Order of the Black Oath

Hello, everyone! I'm in the middle of writing the combat encounters for my next game, Ker Nethalas: Into the Midnight Throne, and I'm faced with the same, usual problems that pop up each time I make a game: how do I balance this thing? Right now I'm contemplating two options: - Level based: The clas

Hey guys, I'm thinking about the different rulesets I've been using lately, and I was wondering: which one do you prefer? - The one from Across a Thousand Dead Worlds, Empire Undying and the (hopefully) upcoming Under Ashen Skies: D20-based, roll a D20, add the skill modifier, and if the result is 2

Hello, everyone. So it turns out the name Godshard is trademarked in the US and I've been forced to take the game down from all platforms. I always check if my games are already being used, but I didn't think of checking the trademark, so this is ultimately my own fault. There's a chance I'll have t

So you know that I'm working on a "new" version of Sacrifice, and I don't know what to do about the cover. I've been making dozens of them for the past month, but I've narrowed it down to the following ones: Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 (all hail Mörk Borg) Option 3b I think the first one is the one t

Hello! here I am, with an unexpected poll. I'm trying to figure out the ideal party size for Riftbreakers; since it's heavily inspired by MMOs such as World of Warcraft, my initial inclination is to make it 5. The problem with this is that it might be too many for when you're playing solo. And I'm n

Hello guys, I'm back with a fun poll for you! Penny delivered his art for the Godshard cover and it's absolutely stunning! I've done a few different cover designs and I'd like to hear your opinions: Version 1, the worst one in my opinion: Version 2, which is in line with the covers for Sacrifice and

Surprise! While you weak mortals spend the night slumbering and resting, I spent it thinking about games. More precisely, a new game. Yes, yes, here I am once again thinking about a new game while I still haven't finished Path of the Aram Thyr, Empire Undying, Under Ashen skies, and Across a Thousan

Hello guys! Here I am, with another poll nobody expected! Now that Sacrifice has been available for a few months (at least for you guys), and that you also have access to the expansion, I wanted to know your overall impressions. Not the quality of it, or whether you like it or not (which is of cours

Hello guys! Here I am, with an unexpected poll! I need your help: As you know by now if you've read my last couple of posts, I'm working on a small, mystery project that I'll be revealing soon. For now though all you need to know is that one of its features is the ability to find and use spell-like

Hey guys! So as you know, I've been thinking about what to write about next here on Patreon. As you all know, as soon as Across a Thousand Dead Worlds is done (meaning the PDF is out), that's what the focus of this Patreon will be: generating content for it. But aside from that, and specially until

Hello guys; after yesterday's post about the future of this Patreon and how I intend to (temporarily) remove the $5 and $10 Tiers until I have the capability of uploading content for my games regularly once again, I've received a lot of messages from many of you asking me to leave the tiers as they

Hello, everyone! I need your help: I can't decide if we need a 12th skill for Across a Thousand Dead Worlds or if it's redundant. Here's the dilemma: Since interacting with Àrsaidh technology is more art than science, with a huge luck component added to it, I haven't really allowed much room for PCs

Hey guys, I wanted to make a quick poll to learn a bit about what you think about the current state of my Patreon. I realize that since I've started working on Across a Thousand Dead Worlds the Patreon-exclusive content is not as abundant as it was before. Since I started focusing a lot on that game

So it appears that a sci-fi game called "Into the Black" was recently released, and I'm afraid it's way too similar to Into the Endless Void; coupled with the fact that there's a videogame called Into the Void, I think we must think of something new. Some of you have been giving me some cool suggest

Hello, everyone! I'm back with another poll; this time I need to know your opinion on encounter balance. While as a solo player things are certainly easier if by default you know that whatever you face should be theoretically beatable, I'm not totally sure that's the approach that fits a game like A

So after having a particularly shitty day (didn't help the fact that I was very excited to finally having some actual roleplaying time, only for my friends to cancel at the last moment), I was going through Under Ashen Skies, seeing what has to be completed first so I can get some form of barebones

Hello guys, So it's Seekers month once again, and I have (as usual) several options. I wanted to know what you guys prefer I work on, so here's a quick poll! - A "What happens while you sleep" table, which could include things like involuntary astral traveling, sleep paralysis, actual resting that g

Okay! So after a week of suggestions, these are the potential names for the upcoming Disciples of Bone & Shadow zine; the person who came up with the most voted option will win a PDF copy of Disciples of Bone & Shadow: Conquered Sun Edition! I'm not adding who came with each name, to avoid voting bi

Hello guys! Today I need your opinion, so you tell me what you think will be best for Under Ashen Skies. Crafting plays a crucial role in the game, since you'll be scavenging crafting materials to fix and make gear and other stuff. The question is, how do you think these crafting recipes should be u

Hello guys, I have a quick question: would you be interested in Blackoath games merch? I'm talking about stickers, T-shirts, posters... And not lame logo stuff, I'm talking cool art, like the one from the books, and new original one. I ask because I see Patreon is now offering the possibility of hav

I'm back with another poll; after talking about it on Discord, I realized that some of you may prefer to have the Mission Deck split into parts; instead of having one big deck of cards containing all of the ones you'll be needing, maybe you just want the Encounters, or the Events, or the Discoveries

Hey guys! I have a quick poll for you; I want to know what is keeping you interested in my work, and as such, what I should be focusing more on. Do you want to see mostly Disciples or Seekers content, or you want me to keep creating new settings and games? I'm talking about releases in general, not

I have a dilemma, concerning the next Patreon content. I've started working on a lifepath character generation system, so that you may create a new character (PC or NPC) with a background with just a few rolls. Nothing new or revolutionary, but I think this can be specially useful for when you need

Hey guys, how's everyone doing? I've been pondering about this question for a while now, but more so as of late due to several people asking me: will the content created in Patreon ever be available to non-patrons? It's a good question, and I think it's only fair if I leave it in your hands, since,

Hey guys! I hope you've had time to check out the Disciples scenario that I uploaded last! I'm already working on the next content update, but I have many different ideas, so I need you guys to decide what I'll work on next. I'll eventually do everything on this list, this is just to see what you gu