Concept Art by Michael Katchan
GREETINGS EVERYONE!
We are back with another update. I've got some notes for everyone and a pretty decently sized update, so straddle in.
Art!
The next batch of art orders has been sent out, and it is the largest portion of the book: Player Classes and Monsters! The Calliope Golem above is just one example, and that's only version A. :). The "Backer only content" below will generally include the other variants, and I'm not going to drop all the art at once. Gotta save some teasers. But it's fun to see what's rolling in for production.
The Book!
Officially, it's off to copy edit land. We uh... won't have much to add on this front for a good while as the line editors furiously attack my precious EM dashes. That does mean however, the manuscript draft is completed! Only a few sections left to slip in...because Crystal Mazur joins the writing team! Crystal is one of our favorite writers and the lead designer of the PIP system (along with being a massive Dark Carnival fan).
Since Crystal created the Collectors for the Red Opera, she was given a special assignment for the Dark Carnival annnnnd... let's just say that is now being slipped in the book.
Gamefound! Your last chance for exclusives.
We've talked about this a little bit, but we launch on May 13th! (Tuesday). Over the two years that STF has been around, we've slowly been building up to this.
I think I've settled officially on what our guiding light is as a studio: Immersive TTRPG and Trans-Media projects. Big honkin' campaign / setting books, novels, music, a drink (Coffee or Tea), and now with Madlabs: fragrance.
Mad Labs is going to create the Autumn Frangrance that is going in all of your loot boxes (think cinnamon, nutmeg, and leaves). They were the missing link to us having the complete set of senses in a loot box, and a perfect example of some of the "New discoveries" we made during the last round of crowdfunding.
Since we have a clear vision for the studio, we are going to shoot to achieve that. The Gamefound campaign helps us get the soundtrack and several other things unlocked that we didn't hit here. But! Anything unlocked there, benefits all of you!
If you missed the last round, the Gamefound campaign will be your last chance to grab exclusives and new products and merch that we only order when closing out our crowdfunding campaigns.
Storytellers Forge is teaming up with Anime Central!
If you are in Chicago May 16th, 17th, and 18th swing on over and try out a HOST of free games being run by us. All you need is an ACEN Badge and you too can be vampires slaying nazis, see debut games we are working on like Midnight Dirge, actually play the Dark Carnival, get books signed by the RPG creators themselves! We have more than just ST Forge stuff as well... Mechs vs Angels with Eldritch Automata and more.
....and....even better...we have an immersive room set up with the Maid-To-Be Cafe group for quick hit, no schedule required games.
The longer debut games ARE limited seats. So, if you ARE going or WANT to go: BOOK OUT A TABLE!!! Once the event gets started, our tables fill up fast. The scheduling app we are using is super easy, and you can quickly fill out an entire table for you and all your friends. The full schedule is found by clicking above!
MomoCon
Annnnd.... if you aren't at ACEN. You can find me at Momocon the weekend after!
(After both of these conventions, Rick is going to collapse for a little bit and hide behind a keyboard to do some more writing on the next upcoming project).
BUT, thank you everyone!
For people who backed or pre-ordered the Dark Carnival there is more content after the jump!
and if you want to help us unlock the rest of the Dark Carnival package we want to assemble -> Click Here!
