Hello all! I appreciate everyone's patience after falling behind on the initial timeline. This will probably be the last time I message you before delivering the finalized book, so here's a look at what's been happening, and what you can expect:

One of the treasures in the book (the one pitched to me by the top backer as a reward) has been revised to become a MYTHIC TREASURE!!! This took a lot of work and many different iterations, but it ended up pretty awesome. I also had a set of artworks commissioned to illustrate some of the different forms the treasure can take! If you want to learn more about what a Mythic Treasure is, take a look at the newly-released book by Steel Echoes: https://steel-echoes.itch.io/mythic-treasures

I've also been hard at work with another surpirse that awaits in the book: every non-fractured treasure, as well as around half of the fractured ones, are accompanied by extra goodies to include in your games. These can be downtime projects, titles, or complications related to each treasure. Some of them are mechanically tied together, like the Research Project: DEEP CONNECTION for the Leviathan Scale, which allows you to share some of its powers with your allies. Others are only thematically tied, like the Complication: SOULLESS for the Heart of Nine, which does pretty much what is says on the tin, but can be chosen by anyone, without need of using the Heart of Nine in your game. 

All this is meant to help with the project's core mission; give you cool leveled treasures that are interweaved into your game's story.

I have also commissioned art for 2 more art pieces since the last update, which are almost done! They layout is almost done too, and I've managed to put some art in every spread of the book. Lots of pretty pictures to look at.

Finally, I have been asked about the inclusion of a Forge Steel version a few times. As a Forge Steel user myself, I now how useful a tool it is, and will 100% port the book over on it. I have already ported a few things, so I am familiar with the process, but it will take a lot of time, and I won't delay the book's release for it. As soon as you all get the pdf in your hands, I'll start working on Forge Steel, which all backers will also get for free.

Keeping in mind that this is my first crowdfunder, and I have already underestimated the time needed for the project once or twice, I would really be surprised if you all haven't received your PDFs before the end of the month. Like, something really unexpected would have to come up and mess up my schedule. Fingers crossed, November 15th sounds like a probable release date. I think so. Probably. Maybe. Have a great Winter.

Galdmore Games just launched Death! At the Data Center, a very, very fun adventure (I had a lil peek 👀) about some evil fuckers creating robots to do our adventuring for us. Sounds very far-fetched to be honest, nothing like this would ever happen in real life... https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/aaron-pangilinan/death-at-the-data-center-an-adventure-for-draw-steel

Echolocation's project Kick Some Glass! has made 5 times its funding goal, and there are only a few days left to back it! New ancestry! New monster bands! Glass Dragon solo monster!!!! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/echolocation/kick-some-glass-an-upper-worlds-supplement-for-draw-steel

Triglav Games are doing yet another smorgasbord of Draw Steel stuff, crowdfunding five projects at once, but each project has like, three mini projects inside it. It's wild. Why am I even mentioning this, all of you know about Triglav already. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/triglav-games/sagas-of-steel-the-collective-class-more-for-draw-steel


That's all for now, see you all at launch day soon!