Seacat 0.76 - The Offensive Gear Is Here! (Patreon)

Huh ... ok ... that title might be suggestive. Hm.

Oh, well, I'm sure it's fine ...

Dear Heroes,

Welcome back for another exciting episode of the ever-burgeoning pdf of the Black City and its Beyonds!

I turn around and it's nearly (exactly?) 3 weeks since the last update. Well, there are some big things added this time:

1.

All the offensive gear is done! 20 new charms and 30 new rhetorics (pages 120–129). There are now 90 example pieces of gear for characters to wield against those they mildly dislike to cause mayhem and contusion.

2.

More consumables! I think there are about 20 now, we'll get up to 64, making a lovely little d88 table for weird and wonderful single-use items. Some of them may ... uh ... require parental guidance in some jurisdictions.

3.

Three scenes breaking down zones and areas for theatre of the mind style conflicts (p226–228). A few more still to do.

4.

Another magic album starts to creep back! The Disencypherae. Still need to add back most of the spells, but soon enough.

5.

And art. Lots and lots of art throughout. Let's say 10 pieces, but I didn't count very well.

6.

And the regular behind-the-scenes stuff. Fixing up some layouts, nipping some texts, tweaking others, tucking some images.

Heavy Metal Heroes - News

You've submitted about 100 songs and videos for me to review (and if someone missed the chance, the form is still open: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1krXqZOld4tqOYigvQtWXu7qV-x4zDY8TFfbCzktmk_g/edit ). It's a lot! Thank you so much for all the responses :) 

I'm going to go through them, listen to the whole lot, and set up a couple of lists for you to vote on, to choose which songs, bands, and more get woven into Heavy Metal Heroes. It'll take me a bit of time, but patience is a virtue, says the old blind bard, I hear.

After that, we'll see about making HMH a reality :).

UVG Location Cards

With Saker's help, we've assembled a full deck of locations: 52 normal ones and 2 jokers, as well as 4 bonus locations that need new art. About 40 are from the UVG book, about 12 are new.

Isn't that cool?

It's still a bit up in the air which deck we'll tackle next: events, treasures, or creatures. But, right now, we're taking a little bit of a breather. Then it's an editing pass, tweaking the layout and a test run over on DTRPG to see how the POD cards come out. We're also getting quotes on making  a traditional print run.

Sometime around then, once I see how it works, I'll also share the pdf of the cards here. And maybe the jpgs too? Whaddya say?

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I'm sure I had some other things to say. About workflows, art, and such ... but it's a Sunday and the sun is out and I might have to go out and greet it too.

Here's a seven-day discord link: https://discord.gg/s29SWnBn to the stratometaship. It's in port, it's docked.

I'll probably not get much visible game or art done this next week, taking a bit of a "all quiet on the internet front" to focus on some writing.

Till next time, courage et felicities,
—Luka