Welcome 2021!

Is anything happening at Lost Relic Industries?

So it has been quite awhile since I posted anything and Lost Relic Industries has been relatively quiet on social media in 2020.

Behind the scenes was a different story.

2020 was a tough year for me personally. My day job that pays all the bills saw quite a bit of turnover and as a result, I was putting in extra time to pick up all the slack. 

That coupled with, writing, running a custom game campaign, and hosting a podcast, something had to give.

So midyear last year, I took a break from hosting RPG Coast to Coast. This was primarily because I simply didn't have any extra time to coordinate lining up the guests, and frequently I was working those nights as well.

The Cons..

Conventions just didn't work out very well for us in 2020. We had some favorite conventions cancelled early in the year. We also found ourselves having to cancel mid year for personal reasons. The few remaining on our list were sponsoring political organizations. That's just not something we want to do. 

We are hoping that a few of the conventions will be better geared for online play this year and that may be something we are able to accommodate. 

So what DID we do?

Despite all this, we did accomplish what we set out to do last year.  We produced a new quickstart guide which included basic rules, pregens and an adventure to ease new players into the game!

Swords & Shaman of Sonnegard QuickStart-Adventure 'The Beast of Murghadem'

This release contains a beautifully illustrated map by Misjay Maps as well as illustrations from Juan Ochoa .

We also managed to complete all editing and layout, and received the final art for our  

Swords & Shaman of Sonnegard Player's Book!

We worked very hard to offer this in essentially four formats as our first fully published book, and we were very excited to get it approved and live on DriveThruRPG before the end of year!  

Again, Juan Ochoa does a wonderful job of illustrating and making this a beautiful and fun book.

Cool, so what about 2021?

Well, we still have this other book. The Game Master's Book. We've been working diligently on making changes, corrections and a couple of really cool additions to this book from the present beta format. At present we are working to have this book illustrated to the same degree of quality as the Player's Book and with luck, we will have it released this year.

Also expect to see at least one hack for S&SoS. :) After having playtested for a few years now, we're still wanting to improve. We are compiling a short list of changes to publish in a free 'Advanced Magic Rules' pdf. The focus of this would be to move away from a pseudo vancian/daily spell system, toward a point driven magic system. There are a couple of other goodies in there as well!

There may be other hacks as well, but we feel there is still something missing from the game to help ground Player's and GM alike. Besides publishing the GM book we are going to begin compiling a third core book. This book will consist of the Creatures and Lore of Sonnegard. While we feel this is a necessary book, there are only two of us and one artist at present. So unfortunately, I have no expectation of this releasing in 2021.

In closing, I'd like to thank everyone who has followed and supported us. I hope 2021 is a good year and I hope you all have good gaming and make new friends at the table!

-B