It’s been an interesting year. With the completion of the text and some art for Kindling Moon, we’ve already started generating feedback about the current edition. The real question we’re being asked is, why isn’t this thing being promoted heavier right now?

Glad you asked. As with many “garage company” games in the roleplaying industry, our budget is small but our hearts are big. Plus, we’re not looking for coin as much as we’re looking to build the best product we can. Right now, current available copies of the 108 and 128 page rulebooks are being testplayed in ways our limited design group could not accomplish on our own. Suggestions have already been made for improving the look of the interiors as well.

The other big announcement we have, however, is also one by suggestion: a grand adventure designed to showcase the LOAKM system and the way we intended Kindling Moon to be played. This is our current priority and it’ll be coming fast.

It’s always nice to have someone to talk to and a place for talking. It’s even better when neither of you can leave! Well, where else would expect a lunatic to be talking about moons that kindle than in an asylum? There are actually five definitions for the word:

1. An institution for the care of people, especially those with physical or mental impairments, who require organized supervision or assistance.
2. A place offering protection and safety; a shelter.
3. A place, such as a church, formerly constituting an inviolable refuge for criminals or debtors.
4. The protection afforded by a sanctuary. See synonyms at shelter.
5. Protection and immunity from extradition granted by a government to a political refugee from another country.

So, only the first defintion really fails to apply, unless of course you happened to be obsessed with these kinds of things, in which case you’ll feel right at home! Enter our Asylum and try not to make a ruckus.

At last! We finally cobbled together the final bits (art included) to fully present Kindling Moon as we originally intended. If we go back and change any of this, it’ll be a whole ‘nother edition entirely. Now at a full 128 pages, we have art throughout the book as well as four full-page plates, 6 full-page maps, and 7 complete and ready-to-play characters (plus the usual blank character sheet and a quick-reference play cheat sheet to make it all smooth). Get it here now!

And if you’re not looking for a dead-tree book in a lay-flat binding, why not a digital version? Stand by… it’s coming VERY soon!

Here are two images that are (black & white) in the book but may show up (in color) again for a calendar, advertisement, or something later. This particular “shrine” is sometimes uncovered in the Great Desert of Minhar but otherwise is hidden beneath the dunes. According to scholars, it is a known portal for tangents to open into the realm of Tulhara. Note that the location is marked with six, three-sided monoliths.

We finished the book, so why a new website? Simple: we want to support it, and we’re committing ourselves to a place where we can quickly do just that. Truth be told, the old sites were pretty much online pamphlets, advertising what we had so there was a place to find out more about it. This new site will be much more than that; it will add dynamic content to Kindling Moon and a easy way to keep it all together. Very soon, you’ll be able to read all about our ongoing “test” campaign, and we’ll be encouraging all of you very soon to tell us what campaigns you’ve got going as well. Enjoy!

We’ve finally got the new website going! With this new system, we can more easily get content out, answer new questions, and add considerable new content on a whim. Welcome to the all-new Kindling Moon website.