Minor update to “The Throne of Thr’gran” excerpt – I’d say it’s half done now (just passed 44k words). I’ve tried to incorporate a fair amount of spell and some combat skill use, but we shall see how it looks. Haven’t been able to accommodate all possible spell and combat possibilities, but i think it’s a descent subset. Hard to say for sure, but I’m hoping to finish this excerpt up in the next week or two, which will mostly be a sort of dungeon crawl.
Obviously very behind on my goals for this project, but there has been a moderate rate of progress. Taking lots longer than I’d hoped, but the plan is still for me to finish the three excerpts and then do a few more additions to the base game and then post that update. For those following “AtW”, I am also working on that WIP as well. Can’t hazard a guess on when I’ll have this all done and properly updated, and will say as I had really bad COVID for a week I lost a good amount of time and energy, but now we are back at it again.
Oh, one last thing – thinking I’ll make the excerpt section into its own chapter and once more increase the chapter numbers for all subsequent chapters. This means the travel section will essentially be three chapters, but as all of these excerpts are likely to finish around +60k words or so, that seems for the best. I’d originally worry that it would disrupt saved games as its a change to the game architecture, but presently saved games will be disrupted regardless, so why not do the adjustments?
Also, I’d still like to do the saved game fix that was discussed earlier – the plan is I eventually will, but that will be later on this year at earliest, after the excerpts and the upcoming main game update.
Note: For “The Throne of Thr’gran” excerpt, I have included some bad endings. Please make use of the saved games slots on COG demos to appropriately navigate these. I’m hoping players don’t run into these non-stop, but they should be a fair possibility as its a pretty violent scenario.