Vineyard RPG Playtest 1, January 2025
2 months ago
– Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 05:50:43 AM
Playtesting Starts NOW
Hey y'all! Sorry for the long delay, as life has been very challenging for me of late. I've started a new day job, moved, and other personal things that I won't get into. Needless to say: Vineyard is still being produced. The biggest hurdle I am looking at is that I need to earn enough money to pay our talent what they're worth. If you or someone you know who is interested in VRPG has not already backed, it would help us immensely to have more pre-orders. Currently our pre-order sum just barely covers printing cost - not even freight!
That being said: please take your time to enjoy these 4 villains for playtesting. Feel free to share it around as you wish! My hope is that we build more interest in the full release this year before we close pre-orders, playtest these thoroughly, and ship to our wonderful backers.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lnNK7yVxsP5pa9PUh3L8qWoRrwmEdPZdAYq04s6ReQM/edit?usp=sharing
Current status of Vineyard RPG
4 months ago
– Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 02:02:48 PM
Hey backers!
Thanks for your patience as always. I apologize for the lack of updates, but the reality is that production has been on hold as I get myself into a better financial and healthcare situation. I am still working through payments to our contributors for work that has been delivered to me. Once I have caught up with the payments I owe our contributors I will be chipping away at the narrative list below. As of right now I am pushing through freelance work which will pay me so I can settle these debts and finish Vineyard RPG.
What is mostly likely the outcome of exceeding my budget is that I am going to reduce the amount of art in the final product, prioritizing on things that matter the most to me. I'm picking up a majority of the narrative and design workload that remains due to budget constraints.
Stat-blocks
- Pallor (2nd draft) + Friday playtests
- Solicitor General (final draft) + Friday playtests
- Aisling (final draft) + Friday playtests
- Surgeon (1st draft) + Friday playtests
Districts
- Rock Below (likely to be greatly reduced in size)
Lore
- Contracts (w/ assist from Kimchi & Nat)
- Other Factions: Merc Company & League of Extraordinary Profits
Mechanics
- Contracts (w/ assist from Nat)
- Secrets (w/ assist from Nat)
Monsters
- #s 1-9 Monster guys (Friday)
Backer Stuff
- Backer NPCs 1-3
Altogether this is about 15,000 words to be drafted and many days of design work, playtesting, and refining. Our lead designer Nat will be working closely with me in 2025 to ensure we are releasing the best possible product.
How To GM Romance crowdfunding is live!
8 months ago
– Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 11:40:37 AM
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ENNIE nomination & work update!
9 months ago
– Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 11:29:34 AM
Hey y'all!
I apologize for the delay on updates. I have some news. :)
If you didn't know - our introductory adventure from the guidebook The Undead Gala was nominated for an ENNIE! I've placed the adventure on sale for a month for $0.99, so if you want to support us, please urge people to spend the dollar to check out The Vineyard that way. The PDF on DriveThruRPG will still include a $15 coupon to pre-order the book itself before we begin printing. Link to share here:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/458097/Vineyard-RPG-The-Undead-Gala?affiliate_id=2822085
Voting will open up next week and it would be a huge blessing if y'all voted for us - we have some stiff competition!
Creator Studio progress:
We have just wrapped up dozens of pages of additional plot hooks and locations within the Forever Stairwell. Randomly rolled content can be used anywhere, but I wanted to make sure that both our unprepared GMs and our "dungeon crawl friendly" tables had something flexible to use leading up to a confrontation with our BBEG.
Timeline shift
Our timeline has shifted to look at 2025 as a more realistic release date for our guidebook. The fact of the matter is that I would much rather release the book up to my standards and I'm not going to compromise on quality. If I have to cut content for financial concerns, it will likely be some extraneous art that I wanted done, not design work. As of right now, we are approximately $15,000 from paying off the labor for the development of the book. I'm chipping away at this using the funds from my freelancing and Producer work for Metal Weave Games.
I will finish the book, it's just much more expensive than I budgeted for because we undershot our internal goal. Thank you everyone for your patience.
April update
11 months ago
– Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 05:33:55 PM
Hey y'all! I do not have a lot to report as of now as we are still wrapping up narrative contributions. I have some writers still working on two villains, I am doing a mechanical fitting for the villains we have finished narratively, and I am playtesting villains as I can in my pro games.
I have been taking it easier than usual this past month due to burn out and I hope to pick up my workload once we receive all contributor words. It will be easier to understand what is left and what we can fit in there once that step is finished. Thank you for your patience.
