Update - 04/03/2024
Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend, mine was spent working and relaxing, as usual. I did have time to play some D&D during Sunday night, and Friday I continued my latest delve through Ker Nethalas with my new character, after my previous one met his demise at the hands of some terrible dice rolls. I think that the only way this new character will perish is through Sanity loss, because he's an absolute monster on all other regards. I min-maxxed it like a pro, too, so the second I find a second one-handed sword I'm going to be a monster.
My work on the locations chapter for Ruthless Heavens, Boundless Fate has continued at a quite slow pace. I kept getting distracted by other details that needed solving, like finally adding a way to scale enemies (scale, not balance! some are easier, others will kick your ass), or finalizing the Blessings rules (which are kind of like titles that you can collect). I also came up with a reward system for completing Trials in the form of Valor Marks, which you can spend on a series of benefits. I did, though, manage to get the first location done: Erakos, the Forge. This should be the place where you start your adventures, since as a reward for completing it you get a living weapon. But as a sandbox game, you're free to go to any other place, of course! The next location I've started working on is one of the so-called Hunting Grounds: these are more open world areas that you can visit to just farm Essence and materials. This one in particular is the Crimsonhoof Forest, and I'll wrap it up this week. I have also planned an arena that you can join, and some other cool places to explore and conquer.
I'm sure you're already aware of it cause I've been mentioning it a lot, but the Path of the Aram Thyr Kickstarter launched, and it's already funded! We don't have stretch goals planned, but Alan has said that any extra cash would be poured back into the book to make it fancier, so please spread the word and help us reach a goal as high as possible! I have two interviews planned for the weekend, too, so you'll be able to listen to me blabber about it in a few days!
I'm expecting to get the Ker Nethalas Black Edition copies any moment now, hopefully this week, which is awesome! I'll start shipping them to backers right away, and I will have a handful left for sale, so if any of you wants one, please let me know!
Speaking of selling, the US copies of Across a Thousand Dead Worlds will be finally available for purchase in a matter of days. Leo is setting up a dedicated site for it, I can't wait!
I think that's it for this week, it's going to be another busy one if I want to wrap up RHBF this month (which seems highly doable, unless I come up with new systems). I don't think I'll finish the locations chapter (you guys know how damn slow I am at writing that sort of content), but I hope I'll have at least two more done. We'll see!
Have a great week!