Holy crap…how did I miss this release?! I’m only halfway through, but wanted to come here to congratulate you on an amazing story…I haven’t cried while reading in awhile, and you totally got me. Sigh. Great job. 
Cheers!
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Hello, I’d like to join too 
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Hmmm…I have been trying to romance either Tanno or Meylor (they are both so charming in different ways, its hard to choose at any given moment) and think I may have done something wrong? I haven’t been overly flirty with the girls, but have been given the choice to kiss all 3 of them over the coarse of the story…but I am on Chapter 13, and haven’t been given the chance to smooch either of the boys, whom I fliirt openly with, whenever possible. Have i shut myself out of their romances, somehow? Is there a guide anywhere online, that i could peek at?
I’ve also noticed in later chapters, during the fight scenes, I always check the stats page before choosing my actions…and still fail 9 times out of 10. Is this a mechanic of the game, or am I just super shit at it? Hahahaha
I am highly enjoying this story, nonetheless…but in my 2nd playthrough, I’d like to be able to occassionally win a fight or atleast kiss a boy, if possible. ;p
Any help is appreciated!
After a lot of testers brought up how you could romance all the ROs at once, I coded the romances to avoid that so I didn’t have to start writing any love triangles. Now, you’re only allowed to flirt with one character per chapter. So if you flirt with Tanno by choosing a gated Relationship choice in Chapter Five, for example, you can only flirt with him that chapter.
Some of the fights in the story aren’t possible to win, like against Goro in Chapter Six, or against Graluk in Chapter Eleven. You can win all of your fights at the climax of the story against Thad, the blonde inquisitor, X, and Goro.
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Gotcha, thanks for your help!
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I just say thank you and I look forward to it. I hope you will complete it because from my opinion there are not enough Necromancer stories.
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Just wanted to say that I enjoyed The Nascent Necromancer a lot. Sad to hear there won’t be a 2nd book, but I look forward to the update. 
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I mean, I’m down if you’d like.
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Hey everyone, I’m switching the beta to an open beta rather than a closed one. I’ve also made a minor update to the demo which includes:
- various continuity errors corrected
- bugfixes and typos
The link to the demo is in the original post. I’ll mostly be focusing on The Mage’s Adventures’ update for a while, but then you can expect me to continue working on this update, probably in May. I think these next several chapters will be some of the best ones yet, so I’m really excited to get to them. Then again, I’m excited to write my Mage’s Adventures update. 
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I have to admit that I’m bummed that this is no longer getting a sequel and just a bit of a quick wrap up. I just replayed this and was reminded of how much I enjoyed it. Was there not enough story left to tell in your view? It genuinely felt like we weren’t even at the end of the beginning yet, and I was looking forward to what was next.
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To be honest, I’ve been feeling for a long time that I painted myself into a corner by starting off my writing career with a (planned) huge series, and then continuing to try to write more series after that. Obviously, the sequels to the Trial of the Demon Hunter trilogy, and any sequels to The Mage’s Adventures or The Magician’s Burden never happened.
I think my biggest mistake was trying to write multiple series of novels without ever completing a standalone story. However, I’m planning on updating all of my stories to make them complete. A while ago, I released an update to The Magician’s Burden to finally make it a standalone, and I’ll probably be done with an update to make The Mage’s Adventures a standalone in a few weeks.
I’m doing the same with Foundation of Nightmares, the third book in the Trial of the Demon Hunter trilogy, and obviously with The Nascent Necromancer as well. In all of these cases, I think the updates will make the stories better and more satisfying, and then I will feel good about moving onto better, and almost certainly more lucrative, projects like A Specter Over Kilerth and The Cruel Guardians.
To be open with you all, The Nascent Necromancer has sold almost 5k copies in a few months. This means that it has made more royalties than all of my novels except The Magician’s Burden and Trial of the Demon Hunter, and sold more copies than all of my novels except Trial of the Demon Hunter, Captive of Fortune, and The Magician’s Burden. It will quickly eclipse Trial of the Demon Hunter in royalties in a few months. In sales, it will quickly eclipse Captive of Fortune in a month or two, and probably eclipse The Magician’s Burden in a year or two if my update is a success. It will probably never eclipse Trial of the Demon Hunter in sales, but still, the royalties don’t lie.
To be clear, TNN is far and away my most successful story so far, and I’m very grateful to everyone who has supported it. The thing is, 5k copies in a few months may be MY best so far, but it’s probably middle of the pack as far as Hosted Games go. As much as I would love to write a series, I can’t really justify it when I’m trying to bring my writing career to a much higher level.
Most importantly, I’m just burned out on writing series. It’s hard as hell, and something I was quite frankly unprepared for, especially since I had never written any books or games before, and found myself trying to do both at the same time.
All of that said, I want to assure you all that the next several chapters of The Nascent Necromancer are going to be awesome. You’ll resurrect Yosif, and romance him if you want; save Lonnie or let her die; battle Goro and double the amount of witch hunters, including a gnome and werewolf dynamic duo; and go to war with Graluk and his army of goblins, or somehow make peace with them. It’ll be about 100k words, more than enough to wrap this up into what I believe, at least, will be a very satisfying standalone.
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Some good news: TNN will be rereleasing on Steam soon.
In other news, I’ve fixed a couple bugs in Chapter 16 of the demo.
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Congrats on the Steam release, Samuel! I finished TNN on my phone last night and played the Demo for Yosif crumbs. There’s a part where Jred recalls hearing Tozi tell everyone about Yosif kissing the Necrotagonist, and I scoured the story again to see if I totally missed it. Couldn’t find it anywhere, but am I delirious or will it all be fleshed out in the future?
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In an older version of TNN, Yosif kissed the MC to transfer a spell. I guess I haven’t updated the demo yet to reflect that I took that out of the published game.
Thanks so much for your quick reply! And dang, I would’ve liked to see that scene, especially after finding out they aren’t blood related. Thank you again and all the best to your writing endeavours!
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the creative insults on Reddit and Steam reviews are a little painful but at the end of the day, even the edgiest comments had something to be gleaned from about the characters, linear plot, etc. That’s fine and not what really bothers me. What really gets my autistic ass is the story being ripped to shreds for its literal selling point.
The title, the descriptions, and the demo all clearly lay out that the story is about becoming a necromancer, not being one. That is the story I wanted to tell. I advertised it as such. I named it as such. I wrote it as such, with the demo and every chapter sebsequent making it clear that this is a necromancer’s origin story. My question to everyone who is furious and calling me a hack: why the hell did you buy the game if a necromancer’s origin story isn’t what you wanted?
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