What happened in February and what is happening right now?

That was fun, I lore dumped on both of them and ideas started to fly around, it was fun to see all the things they were coming up with, some of them I hadn't even thought of! That's the kind of spirit I want to bring with this module and it was nice to see it happen live. The writer already gave me a draft, turned it back with some notes to tie it more into the Mothership RPG feel.

One of the ideas that came up was to have the comic as an intro to The Iron Hive, an intro that you can continue by playing, the party in the comic will comprised of one of each class, it'll ship with character sheets for each of them and your trusted warden will be able to continue where the comic left off! I personally love the idea a lot and can't wait to have it realized. I'm not planning on writing a loooot on how to continue the story, and I want it to be open ended enough for there to be a lot of options for the wardens

We are around 70% content-wise, 50% on the graphics, it's coming along really nice and I'm liking the index card-sized format, here's a sneak peek on the image for one of them:

The content itself is not really supposed to suffer a lot of changes, some of you requested for it to have a map of the station, and I think I found a nice middle point. The initial idea was for everyone to map it as they imagined it, but it is also fair to have a starting image, but then I thought, why have only one map? I was thinking on just making a lot of sketches of how The Iron Hive might look like and include them all on the Index page, with a little note saying something about how the station doesn't have a predetermined shape and you can pick, choose and do whatever you want! 

Other than that, I asked the printer how much the price would change if we added 4 more pages for us to have a bit more room to do creative stuff like sections and have fun with layout and design, I should've had an answer by now so I might need to ask again.

March is the end of Q1, so how are we looking? Fine, I'm juggling between trying not to think too much about it and keeping it present, the pace we have feels right, I'm still needing to meet with Alex about the Ruzt Ratz catalogue and we should do that this week.

We had an error with digital content not being delivered to those who had bought it through the Pre-Order Store, that was fixed as soon as we found out it was happening, if you bought anything that included the PDF and you haven't received it yet, feel free to contact us!

One of the cool days is finally here! Safe to say I'm nervous :) but excited

The Early Access PDF has just been sent along with the Jade Market Floor Sheet (renamed from Sector sheet to avoid confusions with the actual sectors)

Be aware it's an early access PDF, which means that the layout, design and some of the content are not final! The content itself—the core of it—will not change, so the sectors will remain the same, The Iron Hive will remain a space station built from scraps on top of scraps. But the details, extras, and small little things might change.

In case you don't know how or where your digital downloads are, go -> here.

Meetings, meetings and more meetings! 

As for me, once the money hit, the ball started rolling again, the PDF suffered a massive overhaul in terms of design and will keep evolving, I did a whole course on layout and immediately put everything into practice, I'm waiting for the printing company to get back to me and see if we add 4 more pages, these I envision as section spreads, so it'd be a lot of form over function, but the form in my head looks really nice.

Extra fun little thing: learn about the...uh...modern day criminal organization that inspired the Wraiths!
If you get the reference on random search 97, ilysm <3 as well as the 30-39, hell, even 10-19, that whole table was me having a blast, just look at 00 vs 99, fun stuff

WEE WOO WEE WOO

Smoke test was a success, so now everyone gets them!

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That's all for this update, as money is finally out of the crystal box, things are flowing, meetings are being held and Early Access PDF still aimed for early Q1! (Let's say early February while aiming at next week)

That's probably the next time we'll write, so see you then!

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