October Update: Draft 2, and an update on .STL files!
about 1 month ago
– Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 02:57:25 PM
Draft 2!
I just pushed the button to distribute Draft 2 of Songs of the Spellbound Sea — by the time this publishes, it should be in your inbox! It is over twice the size of Draft 1, at 231 pages. The biggest piece of that is the spells (61 pages of them), but also 10 more subclasses, 1 more species, the seafaring rules, 3 appendices, 30 magic items, feats, equipment, and balance revisions for much of the existing content. You can find a detailed changelog here. (In the campaign, I promised a book at least 200 pages long; I think we'll likely land closer to 300 than 200!)
Notably absent: the mini-settings are going to come last (since those don't have to go in a playtesting queue). 1-2 species are still absent. I still have a handful of subclasses to write, and at least two more sections for the seafaring rules. Still working on more magic items, on backgrounds, on monsters, and on more feats.
Notably unpolished: art is not blended, links are not linked, and there are still a bunch of placeholder blocks where art will go. (There's a lot more art than last draft had, though). A bunch of styling is not in place and won't be until page numbers are finalized, because that stuff's a pain to move around. As with draft 1, we haven't put special effort into optimizing for browsers - it's recommended you view the draft with Acrobat, Foxit, or another PDF reader.
Feedback
Everything in this draft has had a professional edit pass, so it's at the point where reader feedback on the text is appropriate and justified. You can use this form to note text errors. Don't worry about style & art stuff, just text.
.STLs!
Four of our .STL files have been finished! Wait, what? Four? The campaign only mentioned three...
We've decided to expand the STL collection up to six files. Everything-tier (and above) backers will receive all six. All other backers will see the new options added if you go into edit or add .STL files to your order. Backerkit surveys and storefront are updated to account for this change - you can grab your survey link from your email if you want to go back and change your selection.
The four files we've got done are just waiting on a test print and quality-control pass, and then I'll mark them available via Backerkit.
