September/Early Octorber Update
almost 2 years ago
– Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 10:58:55 AM
Hey folks. What is it they say today...
"The horrors persist but so do I."
PROGRESS
September was overall a crappy month, but I did manage to get progress done on this projects, despite an unprecidented slew of work (for September) at the day job, illness (myself), illness (my daughter) and Homecoming week (also the daughter obviously). That said, good headway has been made in both the Contemplations and Combat sections of that book! I've also gotten some playtesting in on the "special situations" combat rules for Tournaments and Mira's rulse for Dueling! I intend to share some of that soon. Until then here are some final (lacking final edit) pages. Vitality is from the Contemplations portion (though it dovetails with combat) and the others are from Combat proper.
I hope that you enjoy at least some of these options.
Thank you,
Ryan Thompson
Appendix N Entertainment
July/August and Beyond?
about 2 years ago
– Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 10:36:28 AM
Hey all!
I apologize for missing July here. The daily grind got turned up to 11 in Mid-June and most of July was spend with massive overtime at the day job. That said, I was not idle on any of the Kickstarter projects durning this time. I am working diligently on Conventions & Combat and Caster's Codex. Later this month I anticipate being able to share spreads from these.
Here are some class spreads from the Character Codex! Some of you have seen a variation of the Merchant before, if you backed the first printing of Creature Companion. This one has only a few little tweaks in wording. None of you have yet seen our sorcerer class. The third here is how the spread will look for existing classes that have additional or alternate rules for Gateway To Adventure games.
More updates will be coming later this month! We are inching closer to the finish line every day.
Thank you for the support!
Ryan Thompson
Appendix N Entertainment
Progress, Peoples and Kinship
about 2 years ago
– Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 05:29:35 PM
He folks. Can't say much, except progress continues on re-writes, layout and reworking some things that had to change with some rules in playtesting. I also have the Dueling rules to edit from Mira now, and they are pretty solid!
Here's a behind the scenes look at the "avanced race" section on Dwarves. Our "advanced races are being called "Peoples of the Mid-Realm". "Peoples" directly having a pedigree back to Appendix N with Tolkien referring to his sentient races as "peoples." It has a bit of immersion to it. Likewise, what in D&D were called "sub races" back in the day are being referred to as "Kin" or Kinships." I always had a problem with "subraces" back in the day. It just never sounded like something you would hear folks in the game world referring to anyone as. "Kin" is most definitely something you might hear. "My people are the dwarves, my kin are the hill dwarves from the foothills of the Silver Mountains." So, here is your preview!
BACKERKIT
It bears mentioning that 92% of you have filled out your surveys on Backerkit! That's great, but it means 8% have not. Now, obviously we are not shipping yet, but it has been brought to my attetion that at least SOME that have not filled out the survey do not have a Backerkit account. THAT is likely why some of you have not received the survey. PLEASE, if you have not filled out a survey yet, go to Backerkitand creat an account! If you do not have a Backerkit account and fill out your survey there, you will not get your rewards when it comes time to fulfill them. ALL REWARDS ARE BEING FULFILLED THROUGH THE BACKERKIT SURVEY. Digital distrobution and shipping will be handled using and through Backerkit, if you do not have the survey completed there, you will not get your rewards! Please get an account if you don't have one and get those surveys in!
As always, your support is greatly appreciated!
Ryan Thompson
Appendix N Entertainment
First May Update
over 2 years ago
– Sat, May 11, 2024 at 03:21:00 PM
Hey folks, sorry I'm a bit later than I originally promised here. We hit a string of crap luck with things in life, both business and personal. Anyway, this is just a short update to let you know that we are trudging onward and to give you a couple preview pages as promised. Without further ado, here is our alternative Alignment section in the Character Compendium.
As always, thank you for your support!
Ryan Thompson
Appendix N Entertainment
Progress Report!
over 2 years ago
– Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 12:47:55 PM
Hello everyone!
Here is our April progress report.
We are not as far along with the layout/revisions for Character Compendium as we had hoped (we wanted to have it complete), but it is the largest of the three volumes. That said we are making good headway. In the coming weeks I will be sharing some various spreads and larger sections that are "complete (sans final edit). Here is a teaser with our alternative attribute rolling system. We will share something else each week for the next 2 weeks (minimum).
Than you all for backing!
Ryan Thompson
Appendix N Entertainment
