Issue #15 (February 2024)
Hi there! Happy leap day! (When I'm writing this, at least, I don't know when you'll read it. I hope it's happy whatever day that is too.)
Valiant Horizon
For the next week, Valiant Horizon is in the TTRPG Bundle for Trans Youth. If you don't have it already, this is a great time to get it!
Speaking of Valiant Horizon...
The first installment of the season pass, Ages of Heroism, will be out soon! We'll start with the Age of Darkness:
In the past, dark magic almost won. An empire using fragmented souls spun out of control and consumed itself, and almost everything with it. A handful of heroes drove it back.
This was the Age of Darkness. It's in the past now. But it could be the future again.
Featuring:
- Hooks. Some general precepts of the past era to build around. Ideas for telling heroic tales. Ideas for concepts of characters from the era.
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Next, 3 classes, each synced with a core class, adapting their core conceit to this age:
- Lightbearer: A hunter for a time when there's no beasts left to hunt.
- Martyr: A healer who takes others' hurt into themselves.
- Necromagus: Someone who fights darkness with darkness.
- Finally, enemies. A new category of threats from that age that could resurface in the modern era. This one is the more complete abominations that fragmented horrors could turn into given enough time to manifest!
This will be out March 5th! (People who backed at a tier that got expansion content might get it a little early though. Just saying. Keep an eye on your inboxes.)
Liminal Void
Surprise! I put out a version 3 of the Liminal Void quickstart. (As you may have seen me talk about here.) I think it's pretty neat and it's free! See for yourself. Comes with a relayout too, because I couldn't help myself.
Celestial Bodies
We've sent out initial feelers to backers at $50 and up to see what they want and gotten a few first drafts out! If that includes you and you haven't filled out a form, check the email you listed or the discord account you noted and do so whenever you can!
APOCALYPSE FRAME
There's a ton of shit going on now with everything else so further hardcover propagation to stores/outside the US has fallen by the wayside. (And I need to make sure everything's set up right legally before I do it.) But thank you for selling out the 50 copies I put on itch! (What that means is that this print run broke even, which is something I was worried about - so further copies I sell are profit.)
Also, if you want a print copy of APOCALYPSE ReFRAMEd, I set up a little POD thing for it here! (This is an experiment with Mixam's POD, so if you get one, let me know how you like it. May be putting more things up as little POD zines.)
And that's all for this month. ("That's all"! What a packed month.) Hoping to resume my weekly interstitial articles next week. See you then!