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ANOTHER NEW BASE CLASS

Yes, another new base class! The development of the Vagabond class opened some interesting design doors to us, specifically with regard to “stances” from o...

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Vagabond

NEW BASE CLASS!

My cowriter Ben and I have been hammering design meetings for the last month and a half to conjure up a brand new base class for you. Because the Book of Extinction h...

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Go Extinct with Us on Kickstarter!

The Book of Extinction is now live!

2023-03-21 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Book of Extinction 7 (and other little updates)

It's been another very busy month! In addition to the Complete Martyr expansion, I've got various Book of Extinction chunks to show you. Remember, the Book of Extinction comes to Kickstarter View Post

Complete Martyr 1.1

If life's a joke, dying's a punchline. And everyone's a comedian.

We're back to the complete classes for one final push with the Complete Martyr! We've got six new subclasses, includ...

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Late February Post!

Super quick note here that I'll be 24 hours late on this month's posts. Can't wait to show things off, but I need a few more hours to knock out the PDFs.

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A Busy January!

We’re finally out of January, so I thought I’d give you a quick post letting you know what we’ve been up to.

Open Gaming Victory!

The month started off with leaks about the Open...

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Witchy Cakes! The Witching Flour

Quick aside: I made a CARD GAME!

In 2023-01-16 16:58:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Surprise Hyperdrive Fleet Post! | Czepeku Sci-Fi

I was supposed to take December off, but instead, I got another Hyperdrive Fleet collab post together! It's a bit late since I've been under the weather, but I'm pretty happy with it.

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Book of Extinction 6

This time we've got a doozy for you! With another 38 pages (or 34, depending on how you count it), the Book of Extinction is getting really, really heavy. Here's a breakdown of what we've ...

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Oni's Catch | Czepeku Sci-Fi

This month, we're continuing our ongoing collaboration with CzePeku's Hyperdrive Fleet by bringing y...

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Complete Necromancer

The dead rise, the dead walk. The dead reckon, the dead talk.

Embrace the dark side of magic with the Complete Necromancer! This class brings compelling (and balanced) minio...

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The Busiest Mage Hand Month Ever

The coffee has flowed freely over here for the last several weeks as I've careened toward this day. Perhaps through serendipity, several huge deadlines have landed right on top of one another, lead...

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Bluejay's Call | Czepeku Sci-Fi

This is one of the most exciting collaborations we've ever done! Our friends Czepeku run a Patreon called Hyperdrive Flee...

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Cakewalk | Subclasses 1

It has been a nonstop month over here, but I've also put up record numbers for words written per month. A weird part of the way we build books now is that there's sometimes a lag of a mont...

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Book of Extinction 5

This month's post is a little shorter than I anticipated, but it's still meaty as heck: 20 new pages in the Book of Extinction with nearly as many new monsters! If you're counting, that's ...

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Race Reworks! Cakewalk and Valda's

Last month, we ran a poll on Kickstarter to decide if it was worth it to redesign some of our races in the spirit of being future-proofed. There are pros and cons -- on one hand, sticking to newer ...

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Complete Captain 1.2

Two blades, one banner. 

Didn't we just expand the captain with new banners and improved class features? We did! But our work on Cakewalk familiars, the improvements made in rec...

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Cakewalk | Familiars

This month I've got the lion's share of the Cakewalk Familiar's chapter for you! Somehow, the familiars have grown to outsize complexity in this book of weird food races, which is A-OK, because the...

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Extinction 4

With this update to The Book of Extinction, we've doubled the page count, completely reworked the graphic design, added Prehistoric Megafauna and Prehistoric Lycanthropes (yes, you can pla...

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Cakewalk Update

We've been working like crazy on Cakewalk and have a lot of cool stuff to show off very soon -- a raft of subclasses and magic items probably next month. For now, I have a relatively modest 30-page...

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Complete Captain 1.1

Just remember: if your best friend is a captain, that makes you the cohort, and therefore expendable.

  • The Captain is back with more subclasses than ever before! The captain cla...

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Complete Alchemist 1.2

Wine tasting with an alchemist is like bloodletting near a shark.

The Complete Alchemist is the definitive version of our Alchemist class. Since practically every subclass and featur...

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Strange Owlchemy and Hollynock Hijinks

As a bonus this month, I thought I'd offer the fully completed version of our two most recent adventures, Strange Owlchemy and Hollynock Hijinks. The former is a smooth and darkly...

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Cakewalk | Game of Scones

Game of Scones is an adventure for characters of 1st and 2nd level that introduces players to the Cakewalk campaign setting. With this adventure, For a Few Gumballs More, and ...

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Late March Content!

It feels like every year the 1st of March sneaks up behind me and hits me with a blackjack. This year, I've spent most of February moving, so I have like three things for Patreon that are 80% done,...

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Valda's Illustrious Guestbook

I bring you the final stretch goal for our Valda’s Spire of Secrets campaign: a collection of ready-to-play NPCs called Valda’s Illustrious Guestbook. The Kickstarter backers will get ...

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Cakewalk | Murder on the Gourmet Express

Behold, I’m back! The time has come to shrug off the winter hibernation and get back into releases, starting with more Cakewalk content. This time, we have an Agatha Christie-inspired murder myst...

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Hollynock Hijinks

‘Twas the first eve of Hollynock and all through the night,
The toymaker’s workshop was flooded with light.
The dolls he’s created like you’ve never seen—
The stuffies and pu...

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The World Ends in One Year

Following the sort of impromptu poll in last month's post, it seems that most folks would like to see more weird, experimental stuff. A near second was seeing Kickstarter books brought to Patreon w...

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