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Playing Catch Up

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Normally design diaries are limited to the Adventurer and Legend tiers but since the Patreon (and me, by extension) have been quite quiet the past few months I wanted to make...

Abracadaberrant Buster Corps: First Playtest

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Linked here is the first playtest for Abracadaberrant Buster Corps. This game has been in development for a few months now (off and on) and it's starting to get into ...

Zephyr Class Art Preview #2

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I'm in the game design kitchen every night cooking up the final kinetic movements for the zephyr class. In the meantime, I keep getting art back on the ones that have already ...

Zephyr Class Art Preview #1

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As I'm busy tightening the screws on the final version of the zephyr and its public subclasses (as well as designing four new ones for you all to test prior to release), I wan...

February '23 Exclusive: Catatumbo & Yeti Heritages

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For February, I prompted Adventurers and Legends to pitch new heritages. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, heritages are the Sterling Vermin Adventuring Company’s ev...

A, BAE, Z!

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This here is my first ever design diary, a new benefit for those pledging at the Adventurer tier ($5) and up. Since the new tiers are official as of March 1st, this is both a...

January '23 Exclusive: Floriography & Feats of Pugilism

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For January we celebrated the release of the Thaumaturge class by voting on a new mystic custom for the January Exclusive. There was a tie at the time the poll closed so I ga...

State of the Sterling Vermin Adventuring Company

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I hope your 2023 is off to a good start! It's been very busy for me with life generally, the OGL rollercoaster specifically, and launching a new chapter of the Sterling Vermi...

December '22 Exclusive: Probabilist & Infernalist

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I got behind last month so I present, only 23 days late, your December exclusive. Last month I committed to creating everything submitted since it was a low submission month b...

The OGL and Sterling Vermin Adventuring Company

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I've been putting off this update hoping that Wizards of the Coast would provide clarity but they are, apparently, not in any hurry to provide us with that. Incase you haven'...

Sterling Vermin Site Store Soft Launch

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As you all may know, I've been building up to this moment for over a year now and it's finally here: I've published my first work under the OGL and it's now available for pur...

November Exclusive: Heaven's Guard

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For November, your Recruits, Adventurers, and Legends selected a defense oriented magus subclass for the exclusive. I've gotten a lot of requests to do a paladin-esque subclas...

October Exclusive: Path of the Rust Eater

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Happy spooky season! I hope you've all enjoyed the early fall, I know I'm loving it as the heat of summer slowly cools and I get to spend more time drinking hot tea. This month...

September's Exclusive

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For September’s exclusive I once again failed to revise the form to prompt themed submissions. Which, again, works out great for all of you because I decided to do the top tw...

August Exclusive

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This month we had a tie for monthly Patreon exclusive. Normally I grant myself tie-breaking powers in such a case but, this month, I decided I’d enjoy taking a crack at both ...

July Exclusive: Abyssal Farer, A Sorcerous Origin

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This month your recruits, adventurers, and legends voted for an Abyssal, maybe gish player option for the sorcerer. I'm actually painfully clueless about a lot of D&D lore...

June Exclusive: The Mandragora Heritage

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This month's exclusive prompt was a new race and the winning concept was a plant-human hybrid. I toyed with a few different implementations here, including whether to use the o...

The Thaumaturge Class, 4th Playtest

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I'm so pleased to release the 4th playtest of the Thaumaturge class into the wild! This playtest marks the transition from open playtest (where I made the class publicly avail...

May Exclusive: The Libragon

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For this month's exclusive, the theme was a monster or NPC. We got great submissions but the option that won out was a book themed dragon—hence the libragon! I had a lot of ...

THE APRIL SURPRISE IS HERE!!!

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Presented here is the Dervish class, the (honestly this time) last part of the April Surprise. The Dervish class is a highly mobile harrier class that gains extra reactions and ad...

The April Surprise Is Here!

Well hello again patrons,

Did you think that's all you were going to get for my birthday? Think again! I love my patrons too much to give them only one class so check out the Reforged, a fant...

The April Surprise Is Here?

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Today's my birthday which means it's time for me to give you gifts! I'm so happy to finally be able to reveal the April surprise: the Vampyr! Several months back I thought it ...

New Spells: Insectoid Transformations

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This month we started a new format where the monthly exclusive submissions had to match a theme of my choosing. For April I selected "a themed set of spells" and your fellow pa...

Magic Items for the Pugilist Class

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For March’s Patreon exclusive, there was a tie between a dunamancy inspired pugilist fight clube or more magic items for the pugilist class. As the official tiebreaker, I we...

Lethal Weapon Reloaded, A Revised Fight Club for the Pugilist Class

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For February's exclusive, a familiar entry won—a "weapon master" archetype for the pugilist class. Long time patrons may remember that I wrote based on a similar prompt quit...

Crow's Companion, a Pugilist Fight Club

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I wanted to share a preview with you of a new fight club I am working on specifically for my character in an ongoing The Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign I'm playing in....

January Exclusive: Zoologist, A Field of Study for the Scholar

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For the very first patron exclusive of 2022, the recruits, adventurers, and legends chose a new scholar field of study: the Zoologist! As you might gather from the name, ...

December Exclusive: Phantom Fist, a Fight Club for the Pugilist

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Happy December! I hope you're ending 2021 on the upswing and have enjoyed being a patron this year. For December's exclusive, your Recruits, Adventurers, and Legends voted for...

November Exclusive: Magical Damage Feats

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For November’s patreon exclusive, your Recruits, Adventurers, and Legends voted for magical damage type equivalents to the Crusher/Piercer/Slasher feat set introduced in 2021-11-05 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post

October's Exclusive: The Jock, A Field of Study for the Scholar Class

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This month's exclusive is the Jock, a new Field of Study for the Scholar class.

"But wait!" some of you might ask, "Didn't the archetype using superiority dice win the ...