Weekly Update - 220 - 5/27/24 (Patreon)

It's been one of those weeks. I had to reorganize some things, which meant stopping work on the page I was working on and starting fresh with a whole new one that just feels like it needs to be first. Last week I was thinking, ehh I've got all weekend to draw, it'll be fiiiiine if I work on more TTRPG stuff today. In retrospect, it was probably a bit foolish of me to expect Memorial Day weekend to be a productive weekend. Friends wanted to go camping at an event nearby, so we went and spent some time camping with them Friday and Saturday. Now it's Monday.

So okay, this is all to say that I don't have The Next Page in a state I'm super confident in, but I'm not unconfident in it either. I want to work my ass off to get a comic out this week, and while it's gonna be tight, I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility. Especially if tomorrow is particularly productive, like my Tuesdays often are. So yeah! I'm gonna try.

Thanks to some nudges from Quinn I did make some decent progress on the combat system for the God Slayers TTRPG last week. I'd say it's roughly about halfway done now. I think I have a pretty good idea for the action economy and how that all works, it's just a matter of defining it concretely and making sure it all makes sense on paper, and not just in my head.

What I want to do... in relative soonishness (as defined in game-design terms) is get a rough (probably very rough) stripped down version of the TTRPG's core mechanics to let a couple of people look through, then assuming they don't find any glaringly bad problems with it I'll slowly release it out to the rest of you guys to check out and give feedback on. Right now though, it's sitting at roughly 150 pages, and most of that is probably just me rambling, so I need to clean it up quite a bit before I share it with anyone. The main document also contains a few story spoilers right now.

The TTRPG isn't something I really intend to ever print as a book or sell at this point, it's mostly just a pet passion project of mine that's tied to a lot of worldbuilding for Kuserra and might be something I hope you guys can have fun with eventually at some point. I'll probably keep it a Patreon exclusive until I get some good feedback and figure out what to do with it.

And no, I haven't forgotten about Kiera's character page. When I imagined it, an idea occured to me that I can do a bit more with the character page than I have so far, which is gonna require a little bit more art out of me to get it working, and the rest relies on my husband to do a buncha website work, and he's been very busy.

Comic this week? I hope so. I hate skipping two weeks in a row. Frankly I don't expect to get it done by Wednesday though. If I have to push it out Thursday or Friday though I will.

Drawing: Page 197-98, Pages 001-002, Quinn's request, Ancestor bonus art. Other stuff.

Playing: WoW Panda Remix (which is still way more addicting than it has any right to be)

No ramble this week. I mean. I kinda rambled plenty already.