Weekly Developer Diary

Hey Critical Crew!

We wanted to take a quick moment to share what we've been up to this week, in our latest Weekly Developer Diary. As we've shared before, we're always look for more ways to loop you all into the process, so here's some cool things we've been doing this week!

So without further ado, here's what our team was up to this past week:

• We received updates on August's upcoming player race, the Mouseling (see above!) Just a few minor tweaks still needed before it's finalized and ready for the release. Cameron finished the writing of the race after we received a ton of helpful ideas from the folks in the Hivemind part of our Discord community.
• Cameron also made progress on the encounter maps. Check out this sewer map for the Rat-King encounter

• Dillon knocked out the final touches on the monster statblocks. One of our personal favorites is the Blood Dragon. Check out this excerpt from the stats:

Bloody Breath (Recharge 5-6). The dragon exhales cloying blood in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 21 Constitution saving throw, taking 54 (12d8) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The ground beneath the cone becomes covered in blood. A creature attempting to move across the blood-covered ground must succeed on a DC 21 Dexterity saving throw, or fall prone at the end of its movement, slipping on the blood.

• Speaking of Blood Dragon... check out this WIP of the artwork!

• Connor wrapped up the Urban Ranger subclass (WIP pictured below), as well as the items, spells, and other player options. He also wrapped up the first draft of our latest full player class, that we'll be sending onto the Hivemind folks very soon. More details on the class to come soon! 

• And lastly, and the news we're most excited to be able to show off to you all. This week we also received the alpha prints of our first hardcover book that we will be taking to Kickstarter! Check out the beauty that is "The Mages' War"! This book will compile "The Death of Magic", "Machinations of the Blank", and "Magic and Mayhem", with the Kickstarter including stretch goals to add additional artwork and more written content too! More details to come in the future as we get closer to announcing the launch.

If you want to get more plugged into the inner happenings of Critical Crafting and you have yet to join the Critical Crafting discord channel and the Hivemind role! 

Thanks for all of the love and support, and have a great weekend!

- The Critical Crafting team