Too much snow
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 09:25:39 PM
Greetings wayfarers,
Favorable Skies - An Exalted Vales Regional Supplement and DM Tool for D&D 5e
Greetings wayfarers,
Hello Wayfarers!
The cold coat of winter has settled on our shoulders (brrr—at least in Montreal ^^) let’s take stock:
The entire Inkplot team is working hard to finish the project - and on many fronts we are nearing the end. Two teams, an English-speaking and a French-speaking, gave their feedback about the new campaign, and on a central point, their opinions converged. They want:
More Magic
More Changes of Scenery
More Storyteller Tools
More Background Material to truly bring Peronia and Leannaros to life
And to answer these points we decided to give the people what they need - so must take up the pen and expand the book.
This leads to the inevitable question: whether it is better to respect our commitment to provide the best possible product or respect our wish to deliver by the end of the year?
While tough, I really think quality is more important.
However this won’t be a long delay - the project PDF deliverable will only be postponed by a short month - we aimed to deliver the book to you digitally at the end of December, and with these additions, it will arrive by the end of January 2025.
The rest of the team moves forward proudly. The translation/proofreading of course, but also for Karl, who has completed the essential illustrations (that breathe visual life into the campaign throughout the book). He will now have free rein to his imagination to enrich the book even further given our additions!
As a small sample, here is the piece that opens the second part of the campaign
This is the column of yellow sand presented in the Guide to the Vales. But it's supposed to be in Leannaros? So why did he draw it in the middle of the desert…? (If you're a player, don't worry, there isn't enough information in this post to spoil you. ^^)
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Bonjour arpenteurs !
Hello Wayfarers!
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Excellence in English
Part of making Exalted Vales into a series of books also meant reviewing the original book in the series, now titled Guide to the Vales.
Enter: Dee. Our proofreader for Favorable Skies and the 2nd edition of Exalted Vales, Guide to the Vales.
As a longtime player and dungeon master for Dungeons & Dragons, she brings with her a vast amount of knowledge and experience (along with a very particular fine eye for details!).
Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, Dee has been tough at work addressing, updating and re-reviewing to bring Guide to the Vales to the best it can be, and the changes definitely show. In many places, we were actually looking at full copy-editing, rather than basic proofreading, in order to bring Guide to the Vales up to the quality we know you all deserve.
General progress
The proofreading of Guide to the Vales is done at 50%.
The writing of Favorable Skies is done at 90%.
Concept arts are turning into illustrations (we'll share some of them along the way).
We're really confident we'll - as planned - finish everything before the end of the year!
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Salutations arpenteurs !
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Progrès général
L'écriture de Cieux Favorables est réalisée à 90%.
Les croquis se transforment en illustrations (nous en partagerons quelques-unes en cours de route).
Nous sommes toujours confiants que nous allons - comme prévu - tout terminer avant la fin de l'année !
Wayfarers, we did it!
Thank you to each and every one of you for backing our project and making Favorable Skies and the 2nd edition of Guide to the Vales an amazing reality.
It's been a busy four weeks and we're glad you came along for the ride!
So What's Next?
For now, we'll be taking a few days to recover from the excitement and then will be posting updates as we enter each new phase of the design and production process. Kickstarter will begin collecting funds and this should be finalized within the next 10 days. If you experience any trouble, please reach out to us to let us know so we can follow up with you. Thank you so very much again for helping us achieve ever greater heights.
We'll soon see you under the banners of Peronia,
Renaud & Team