September Monthly Update (Patreon)

Fall comes for us all! IT COMES. Let's see how September went!

Machines of Bone and Blood: Progress continues! Most importantly, the Playtest Packet (v0.1) went out! Over 200 pages of material, ready for people to put through its paces. I also got through most of the Build-a-Horrors, finished writing and editing 3(!) adventures, and got through a whole pile of content (I might be misremembering something that got done in August vs. September, but I think it was 7 subclasses, 1 species, a bunch of spells and a bunch of monsters.)

Patreon: Growth continues! A small downturn in paid supporters this month (I have been neglecting the Patreon a bit, ngl) but these things fluctuate.

Discord:  Discussions continue to be vibrant with all the new folks who came in off the KS! More continue to trickle in, too.

Troubadour, Swashbuckler, Bloodrager: I finished up the Shadowsong and Bonedagger subclasses (Troub and Swash, respectively), which are available to patreon supporters and MB&B backers. I expect to do the new Bloodrager classes this month.

Necromancer: Mostly quiet here for September, have two more subs to get to.

Abomination: The Nature of the Stars and the Nature of the Void got finished up (currently MB&B backers only, I need to reorganize some docs before patrons will see them). This should finish new subclasses for the Abomination for now.

Subclasses: This month gave us the Silvered Moon patron! A more-supportive, less-jerk counterpart to my old Unyielding Sun.

Design Notes: I owed you one for last month and never did get to it. This month's, though, is a quick writeup on my process for writing MB&B's adventures.

Misc: We got some stars spells! I actually wrote the Stars abomination first, and wrote a few spells to fill it out; then went and remembered that I owed you all stars spells, so added a couple more.

Here's what to expect for October!

MB&B: Oh goodness, there's still so much. I'm delighted with my progress, but phew, I set some hard targets. I'm hoping this month to slam through most of the remaining subclasses, and Mys and I will be aiming to get one adventure done apiece. I'll likely take aim at one other big chunk too, but I haven't decided what yet.

Polls (24 hours left!): The general subclass poll is competitive this month! Currently the Mechanist rogue is in the lead, but it's only beating out the Moonlight paladin by 1 vote as I write this. The supporter poll this month is an item pack, which may add a few things into MB&B. A big emphasis here on magic weapons using our new equipment types, so we'll see what comes out.