As I've recently announced, new version of the vampire, revised after latest round of testing, is now available for download for all backers! Inside you will find 3 subclasses (Noxious Stalker, Shrouded Lurker and Spore Bearer), Vampire Perks, Vampire Kits and Vampire Careers. Shrouded Lurker awaits one final design pass, so the things there might not be final, but Noxious Stalker and Spore Bearer are more or less complete and ready for release. So are the kits, perks and careers, though I will also have another look at them later on to be sure I am happy with everything. Okay, so what's still missing?
We have design ready for thematic treasure for the product (8 leveled items, 20 trinkets), the Vampire ancestry, titles and complications. We are still doing second-to-last design pass on the Charming Tormentor and Crimson Conductor bloodlines (subclasses), but we hope they will be ready for testing very soon (maybe next week?). Regarding testing, unfortunatelly Pesto is busy with his other work right now, so for one last, final test of level 10 Vampire we will have to wait some time. We will schedule it as soon as we can, do one final revision afterwards, and we will have the final manuscript version of the vampire ready! The plan is to release alpha playtest material in 2-3 weeks to people who pledged at applicable tiers and then, probably in November, release the final manuscript for all backers.
In the meantime we will start layout process for the parts of the book that are already final or close to final, to be able to get the product out as soon as we can, probably in December. We will keep you updated and will gladly show our progress with layout later on. For now, let me show you a near final character art for the Crimson Conductor subclass:
Crimson Conductor by Eryk Szczygieł
We expect there will be more blood on the final version of this piece! And now to another cool topic...
Boggits of Kingsmire: A Swampy Supplement for Draw Steel
Cover Art by Wiktoria Skalska
As we were done with more and more of the Vampire, we started discussions and work on our next project, which we revealed a few days ago to be Boggits of Kingsmire! As you can see, it has a very different vibe from the Vampire, and features a joyful ancestry of frog-people ready to fight for their swamps. The ancestry has already been tested and is really fun (so I was told by the testers!) and there will be plenty of other content in there too. To quote our teaser page:
This product contains (among others):
a new ancestry - Boggit (frog person)
new kits, including Angler and Spearfisher
new class options, including a Swamp Domain for Censors and Conduits, and new Stormwight Kits for Furies
swamp perks and titles
swamp treasure, including new leveled items and a lot of plant consumables
new downtime activities
plenty of new monsters, including a Boggit monster family
a gazetteer for the KIngsmire and surrounding region
quests (~5 Victories short adventures) to get you started playing in the region
