Goblins

In August 2011, I ran a Tempts Fate donation drive. So where the hell are the Tempts Fate comics? Well, they’re not done. At least, the last page of the promised TF comic isn’t done.

The Tempts Fate drive promised four pages of comic, but I was so grateful for the amazing donations from you guys, that I drew an extra page (in which Tempts becomes immortal and gets an icky eye on his foot). This pushed my work load from four pages, to five. So where’s that fifth page? Well, I could give you a bunch of excuses about my workload, about how I can’t keep up with the comic’s schedule even when I’m NOT also drawing Tempts Fate, but excuses only get you so far. It comes down to the fact that I’ve screwed up and I owe you guys for this.

I could have rushed a crappy, un-imaginative fifth page of TF11 and be done with it, but that’d be ripping you guys off. What I want to do is offer you something MORE because of my delays, not something LESS. The problem is, I don’t have time to draw something MORE. Drawing that one extra page is partly what put me in this place to begin with.

So what I’ve come up with, is to draw a penciled, sketched comic arc in which two easy to draw characters attempt to save Tempts from this whole delayed situation. This way, I can offer you something extra that while not very time consuming, is something that I can look at and be proud of, as a way of saying that I’m sorry for screwing up. After all, if I ran a restaurant and you had to wait a long time for your food, I’d want to make it up to you by giving you something extra.

When this ‘Search For Fate’ arc comes to an end, I will post a fully coloured, final page that will bring TF11 to an end. But these penciled pages will remain penciled so I can focus on Goblins.

The donation button has been removed from TF11 as I don’t want any money for doing this. The point of this is to make up for my screw up, not to profit.

Although this first SFF page is posted instead of a standard Goblins update, the rest of them will not be interfering with the main comic’s schedule. Also, I will be posting the rest of the SFF pages on the Tempts Fate 11 page instead of the front page. I’ll tweet and blog when a new SFF page goes up, but I don’t want to promise a schedule.

I really hope that you can accept my apologies for this. As some of you may know, I have a bit of a problem with guilt and this corner that I’ve painted myself into has been a big source of guilt for me. I’m hoping that this sketched arc can leave me feeling satisfied that I’ve corrected my screw up in an honourable way and made up for the ridiculous wait for that last page. If any of you have questions, just send me a tweet and I’ll try to respond to everyone.

As always, thanks for reading.

~Thunt

As of writing this, there are nine days until the Goblins: Alternate Realities Game Kickstarter launches (May 21). Evertide Games is dashing about and making sure everything is in working order.

This morning, EG announced one of their stretch goals, which they’re calling the “Well of Darkness Adventurer” level. Here’s a look at it.

That’s a lot of loot, man. Also (and I hesitate to post this, because I hate the sound of my own voice so very much) they’ve released 16 minutes of Richard James (EG president) and myself talking about the game and being goofy. Mostly being goofy.

The Facebook page for the game is currently at 3,082 ‘likes’, which means the game will include two bonus, playable characters (and their gear). At 4,000 likes, EG is adding a third bonus character and adding Pan & Yala to the choices of bonus characters (they’ll count as one playable character).

And finally, on Wednesday, May 15, 12:00 noon PDT (GMT -7) I’ll be doing a live broadcast here. Usually I draw during these broadcasts (or I goof around when I should be drawing) but this time I’ll be talking about how to play the game and showing some of the prototype cards I have. The chatroom connected to the live feed will let you ask me questions, yell at me, call me handsome, etc. I wear a headset that reads the chatroom to me in text-to-speech, so I can literally hear your questions.

You can also follow me on Twitter. It’s a great way of throwing a comment or question at me and knowing I’m guaranteed to see it.

As always, thanks for reading!

~Thunt

Well, the Facebook page for the upcoming Goblins game is off to a fantastic start! Evertide Games has set up a system of stretch goals linked to how many “likes” the page gets. We’ve passed 1000 likes, which means the game is guaranteed to include one bonus character on top of the twelve other playable characters. Based on the votes on the facebook page, it looks like that character will be Biscuit. Once the page hits 2000 likes, a second bonus character will be added (as I’m writing this, we’re at 1433 likes). I ‘think’ the 3rd bonus character will be added if we hit 4000 likes but don’t hold me to that, my numbers might be off. I’ll get back to you with an officially confirmed number for the 3rd bonus character soon. Note: As each bonus character is added to the game, their gear is also added!

EDIT: It has been confirmed that the 3rd bonus character gets added to the game at 4000 likes.

Richard James (Evertide Games president) has talked about wanting to put the extra work into making Not-Walter one of the bonus characters. I want this. I want to make the following party…

Biscuit wielding the Axe of Prissan / Klik wielding Kore’s axes (to munch on. He gets hungry)  / Not-Walter wielding Kore’s uber-crossbows and with one metallic wing, given by Klik

So if you’d like to see Not-Walter as a bonus character, say so in a comment on the Facebook page. Evertide games is really good at busting their butts to make sure the players have what they want in a balanced game. And please, please, please spread the word and support the Kickstarter for the game when it comes out on May 21st! I look forward to playing this game with lots of folks at conventions!

As always, thanks for reading.

~Thunt