The Advanced Story Point System, a core game engine with extreme flexibility allowing GMs to fully customise their game setting.
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ASPS is one chapter away from layout.
Our Keepsakes editor has had some life things going on that have made progress there slower but we still expect it to be done soon. If things proceed as expected, we should have the ASPS PDF for folks in November and the Keepsakes PDF in December. Ideally we'll have both books and the rest shipping by Christmas.
In the meantime, we have sent via Backerkit a Quickstart guide for Keepsakes, and one for ASPS with additional Fox Magic content and character sheets, to all who backed for PDFs or books.
Our streaming team is also putting together a charity event on October 22nd - 23rd because we were asked to raise funds for a refugee camp via The Transgender Law Center's Black LGBTQ Migrant Project! We'll be running: Arkelon Chronicles, Bloodborne [a reskin of Lasers & Feelings], Fox Magic, Zin Never Dies, Metahumans Rising, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Call of Cthulhu, Mothership, and three different Halloween themed D&D 5e games. If you want to help the charity, or just watch the games, follow us on Twitch to be notified when the games go live.
And as always, you can find and interact with the whole team on Discord. Feel free to join us!
We are inching ever closer to fulfillment. The last of the art is being finalised for ASPS, and Keepsakes is heading into the next editing phase. Check out the latest colour proof we've gotten from the art team for a superhero with a disability here:
We are locking orders and charging cards on Backerkit now, so that we have final counts on things like the dice and plushies, since those will take the longest to complete as they are done by hand. At least 25% of you have still not completed your surveys! Please fill those out so that we have accurate numbers going into fulfillment. If you've lost the email, just head over to: https://asps.backerkit.com/
There are also some card charge errors from add-ons. Please check your card on file and update as necessary.
If you haven't already, join us on Discord! We have an active and growing community, and you'll have more direct access to the creative team to answer any questions you have and see more of what our various teams up to - from other ttrpg projects and collaborations, to podcasts, twitch live play streams, and more.
See you there, and we'll update here again when there's more progress worth noting.
Sorry for the delays in updating. We are working hard behind the scenes to complete the books! ASPS has finished edits; there was one chapter for sample settings [called shells] missing, so the team is hard at work completing that. We have a few more pieces of art to complete as well, then it's off to layout and the printers!
Keepsakes is only a little behind it. The first edit pass is complete. Now the files are being gone over and consolidated, then a second edit will happen. From there, the art is complete so it's just off to layout and the printer!
The dice are nearly complete; our crafter is waiting on new, sturdier molds to complete the remaining batch.
Plushies have their fabric purchased and will be sewn and stuffed together soon. A few of the dragons are already completed.
As a thank you for your patience, every one of you who have placed an order will receive the raw text file of BOTH games. This will be without the art and layout, but it will get the games into your hands sooner while you await the formal pdfs and/or physical copies that you backed for.
We're including some progress pictures, so you can see what goes into the art process of many of the pieces. Hope you find them informative and interesting, and get a taste for some of the art and characters awaiting you in ASPS!
Sorry it's been so long since the last update! Our management team was away for vacation, and we had to deal with two separate hacking incidents of our CEO's Discord which caused us to need to rebuild the company server from scratch. No small feat, I assure you. But the space is more secure now, and the community once again thriving and growing. You can join us at https://discord.gg/foolsmoon
Progress continues apace. Much like most projects, we have been affected by delays in the industry. Our ASPS dev editor had to step back for personal reasons and it took some time to secure a replacement. We have one now, and they are hard at work. Edits should be complete by mid-June, and then it's off to layout. We anticipate being able to send it out for printing in July. In the meantime, once it is complete, we will release the pdf to those who backed for one so you aren't all waiting on the physical editions before you can sink your teeth into our new system!
Keepsakes is right behind ASPS. That dev editor has just received the completed writing from all the authors and will begin work this week! It is anticipated that will be ready for layout not long after ASPS is, so we're finally to the light at the end of the tunnel!
While our writers and artists have been hard at work, the rest of our team has been organising a charity stream. What began as a small idea to host a couple of game streams grew and grew as more and more volunteered. We are now running a 36 hour Twitch stream of tabletop games, raising funds for 10 LGBTQIA+ charities globally:
Sunday, May 1st 2022
5AM - 9AM EST : Vampire the Masquerade V20
9AM - 1PM EST : Broken Tales
1PM - 5PM EST : Fox Magic
5PM - 9PM EST : Zin Never Dies
9PM - 1AM EST : Star Trek: Adventures
Monday, May 2nd 2022
1AM - 5AM EST : Metahumans Rising
5AM - 9AM EST : Coyote & Crow
9AM - 1PM EST : Dungeons & Dragons 5e, Adventurer's League
1PM - 5PM EST : Dungeons & Dragons 5e, Adventurer's League
Donations will be equally split between the following charities:
Lambda Legal
The Trevor Project
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion
Egale Canada
Kaleidoscope International Trust
All Out
Sexual Minorities Uganda
The Humsafar Trust
LGBTIQ+ Health Australia
In giving donations, you can aid the players or the GM during the sessions, and are entered to win one of several prizes from our sponsors at LoreSmyth, Session Zero Games, Ritual Motion, Elderwood Academy, Possum Creek Games, World of Asunder, The World Anvil, Zin Never Dies, DriveThruRPG, Geek & Artsy, Hatchling Games, Tentacle Kitty, and House Dok Productions!
Come join us, donate, and enjoy the fun!
https://twitchtv.com/foolsmoonei