It has been a wild few weeks up here in the northeast. Can I see the ground outside yet? No, haha. 17" of snow here last week (36" in some spots near us!), but amidst that all, progress!
We initially planned for 8 Relics to be included with Relics of the Forge. Stretch goals unlocked another 3, and due to me forgetting that 8+3 = 11 shocking generosity, we've completed design work on 12 Relics! I'm really excited about how differently the game plays with each of these, ranging from the comfy defensive Safety Pin to the wildly aggressive Emerald Blade. Let's take a look at two of the new ones:
The Luminous Chime (seen before in a different, early concept) gives you an interesting mix of rerolling capabilities and bonus heroic dice - but fuel can stack up in a hurry!
The Emerald Blade absorbs loot opportunities to give you powerful blasts of dice! It's power won't last forever though, so use it sparingly...
All 12 relics, along with some other balance, wording, and clarity changes are available in the PnP PDF.
As you may have noticed, the Relic cards and the Forge are functional but a little messy. That's because they're still on my (not artist) template while we figured out the quantity of text and iconography each would need. The iterations over the last 3 months have reduced the wordiness significantly, and pulled away some from some over-complexity issues. Now that these are locked in aside from small balance tweaks, our next task is to create the Actual Print Files. It will look nicer :) We're also making a unique icon for each of the relics, so they have a little more visual separation from one another!
Schedule
We have two games in the print queue with our factory right now (Mystic Curling Club & Chess Joker), and our aim is to have Relics + the Vault ready to follow once those are complete.
Next tasks are laying out the Relics changes to the rulebook, finishing the card layouts as mentioned above, and tackling production plans with the factory about the precise shape + size of the Vault box, so as best to house the games.
I will be at PAX East at the end of March, hope to see some of you there if you're around!
