Let's see if we can hit our next stretch goal before the weekend is out! If you've backed this campaign, would you help us with a solid and share it around? Or if you haven't, here is some extra content to perhaps convince you...

News: Our good friends over at Amatur(ish) Productions debuted the first full Chapter 1 of The Black Ballad. The cast absolutely crushed it, and their encounter around the reflection pool slams right into your feels. You can rewatch the stream by clicking on that link! We'll be doing more in the future with a full Black Ballad campaign on their channel, and I'm personally excited to see what Ben MartinMooney does when he's in the storyteller hot seat. This play session, was run by Pat Edwards, one of our co-founders and authors in the Black Ballad. So this session very much had some insider knowledge...

That insider knowledge is why I'm excited for our second debut: CastersnCastles. Tonight, this sarcastically charismatic group of people will also be running the Black Ballad - but with fresh eyes. Without the ancient wisdom or knowledge of a writer so tied into the project. As if all of you would be storytelling. They are armed with nothing more than the storyteller demo packet we provided them.

It's time to put our writing to the test and hand this project off into the hands of other storytellers and players.

It seems to be working as well: This is Darwin, created by Legday.

First off, I had no idea that Legday was even playing much less a talented artist. For the campaign tonight, all WE know at Storytellers Forge is this bio on Leg's twitter:

"Meet Darwin. He carries the very chains that bound the doors of his church, and the lanterns that lit the blaze of their judgement. A man of god risen as the devil they condemned him to be... and in death no flame can touch him. For the vengeance in his soul burns more terribly than any hellfire."

When you are a writer and storyteller, it's amazing to see what other people come up with in your setting, and I think anyone who wants to see what this campaign is all about will enjoy tonight! You can follow CastersAndCastles RIGHT HERE on Twitch so you can tune in later tonight.

And for those who want to read what demo packet this crew was provided... I'm giving everyone on this project a very NON pretty draft document. It's not laid out, it's not finalized, this content is purely a draft for the Black Ballad, but it's our Storyteller Demo Packet. You can download the demo packet and our playtest content as it's updated weekly by joining our discord!

Most importantly, can you help us get past our next stretch goals? Share this around or jump in if you haven't!