Crafty_Pat's blog

It's just eight hours to Pat boarding a plane for Crafty HQ, where he and Alex will be brewing all manner of awesome (and a little bit o' WHATTHEHELLISTHAT?) at this year's Crafty Summit. For those of you who haven't been around when we do these, it's basically the Crafty partners' chance to take a mindwalk and see what we stumble across. There's usually a bit of an agenda - this year it's mostly about Spycraft Third Edition and Ten Thousand Bullets, with a bit of Mistborn and LGW for good measure - but really, anything can and will come up. Expect the blog to be punctuated with bits of flotsam, jetsam, and other misc. debris along the stream of consciousness over the next 10 days or so, and then.... GEN CON!!! (We'll be blogging live from the show as well, so stay tuned - there's lots of goodness to come.)

We've received all the files back from layout and we're packaging the book up for the printer today. It looks amazing and truly delivers on the book's promise. From Sean Macdonald's incredible Vault map (we were worried about finding a cartographer who could do its old school isometric vibe justice, but Sean really hit it out of the park) to Brendon Goodyear's kick-ass layout work (that [REDACTED] page is unreal) to the great campaign background and seeds in Chapter 4, and of course Loren Dean's first adventure trilogy with us, complete at last... We're proud to call this our first Fantasy Craft supplement. Can't wait for you to check it out - in just under three weeks. The printers assure us the POD run will be ready for us when we arrive at Indy for the Best Four Days in Gaming! 

As we mentioned earlier this week on our front page, the judges over at the ENnie Awards thought enough of Fantasy Craft to put the book in the running for Best RPG Writing over the last year. This is an amazing honor and we're extremely humbled.

Now, of course, the vote's to you! From today through July 25th, you can visit the ENnie Awards Ballot page and cast your vote - not only for Best Writing but in many other categories, including art and cartography, production values, rules, and even Best Publisher (for which we're also nominated - thank you for that).

Click Here to Vote!

See you at GenCon, and thanks again for your support!

Crafty Games

We've updated the English Fantasy Craft character sheets to Second Printing and also added form-fillable versions. You can grab them over at our Downloads page.

As always, please feel free to drop us a line if you want to submit something (say, for example, you'd like to translate the new sheets).

Stay Crafty!

Some of you may remember that Sonic Legends had pulled one of its Cleansing of Black Spur soundscapes a while back for contractual reasons. They've uploaded a new version, which you can find in any of the following places...

Cleansing of Black Spur Complete Bundle

Cleansing of Black Spur Soundscapes Bundle

Sonic Legends: The Reaper (individual track) - click here for a free preview!

Enjoy!

The stumbling block with the image in question has been resolved and Michael Syrigos nailed it! He's wrapping up one last tweak to the piece now and with that all the art's in and looking gorgeous. The book will be a bit more varied visually than the core book but that actually works quite well for an adventure compilation and Realm guide. :)

Final text tweaks today or, if the Return of Alex meeting goes off tonight, perhaps tomorrow, and then this bad boy should be entirely in layout's hands.

Next up... Well, you'll just have to check in later this week to find out!