Quick August Update

Hey Folks-

I just wanted to share a quick update. I've been busy on quite a few different items these last weeks, and was hoping to get them up at the end of July, but everything ended up running a bit longer.

Since I like to be open and clear with what I'm working on, I just wanted to give folks a run down of what I'm working on what to expect.

Recent Releases:

• Active Martial Feats v1.2 (PDF | GMBinder) - I know I'm biased, but I do give a recommendation to any that hasn't tried them to try them out, I've seen a lot of folks really enjoy these. I've also gotten a lot of reports for folks using them as a quick monster upgrade kit that does wonders, so, DMs, don't feel left in the dark here. Also available as a Foundry Module (which makes them even easier to use as a monster upgrade kit!)
• Active Martial Feats: Foundry Module (for Drag and Drop Application)

https://github.com/KibblesTasty/kibbles-feats/releases/download/archive/module.json

Upcoming Items:

• Griffon's Saddebag Vol 2. Crafting Guide (Early August) - This is probably the next big thing we'll see. I've been working on this for awhile, and trying to get this wrapped up soon. This is the crafting recipes for all items in Griffon's Saddlebag, Vol 2 (...roughly doubling the amount of magic items crafting can craft as it turns, the bloke is prolific!)
  [Update] This is now scheduled for Mid September... it's ended up quite long it'll end up nearly 50 pages, so you'll have to pardon me it's taking awhile.
• Warden v1.0 (Early August) - This will be a fairly small update, that may or may not include the new Bloodforger subclass. I believe the Sun Warden from the poll you folks voted in is also a candidate, but will probably be the 1.1 subclass.[Update, Warden v1.0 is available now]; this is a preview of 1.0, official 1.0 with foundry module and Expanded Options will be available next week.
• Generic Subclasses Update (Mid August) - This will come mid month this time around I think. Oath of Silence is locked in at the top, and like always a few more will join it. This will coincide with an update to the Compiled Homebrew List, which some of have seen already (a list that I'm working on combining the subclasses from TAG, Griffon, and myself in one easy to reference spot). While the list exists, I plan to update it further (with descriptions of content, etc).
  [Update] I will roll this into the September Generic subclass update, so expect this to go up September 1st-3rd with new poll for the next set.

On the schedule, but not entirely sure when they'll be ready, but I think are somewhere between likely to plausible in August or the next few months:

• Occultist Blood Magic. This will flesh out Blood Magic for the Occultist, and probably bring with it a new subclass along with it. This will also include the Oracle Mysteries for Light, Dark, and, of course, Blood, and maybe add a Red Coven for Witch (still TBD). If the Bloodforger is not released with Warden 1.0, it'll probably come out alongside this.
• Spellblade 0.8 - Some of you will have seen the pre-alpha version of a Spellblade I wrote for someone. As this has ultimately provided rather popular despite being a barebones request and somewhat silly version of it, this is going to fleshed out further. You can ready the current somewhat... irreverent pre-alpha version here, but I don't recommend it for general play yet (...though it's being played by at least two dozen people, so it's at least functional).
  [Update, Spellblade 0.2 (Alpha) is available, using the above link] - It'll jump to 0.8 in a few updates, as that's the version number for beta versions, but it'll need some tweaks and proper fluff text, and art.
• Artifacts and Airships - (the first major expansion to crafting) is still coming, scaled beyond what I originally expected, and will take a big longer. It will be  a standalone expansion to crafting, available to all tiers that currently get crafting.
• Feats. The main thing I got bogged down last month, there's should be expected to trickle out through August. I'm going to focus on smaller releases for them I think, and compile them into a new Patreon compendium (like the Spell Compendium, but including more variant rules and the list). This includes Mystic Path Feats, Weapon Expert Feats, and Style Master feats. It may include Skill Feats and Mythic Feats. These tend to be the martial equivalent of the Casting Compendium, but some caster feats will be included.
• Spells. These are another area where I aim to move to smaller releases so we get more updates here. While there's a lot of them I could talk about, I realize I'm digging my own grave to list too much, so I'll just say that next series will be a set of blade magic cantrips as a patreon request and Ranger Spells 2.0 (a fairly small update giving a few more options there and updating some of the less used ones).
  [Update - Eclectic collection of new 20 new spells] - rather than releasing smaller thematic sets, I just collected the spells from the last month or so into a random assortment. These are in playtesting, and will update into the Casting Compendium once testing is complete.

General Updates:

• Infrastructure Updates - Some of you will have noticed that PDFs have been updating to a new delivery method. I'm slowly moving away from both Google Drive to quicker-loading PDFs hosted on my own site or here on patreon for download. This conversion isn't complete, but is slowly rolling out to more content.
• Foundry Module Updates - This is in the process of being revamped to be one more cohesive module where you can select the content you want to enable, but this has proved a fair bit more complicated, so will not be live for a bit. There's been a fair amount of time on the backend of me learning Foundry module stuff.
• $1 Tier retired - Some of you may have noticed I finally unpublished the $1 tier. Folks at it can stay at it indefinitely and nothing will change for you, no worries there.
• Compiled Homebrew List. I mentioned this briefly above, but I will flesh this out further. This is necessarily a curated list, but almost everything on it I'll have tested, or run through my playtesters to give feedback to the other creators on it, and folks on it have been selected as folks that have very similar views to balance and usability as me. I am to increase the functionality with descriptions, new content, and more useful stuff as time goes on. It's sort of in a pre-release state, and already getting a lot of traffic, so I think it's a solidly in demand thing.
• Crafting Website. It's still there in the background, but as you can probably deduce, I have a fair amount of things I'm working on, so I don't have a firm ETA for when it'll be in a usable form.
• Warlord Update. It's on the backburner at the moment, but waiting in the wings. Mostly a small update to Packleader and some other clean up. Will likely coincide with an update to the Expanded Tactics document with some clean up, officially bringer the Dancer's Presence into Expanded Tactics, and revising the current old entries there.

Kickstarter Updates:

• Book Shipping. For those following my Kickstarter/Physical Book, it's on boats now, but moving rather slowly. It's still a ways from final delivery, but I think most hurdles are cleared there. Lot of work has gone into this, but I think we are getting there.
• Next Kickstarter? The next Kickstarter will probably be early next year if there's no further delays or issues with it, and as with the last one you good folks here will start to see a lot of content for it in the coming months first. The next Kickstarter will not launch until a few months after the last one delivers, at least, and may take longer. From my side, I'm in no big rush, so it will depend on what timing works out.

I feel like I had a few too many active projects here I've been putting time to, and after a bit of a chaotic last week of July to unrelated reasons I'm doing my best to reorganize and tackle these in a somewhat more efficient (from the sense of posting them) point of view. I'd also like to go back to posting smaller one off items more frequently.

As always, let me know if you have any questions. I'm happy to answer any questions here, and more or less always available on the Discord if there's something you'd like an update on.

I'm sure there's things I'm missing in this update, I just realized things had gone dark for a bit, and I wanted to give a general update at the start of the month here, as sometimes progress is not always super evident.

All the best, and I look forward to sharing a lot of new content with you folks... there's much to do!

I hope your August's are filled with plenty of D&D!

-Kibbles