New Year

A new year and new horizons! Things have been slow as I've been very distracted by other things, like videogames. My bad.

Anyway, time moves on. I've implemented a few pieces of SR content as homebrew on DNDBeyond to hopefully playtest a few bits and pieces in one of the two games I play in or either of the infrequent games I run. One of these days I finally get started on the Path of the Skinshifted Barbarian and Circle of the Carnivore Druid to sate those skinwalker and wendigo vibes I've had rattling around for ages. The two subclasses with the least development currently are the Oath of the Executioner Paladin (probably a bit of a mash-up of the Vengeance and Crown oaths) about standing against evil and chaos with a Channel Divinity to do bigger crit damage to mimic some sweet beheading action, and the Technician Artificer which is possibly going to have a further choice to make about whether their creation is an external mount/vehicle or robotic arms.

Other than that I've had a handful of spells, artificer infusions and warlock infusions I've added as supplementary material. Most of which are inspired by current characters I'm playing, either further developing ideas I've implemented along with my DM or as straight ports from that game to this book. Additionally the Forgotten has had a not insubstantial alteration to it's progression, with it's size altering as the player levels up. Not sure if it'll stick or if it will completely crack open balance, we'll see.

After reading some discussion about Eberron I noticed a few people discussing how the game's core conflict is less about Good vs Evil or Law vs Chaos and instead revolves around Tech vs Nature. I couldn't help but draw a bit of a similarity with the overarching lore of the Southern Reaches metaplot. The players are positioned (at least by default) as elements of the New World pitted against the Old World, hence the colonialism tones present, with the forces of the Expeditionaries brushing against the bones of long dead giants and praying not to awaken what they left behind. At this stage I'm not 100% sure of where in the timeline I want to assume the reader is looking, whether it's the first months of earnest exploration and crusade or after the first fires have been lit with the ghosts of the precursor factions already striking back at the foreign invaders.