RHBF, and little else. 

Have a great week!