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Hey folks, gonna keep it short because the simple summary is–things are progressing!

Art sketches are coming in--it looks my by count like we've got about half of them in. After I provide some feedback (mostly "yes, please!"), Mac will begin work on inking the sketches! As that wraps up, Sean will add them to the layout.

Meanwhile, Sean is working on the Fifth Edition conversion of the adventure, currently playtesting!

As art and the 5e conversion are getting done, I'll be doing a walk-through of the copy to look for any missed typos, places that should be bolded or italicized, that sort of thing. Once that's done, we'll duplicate the book and swap DCC references and stats for 5e equivalents.

So things are moving along! I hope everybody's summer is kicking off well and I'll make sure to get some art previews in future updates as complete work comes in.

Hey everybody! As you all know, the campaign is officially over and it performed beyond my expectations! Thanks to everybody for jumping in!

I'm very happy to say that Mac has officially been given art prompts and is beginning their work! This makes me extra happy because my wife and I are going on a much-needed vacation to England (leaving in about...28 hours...) and I won't be doing TTRPG work while I'm gone for a little over 2 weeks. While I'm gone, Mac will be doing art and Sean will be working on his 5e conversion of Metronax, so work will be continuing in my absence. I look forward to sharing art samples in the coming weeks! In the meantime, for anybody curious, you can check out a couple of screenshots of our in-progress layout work. The pink boxes indicate places Mac's art is going to go–black boxes are where chamber maps I'm drawing will go:

We typically handle layout in this fashion--we get things to a Good Enough phase so that we know what the artist will need to do, and then we (Sean and I) refine from there while the artist can work. So we may tweak fonts, bold or italicize things, play with spacing (and placing little ants through the book for funsies) but they're working in parallel so we can save a bit of time and get you fine folks your product a little faster. Which is all to say, things may or may not look exactly like this when you get your books, but I think it's fun to sneak a peek into the kitchen sometimes!

As summer begins, I hope you're all looking forward to a good season full of dice and fun!