Hello everyone!

Apologies for the scarcer updates. After Sekaijucon, Cosmo and I got the con crud and were fighting it on top of work and two more weekends of back to back tabling! Luckily, we managed to do plenty of work for the Backerkit in the meantime. 

During Cosmo's rest days, they got to work on the Hulse booklet stretch goal... and what was supposed to be a 20~ pager booklet has turned into a potential 80+ pager to rival the Arcton overview book. But that wasn't exactly the plan, oops!

So what we're going to be doing is editing down a Hulse booklet as it is for a short supplementary material for this campaign, and all the extra content we have written up for Hulse... perhaps that could very well be a full on book expansion alongside any future Arcton books? Hint hint?

But we're not quite ready to dedicate a post to that yet. What we are ready to share however is....

We have a playtest version of The Helm of Echoes Solo game ready to get tested by backers! We already had a couple of close friends give it a spin, but the more the merrier. We'd love to see your thoughts and feedback as we keep editing and finalizing the game before release. If you're a backer, go check out the Discord!

(The Arcton Discord link is on the Backer only content further below this post! If you're reading this on email, click on the post on backerkit directly so you can check the link!)

The playtest is currently 24 pages, with just the barebones mechanics without the story and roleplay flavor the final game will include, but the finalized game is looking to be an approximate 60 pages to include a bunch of character prompts, questions and story lore to increase character exploration. We're using the Carta system by Cat McDonald for Peach Garden Games, using a standard deck of playing cards to generate a map and the prompts that follow so you can solo play without a DM, but we're also looking to explore versions where a DM can narrate it for a single player, and maybe playtest more players with some tweaking of the rules. We're very excited to show you the final game with all the bells and whistles though- Cosmo's having a ton of fun adding cutscenes and plenty of intrigue to bite into!

That's about it for the updates! We're going back to the mines. In the meantime, check below for the Discord link to join us in more lore brainrotting and discussions and maybe give the game a spin! 

But what's this? How about more character previews? I'll include a look at Valefor's officer, Murmur "The Hammer of Irongate" as an extra preview for backers!

See you next update!
-Stellar