November Monthly Update (Patreon)

Let's get thankful for another update post!

Songs of the Spellbound Sea: Draft 3 is underway! November was slower progress than planned (not entirely surprising, it was a tough month for creative work), but I made some good progress towards the end.

Backers also got access to the book's soundtrack, by music D20! Non-backers can order it direct from the composer.

Patreon: Continued free supporter growth!

Discord:  A little more growth, not a ton. Discord growth seems generally to correlate with reddit posting, and I've been putting less stuff on reddit lately(since so much more of my output is going into the book).

Social Media: I deleted my twitter account (no big loss; it never drove much audience). Big growth on Bluesky, due to getting included in a couple starter packs.

Troubadour, Swashbuckler, Bloodrager: More playtests! A few minor revisions upcoming, probably some subclass balancing on the troubadour and swashbuckler, and maybe some more substantial edits to the bloodrager. Also finishing up the last of our book-exclusive subs (and the last subs for these classes in the short-term future), the Aerialist and Fortunate swashbucklers! Only one left for the book, the Trickhunter bloodrager.

Subclasses: Took a couple days off for Thanksgiving, so I still owe folks the Way of the Forge monk and the Path of the Broken Oath barbarian (fallen paladin). I'll get to them this week (probably).

Species: Still have the Crabkin on deck to finish up before book draft 3.

Spells: Spells That Don't Suck v15 is getting cleaned up; I pushed its foundry release yesterday, updating the foundry module with all the changes SDS has received for the book.

Misc: I did two more passes on the Seafarer's Manual this month, adding the Ship Upgrades system and a lot more ship statblocks, as well as some general refinements. Currently those updates are only published in draft form, but they should come to the public doc and the next book draft fairly soon.

The plan for December!

Kickstarter:  Next week we'll take stock of where we're at for the next draft and decide when to put out draft 3. The plan is to include the completed classes, subclasses, and species sections (pending more testing changes). Mini-settings won't be in yet; everything else is TBD.

Classes: Continued testing! I'm noodling on ideas for the next class to work on post-book, too.

Subclasses: Our December Subclass Poll and supporter-only Holiday Goodie Poll are both open until tomorow!. Currently in the lead are the Ashwalker Conclave and a seasonal spell pack!