Music time! Late Weekend update.

Working on the soundtrack for Issue 6 now!

Nice to be back in the studio again!
Once that's done it's on to photography and film.
Then back into layout to finish all the little fiddly bits and on to the cover!
I'm always loathe to slap a date on it but summertime is definately looking good for a release date.

Sorry about the lack of new releases so far this year, lots happening in the first of the year.

Work had a few "glitches" to iron out in the first quarter.

The transistion to print copies on Drive Thru RPG did not got as well as planned (get your print copy at Lulu here) That ate up a lot of the first of the year.

That led to working on the Lair Core Rules rerelease, which led to a rewrite of all the rules and background information and grew into a whole thing of it's own. It's creeping along as well but will likely be next year minimum before it see's light of day.

And so on...

So lot's happening just not alot of "releases".

But Sorceress is winding down and Brytax is winding up.

Brytax is going to be a more "traditional" release.

It will include a "wilderness" map of the area between the heroes and Brytax.
It will also include a Campaign like story with a few Main adventures weaving through the story and many optional encounters along the way. The heroes are free to continue with the main story if they wish or leave it at any point along the way.

Also to be in this issue will be the extended Veteran Point rules. They're useful for so much more than just buying skills!

So rock on my Bloodreavers! more coming soon!

LoSS and OSR Compatibility

As the Sorceress issue creeps ever closer to done I'm thinking alot about the next issue: Brytax.

An adventure and Gazeteer to a little chunk of the winterlands not often travelled. The nature of the area lends itself well to a little bit of hex crawly type action as the heroes try to find the road to Brytax.

As I was thinking about this and all the things I would throw in there I thought that this might make a good OSR product as well.

What I would love to know is: If I'm adding stats and rules for a system other than LoSS to the encounters, which would you prefer to see.

I'm leaning towards BEDM/cyclopedia cuz that's my thing but I was wondering if anyone would prefer Osric compatible?

Please comment if you have any preferences.

~Ripley

Lair update (spoilers demonlords only)

Are there any heroes in the room? No? Good.

Here you can see some new Winterlands goodness. This little area is the belt of Agamat. Tucked below the valley of fangs area in the Winterlands. Travel beyond Glouston is rare. Supposedly there is a pass through the foothills of Zolar to the lost lands of Brytax. None have travelled to Brytax in living memory but it is said some road wardens still know the way.

The belt has long been held to be an evil place and no normal folk dare broach it's confines. The wall of Glouston though not defended, stands to mark the border between the lands of men and the terrible snowy dark of the wild winterlands.

Now that the Sorcery issue is out this place is going to be crammed full of ghosts,demons, ghouls, zombies and all sorts of evil. The swamps particularly will be inhabited by a loathsome group of undead minions called the Bletch Toads.

Giant undead Toads the height of a man and spew zombie human babies on the heroes, with knives.

More fun coming soon.

Also working on converting the Burrower over to the new format sheets to post here soon.

Happy hunting my Blood Reavers!

~Ripley