Leo
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5 months ago
Project Update: October 2025 Preview Draft [TOPAZ CHARIOT]
Dear wanderers, I'm pleased to announce that there's a new preview draft of the core 2e rulebook. PLease click the link to download! We are now at 317 pages(!), so almost the whole book is in a rough layout.
Note on the name: this preview is subtitled TOPAZ CHARIOT. From this point on, I'm going to be giving preview drafts code names to quickly identify which draft someone is reading from. Currently TOPAZ CHARIOT is the most recent draft. If you have comments/questions/typos/suggestions on content, please try to identify which draft you're reading from. It doesn't matter a lot right now, but in a few months there might be multiple preview drafts floating around and I'm hoping this will ease some of the headaches.
Note on the name: this preview is subtitled TOPAZ CHARIOT. From this point on, I'm going to be giving preview drafts code names to quickly identify which draft someone is reading from. Currently TOPAZ CHARIOT is the most recent draft. If you have comments/questions/typos/suggestions on content, please try to identify which draft you're reading from. It doesn't matter a lot right now, but in a few months there might be multiple preview drafts floating around and I'm hoping this will ease some of the headaches.
What's new in TOPAZ CHARIOT?
I'm currently focusing on getting new content laid out and drafted rather than updating existing pages.
- The armour spread now includes options for generating helmets and shields (p.41)
- There is a new random monster generator! This spans four pages of tables, and is found on p.193-196
- We have 25 Minor Exotica, on p.197
- Some rules for Barter and d100 Trade Goods (p.203-204)
- A spread to generate Rival Adventuring Parties (p.213-214)
- The Trading City of Gnomon, a fully fledged mini campaign setting in its own right, now occupies pages 227 to 264. This content was originally issue 2 of the Vaults of Vaarn zine series, published in 2021, and will be familiar to some of you and new to others.
- The Tomb of Nassak An-Rah, a starter vault for Level 1 PCs, is found on p.265-270.
- The Fount of Illustrious Flesh, a vault for Level 1-3 PCs, is found on p.271-276
- Caeba in the Maw, a roaming trundletown that scavenges the corpses of sandworms, plus the Corpse of the Grandfather, a dungeoncrawl set inside a dead sandworm, are found on p.279-286.
- Khenet Rock, a starter lair adventure for Level 1 PCs, is found on p.287-292.
- Appendices, covering the Titan AIs, Languages, Religion, and other little lore essays, are found p.305-310.
Still to come
- More Hypergeometric Equations
- Sample Elixirs
- Factions - reputation, and details for all of the major factions. Some are more finished than others, and I'm aware this section needs work.
- Vault Fauna
- Foraging
- Hegemony Protecterate Location
- d100 Lairs
- d100 Landmarks
- Oracle's Sanctum location
- Sample Encounter Tables
- Treasure Cache Types
- Minor Exotica
- Major Exotica
- The Head of Briareus (an adventure site)
- d100 Set Dressing Objects
- Fine Art generator
- Innumerable tweaks and edits.
Thank you all for your patience and support as I work on this mammoth project. I think the big pieces have all been put in place now, and what remains is filling in the missing spreads, as well as beginning to edit and polish this blue behemoth. I will update again in November with my progress.
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