THIS PLAN IS NOT FINAL AND ANY AND ALL OF THE POINTS BELOW MAY CHANGE UNDER WHIM OR WEATHER. I’ve included our current thinking on what’ll be a free update and what’ll be paid DLC.
TERESA’S BUILD (probably roughly end August)
‘The finest artisans all dream of the White Door in the end. I’m no artisan, only a scholar. I think there’s a Secret that all these artisans know, but I think that Secret is only half the story.’
Focus on followers:
Wounded and Missing conditions [free]
Rebellion [free]
Romance [free]
More uses for Talk, finally [free]
The Tainted Blood advanced victory, and the Long Hunt [free]
Enhancements to the Detective Legacy [free]
The Dancer Legacy: hone your flesh and spirit at the Ecdysis Club [paid]
CHRISTOPHER’S BUILD (probably roughly end October)
‘To reach the Stag Door, I believe that all you really need is to want something enough. But I’ve never wanted anything that much, except of course [Teresa], and I’m very much afraid that the knot in the story is this: what [Teresa] wants is the Stag Door.’
Focus on scholarship and expeditions:
a use for the Scholarship skill! [free]
enhanced Research mechanics [free]
more specific goals for expeditions [free]
player-written tomes [free]
The Shaped advanced victory [free]
Expedition stories [free and/or paid]
Apostle Legacy: take up the mantle of a fallen cult leader [paid]
Priest Legacy: when your faith fails, where will you turn? [paid]
MY LORD FRANKLIN BANCROFT’S BUILD (probably roughly end January 2019)
‘Bancroft seems to have been a talented adept, but devoted his energies to frustratingly whimsical projects: arranging ‘grape-fetching races’ between Mansus-spirits, teaching Percussigants to juggle, and conjuring storms of imaginary blossoms for the rose-witch [Fionna] Ayrshire, who resolutely refused ever to couple with him. Bancroft spends twenty pages bemoaning this last.’
Focus on earthly pleasures, and their consequences:
Luxuries! The Delights of High Living [free]
The Ravages of Age! Which May Yet Be Averted [free]
Beyond Notoriety: Infamy! [free]
Painting: A Bouquet of Engrandisements [free]
Hard Times: Seasons of Wretchedly Straitened Resource [free]
Golden Days: Occasions of Munificence [free]
Pets and Familiars: (We May Count At Least On These Little Souls When All Humankind Proves Both Cruel And Faithless: Ah, Fionna) [free]
Patron Stories: Opportunities for Close and Warm Acquaintance [free and/or paid]
Familiar Legacy: Less than Human, and More [paid]
Survivor Legacy: What Have Ye Done [paid]