Hey Everyone! Our progress bar for 2025 continues to fill up, and thus, we have more work to showcase!
I'll keep it short, simple, and sweet:
• The Pre-Order Store for Chro...
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Storytellers Forge Studios
23 days ago
Chronicles Update and our next TTRPG: Festivals of the Forgotten! The Dark Carnival!
Hey everyone! Time for some news!
Project State!
-All Books are fully written and done through Copy Edits. All we are waiting on is cover art to be finalized so then Layout...
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Storytellers Forge Studios
about 2 months ago
Novel Cover Art and we are up for AWARDS! Cast your vote!
Hey everyone! I know there are little less updates here...but...that's because well...it's hard to update novels.
UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE PLACEMENT OF COMM...
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Storytellers Forge Studios
3 months ago
Okay! Post Campaign! Pre-Orders! News!
Right, I'm back into existence! Sorry for the delay everyone, I was currently dead to the world.
*Glares at Pat and Ian.*
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO UPDATES!!! D...
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Storytellers Forge Studios
3 months ago
We still ride! Midweek update!
Hey everyone!
So, it's taken me a bit to figure out what to post for a midweek update. Storytellers Forge is still riding, and some of us are picking up shiel...
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Storytellers Forge Studios
3 months ago
Poll Question! Future Stuff! Week 3 Update!
Rick here bringing you the week three update!
Our authors have been killing it on the Social Media front. We posted the Memory Thief Audio Trailer last time, and this time: ...
Smoke Test for Chronicles will be launched this week! Once that's sorted, then we will release the pledge survey's for everyone else. This gets us to collect tax, shipping, handling while the books are in type and layout. We are still on track for books coming out and getting printed in May if not sooner.
DiAmorte's metal album is in the final stage of engineering BUT they did release this for everyone: https://youtu.be/v5TG7C-eq7o?si=y_PicmQj2vli5wmS (The full Black Ballad Orchestral on their side. This way, if you aren't following them on youtube, you know where to go)
With that out of the way! ARTWORK! First, the Mortal Coils Cover!
Next! Some fun banners that we made for 3 out of the 4 novels! (To Slay A God is the last cover we have to finish!)
Special Thanks to C.D. Corrigan for the pretty layouts! Feel free to download them and use them if you wish!
That's probably it for the Feb updates until To Slay A God is finalized, but once that happens, it will be very fast that typeset and publication rolls forth into physical books that end up in your hands! We just need to let artists do the art thing for a bit and then layout handle their stage :)
Thank you guys so much!
STF Team and of course, ALL THE FRIGGIN AUTHORS SAT WAITING FOR PUBLICATION DAY! (I know their pain from being on the other side of the publishing process. Sorry guys...)
I'm a teensy bit confused but I've gone to start my survey... But I can't see United Kingdom as an option. Hoping that it's just yet to be populated in?
-All Books are fully written and done through Copy Edits. All we are waiting on is cover art to be finalized so then Layout and Typeset can be polished off!
-DiAmorte is polishing off the mix and master on the Black Ballad Metal Album! Their ETA to finish is the end of the month. According to Drake - this is one of the most complex mix and masters they've ever done given the Choir, Orchestra, Band, Lyrics, and all the elements. I've heard some sneak peaks and the new vocals really friggin' fit the vibe.
-Cover Progress! Mortal Coils and Memory Thief are nearing the ends of their drafts, and To Slay A God will soon follow. (Duskwalker is already finished!)
-Pledge Manager for final orders will be run as soon as cover art is finished, so we can ship once books are done with layout! Unlike TTRPG's, typeset and layout will not take as long.
But here is some current cover art progress for Memory Thief!
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Now SPEAKING of Stealing Memories!
Announcing our next TTRPG! Festivals of the Forgotten: Revelations of the Dark Carnival
This time, The Eldritch Author and I co-wrote a full TTRPG book that is a healthy blend of new player options, setting, and adventure. Based on the results of the poll for the Black Ballad: Players Handbook and Novels were the two highest picks!
We will be launching soon, and if you are a TTRPG enthusiast with a love of magnificently evil and over the top villainy... sign up on the launch page!
Hey everyone! I know there are little less updates here...but...that's because well...it's hard to update novels.
UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE PLACEMENT OF COMMAS!
Art is what makes for some good snazzy updates to provide that sweet visual eye candy. The books are what you spend a month reading letting your imagination wander into the lands of the dead.
So for this update, I'm going to showcase what...Author C.D. Corrigan (and also...artist!) has done for Chris Durstons novel Mortal Coils.
BUT ALSO! THE BLACK BALLAD IS UP FOR AWARDS AND WE NEED YOUR VOTE!
We are nominated for: Best Setting 2024. Best Supplement 2024. AND Best Art 2024 through the No Dice Unrolled awards ceremony.
------Now Before I get to the pretty art, here is a reminder that at the end of January, I'm aiming to release pledge surveys and release shipping costs to start filling this. You'll get plenty of updates, so nothing to do right now about it. Just keep it in the back of your brain.---
ART BELOW IS THE WORK IN PROGRESS! NOT FINAL BUT IT IS STILL SO PRETTY!
(If you don't know and haven't backed yet, the preorder page is also open. Just sayin' :) )
Right, I'm back into existence! Sorry for the delay everyone, I was currently dead to the world.
*Glares at Pat and Ian.*
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO UPDATES!!! Do you know how hard it is to do updates from the underworld? You leave one set of friends in charge of updates and suddenly everyone forgets their basic necromancy spells.
The gall.
ANYWAY! WE DID THE THING! We get to expand the setting of the Black Ballad a little further and keep the lights on. So what happens now?
First: I finally toggled the pre-order store. https://black-ballad-chronicles-of-the-crossing.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders in case you missed the campaign. There is a new option up there: Relict TTRPG Starter Kit and adventure. Everything on there will be available during your pledge surveys when they are released, so it's mostly for the people who missed the campaign entirely!
Book Production: Everything is truly based off this -> Cover art is under way, and once that's finished we are into type set and getting novels listed and sorted. Honestly, we are really far ahead here. We actually started covers during the campaign and all editing is finished. You'll get updates once we have some initial covers locked in, but this one will be an easy crowdfunding to fill later on.
Pledge Managers: I'm going to release them next year, a little closer to when we are ready to start shipping books to eliminate the number of addresses that people need to change and let the 2025 shipping charges get updated.
What's Next? There are other projects that belong firmly within the TTRPG sphere we've been writing and polishing (and getting art for) this entire year. We haven't showcased much yet, but in January we will hit the ground running with teasers and updates for our next major Player Handbook and TTRPG campaign in March.
I will still keep doing updates here as we get cover art, new DiAmorte music to share, and ready for digital distribution, so stick around!
And if you missed the crowdfunding and still want to dive in, you officially can now!
