Hi everyone!
Thank you for all of your wonderful suggestions! We have compiled & combined all of them into Quest-Pack-sized chunks, that you can find listed below. Once the poll has finished, we will turn the winner into a ReQuest Pack to be released in the first week of December....
2020-11-08 14:04:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
With the holidays coming up, we wanted to give you a chance to tell us what's on your tabletop wish list so that we can deliver it in time for December - so we're doing another ReQuest Pack!!
What is a ReQuest Pack?
It’s a Quest Pack that’s built entirely upon the requests of our patrons! A ReQuest pack deviates from campaign content for Stars of the Sea...
2020-11-05 16:19:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons!
This month's Quest Pack takes us on a journey to one of the strangest and stinkiest places in Elvin Bay; The Middens! The people of this junkyard town take in all the trash and unwanted items from the great metropolis of Silver Spires, and attempt to make it their own. Middeners pride themselves on their ability to make anything out of anything, there's nothing they can't recycle!
The Middens is presented with a completely immersive buildable set, including buildi...
Hello Secret Door Club!
Rose here to give you a quick cheeky look-in at our progress for the next Quest Pack. We're currently in the process of drawing and colouring (!) the entire Middens buildable kit and the prototypes are looking good!
Here you can see Crate Town, the stack of wooden boxes that most Middeners call home, Makers Market where local inventors sell their recycled goods, and Bottleclink Row, a small mountain of old glass bottles that houses the Meet House and the Cl...
2020-10-26 01:09:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we create a free download based on 4-word suggestions submitted by our patrons, who then also vote on which ones get made. This month we asked patrons to imagine what it would be like being a chef in the Middens, serving up dishes of recycled food!
The winning suggestions were:
(10❤️) Fried Apple Core Dumplings
2020-10-16 22:27:00 +0000 UTC
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Hi Secret Door Club!
I wanted to pop in and tell you a little bit about what we're planning for our next Quest Pack - we're taking you to the stinking scrappy junkyard known as The Middens! We plan to make this a two part drop, with the first Quest Pack covering setting the scene, and the second Quest Pack covering a quest called The Missing Middener (which some of you may have enjoyed play-testing with us in the Discord!)
For this month, we plan to set the scene by introducing ho...
2020-10-11 17:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostHi there patrons! 👋
For this month's Mini ReQuest Pack, we're heading to the kitchen to come up with something tasty! However, there's a twist - the chef is from the Middens, the junkyard on the edge of town where Middeners love to recycle and reuse anything and everything they can get their hands on. This means using ingredients like old potato peelings, dregs of wine from the bottom of a bottle and stale crusts of old bread.
With that in mind, this month, we would like y...
2020-10-09 23:12:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi patrons!
We hope everyone is doing well and staying safe!
This month, we've been hard at work on a base building kit. Following on from when the adventurers have been hired by the Council of Spiria to be the city's protectors, player characters will have the option to choose a base of their very own, and deck it out with all manner of useful rooms. They will live in this base, prepare for their missions, and perform downtime activities that help further the development of...
2020-10-04 14:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
In early September we started a new playtest format in our discord server, where patrons can sign up for individual one-shot test sessions called Quests, that all add up to one continuous story. So far, the adventurers of the Silver Stars have explored the Hole to Nowhere beneath the Middens, and have killed the spoo...
2020-10-03 16:44:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Secret Door Club!
Today I wanted to show you a project that we're including in this month's upcoming Quest Pack - it's a DIY noticeboard that you can create at home and display during games, so that your players can pick up and keep track of quests from locals in town!
The project will include printable pieces to decorate and construct the noticeboard, form fillable notes to add as quests, and written instructions on how to make the project. I also made this video as a vi...
2020-09-23 21:52:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we create a free download based on 4-word suggestions submitted by our patrons, who then also vote on which ones get made. This month we asked patrons to suggest Middener Inventions; Creative recycling projects built by the scrappy people who live in the junkyard-town of the Middens.
The winning suggestions were:
(12❤️) Friendl...
Hello Secret Door Club!
I'm here to show you a quick preview of some new systems and features we're going to introduce in the next quest pack, specifically: the Adventurer's Base and Downtime Activities!
After the player characters' adventuring team has been hired by the council, they need a place to call home! In this month's Quest Pack, we're going to introduce a base-building system that will allow the Game Master and the players t...
2020-09-17 17:54:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's winning suggestions are:
Friendly Rusty Toolbox Mimic by Foxy
Sorta Reliable Patchwork Wand by Erica W
Multi Purpose Metal Confetti by Liz Peters
Tiny Robot Wielding Knife by Kate
Sassy Singing Solar Scrapflowers...
At the request of some of our lovely patrons in the Discord server, we're running a Secret Santa-style mail exchange event! If this event is successful, we'll look at doing a gift-based one closer to the holiday season. Participation is as follows:
- Sign up using this form by 16th September 2020.
- A match-making ...
2020-09-12 15:59:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
This month, we took the time to review all of our Stars of the Sea Quest packs so far and make some much needed updates and adjustments based on our playtests so far. For the full breakdown of all of these updates, see our Update Announcement post here!
The biggest change we made was to introduce the main quest givers: The Council of Spiria - 2020-09-06 17:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons!
We've been hard at work testing and tweaking our Stars of the Sea campaign and after running it for friends and patrons alike, we're here today to announce the first round of updates to the Stars of the Sea Quest Packs we've published so far.
Below we're going to talk about what we've learned from our playtests, how we feel about the first 10 Quest Packs, and what we've updated and improved upon. We have also included a change log download file at the bottom o...
2020-09-06 17:54:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Secret Door Club!
We have been hard at work this month to make some tweaks to ACT1 of the Stars of the Sea adventure. The biggest change we're making is that the players will no longer work directly for Marlon Wallace. Instead, they will work for the Council of Spiria: A governing body that seats representatives from various important factions throughout Silver Spires.
To support the edits we're making to older Quest Packs, we're using Quest Pack 10 to intr...
2020-08-28 16:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
Last weekend we announced a new format for the playtests that we run with the community on discord. We also released a huge new playtest document with ...
2020-08-28 16:15:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
We’ve really enjoyed playing games online with you, our patrons, and the opportunity to test our material with you is improving the way we write our adventures. So, we’re going to continue running our games for patrons, starting with brand-new playtests for ACT2 of our Stars of the Sea campaign!
This playtest will work a little differently from the ACT1 playtest that ...
2020-08-22 19:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
We have been working hard on a new set of character options to help players create characters that feel like they are a part of Hemelin, the world that all of the adventures we publish here take place in.
What is Ancestry & Culture?
We are testing a system of Ancestry & Culture (2020-08-22 19:54:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we create a free download based on 4-word suggestions submitted by our patrons, who then also vote on which ones get made. This month we asked patrons to suggest a new Forgotten Familiar to us!
The winning suggestion:
(19❤️) Pedigreed Fancy Miniature Owlbear by Erica W
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This month's winning suggestion is:
Pedigreed Fancy Miniature Owlbear, by Erica W
Big thanks to everyone who submitted their idea!
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Hi patrons! Hope everyone is enjoying their summer and staying safe ❤️
For this month's Mini ReQuest Pack, w...
2020-08-14 19:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
In this Quest Pack, we reveal the main antagonist for the Stars of the Sea campaign: The Monstrosity.
The tentacles of this monster reach far and wide, and affect nearly every aspect of the campaign. In this Quest Pack we explain where the monstrosity came from, what it wants, and how it is connected to the Stars of the Sea phenomenon.
This Quest Pack also includes a new campaign map that shows the Stars of the Sea at night, as well as some new...
2020-08-06 18:06:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Secret Door Club!
We just finished up the graphics for the next Quest Pack, and we really wanted to give you a look at the nighttime variant campaign map that will be included. It shows the Stars of the Sea twinkling in the waves, and the festive lights of Silver Spires.
New Quest Pack is coming soon! We're very excited to finally introduce everyone to the Monstrosity lurking underneath the waters of the Sea of Songs.
Thank you for your support,
- Niels & Rose.<...
Hello Secret Door Club members!
Last month we posted a short playtest of some new player race options we have been working on for the Stars of the Sea, converted to Arcanist Press' Ancestry & Culture model. The players in our 2020-07-24 22:58:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we create a free Mini ReQuest Pack based on 4-word suggestions submitted by our patrons, who then also vote on which ones get made.
This month's Mini ReQuest Pack theme:
MUTATED MARITIME MONSTROSITIES 🐙🧠🦠
The winning suggestions:
(22❤️) Glowing Angler Fish Hydra by Cabbage
(15❤️) Barbaric...
Hello Secret Door Club!
We wanted to give you a quick peek at some of the monsters we're introducing with the next Quest Pack. The pack is going to be all about the titular Stars of the Sea, and introduce the MONSTROSITY that's been growing underneath Lostman's Drift.
Defeating the monstrosity will become the ultimate goal of the campaign, and all of the main quests the player characters will undertake in ACT2 will lead them back to this monster, time and time again.
<... 2020-07-19 23:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis thread is now CLOSED, and further suggestions and votes will not be counter. This month's winning suggestions are:
(22❤️) Glowing Angler Fish Hydra by Cabbage
(15❤️) Barbaric barnacle barbershop quartet by Brandon Briscoe
(14❤️) Cloud of Cannibalistic Krill by Christopher Magnum
Thanks to everyone who submitted a suggestion and voted on other people's suggestions!
Hi all!
Welcome to this month's free download! This time we're releasing the handy map pack from our most recent Quest Pack which was our 'beach episode' set on the tropical island of Spirian's Retreat.
This free download contains:
Hi everyone!
This Quest Pack covers the final destination of Marlon's Holiday: Spirian's Retreat. The player characters are treated to a luxurious stay in a beach-side resort, where they can relax on the beach, make their own musical instruments with Loresinger Kika Ko, or follow activities coordinator Toka Ko in a number of thrilling island expeditions!
Also included in this Quest Pack is a selection of full-color tiling maps to help you play out the beach scenes...
2020-07-05 14:06:19 +0000 UTC View Post