Status Report

Greetings, everyone!

I’m happy to say that Chapter Sixteen of Harry Potter and the Save-or-Die is about 70% complete, and therefore on track for release tomorrow evening.

In other news, work on Death or Glory continues. I’ve added a bunch of page cross-references throughout the rules to make it easier to know where to go to look up relevant rules. Turns out Word can make those automatically update when pages shift around, which is nifty. I polished off the Convoy Ambush Mission, in which the party has to track down an enemy convoy and, well, ambush it. It has a cool chart for the GM to roll on to see what was in the convoy, too, based on the enemy you’re fighting (demon cultists might have barrels full of blood, rogue wizards might have spell components, etc.). There’s only a few things left on the checklist for the alpha release:

The Convoy Escort Mission needs a little work
I still need stats for some wandering monsters, like giant spiders, hydras, and giant worms. Future releases will have more wandering monsters, but I haven’t decided yet how “fantastical” the game will get, so I’m not sure which of the usual fantasy opponents will make it into the game, and in what incarnation.
Feral humans need leader/character units
Still a bunch more random encounter/dilemma/intermission charts to fill in. I don’t yet have any Strongpoint Assault dilemmas, for example. Future versions will have more entries in each chart, but even putting 6-10 on each is very time consuming so far.