Last week for my kids' spring break we took a bit of a vacation, heading out to Arizona for a few days. Some hiking, some play, and some more hiking later, we're back.

And I used the time there and here productively. I have uploaded and distributed a copy of the near-final PDF of Saethor's Bane. It's not the final-final copy, as there are a few things left yet to do.

With that in mind, every fight in the book has received at least one playthrough, and not by me. So the entire adventure - rapid advancement and all - has at least gotten a set of independent eyes on it for difficulty. Not all fights are supposed to be teetering on a knife's edge of lethality, but those that are supposed to be potentially career ending have been tested.

I'm fairly pleased to date with how this has turned out. Making an adventure with this much advancement is pretty atypical, but the mission of the book is to let folks get a feel for zero-to-hero (about 100 to about 250 points) of the Dungeon Fantasy RPG in the course of a single plot arc, and this one does it.

So, with that in mind, I'm pleased to give you all the first real complete look at the adventure.

Read it, test it, fight it ... and if you have comments or observations, please share them! If you have spelling, grammar, or word choice, please go to the Gaming Ballistic blog's Errata Page, select Saethor's Bane from the drop-down product menu, and let me know what's up. 

As always, "I'd do this differently" is not errata, nor are the narrative choices available in the branching pathway adventure themselves. There could very well be errors in rules interpretations, character sheet representation of PCs, NPCs, and monsters. Some may look like errors but aren't (Bob has Sword-17 on his skills list, but Sword (20) for the attack line? It's probably because he has Weapon Bond, the sword is Balanced, and it's magical with Accuracy +1). In any case, please bring anything you see to my attention so it can be examined and - if needed -corrected. 

Hopefully this marks a roughly 7-10 day period of comments and play, and then I'll get the final file distributed, with complete art, and the books ordered. The cards should be ordered at roughly the same time. The VTT assets (Foundry actors) may take a bit more time, but the maps, GCS files for some of the characters, and tokens should be pretty close to finished in the next 1-2 weeks as well.