

This is the kind of prep I do when I intend on running a game in a place for a long time. I don't know if we're going to stream it all, doing it live is fun for a couple of sessions, but it starts to get exasperating.

The greatest city in this or any age, and we started work on the factions and the districts of the city. The new campaign is (eventually) set in the city of Capital, the City of the Great Game. Hey we've built a pantheon complete with gods and saints! Not bad! Pretty happy with how it's all gone, you can see the current doc here. But I probably won't be jumping in and responding to everyone directly, I just don't have time and when you have this many testers, it's just not feasible. The testers will give feedback, they'll have a discord channel, and there'll be lots of polls judging the tenor of the room so to speak. I think generally Lars is going to act like a Firewall between me and the testers. Lars and I have talked about it generally, but we'll spend some time this coming week nailing down the specifics. Then we're gonna take a few days to prep and then we can start rolling out the playtest. I think somewhere in the actual store it says "May 1st" because that field just asks for a month, not a date, but it's May 11. We'll certainly be ready to start the first round of playtesting about a week after the Pledge Manager closes. I have a call about setting up payroll Monday. And we're almost done, I think health insurance is solved now and the office deal is almost done. I console myself with the (certain?) knowledge that all this is setup and once it's done I won't be filling out 100 pages of forms every month. I feel like, if the text of the book is delayed, it's going to be because of all the time I spent on this stuff over the last several weeks. Health insurance for everyone, but also corporate insurance covering the office, covering workplace incidents, all our products, the livestream. Want to see the new (proposed, cross your fingers) space?Īlso just a ton of paperwork filled out and phone calls for all the different insurance we need. We've picked a place and agreed on rent and everything and now it's a process of making sure we have the right insurance and passing credit checks and whatnot. He's one of those guys I really want to get in front of the camera, he's an amazing kitbasher models, replicas, costuming. My friend Jason is the modeler for these and basically acting as my art director for them now, so you may be hearing from him in the future depending on how shy he wants to be.

One thing I think I've decided is that Gemstone dragons don't have breath weapons, they have eye blasts. Playtesting may push things in more novel directions, we'll see. Of course I wanted to create a psionics system that was original but even with only vague memories of older systems, many of which I never used psionics in, I'm pretty sure what I ended up with was a mishmash of previous systems. I think you could adapt it into a passable psionic character if you were so inclined. Hey I managed to get this one done before the weekend is over! Ah, let's see what did we do last week?ĭesign of the new monsters, including all the stats for the Gemstone Dragons as well as their psionic abilities is well underway. They Told Me I Had To Give The Updates Better Titles
