October Monthly Update (Patreon)

Our update for the spookiest month!

Songs of the Spellbound Sea: Draft 2 (v0.4) is released! Backers can find it through Backerkit, and should have an email in your inboxes. Getting this across the finish line wound up occupying basically the whole start of the month, but it was well worth it.

Patreon: Steady free supporter growth, and a little bit paid. I honestly don't really know what's driving the free supporters at this point - it's a fairly steady stream without any clear pattern. Very welcome, though!

Discord:  Minimal growth here this month.

Troubadour, Swashbuckler, Bloodrager: Playtesting continues! More revisions and more testing, though I think major changes are done. I haven't cut free releases on these in a bit, but I'll get to it - base class revisions will be translated over as the book versions get finalized. We also saw a few book-exclusive subs get wrapped up in the form of the Warfisher bloodrager and Ruinsong troubadour.

Subclasses: Last month's winner was the Path of the Forgewrought, a modular barbarian subject to awful augmentations. Supporters got to ask for the Pact of the Aegis, a warlock equipped with a mighty shield. Book backers also got to see the paladin Oath of Iron.

Species: Didn't get to the planned species in October, but definitely on deck for November.

Spells: Work is starting on Spells That Don't Suck v15 (so far only one addition). A few new spells got written for the book, including Corrosion, Wall of Misery, Aura of Iron, and Magnetic Smite.

Magic Items: I'm working on the remainder of the book's magic items, but nothing to show just yet.

Misc: I wound up putting a good chunk of time into editing KibblesTasty's book, KCLL, this month, which ate into my regular work time a bit. (But! Some of those spells I'm reproducing and reusing, so I needed to make sure they got a good edit pass anyway.) If you haven't checked out his book, I strongly recommend it - it's good stuff.

The plan for November!

Kickstarter: Draft 3 is scheduled for early December, with content finalizing last week of November. The original schedule calls for that draft to be fully content-complete; right now I think there's about a 50-50 chance I manage to hit that target. This is fine - there's some wiggle room, so that doesn't impact the overall schedule.

Classes: Continued intensive test/development cycle.

Subclasses: Our November Subclass Poll and supporter-only Subclass Second-Chance Poll are both open for 3 more days. Currently in the lead are two monks (Way of the Forge and Way of the Beast), and the Path of the Broken Oath in the second-chance poll.