Today, we wanted to share a few things with you and ask you a question (in the linked poll).

First, we wanted to announce that we’ve created a channel in our Discord server for your Indominant homebrew to be shared and discussed! We’ve already had one community member create their very own homebrew Powerset: Time Manipulation! They have already gone and created everything up to Level 5, meaning they have an Inherent Effect, Base to Tier 3 Powers, and Tier 1-2 Talents for all 5 Archetypes!!!!! We are blown away at this idea and would love for people to see it and give them some love. Join our Discord server to check out the homebrew and even share your own!

Now for another exciting bit of news… we want to run a community event with everyone, and better yet, we want your ideas for what the community event should be! This is taking the place of our Community Event Stream reward for when we hit the 250 Backers Achievement! We are updating that Achievement to reflect this change of plans.

But what will that community event be? Well, we want your input! We’ve linked a poll to this update that has 3 options:

This is a challenge that we previously ran when our community was a lot smaller, and we had to put it on hold until we grew our active community (which this Backerkit campaign has done!). The idea behind this challenge is that participants submit a story and build for a character concept of their own making, and once submissions close, we will create a series of knock-out votes to determine a winner, with 2nd and 3rd place rewards too! 

What does the winner get? Well, if we fully fund, the winner will get a full body, full-color image of their character concept drawn by Milton Aguiar, paid for by our team here at Odin’s Key Gaming!

For this one, it is quite simple. Participants would create a team of 2-3 players (we haven’t decided team size yet) and compete in combat against other teams. We would set up brackets and stream the combats, with the final Team getting a reward (reward is TBD).

For this option on the vote, you would need to comment what your alternate idea is, and if any of these ideas gets more upvotes than option 1 or 2, we would go with this option.

Wow, what a first day! The first 24 hours are nearing completion and we are over 63% funded! As a small team with a relatively small following we are so excited at the response we’ve had! Make sure to check out the below updates too, you won’t want to miss them.

We can’t thank all of you, our supporters, enough! Thank you to everyone that pledged, and those of you that are checking out the Primer and joining our Discord server!

Just before, and during our launch we have been working on a small update to the Game System Primer 2.0.

The only rules/mechanical change is that instead of having to choose 2 of the 4 available Base Power options, every character now automatically gets all 4 Base Powers for their Powerset! We made this change because selecting Base Powers could be quite a difficult decision at times, and we don’t think the pros of that choice being meaningful outweigh the cons of it being a choice that doesn’t feel like it has a “right answer”.

Other than that there was just some small wording clean-up and clarifications to some areas that got questioned somewhat regularly.

So that means we’ve included the updated Primer below (all you need to do to download it is follow our Backerkit page, subscribe to our Newsletter, or join our Discord server here)! This also comes with a new character sheet (coming soon) to give you the space you need to add those 2 extra Base Powers to your sheet!

Yes, that’s right, as of the time we send out this update, we’ve also decided to open up the Architect Pledge Level to 1 additional Backer! That means one more person will get to work with us to create their very own Powerset concept, to be added in our first expansion book!

Hello everyone, this is a very exciting update as we close in on finalizing the SIC and getting ready to go to production!

Before we get into the details, we just wanted to let you know that we operate with transparency with our audience as one of our most important qualities. We do this so that you know where things are at and when you can expect your rewards for backing our campaign, or for those of you that didn’t back us, so you know when the books will be available for purchase.

Today marks the end of our Playtesting phases! That means we are beginning the editing process for most of the content. We’ve actually already gotten started with editing on Issue #1 with our Editor, and it has already been completed. Issue #1 contains the introductory chapters that overview how to play the game, as well as the core rules and combat rules. 

We are very happy with the improvements to clarity that our editor brought to the game rules. We think it really elevates the game to meet the professional quality we want to have for our players and community!

As we mentioned in our previous update just a week and a half ago, the editing process is scheduled to complete at the end of the month. Following this the layout will begin at the start of April. Then two weeks before we have a final draft of the PDF complete, on May 18th we will lock all orders, and charge cards the following week on May 25th. Lastly on June 1st we will send a draft of the PDF to all backers as we prepare to place the physical copy orders. We plan to give ourselves one month for backers to provide feedback on any possible errors in the draft PDF and get them updated before sending out the final PDFs (including to those of you that pre-ordered on our website!) and placing the order for physical copies.

As with before, we love to share the pencils stage of this art, so you can be excited to see the final colors in the SIC book!

First we have EVO, a Super who tinkers and creates items using his excellent crafting abilities.
 

Next, we have some example Genniki civilians.

Lastly we have Milton's rendition of Indominus in a solo piece!

We know it’s short notice, but Q&A #7 is scheduled for tonight at 5:00 PM Pacific Time! We’ve decided that we are going to have at least one Q&A stream each month, and we will have these on the first Monday of each month moving forward!

We also may do some additional streams for fun in between!

Milton has completed the art for the Character Concept Challenge winner, Old Man Entropy made by Donnelly Homily! This one is probably one of the most unique and special characters we have art for! Thank you to everyone who voted!

Yes, you read that right! We are starting to plan the next Indominant Community Event! We don’t have a schedule yet for when it will take place, but we are beginning to plan the Player Versus Player Tournament! We will share the details once we lock those in!

Ricky and I (Zarek) are scheduling out our times for the Dev One Shots that Backers got as part of their Pledge Level, or chose as Add-Ons! We are taking this time to also create a system on the Odin's Key Gaming Website for folks to purchase One Shots through there! All of the Backers that got this reward will be given a coupon code to select a One Shot event for free!