September Poll

Mage Hand Press

This drops tonight, but sure, why not. We used up all the chess pieces, so we needed to look elsewhere for Houses. Whereas Houses in the Complete Warmage were called the College, these three are known as The Casino.

S L Hall

Can you give a hint as to what's coming for the warmage in the expansion pack?

Mage Hand Press

At the moment, we don't plan on adding them to the Complete versions of the books (though, if enough people ask for it, I might include them in an appendix or something.) The reason for this is that it's very hard to insert something in the middle of a book without adding lots of empty space or messing up the formatting everywhere. EDIT: To clarify, when we release something like the Complete Witch or Complete Gunslinger, those will get things from the Expansion Pack, but it's a whole ordeal to work them back into previously released books.

Braden Read

Awesome! I love the Gunslinger and the Shugenja! Also, are you going to add these archetypes to the complete classes? (Like add the Craftsman archetypes to the Complete Craftsman PDF, etc.)

Mage Hand Press

Yup -- 2 for the Gunslinger and one for the Shugenja. (I might be doing an overhaul of the shugenja in the next few months as we continue to playtest it, so I didn't want to give it too many subclasses at this time.)

Braden Read

Will the expansion pack have anything for the gunslinger or shugenja?

Moogles Plethora of Pom Poms

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasss!!!

The Nails of Vecna

Hey Finger, we *could* publish one of the new crafts on the blog... *nudge, nudge*

John Hoffman

YASSSSS.

Mage Hand Press

Indeed it shall. Red Magic and Green.

John Hoffman

Expansion Pack have anything for the witch?

Mage Hand Press

At the end of the day, I'm super happy to work on anything our patrons ask for. After all, this month, brought to you by popular demand, is the Expansion Pack, something I'm not sure I would have thought to do without patron suggestions. But last month, I think that the Complete Witch was desired more /strongly/ than the Men and Monsters book, even if just barely lost out on the vote (and this is because your first pick gets weighted as much as your second pick, and so on.)

It seems like you want to work further on the Witch. I don't mind. I'd rather let you do your thing than get it decided by all of your patreons (which is also quite cool). And I do think "unique" classes are lacking in 5E.

Mage Hand Press

It's hard for me to know which of the rituals and hexes will make the cut, so I don't want to name too many names. (Those types of features get merged or axed frequently as we work through drafts and as we playtest.) However, I can for sure tell you that we've overhauling the spell list with a new line of Curse spells, which I anticipate people enjoying greatly.

Mage Hand Press

I definitely think we'll be adding more to it as we get closer to release -- as it always does for these types of projects, 'done' means 'minimum viable product.' We are approaching a pretty absurd number of Witch Crafts in our draft doc right now: I think I count eight, not including those two from the original class. I'm not sure if all of those will make it or if we'll write some new ones. We're still trying to nail down the Sandwitch, which is proving to be a challenge.

Moogles Plethora of Pom Poms

Since the witch class is so far along any change of giving the names of one or two of the new rituals, hexes or class features? come on give us a teaser!

Moogles Plethora of Pom Poms

Since you said witch is pretty much completed if it does win (as its looking good so far!) will you be adding more additions as you would have more time? I would rather have a longer, more thought out release than a early one! Also since witch has been in the top 3 the last few polls just shows how awesome a class you make!

Corey Heward

Also, the wish spell...

Corey Heward

We appreciate all that you do, just keep up the good work.

Mage Hand Press

It's possible, but I don't expect to get it out early. The big barrier is that it needs art, and since it'll probably get a full cover, like the Complete Craftsman, it'll be hard to get that along early. If I do get it together early, I might release it to the Producers, but releasing it earlier for everyone is a much tougher thing because of Patreon billing schedules and stuff.

Corey Heward

You could use spells like create water to make something out of nothing, then sell it, but that would take time. Granted I could find a useful application of most spells and make some good money out of them. Mending is another spell people would pay a lot of money to have things magically repaired, especially governments.

Kaleton

If Witch does win, and it is already nearly complete, is there a chance that it might be released earlier than September? I'm going to be running a campaign starting this summer and two people are playing Witches - I bet they'd love having more cool shit to play around with.

Mage Hand Press

Is there a spell for conjuring money?

Corey Heward

Dang it, I hate choosing! We need to get you guys a time stop spell, or make you simulacrum!

Mage Hand Press

That's basically the idea. Dark Rituals are supposed to break a lot of the rules you're used to, and have just a _ton_ of power. They're basically intended for plot devices and as dangerous tools for the players. I think you'll be happy with them!

Moogles Plethora of Pom Poms

I want to see dark rituals in Complete Witch, that kind that curses the land for miles! proper dark age evil witch s**t! Livestock (creatures CR 1/4 or less) dropping dead with disease, rat that carry disease and death! crops failing and starvation running amuk! yes can you feel the power! COME SISTERS WE FLY! . . . . . . can you tell i was one who voted witch ever poll? lol

Alexander Garcia

Complete Witch my dudes, I would love to see it expanded upon.

Grand Moff Xela

Little behind as the semester closes off. I'll get to work on the Shugenja drafts soon.

Plebbles

Sure. I hope it goes through, because Siegeball is probably my second favorite thing you guys have written, the first being the Craftsman.

Bellator

I voted for the witch last time, hope it makes it!

Mage Hand Press

Oh crap, I forgot! Patreon doesn't let me mess with the polls once it's been posted, either, short of deleting the entire post and starting fresh. It it alright if I get it in next month's poll?

Plebbles

Weren't you talking about adding a Siegeball expansion to the poll last month? I would love to have something like that.