Thanks again for backing The Black Spire Pact. This has been an absolutely insane endeavor making these PvP Adventure Gamebooks and then turning it into an OSE Dungeon on top of that! I knew this was going to be a big lift with lots of challenges, but I definitely underestimated it. And that just made it that much more exciting to work on. This one wasn't an issue of tedium, but of sincerely complex design problems that reminded me a ton of working on text-based RPGs in the 90s.
Files are very close to ready for print. I am putting the final touches on all our layout and sending things out to proofreading. I anticipate we will be distributing PDFs next month. Right now, the focus is still on getting everything to the printer!
Here's an example spread with one of Arik's illustrations. And here are a couple of illustrations I don't think we have shared yet. We had Arik and Skinner do an extra battle scene between Voth and Marax. These pieces will be specific to their books, so you get Voth's perspective in the Voth book and Marax's perspective in the Marax book.
Marax vs Voth by Skinner!
Voth vs Marax by Arik Roper!
And lastly, just a reminder that if you want a print copy of the OSE Dungeon to go with your PvP set, you can preorder that at flaminghand.com
The next update will hopefully be the one where I get to say everything is at the printer and we are just waiting to receive the shipment!
I hope you have found some time to relax, examine the stars, and stare at the moon.
