October Update

Hey Folks-

So after doing a monthly summary post in August and not doing one in September, I get a fair bit of feedback that folks like the monthly summary posts, so I'm going to aim to do these going forward in the simple format of what I've done or updated since the last one, and what's on the list coming up. I will still update the content individually, but will let these posts serve as a summary and hub for updates for folks that don't follow as closely.

As always, my priorities will shift and change throughout the month to some extent, sometimes I will do something I hadn't planned on, or be unable to finish something I'd hoped to do before moving on, so the future plans part tends to shift around.

Recent Releases:

• Warden 1.0. This isn't that recent, but in the spirit of catching everything since the last post, Warden 1.0 has been out in the wild for awhile now, a long with it's FoundryVTT module.
• Spellblade 0.3. Just released a few days ago, it's still in it's pre-alpha stage in formatting, but this is very close to what the 0.8 version will be once the document is cleaned up, as it goes into wider spread testing. It's gotten a pretty big overall, documented in the changelog. It also has a Foundry Module (also in an alpha state, but updated to the current 0.3 version):
  https://github.com/KibblesTasty/kibbles-spellblade/releases/download/archive/module.json
• Casting Compendium 1.7 (+18 new spells). Bringing us total of 183 spells, with more on the way. This integrates an Eclectic collection of spells from the last few months.
• Variant Martial Progression. This is a little side project that is a variant rule, and part of a set of variant rules for things I'll be sharing more of. This isn't intended to be for everyone, but intended to be a convenient way to scale non-casting characters more in Tier 3 and 4 for people that want to see them scale more, as well enable using more feats (with all the feat based content coming along).
• Griffon's Saddlebag Crafting for Volume 2. This won't won't apply to everyone, but will be hopefully very cool for the folks that it will apply to. This is (as the name suggests) a guide to crafting everything in Griffon's Saddlebag, Volume 2 - 50 pages of new crafting content. This requires the excellent and aforementioned Griffon's Saddlebag Volume 2 (or being one of his patrons) to get all the items it references but those are highly recommended sources of new magic items for anyone looking to double their magic item roster! I may work on Volume 1, but that'll be down to what the demand is like - I like the idea of incorporating all of this items into the system, but it does take time.

The Crafting Expansion for Griffon's Saddlebag ended up taking quite a bit of time (48 pages of tables will do that), so now that's done, I think we'll catch up more of this month's target items than last month. If KS delivery finishes this month (fingers crossed) than the pass should pick up a bit as well, as that's been the other recent time sink.

Upcoming Items:

Likely this month...

• Generic Subclass Poll. This has been on hiatus for a few months as I wrap up other things, but will return this month, probably next week. [Done]
• Occultist 1.3 (Light and Dark Magic) & 1.4 (Blood Magic). There's two updates in the works here, that may come out one at a time, or may come out together. Both have been stuck in testing for longer than expected, but should be this month (pretty sure this time!). One is the Mysteries of Light & Dark for Oracle, and the larger Blood Magic Update, with a new subclass, new Mystery for Oracle, and new Red Coven Witch.
• The Compiled Homebrew List update. This is a little overdue, but getting to the top of the list so will be very likely taken care of this month. I'll be going through and updated the the compiled homebrew list with a new format and little descriptions of all the content on it, taking it a few more steps to being useful and easy to use, with more tags such as what has FoundryVTT modules available and the like.
• Generic Elemental Spells 2.0. This one is pretty overdue as my attention turned elsewhere, but I think it'll make it into October, as it's something that I want to get finished and out there, as I think there's still just a lot of demand for more of these, and I'd always intended to expand the roster.
• Spellblade 0.8. The 0.3 was originally supposed to be the 0.8 update, but as I ended up making bigger than expected changes, I decided to give those some testing time before I pushed it to a wider release in case I wanted to rollback those changes based on feedback and testing, but so far I think they are on the right track, so I expect it to be converted a 0.8 version soon.

Other items in progress, but may not be ready this month...

• The Jaeger Class for MonkeyDM's Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt. As many of you know, I'll be doing the class for MonkeyDM's upcoming book, which will enter testing this month, and we'll see some early versions here over the next few months.
• Eclectic Spells 2. It wasn't really my intention, but the last set proved quite popular, and so I figure I should keep gathering them up as I make them, and I have another batch probably ready within the next month or two - these are spells generated from requests, things I make for my game, or just one off spells. We'll probably see another batch of 10-20 in the next month, rolling into the Casting Compendium about 2-3 weeks after they are posted to the drafting room.
• Mastery & Expert Feats. These have been on the back burner for awhile. They are still on the back burner, but even things on the back burner are on the burner, and will eventually be cooked.
• Mystic Path Feats. This are stacked right next to the Mastery and Expert Feats. These were closer to being done, but needed some revision in testing, and are going for another round before they made it a first widespread release.
• Kibbles' Battle System Returns. Ye young whippersnappers around here won't even know what this is, but as I think this will feature in the next KS (coming Jan/Feb next year), we'll start to see new testing versions of this. This will probably feature more toward the end of the year.
• Artifacts & Airships (Crafting Expansion). This is still a ways off. Has been mentioned before, but still coming along. Likewise will probably be toward the end of the year (maybe this will be a mid-late November release).

As always, priorities may shift, new items may enter the line up, or things might end up going around for another take and taking longer. This is just to give folks an idea and insight into what I'm working on. 

There's a few other things that are in orbit, but may or may not manifest so will probably show up on the in progress list once they get closer. I don't really keep things secret so much as I just don't want to get folks hope up until I think something will at least be pretty likely to come eventually.

General & Infrastructure Updates:

• Annual Pledges. I've reconfigured some stuff on the back end to allow for annual pledges. This just pledges for a whole year at a time with 10% discount. Some people prefer the option, so I've enabled it. This doesn't effect any for existing patrons unless they'd want to convert.
• Playtest Feedback. I'm running a trial of a new system for submitted playtest feedback. If it works out in an organized way, I'll roll it out to more folks.

Kickstarter Updates:

• Monthly KS Update. Not too much to say here, as things are slowly moving forward. The books are at the warehouse in AU/NZ, are in transit from port to warehouse in UK/EU, and scheduled to be unloaded from the boat on 10/10 for US/CA orders. Hopefully books will start arriving this month in most regions, and late this month or next month for the rest.

Well, I do want to keep these short, and I think I may have already failed on that regard, so I think that's where I'll leave it this month. I'll still make individual posts for certain things, these monthly posts are just to give a gathering point for all the in progress items.

All the best,

-Kibbles