Sale on Itch and Deathmatch Cards!

It's Creator's Day at Itch.io, and to celebrate I put all the original zines on sale, and if you buy the bundle you'll save even more. Go check it out:

https://itch.io/s/101450/august-2023-creator-day-and-sale only a few hours left!

One of the things that you're going to get when Crawl! no.13 is released are printable and VTT friendly assets, which include all the maps and icons. You'll be able to play online with the official maps, and they're player facing, so there won't be spoilers. Also then the icons can be placed separately. You can also print out the maps if you desire. The icons are also available so you can make your own custom maps with icons representing all the nifty deathmatch toys. 

But that's not all! Brad had the idea of making tokens or cards for the items. Which makes sense with the fickle nature of artifacts in the deathmatch. They'll be handy to give out, or take away if you roll a 3 on the Danger die. They look good.

Artifact Cards

After making those Artifact cards, I got obsessed and made cards for almost every random thing, including hazards and traps. The idea is that I can randomly stock a room or deathmatch arena on the fly. There is a "d666" table in the zine that can do this for you, but the cards are so cool. I have a 63 card deck designed with a nice ratio of traps, hazards, weapons, and power-ups. I tried to get to 54 or 55, but it wasn't quite right. I could separate the "artifacts" and that'd get me to 51 or 52 but the deck ratio is wrong. Which might mean I have to bump the deck up to 72 cards. Not sure what those extra 9 cards are gonna be. Of course I have ideas, but it's looking like a whole expansion set. 

Deathmatch Cards and Notes

I hope to have a print-play version available soon. It'll have a bonus item, but I have to get a few icons made. Right now I'm looking at The Game Crafter and DriveThruCards to get them printed. If you have other suggestions, let me know. But I really want to get a nice set of cards made, even if they're just for me. I'm stoked about them.

That's all the news I have for now, I hoping for a general release of Crawl! no.13: Deathmatch! next week.