January and February 2024

Hey! I had COVID for a good chunk of January, so I skipped the newsletter for that month and am combining the few things I did managed to do into this February letter :)

DURF Expanded

Since my last newsletter, I uploaded two new playtest drafts for DURF Expanded up on my Patreon. The last two updates added new monsters, magical items, example traps, a section on funerals, and some guidelines for other purchases outside of standard adventuring gear.

DURF Expanded is slowly approaching a state where most of the core rules and procedures are done. The next phase of the project will focus more on adding advice for GMs for creating their own dungeons and hexcrawls.

The Electrum Archive

If worked hard on the maps for The Electrum Archive - Issue 02. I completed a large map of the city of Titan Port, which is the focus of the second zine.

I also made a tower map to accompany the heist adventure included in the zine:

Odds and Ends

• The Dreamlands zine I contributed to is currently funding on itch. The material in the zine will be compatible with DURF, and will contain some great adventures and monsters created by my fellow members of the Good Sleep Collective.

• I’ve been reading The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, by historian Rashid Khalidi, to better understand the historical context surrounding the horrific ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. I recommend it to anyone who knows little about what has been going on besides what been told through the western media.

That’s it for now, thank you for reading and stay safe!

Talk soon!

- Emiel

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