IGS State of the Nation: Q2 2019
almost 5 years ago – Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:47:51 AM

 Hello all!  It's been another few months of hard focus, working as much as possible to produce as quickly as possible.  That said, I'm still behind schedule--of course--but I'm thrilled about what we've produced, and are about to publish.  Please check out the latest, more detailed, ~quarterly IGS update and summary of where things stand here.  Check out the latest Pipeline Summary here.

Onward!

Publication Day! Villainous Compendium for 5E Now Available!
almost 5 years ago – Tue, May 21, 2019 at 07:51:11 PM

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Latest Kickstarter: FlexAI
about 5 years ago – Tue, May 14, 2019 at 09:10:16 AM

Latest Kickstarter: FlexAI

FlexAI is a tool to simulate dynamic, appropriate creature behavior in a combat encounter.  It can easily be used in seconds to dictate or suggest monster or NPC actions for Pathfinder, Fifth Edition, or, really, ANY tabletop roleplaying game. The just-launched Kickstarter offers an opportunity to grab the full, 300-page edition of these versatile and powerful rules.Download the free sample here, which contains the rules and one sample table for FlexAI.

Existing IGS Backers: Who Gets What

I realize that my products and projects can get a little bit confusing!  Here's a rundown of who is already slated to receive the full edition of FlexAI based on their existing contributions to our projects:

• FlexTale Solo Adventuring Toolkit (FTEG SAT) backers will receive the full PDF edition of the FlexAI Guidebook for free.
• Aquilae: Bestiary of the Realm and Aquilae: Expanded Bestiary of the Realm (ABR/E) backers will receive the full PDF edition of the FlexAI Guidebook for free.
• Western Realm Gazetteer (WRG) backers will receive the full PDF edition of the FlexAI Guidebook for free.

If you're interested in receiving a hardcover version of the FlexAI Guidebook, please consider backing the new Kickstarter at the Hardened Combatant level.

Pipeline Status

I'm hard at work wrapping up Druid Enclave.  Then it's a few weeks of work to lay out AA3, and then I focus full-time on Aquilae: Bestiary of the Realm (ABR/E).I am admittedly behind schedule, but I'm thrilled at the massive amount of content that we've published thus far in 2019, and I'm looking forward to a helluva lot more in the next few months!

Priorities & Committed Work

As usual, I must underscore that this new Kickstarter does not in any way delay committed work, or change priorities.  FlexAI is a concept that was announced as part of the original ABR project, and is something that I have produced anyway as part of those books.  This new Kickstarter was launched to address desires identified in playtesting, and backer requests for a dedicated book outside the context of the Bestiary books.  Simply put, there are backers who are interested in the FlexAI concept, but do not want to commit to the large expenditure that the Bestiary books represent.  So to summarize: this does not change my pipeline, or delay any existing work in that pipeline. Onward!   

Production Update May 13th: FlexAI Preview; Non-ABRE PDF Fulfillment
about 5 years ago – Mon, May 13, 2019 at 07:56:55 PM

Non-ABRE PDF Fulfillment

All of you who are entitled to already-published products should now have one or more PDF links in your inbox from DriveThruRPG.

This includes Character Compendiums 1 and 2, and the Villainous Compendium.

If you feel you're entitled to one of these products, and have not yet received them, 1) check your spam/blacklist folder for something from DriveThruRPG to double-check, and 2) message me and I'll investigate ASAP.

I realize that the Bestiary and indeed all my products are already quite late, so I wish I had some creative or interesting reason for the delay in fulfilling the products that are already published.  The honest truth is that I hadn't synched up my Excel tracker for fulfillment with BackerKit.  That's a terrible excuse, but I hope for those who have finally received their due, they enjoy the result.  :)

FlexAI Preview

All of you should now, or will shortly, have a free copy of this in your inbox.

As part of the Bestiary products, I will be producing the Full Edition of FlexAI: a 300-some-odd page tome which includes tables for a huge range of potential combinations of creature nature and battlefield conditions.

The Free Sample you have in your hands is intended to lay out the general rules for FlexAI, and to provide a sample of one of the ~300 creature/combat scenarios that the full version will describe.

If you're entitled to one or more Bestiary books already, you'll each receive the full FlexAI book free as a PDF, with an at-cost code for if you want a hardcover as well.

FlexAI was originally intended as a ~5 page introduction that was going to be added to each of the ABRE volumes.  However, to address the needs and uses that were identified during playtesting, I've spawned it into its own 300 page thing.

Timeline

I hope to complete Druid Enclave this month.  Some of June will be finishing AA3: DE, and then it's 100% full-force laying out ABRE.   

ABRE will be delivering in 2019 for certain.  I hope to make that ASAP as I am quite eager to complete this!

Onward! 

Production Update May 8th: FlexAI Core Rules Incoming Soon, Monsters of Aquilae Progress & Creature Listing
about 5 years ago – Wed, May 08, 2019 at 03:47:46 PM

Pipeline & General Update

As I work toward wrapping up Druid Enclave, I've been working hard in parallel on ABRE.

FlexAI Core Rules Coming Shortly!

I've completed the design on FlexAI, and have been working on finishing the rules summary.  I'll be publishing this soon--as early as tomorrow night--and you'll all get a PDF copy for free of course.  It's not a hugely lengthy affair--but it's extremely powerful, and easy to learn and adapt to any gaming environment.

For context and as a reminder--because, let's be honest, it's been a while!--Flex AI is the set of rules that are used to produce dynamic, appropriate, and interesting monster behavior in a combat encounter.  Every beastie in ABRE will have this as part of their profile.

FlexAI Core Rules is a quick PDF that explains the approach, how to use it, and a few tables to govern basic monsters.

I'm very pleased at how this has turned out and cannot wait to hit SEND on it and get your thoughts.

Monsters of Aquilae

So.  I may have mentioned that I have many, many more ideas than this book was initially conceived of containing.  I've organized those ideas, and figured out how best to go about it.

The following is a DRAFT list of the creatures that I have slated for inclusion.  Subject to change as I finish their crunch etc.

You might recall that the original conception of MOA was 20-50 monsters.  I now have 225 slated.  I'm about 40% through generating the quadded crunch of this set of beasties.  

Onward!

• Abyssal Devourer
• Accursed, The
• Alacritern
• Alcove Thing
• Alligator (Venomous)
• Anaconda Ivy
• Angelwhisper
• Arbor Ooze
• Ashenlass
• Aura Ooze
• Banditrite
• Barrow Mist
• Barrow Mold
• Barrowdamsel
• Barrowknight
• Barrowlord
• Bat (Vorpal )
• Beast of Many Things
• Bee (Elder Stingfrenzy)
• Beetle (Dawn)
• Beetle (Dusk)
• Beetle (Rockmuncher)
• Behemoth (Corpse)
• Behemoth (Magma)
• Behemoth (Shadow)
• Behemoth (Sludge)
• Behemoth (Snowy)
• Behemoth (Trench)
• Bleakmoth
• Blightborn
• Blightborn (Acolyte)
• Blightborn (Axiomatic)
• Blightborn (Nascent)
• Blightborn (Renegade)
• Blisterhawk
• Bloodshot Eavesdropper
• Boar (Hammertusk)
• Boar (Tusked Underboar)
• Bogbrush
• Bogodile
• Boilpuddle
• Bonemoss
• Bonepile Mist
• Bonepile Slime
• Boneranger
• Boneweed
• Briarslime
• Brimblebuck
• Brindlelaven
• Brittlebeak
• Brittletree
• Brombletusk
• Broodling (Fissure)
• Burdatranne
• Burrowmites
• Buzzback (Horned)
• Buzzback (Humped)
• Catacomb Lass
• Cavedancer
• Cawleng
• Centipede (Rock)
• Charnel Haunt
• Charnel Refuse
• Charnel Terror
• Charred Reaver
• Choking Sunblighter
• Cleanslate Flower
• Controller Hat
• Corpse Army
• Corpseweed
• Corpsewylde
• Corpulent Slick
• Crab, Fragshell
• Crab, Hardshell
• Crab, Snapshell
• Crenwrak
• Crocodile (Blowpipe)
• Crone (Annis)
• Crone (Blood)
• Crone (Bonewarp)
• Crone (Green)
• Crone (Harem)
• Crone (Night)
• Crone (Sea)
• Crone (Winter)
• Crone (Zombie)
• Crow (Gaunt)
• Crushvine
• Cryetic Mound
• Crystabelle
• Crystal Soup (Ooze)
• Curiosity Vine
• Daggergrass
• Daggerkin
• Daisora
• Dancing Ghastly
• Darkblossom
• Darkpatch
• Darkspawn
• Darkwasp Swarm
• Dartvine
• Dartwing
• Dartwing Swarm
• Daydream Sac
• Deadcord Tree
• Deadhorde
• Deadice Patches
• Deadweed
• Decapede
• Deep Eel
• Deepfranc
• Demon (Meatgrinder)
• Demon (Obelisk)
• Demon (Sludge)
• Demon Deer
• Demon Woman
• Demophant
• Desecrator
• Devil (Obelisk)
• Devil (Snow)
• Dimensional Gelatin
• Dire Mold
• Diredamsel (Auralpierce)
• Diredamsel (Bloodguise)
• Diredamsel (Duskglade)
• Diredamsel (Gunslinger)
• Diredamsel (Harem)
• Diredamsel (Ironheart)
• Diredamsel (Lustwage)
• Diredamsel (Maddening Haunt)
• Diredamsel (Moonshade)
• Diredamsel (Poisoned Aquifer)
• Diredamsel (Reaverlord)
• Diredamsel (Skewered)
• Diredamsel (Slain)
• Diredamsel (Sliceknife)
• Diredamsel (Sorrowglimpse)
• Diredamsel (Stonesoul)
• Diredamsel (Torn)
• Diredamsel (Vivisected)
• Diredamsel (Wrongrighter)
• Diredrizzle
• Direkin
• Direling
• Direpike
• Direpuff
• Disfigured Nightmare
• Dog (Gaunt )
• Doubleworm
• Dragon (Nocturne)
• Dragon (Stonewing)
• Drake (Arid)
• Drake (Dread)
• Drake (Felldrake)
• Drake (Ichor)
• Drake (Tundral)
• Dread Captain
• Dreadfly
• Dreadfly Larva Swarm
• Dreadhawk
• Dreadmold
• Dreadnought (Frozen)
• Dreadslimed Miner
• Dreadsucker Swarm
• Drecksludge
• Drizzledeath
• Dryad (Cloud)
• Dryad (Coffin)
• Dryad (Gamadryad)
• Dryad (Rainbow)
• Dryad (wind)
• Dryg
• Dukying
• Dullox
• Dusk flask
• Duskdrinker
• Earthen Horror
• Ebon Seductress
• Ebontendril
• Ebonwrym
• Edronte
• Elder Waspwing 
• Elemental (Acid)
• Elemental (Arbor)
• Elemental (Avalanche)
• Elemental (Boulder)
• Elemental (Carnage)
• Elemental (Carrion)
• Elemental (Coal)
• Elemental (Dark)
• Elemental (Dawn)
• Elemental (Despair)
• Elemental (Dusk)
• Elemental (Dusk)
• Elemental (Farce)
• Elemental (Flesh)
• Elemental (Forgery)
• Elemental (Gore)
• Elemental (Gravesite)
• Elemental (Grime)
• Elemental (Gumption)
• Elemental (Harvest)
• Elemental (Knife)
• Elemental (Leaf)
• Elemental (Massgrave)
• Elemental (Mist)
• Elemental (Moss)
• Elemental (Moxie)
• Elemental (Obelisk)
• Elemental (Pestilence)
• Elemental (Reaping)
• Elemental (Root)
• Elemental (Sewer)
• Elemental (Shadow)
• Elemental (Storm)
• Elemental (Terror)
• Elemental (Torrent)
• Elemental (Trapsmith)
• Elemental (Tundra)
• Elemental (Vengeance)
• Eletaur
• Elm (Dartleaf)
• Ember Hulk
• Emberling 
• Enbalment Slime