Update (Week of 6-23-2023) (Patreon)

I've neglected what... 2 weeks of updates? Well, there's a reason.

Firstly, you'll notice I haven't missed a release. Because I don't miss a release, baby!

On the 28th, N&D won't have missed a release for an entire year. That's some dedication right there.

Anyway, I've been working on a different story. I had 2 in mind that I thought I wanted to do before I realized something. When writing N&D the progress is slow. I don't mean kinda slow, I mean glacial. Between the cast of characters, progression, plot, and the endless list of items its hard to just write the story.

That being said, I'm still writing it. I have book 4 plotted out decently enough. But those 2 books I had in mind were more of the same. Well, kinda. I think I could massage the fishing one to work, but it would be a complete rewrite anyway. The second one I had no confidence in. It didn't manage to capture the slice of life aspect I was going for or the action aspect.

So, what have I been doing if I'm keeping up with N&D releases and trashing two story ideas? Writing a third one, of course.

I don't know if anyone wants to read it. But that's the most important part of the story to me. It's written for me. Based off my experiences in old MMOs playing crappy pet classes that really weren't good. Guess I'll give a short description of it, and the name. This is not a blurb, though.

Summon the Great Spirits

Isekai, Litrpg, Dungeons, Slice-of-life

Story focuses on low-stakes dungeon delving. The MC's purpose is to help Great Spirits which are either conceptual or physical manifestation of concepts (somewhere between mortals and gods).

System is modified N&D core system. Biggest flaw with N&D was that no one swaps cores. So I made a main core and a subcore. Mains can't be swapped, but subs can. So MC is often swapping out his subcore to suit the purpose.

Conflicts are lowish-stakes, often involving the spirits and how they interact with dungeons. Lots of near-misses.

Lots of goofy animals. Minor focus on how ecology works in a system world (monsterized vs not monsterized). MC's background relates to fish, so he takes a natural interest.

So, this is just something that I can write to take a break from N&D. There's a lot of combat. Lots of sending a little squirrel spirit in to fight, standing back then getting ambushed. No idea what the release schedule is going to look like. I have about 15 more chapters to write before I release it.

Also, I'm going to change the format of chapter releases here. There is still going to be 3 chapters a week, I'm just going to jam them into the same post here. Because managing all these posts is annoying, and Patreon certainly isn't getting better.

I'll be making some adjustments to the cover, but the general format is attached to this post.

Aaaaanyway. Thanks for reading! I appreciate the support!