Ahoy Spacefarers!

What a month it’s been, from start to finish perhaps the greatest we’ve yet to experience here at the Dragons Vault, and that is all thanks to you. So thank you, to all who followed and backed, who commented and voted in the polls, who shared our project far and wide, who cheered us on as we charted these seas together, we say thank you!

We have the best job in the world, truly, and because of your support for us and for Lodestar we get to keep doing it for another incredible year (and Aston can finally come aboard full-time!!). We can’t wait to begin work, and take you along with us as we discover the seas of the Beyond together. Speaking of, I wanted to point those who might’ve missed it towards the finale of our Choose Your Own Adventure posts, in which the final fate of the Dawnstar is revealed, as is the contents of the final treasure!

Now the campaign has wrapped up you can expect updates from us every other Monday. These updates will keep you in the loop with the books production, show off new art and mechanics, and even invite you to playtest early access rules and mechanics from the book and then discuss them via our community discord (more on that below).

We will have more information for you next Monday, including a breakdown of our production timeline and pledge manager info etc., but until then Aston and myself will be taking a week off work. We’ve been working incredibly hard over the past few months as you can imagine, so we are going to take some time with our loved ones and to get our heads ready for the epic voyage ahead of us as we bring this book to life!

This is your official post-campaign invitation to come hang out in the Dragons Vault Discord! We’ve got a nearly 1000 strong community there already, full of people talking everything from community made Lodestar soundtracks to our own Vault Gauntlet monster creation competition! We also post our playtest materials in there, as well as workshop mechanics and ideas with the community long before they ever make it to print. If that sounds like your bag, then come join us there now via this LINK.

Until we return we trust you’ll keep an eye on this here vessel, we’ll need it in good nick when we get back if it’s going to take us all the way to the end of this exciting voyage we’ve all embarked on! So till then, thank you all, and have a wonderful week!

- Conor, Very Grateful Captain of the HMS Dragons Vault

Ahoy fair spacers!

First of all, thank you to those of you that have had chance to read through, playtest, and review the first version of the ship system! Already, it's helping to mould the changes we make! Those of you that have already played the system but haven't had chance to give us your feedback yet we'd love to hear from you. This survey is where we will be collecting the bulk of our feedback for the system including versions going forward. At the start I've also included a small section so you can let us know which version you're talking about specifically! Those of you that have responded already: have no fear! We can collect multiple surveys from the same person, if you have comments about newer versions feel free to just fill the survey out again, just let us know in the additional comments if that's the case.

Next, we have a slightly updated version of the ship system for you today. Mostly small wording tweaks and some content additions (if you want to make sure you know exactly what's changed here is the changelog), but you'll find new weapons and munitions, as well as weather and hazards!. If you'd like to find the version 1.0 document, it can be accessed via the Vault Discord.

💫 Here is version 1.5 of the ship system! 

But that's not all, we've also bundled up a few of our ship upgrades and other hazards and weapons together for those of you that want to have a bit more of a play and insight into the shipbuilding mechanics, or spice up your encounter building!

🌟 You can grab that here!

Ship System Feedback Survey
Ship System Changelog
Ship System v1.5
Ship System Additional Material (Upgrades, Weapons, Hazards & Weather)
Community Discord


Finally, we'd absolutely adore it if you hopped into our discord and had a chat to us about what you think, the ship system is a pretty big undertaking mechanically and we love seeing what people do with it!

That's all from me for this week gang! I hope you're all doing wonderfully!

Thanks so much,
Aston

Ahoy Spacers!

I hope you've all had a chance to get some eyes on the official playtest packet for the ship system! It's been lovely to hear all the stories, feedback, and just general compliments!

Me and Conor are currently working on the next iteration of the Ship System for next weeks playtest! This will include new content aswell as adjustments to existing mechanics based on internal testing and feedback from you guys! Thats where I come in a little bit early this week:

If you have played or read the ship system we would love for you to let us know what you think HERE! This survey is one of our more important ones we'd recommend, subclasses can often be strange and interesting but this is a whole new system!

We've also had some pretty wonderful conversations with people over in the Discord! If you wanna have a chat about the system, take part in conversations about Lodestar in general, or even just wanna meet some likeminded folks we'd love to have you!

As always, have a wonderful week, and I'll be back soon bearing some more ship system goodies!

- Aston

Ahoy Spacers!

Me and Conor are just hopping on for a couple of hours to discuss the ship system playtest, answer any burning questions y'all might have, and maybe design a Siltsail or two! We'd love for you to join us!

Ahoy all!

We had a big update before the weekend, with the release of the first testable version of our ship system! A few backers struggled to access the downloads in the backer only section, so we’ve included them here too:

⚓ Playtest PDF

🔱 Pre-made Encounter PDF

⛵ Full Playtest PDF and Encounter Pack Zip File (With printable maps & digital token pack)

Go check out that release update for all the additional info on the system, and come chat about it in the Vault Community Discord if you’ve got questions or feedback!

🚨 Also an important note for those joining the discord, please make sure you select the 💫SPACER💫 role when joining to guarantee access to the ship system and discussions🚨

As a heads up, we will begin charging cards in the pledge manager for any shipping and add-ons, as well as preorders, starting Monday next week. Ahead of that, please make sure your shipping address and card information is correct!

If you want to make changes after that (such as adding more add-ons or changing address) you'll still be able to by reaching out to Aston via [email protected]

We also want to hear about any and all thoughts you might have on last months playtest, the Superstition Bard & Path of the Comet Barbarian!

So head here to fill in the survey! 

Additionally, myself and Aston will be returning for another stream in a couple of weeks, on Sunday the 5th of April! We are going to be discussing the ship system, and designing a few new weird and wonderful siltsails. So come along, say hi, and throw any and all ideas you might have at us there!


That’s all for this week, I hope wherever you are it’s smooth sailing ahead till we next speak 💫

- Conor