I've been so busy I completely forgot that Runebound 8 released on Amazon today.
An Amazon which is, as becoming sadly common, broken as all hell. Reviews aren't showing up, many ratings are vanishing entirely, it's a complete shitshow. But what it boils down to is that every single review...
2025-12-03 16:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe River King’s jaw clenched tight enough to bite through solid gold. That may not have been a particularly impressive feat. Gold wasn’t exactly the densest metal. But as far as jaws went, his wasn’t all that strong.
Muscle was a sign of effort that could have been offloaded. A troub...
2025-12-03 16:14:58 +0000 UTC View Post“We have bigger problems than Dorne,” Rodrick said. He interlaced his fingers on the table and leaned back in his chair. “Well. Not problems. But Dorne won’t be one from here on out. So we can focus on the things that actually interest us… such as figuring out who the next person to Sun...
2025-12-03 16:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Custom commissions take a week.”
Noah stared at the shopkeeper. He didn’t even bother trying to keep his eye from twitching. That was one of the benefits of wearing a mask. Minor motions in his features were completely obscured from anyone watching.
“It’s a cloth. A fancy c...
2025-12-03 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“These croissants are really good,” Arwin said through a mouthful of pastry. “Have you tried them?”
“I made them, Arwin,” Lillia replied.
“That doesn’t mean you’ve tried them. I don’t put on every piece of armor I make.”
“That’s… fair,” Lillia admit...
2025-12-02 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostNoah’s foot landed on familiar wooden ground. Pulsating veins of sunlit gold throbbed at the edges of his vision and a shower of fragmented slivers of light skittered out beneath his feet.
A thick miasma of energy slithered out from his lungs as he exhaled. He could have sworn coils of go...
2025-12-02 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone from the Menagerie steadily congregated in the Devil’s Den over the course of the day. They all wanted to check in on Vix and make sure that the procedure had gone well. It was a lot more attention than she was used to. There were several moments where Vix had very clearly wanted to sl...
2025-12-02 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostArwin strode down the street behind Koyu, his weariness falling away like the rotting petals of a flower as anger sharpened his mind. They’d left the rest of the Menagerie that had been with them in the Infernal Armory behind to keep an eye on Vix.
For a single, frozen dwarf, the two of t...
2025-12-01 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostWess rifled through Brandon’s pockets. He checked the man’s blooded jacket for hidden sections and pulled his shoes off to inspect them for any hidden compartments. He lifted the ring off the dead Outworlder’s pinky finger and was in the process of pulling the man’s pants off when a shado...
2025-12-01 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: Damn it, accidentally de-selected a tier when releasing this. Sorry!
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The hatred in Brandon’s eyes burned with such an intensity that it sliced through the smoke curling around Wess like a razor. His knuckles turned white as his hands clenched at his sides, wra...
2025-11-30 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostClaire’s sword sliced through the air, passing no more than an inch away from Alex’s nose as he vaulted backward, springing off his palms to land on his feet several feet away from her.
“Hah!” Alex exclaimed, his eyes lighting up. “I did—”
Cold steel pressed to his neck....
2025-11-28 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostArt’s cane clicked against the rooftop as he limped over to its edge where Rodrick sat. The other man had his legs crossed and palms braced against his knees. An expression of intense concentration creased his features even though his eyes were closed as if in sleep.
With a grunt, Art low...
2025-11-27 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostNoah’s eyes snapped open as the ground fell out from beneath him. His heart lurched. He drew in a sharp breath, jerking upright in his bed — except his bed was nowhere to be found. The ground flipped to take the place of the ceiling and then spun back into its proper place a moment before his...
2025-11-27 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt was nearly a minute before Vix managed to get a hold of herself again. She let her arms hang back over the edges of the platform as she stared up at the roof of the Infernal Armory, blood and tears still mixing in a mess on her face.
“How are you feeling? Is anything different?” Arwi...
2025-11-27 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“The cost to sign up for the tournament is 50 crystals,” the merchant said, a sleazy smile pulling across his wide lips. He leaned back in the chair behind the stall, the moonlight illuminating his features in a ghastly glow. “And that’s the law. Any one of the others will tell you the sa...
2025-11-26 16:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostSong filled Arwin’s mind. Layers upon layers of magic wove through every level of his being. The Infernal Armory’s presence connected him to the others and pumped all of them full of magical energy to ensure they wouldn’t run short during the operation.
Vix laid on the obsidian platfo...
2025-11-26 16:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostHazel gave Wess just about as much information as she could on Brandon and his supporters over the next hour or so. It was probably a good idea. Knowing one’s enemy was the first step to defeating them… or something like that.
Wess was pretty sure there was a passage about that sort of ...
2025-11-26 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostIda chewed on a strip of beef jerky. It wasn’t a particularly good piece of meat. There had been a time when she’d been quite used to that. But recent times had changed things. They’d changed a number of things.
Ever since starting her “job” for the Menagerie, she’d been surpris...
2025-11-25 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostVivian pressed her fingertips to the sides of her temples. For once, she wasn’t sitting in her throne room. There were no infuriatingly determined hordes of clergymen trying to get her attention or latching onto her every word as if they were the gospel itself.
She sat surrounded by nothi...
2025-11-25 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThane sat on the edge of a rooftop, squinting down at the milling crowd below. There were so many people here. He’d known there would be, of course. But knowing and observing were two entirely different things altogether.
But Thane was thrilled to find that, even with the larger group and...
2025-11-25 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostKoyu floated in a sea of white. Nothingness stretched out around him in every direction, spanning past infinity and into whatever laid beyond. The memory of molten gold power still shimmered at the back of his mind.
Before him stood the Mesh.
There was no way to have known that for ce...
2025-11-24 16:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Slow down,” Hazel hissed, holding a hand up. “Are all of you like this? Or did Nobody just send the other psychopath to deal with this?”
“Can I decline to comment?” Wess asked. “And I don’t think I’m a psychopath, thank you very much. Psychopaths don’t feel emotion or s...
2025-11-24 16:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe moon’s silver light cut through the clouds in beams to paint cross the streets of Aqua Terra. It washed over the crowds in portions of the city that never slept and slithered into the alleyways that hadn’t been seen a living occupant in months.
Moonlight graced every part of the cit...
2025-11-24 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostWess waited by the portal as Glint vanished into its depths. The monster hadn’t said a single word. That was, unfortunately, how Glint tended to work. Prying conversation out of him was like squeezing water from a rock.
That wasn’t to say that Wess hadn’t tried. He’d spent the bette...
2025-11-23 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostVix returned to the Infernal Armory a day later than she’d promised to. Arwin barely even noticed her entrance. He and Wallace stood before a wall covered with scribbled papers bearing dozens and dozens of different ideas and discarded designs.
The two of them had been in the armory for j...
2025-11-21 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostNoah’s badass exit lasted about two seconds before he realized how stupid it would be to leave without looting the idiot he’d just killed. Money didn’t exactly grow on trees, after all. He made it exactly one step before turning on his heel and striding right back into it.
The man’s...
2025-11-21 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostNoah and Lee stood beneath a river.
Not under it. Beneath it.
The rushing water passed through the very air about a dozen feet above their heads. It wasn’t just floating there on its own. A faint shimmer of translucent energy swirled all along and beneath the river to keep it contai...
2025-11-19 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostVanessa wiped the sweat form her brow and let out a satisfied sigh. She took a step back from the giant barrel and took a step back to give it a once-over. It bristled with the hilts of deadly cursed weapons like the back of a very malformed porcupine.
“Yeah,” Vanessa said. “That’s ...
2025-11-19 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostNiel choked on his pastry.
He doubled over, coughing and rasping for air as he scrambled to grab his drink. Neil pounded his chest as he hurriedly washed the food down before it could attempt to suffocate him. His ears rang as he stared down at the auction stage and desperately battled to m...
2025-11-18 16:02:34 +0000 UTC View PostNoah’s estimate turned out to be roughly accurate. It was several more hours before they were anywhere near Aqua Terra. The closer they got, the more impressive the city became. He was also able to figure out why the word Aqua had made it into the massive structure’s name.
Rivers of wat...
2025-11-18 16:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post