[Poll] Choose where Ariadne will be headed in this first month of 2025! (Patreon)

Hi! Back-to-job Marcelo over here.

We took a little vacation (as we should!) and are now officially back! So, what are the plans for 2025, you ask? We've got a lot of stuff cooking for this year of bangers, starting with a WHOLE NEW CORE XII SETTING! (Core XIII? Idk, we'll see about branding some other time)

It's been a while since we've done a fully-fledged setting book, and we kinda miss them. So, instead of the usual entries of the month, we are working on a full sourcebook for January! We'll divide it into segments, so each tier will have a part (Threadmaster's get the full work!)

Because we still owe a sourcebook from December (cough cough Primordial Waves cough cough), the book will probably not be as long as other CORE XII entries. We'll see how much we can do in the time we've got! January will be a lighter month content-wise. With this in mind, we'll give another free entry from our backlog in our Featured Entries of the month, so there will be plenty of Ariadne's Codex to go around.

We still don't know what we'll be able to put out in the time we've got, so perhaps this sourcebook ends up being a 2-month work! We want our quality for this year to stay top-notch, as with Legendary Foes, and well... making these books is pretty hard.

To keep y'all updated, we are also doing a BUNCH of other things that have nothing to do w/ sourcebooks, such as a potential Kickstarter later down the year, coordinating art coms for future books, and creating a new logo, along with some branding stuff. These other projects take some time, but we'll be sharing them soon enough! We want to have you guys' input on pretty much everything we do; your incredible ideas push us forward every single day. We are all threadseekers, after all!

Anyways, I'm yapping a little too much.

TL;DR: We are doing a single, big CORE XII-like sourcebook this month. Yes, Primordial Waves is in the works and will be our first release of 2025!

Now VOTE!!!!!! Here's a quick synopsis of the options c:

Our Lady of the Crows: A Victorian-like urban fantasy setting, with low magic and high grit. This bustling port city is thick with intrigue and spilt blood, with traces of the supernatural lingering at the edges of every murder. Permanently submerged in thunder and rain, as if the very heavens wished to wash the city away.Supernatural horror, lycanthropes, and intrigue in the style of British dark fantasy. Comparatively low magic. Our first visit to Iskendar!The Exalted Savanna: A vast and wild land where might makes right. Gargantuan beasts fight for dominance under the watchful eyes of the glorious and tyrannical divine lions, unquestionable rulers of the savanna. Villages and settlements thrive only under the protection of the mighty City-State of Uru, at great cost to their autonomy. Savagery, civilization and trade seem to intertwine, as if they were not enemies, but merely quarrelling siblings.Wondrous and mighty beasts, Sumerian civilization and myth, hordes of warriors, weapons forged with solar flame, barbarians galore...The Aurora Desert: This barren land is located in the middle of a tropical expanse, like an eerie blemish in the face of the material plane. Ancient tales call this place a thick jungle... What strange magic operates here that blocks the growth of life? Only undead prowlers, adventuring explorers, arcanists, and buried ruins populate Aurora. In the night, strange beaming lights blaze in the sky, like misplaced, ignited versions of aurora borealis.Unique take on undead creatures, survival in an inhospitable dryland, artifacts of eld, cryptic ruins, recovery and investigation quests à la Indiana Jones...