March Update

...somehow it's March. Been both a long and a short year so far, an odd combination. The Kickstarter is on it's final day, but I have a pile of stuff for you from the past month, as well as the outline for the next month.

Last Month

Here's the summary of what I have for you... it's quite a lot of this month, though almost all updates:

• Spellblade 1.0 - One more balance patch for Spellblade, it shows up the early game options a little by giving a free Aegis choice at 2, the level 11 scaling by merging Splash Damage and improved spellstrike, and a small host of little tweaks. Adds the Mage Hunter from the last poll.
• Blood Magic 0.7 - A sweeping update to Blood Magic, with +8 spells, and updates to each of the subclasses here, as well as some overall tweaks to the system.
• Occultist 1.3.2 - A fairly large update, it has some tweaks for Witches, Oracles, and Shamans, with some rebalancing and tweaks included in the Change Log, as well updates the license. See the Occultist Fan Patch for any non-SRD spells.
• Phoenix Spark Sorcerer v1.2 - Balance update to fix some issues and clean up mechanics.
• Stoneheart Sorcerer v1.1 - Small update making a few things work a little better.
• Circle of Elements v0.9 - Pretty heavily clarified and revamped how the para-elemental powers in particular worked, as those were a bit of a mess previously.
• Circle of the Grove v1.3 - Formerly called Circle of Roots I held a mini vote to rename it over on Discord, and this what they settled on.

This Month

With that, let's jump right into what's coming next for this month:

• Battle System Alpha 2 - I've been barking up this tree for awhile, but it's almost certainly going to be ready for this month as it's getting close.
• Warden 1.4 - Bringing the winner from the last poll into the fold, this update is in progress, but taking a bit longer.
• Restarting the Subclass Poll. I think we'll have a subclass poll this month (which means the winners of the last one).
• Feat Compendium Update, Mystic Path Feats - Currently it includes Active Martial Feats and Weapon Expert Feats. I'm pretty sure (80% that Mystic Path Feats should make it in this month). I've said that before though, so we'll see. This is near the top of my list of things to nail.
• Either the next Spellblade or Warden subclass poll. Not sure which one, but we'll get one of those this month.

Future Projects

Maybe this month, maybe not.

• Kickstarter Stretch Goal Content - lot of things got funded through Kickstarter, with various Voter's Choice rounds. Those will of course be over here as well. I expect we'll see some of the earlier stretch goals this month start to come out, but not signing anything in blood yet. There is a ton of stuff here though, so I'm not going to go through each one, but top few are...
• Blood Magic Update. We got the 0.7, but there's still a lot to do here; not sure when it'll jump to 1.0, maybe next version, but that will probably just be 0.8.
• Monster Feats. This is a cool one I think will be helpful, but not sure when it'll be in a fancy useable format.
• Kibbles Reference Document. This was a promise of the Kickstarter of releasing a large portion of my work under Creative Commons. It'll take awhile to get the formatted new doc up for that, but we'll start seeing updates for it before then.

Vague Future Projects

• Kibbles' 5e++. This is mostly a post Kickstarter project, but you may see some stuff it around, so I want to talk about what it is. Kibbles' 5e++ is my ruleset to 5e, but I want to be clear it's entirely backwards compatible in the actual literal sense of that. I don't expect everyone using my content to use it... I already mostly use the rules of 5e++ in my games, and folks use my content just fine as is. I just want to let other people play the game as I do if I want. It's basically polishing up my entire library of tweaks, tweaking things a bit further to fix some other stuff, and using the Creative Commons to release it.

I'd expect about 1 mid month update, and 1-2 polls this month overall, but as always, I don't want to promise too much. The Drafting Room should be fairly busy on the Discord if you want to sit on the edge of your seat, but it'll come along eventually.

I know a lot of things are currently in GMBinder docs and some folks have issues viewing those, so I do hope to do a bit of a PDF conversion pass, and those will be available through my website and the Link Hub as I get those up.

I've debated if I should say anything here, but as a brief note I've been in and out of the hospital these last few weeks a bit; it's very likely nothing too serious and I'll have a minor surgery sometime this month which will hopefully be the end of it. I don't expect any real interruptions to the schedule, but it's probably fair to let you folks know.

Back on positive ground to wrap things up, the Kickstarter went incredibly well, and carried over to here with a lot of new faces... so if this your first monthly update, welcome! I do these basically the 1st of each month to catch folks up to speed and talk about what's coming next month (...of which I usually do most of the things listed, but rarely all... and often things that weren't listed... treat it as a best intentions list!).

All the best, and I'll see you folks for the polls or mid month updates (...or around the Discord/Kickstarter/etc!)

-Kibbles