Here's a rundown of everything that's happened on Druskara since the campaign ended. We've been posting weekly progress over on our Discord, but about half of you aren't there yet, so consider this the digest version.
The Numbers
Since the campaign wrapped, we've completed over 160 pages of final content. We've been averaging somewhere over 2.6 pages a day, including weekends, over the two months we've been keeping track. That's higher than the 2 per day we had set for ourselves!
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What's been built
We've integrated some of the oldest material in Druskara's history alongside brand new content. The Blood Forest and the Aging Temple were written almost four years ago, and revisiting them with everything we now know about the setting let us layer in details that hadn't been conceived back then.
We have finalized one of the most important locations in Druskara: the Lost City of Chromatica. We've also finished the Crystal Moon Temple, the Land Temple, the Black Coil smugglers' camp, the Sand Sea, Five Arches, the Crocodilian Undercroft, the Chelonian Mine, and the Crystal Ice Temple.
The Ice Temple had mostly melted (since the Crystal Ice had been taken from it) and was completely undefined in any of my playtest campaigns. After a great brainstorming session with Casey Christofferson of Parallel Dimension Gaming (a friend we met at North Texas RPG Con), we landed on a concept we love: mold. Lots of different, very deadly kinds of mold!
And most recently, we finished Brass Oak, which has always been one of my favorite cities in all of Druskara. A mile-wide tree housing a society of clockwork elves and their automatons. Jealous? You can become one of them by having your head removed and grafted onto a construct! Don't worry... it's painless!
For You
The Late Pledges/Pre-order store is live and the surveys are out and being processed through BackerKit! If you haven't filled out your survey, now's the time!
Art Update
New pieces have been arriving steadily:
RIME TYPHON
BOARFROST
ESCAPE FROM CLIFFSIDE
BOARFROST MAP
SKELETAL SPHINX and MAROUQ the DESERT WIZARD
SKULL TEMPLE ENTRANCE
We're amazingly proud of our incredible roster of artists. They keep blowing us away with each piece they create!
Want more frequent updates?
If you'd like to follow along week-to-week instead of waiting for these larger digests, come join us on the Dungeon Damsel Discord. You'll see more artwork posted there, and we often run playtests. We will also do polls, discussions about Druskara, live plays, and Play-by-Posts. So get over here and enjoy the fun!
If you've got a group willing to run a session through part of Druskara, we'd love to have you. Playtesters who give us feedback we implement get added to the credits, and it's invaluable for us to see how the material plays at other tables. Reach out to us on Discord or Facebook and we'll get you set up!
Thanks for your patience and support. We're making great progress, and we're excited about how it's coming together!
