Weekly DevDiary

Hey Critical Crew!

We've got your end of week check in, so here's what we've been up to this week!

• October's release dropped this past Tuesday, and I know I can speak for the whole team that it's always a huge sense of satisfaction when we get the latest release shipped! ...and also short-lived, as we're diving right back into it for the next one! Hope you all are enjoying the content so far!

• The sculpt for November's upcoming "Espier" creature (pictured in the cover image above) came back from the sculptor. We shared an except in this week's WIP, and Dillon knocked this one out of the park! Dillon also made some progress on the November statblocks this week too, while Cameron wrapped up the second player race (did we mention we're doing TWO for November??), and Connor and Christian kept plugging away at the rest of the writing. 

• We had TONS of new artwork coming in (for November, and even beyond!) While the colorized WIP's are always nice to see since things are more fleshed out, it can also be fun to see the different thumbnails we get during the Exploratory phase with the different artists. For instance, for an upcoming month that will be focused on Undead for it's theme, we're introducing you all to another of the Outsiders in our setting (the extraplanar, godlike entities that observe and interfere with the mortal plane). Check out this first look at The Broken

• And lastly, we also received some photos from a gaming convention over in England where MyMiniFactory is selling physical prints of some of our artwork and maps! We've been talking to them behind the scenes about some of their Print-on-Demand services, and what that could look like for some projects down the road, and this was one of their test runs. Dillon put together a Critical Crafting collage, featuring a bunch of our pieces (the poster on the top row, second from the left), and it was a very surreal experience seeing the pics of the booth and knowing people across the world are seeing our work in the flesh! 

Hope everyone has a great weekend, and gets a chance to throw some dice!

- Cameron, and the Critical Crafting team