Hello all, happy Friday! As we enter the final two weeks of the project, we have some exciting news to share: we’re partnering with Grim Moon Studio and their 5e campaign, Nightfell The Witches’ Path. Nightfell is an established horror-fantasy setting and winner of a 2022 Gold ENnie Award for Best Monster/Adversary.

We felt this was an exciting opportunity to partner with another group of creators working to create their original setting for 5e play. As we reach our 100K stretch goal, an expansion of lore featuring the Lunarian Conclave, we thought playing off of their Lunar Cultist homebrew class would give us an opportunity to do more storytelling with the interesting groups and factions on the moon!

We're also hard at work updating the playtest documents. By the next update at 95K, we'll have both the 5e and PF2e playtest docs updated with previews of the Cleric: Emptiness Domain and Ranger: Vaultrunner subclasses for 5e and Animist: Voyager of Forgotten Storerooms apparition and Oracle: Awakening mystery for PF2e. We're inching towards 92K, so it won't be long now!

Previews

At the same time, our miniatures have started printing very nicely! The degree of detail's very impressive, especially how they translate well into physical form. Just wanted to share!

We've also teased a legendary encounter in our book! Dao Lao Gui, in the context of our setting, are venomous insectoid monsters that infest and feed off of the spiritual energies inside mountains. Their influence putrefies the waters, making nearby areas uninhabitable for other organisms. They were created by Xiangliu, minister of one of the Long Xin creator gods, as a scheme to turn the lands uninhabitable, returning life to the seas.

The Dao Hive-Mother, the colony's queen, breaks apart human matter and uses it in a process of internal alchemy to create soldiers to expand her territory. It's possible for people to someday recognize a dao lao gui, even the hive-mother, bearing distinct physical features of a friend or family member that disappeared.

They prefer hunting during storms and possess the ability to fire excessively venomous darts from their bodies. Everything about them symbolizes hatred for life on land.

More to come soon!