Hey all…

July’s been a tough month. I’ve been coping with an ongoing private well being situation that simply is not going to f$&%ing let up. I’m doing the most effective I can to care for it, nevertheless it’s been extraordinarily irritating. And I do know it’s been affecting my interactions.

To that finish, I need to begin this quick replace with a message to my neighborhood members: I’m deeply sorry if I’ve been cranky, irritable, or short-tempered with you in our interactions or if I’ve simply been unavailable, distant, or dismissive. Nonetheless I’m feeling, that doesn’t give me the best to mistreat anybody. I’ve been on a protracted private journey to get my anger and temperament below management, however when issues get tough in life, it is vitally arduous to recollect my coaching. However, nonetheless, no excuse. If I’ve been a jerk to you, you deserve an apology. And if it’s good to converse to me privately, to let me know that I’ve completed one thing to upset you so we will clear the air, you know the way to achieve me by way of SubscribeStar, Patreon, and Discord. Don’t hesitate to achieve out. And be affected person if it takes me a day or two to get again. I’ll get again to you.

What with one factor and one other, I’ve to alter my schedule a bit. So, right here’s the replace on content material. If that’s all you’re right here for, simply try the following part after which transfer on. What follows is a bit behind the scenes clarification of why the adjustments simply to your curiosity. The technical causes. Not private points.

There it’s. The brand new content material calendar. Tentatively. The August replace will finalize that s$&%, however I don’t anticipate it to alter as I’ve received collection’ to complete.

Observe that there’s 5 Wednesday’s in August. So there gained’t be an article in Early Launch on August third or for Basic Launch on August tenth. That offers me an additional week to rejigger the Theme Pack as mentioned beneath.

July Largely Month-to-month Reside Chat

As I introduced the opposite day, the July Reside Chat schedule for tonight — July 21, 2022 — is cancelled. And I gained’t have the ability to reschedule it. So the following Reside Chat will likely be in August. I’ll announce the date in the beginning of August. Sorry about that.

Theme Pack Change

The Theme Pack anticipated this month as bonus content material for high-tier supporters is within the queue. It’s coming. And will probably be adopted by 5 extra earlier than yr’s finish. As promised. Nonetheless, the Theme is not Dwelling and Fireplace. It will likely be an elemental themed pack entitled, tentatively, feeling the warmth. It’ll in all probability present up in early August given I needed to scrap and restart. Nevertheless it’ll be right here quickly.

I need to clarify why City Mode’s getting pushed off and why the Theme Pack theme has modified. As a result of they’re truly completely associated.

Once I first got here up with the thought of a Dwelling and Fireplace Theme Pack, my purpose was to provide you with a pleasant solution to current a village or city in an RPG. What data to current and the way to current it. And I had some distinctive and attention-grabbing concepts. On the time, I wasn’t planning on doing the City Mode factor. However then, the thought of doing a collection of articles on RPG cities got here up. And I spotted that, since I’d already completed a bunch of labor on city presentation when outlining the Theme Pack, I’d already laid among the groundwork.

Once I began outlining the City Mode collection, I made a decision to place off the Theme Pack a bit bit longer so I might incorporate the weather from City Mode into the Theme Pack. However as I labored by way of the define — as I began analyzing City Mode academically — I spotted my define for the Theme Pack wasn’t actually enough. And I additionally realized that my concepts about city presentation weren’t actually in step with my evaluation.

I ought to have made this determination two weeks in the past. However due to aforementioned medical points and a few hiccups in my very own gaming life, together with a private falling out with a member of certainly one of my teams that completely ended a marketing campaign eternally, I didn’t. I saved placing it off.

Lengthy story quick: City’s extra difficult than I believed and my previous define about presenting and organizing city data ain’t going to chop it. It wants extra redesign time. Which implies delaying the following two components, that are all about designing and presenting city and making a sensible instance. Furthermore, the Theme Pack city must be scrapped and redesigned. And I would like a greater hook for the Theme Pack then simply “a greater solution to current City and a easy, pattern village” since that’s now what’s coming within the collection.

Dwelling and Fireplace will seem. Nevertheless it’ll provide one thing totally different and distinctive. Not only a easy instance of the way to current a village. Maybe an instance of a extra distinctive settlement steeped in some Angryverse lore. And I wish to join it to a different Theme Pack about constructing random dungeons to populate the area. In truth, there’s an even bigger concept in play right here. However I would like a number of months to determine all of the items.

Anyway… these are the explanations for shifting City Mode again and altering the Theme Pack theme so late within the sport. And the private s$&% is why I didn’t make these choices and repair the issue two week’s in the past. For which I’m, once more, deeply sorry.