In this post I had talked about an upcoming campaign called Shield Mountains. It's been officially named Dicelocke, which is a Pokemon Challenge Run reference, because we'll be playing with...PlayersPchal, Moxi, and Kei. If you're a Pchal follower, you probably know these people better than I do. If you're just a regular Koibu / RegalGoblins follower, we'll be getting to know some of these folks together.
SystemD&D 5th edition
Koibu's Terrible TwistThere's always something, and this time it's a new race called Ptomin (the "P" is silent like in pterodactyl). Their stats are bad, but they have this sweet ability to bond with another creature, improving stats and abilities. Here's a nice little write up of Ptomin racial abilities and some light societal structure. Be careful before adding Ptomin to your campaign - they will tend toward weak characters with overpowered companions who have long turns in combat (because each Ptomin still has a full class, and then its beast is a whole other creature so each person is essentially playing 2 characters, which doubles the round length). If you, for some crazy reason, want to run a campaign with Ptomin in it, it should be something like this campaign where the whole party are Ptomin dealing with outside invaders. In this setting, they're great! Dropped into a normal D&D setting, they're be fun for 3 sessions before they're more of a pain in the ass.
I've added a link to the V1 of the Ptomin document onto this post if you'd rather it in PDF.
ScheduleLike the other Save or Die campaigns, this one is going to be filmed offline, and then broadcast at a regular schedule. This will be in addition to the regular Save or Die schedule of either a Floating Fortress or a Hardly Heroes session once a week. I'm not sure what the release schedule will look like, there have been a lot of ideas pass around, but I can say for sure that we'll be plowing ahead on filming before we've got all the production assets and overlays in place (they'll be added in post, so it'll still look nice).
We might dump it all at once, maybe one session a day for a few weeks, maybe one session a week for a few months, or... I have no idea. I'm just the DM.
Campaign SettingThis will take place in Arcadia, in a new land that will need a new map! Cartography streams incoming. This will also be a southern hemisphere area.
gl hfNeal / Koibu
p.s. this is one of the reasons Voyages of Dusk and Dawn has been pushed back time and again. But now that it's getting released we're so close to getting VODD out.