Hello and we wish you an early Happy Lunar New Year!

Now that we're through January, in spite of flu season rolling around, we're getting back into our normal speed of work. Regardless, January has been busy and we're excited to let you in on where we're at. Late pledges are still open for anyone interested in getting in on that!

Here's where we are in terms of progress:

BMG 5e Playtest: Still set for late-Q1. Editing finished, together with the PF2e playtest.
BMG PF2e Playtest: Editing is underway. Set for late Q1.

Overall BMG Progress: Editing is underway. Art is largely finished minus a couple stretch goal-unlocked monster art anything new we'd like to add.

We had a big sale over January, so we've cleared another 5K preorder milestone! That means that in addition to our yaoqi, we will select another subclass, species, monster, or NPC to throw in.

NPC Guide: Stats and illustrations are underway! We'll be able to put out a version with a handful of national rulers and various faction heads estimating sometime mid-Q2. The BMG playtests are of course of a higher priority.

Legacy of the Wailing Souls one-shot: Writing is almost complete at 6K words! Map illustration is underway. Depending on when the latter is finished and how long layout might take us, we can hopefully get this out sometime Q2.

VTT Foundry 5e/PF2e: Work has begun in earnest. A first draft of all monsters have been imported into Foundry. I just need to go back in and make proper edits, make sure that all features are functioning. I reckon we'll be continuously updating the modules in case someone points out an issue. Regardless, we're thinking about releasing Undying Corruption in individual arcs to test things out.

Undying Corruption 5e Korean translation and PF2e: We've begun work committing PF2e's arc 3 into layout. I received a number of very positive responses after asking folks working for Paizo some questions, so we can speed up progress. Shao Han and I are also working on retooling the Tactician class. We thought the Commander class generally did a lot of what I wanted the Tactician to do, so it might be easier to start with the Commander class as a foundation.

As for the Korean translation, arc 3 is fully translated with arc 4 in the works. You can expect us to release arc 3 w/ proper layout within the month.

Higher tier commissions: Progress underway. The illustrator has fully returned from his vacation, so we're catching up to a normal pace.

3D Models: Work is underway with the first set featuring minis for playable Spiritborn and Huodou PCs! Will preview a full model once we can.

Soundtrack: The composer is just about to return from abroad and has been working on the tracks. Will update as soon as we receive something deliverable.

We're also excited to share a number of previews:

For our NPC Guide, Yu Yuhae serves as the Danguk government's Councilor of the Left and heads the reformist Polaris's Beacon faction. She works to wrest influence from the small collection of clans that aided in forming the dynasty. Her ruthless maneuvering of the court has seen the reformist faction grow in power over the years.

The Paradise Leshy is born from the flowers representing life or destruction formed by souls in the underworld like in the Flower Fields of Seocheon. Their bodies are shared by both a leshy spirit and the soul that was reborn as the physical body the leshy spirit entered. One can suppress the other and pursue more mortal ends. On occasion, the primordial nine-headed titans, the jihaguk daejeok, take the forms of leshies to sneak back into the material world and find a way to restore their bodies.

That's it for now! If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reply here or contact us at [email protected]. If you'd like, we also encourage you to join our Discord channel by clicking the banner below: