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It’s an exciting week for Autarch.

Tomorrow I’m heading to ArneCon. On Friday 10/10 I’m running ACKS II at 6PM; then on Saturday 10/11 I’m doing a Special Guest Meet and Greet at 5PM and running Ascendant at 6PM. Please let me know in the comments or direct messages if you’ll be there - I’m looking forward to meeting up with everyone! My brother ArcanistWill, one of the stars of the Grey Brotherhood Actual Play series, is also going to be there.

Yesterday on BackerKit, I announced that the lettering and layout of Ascendant: Star-Spangled Squadron Volume II is finished. We had a lot of things go wrong throughout the production process. But as the Star-Spangled Squadron challenge coin says, “to every challenge, we will ascend!” I hope that the struggle to produce this book all proves worthwhile when you read it. It will go on sale on DriveThruComics once the BackerKit backers have received their copies, and from there it’ll go to print and up on Amazon.

We’re down to the last six days of the Before All Others campaign! We stand at a healthy $120,651 -- a tremendous crowdfund even if it closed down today. Where will we end up? What final stretch goals might we hit? It’s always hard to predict how things will turn out in the last few days of a campaign. Sometimes they’ve limped to the finish line, other times there’s been a massive sprint that adds tens of thousand of dollars to the finale. It’s therefore not inconceivable that we might hit the $130K, $140K, or even the $150K stretch goal, which would unlock the Bitter War mini-campaign. Whatever happens, it’s already been a win.

If you don’t know what Before All Others is, I have a failed as creator. BAO: The Cyclopedia of Elven Civilization launched on September 15th on Kickstarter with a $10,000 goal. We funded in two minutes. BAO’s sister book, By This Axe, only reached $51,636 while our most recent sourcebook, ACKS II Treasure Tome, only raised $116,957 in its entire month!

If this is your first time hearing about Before All Others, check out the special 16-page full-color sneak preview of the book. It has three sample lore entries, one sample class, and one sample monster. The full book will be this, but an order of magnitude more!

You can see almost everything that’s been written so far for BAO by becoming a Conqueror-tier member of the Autarch Patreon. If you can’t wait to start fighting the Bitter War for real, emperor-tier backers in our Patreon have already gotten full access to Domains at War: Battles computer game and are playtesting it now.

The ACKS community on Substack has burgeoned into its own sub-culture. Be sure to check out these recent updates by FCL, Harrowed, and Arbrethil:

If you’ve got an active ACKS or Ascendant-themed Substack, be sure to let me know in the comments so I can add you to the list I follow.

Once you’ve signed up for the crowdfunding campaign, head on over to these community links:

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