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Thanks for the heads up!

Hi, sadly that seems to be an itch issue as there's no option on my end relating to gifts.

Glad to hear you're having such a good time <3

You can choose to

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I must've uploaded the old version by mistake! I will sort this once I'm back home.

Thank you! :) I hope you have fun

Please leave a review if you can as it really helps us out with the algorithm <3

I'm actually working on 3 expansions right now as part of the Kickstarter campaign stretch goals! 

One is basically done sans art and is called Love & Lust. It centres around romance, family structures, relationships, and intimacy and how the different alien species in your setting might express of experience such things.

Next up is A Guide To Fauna which is a xenozoology centric expansions where you can help ferry animals off of a doomed planet and have to fill out Species Files for them to work out what planet they would be best suited on.

And finally, War! is an all out galactic war between the Unified and the Free. It adds a tonne of new combat focused mechanics and Missions and lets players either join in on the war or try to remain outside of it.

I have plans for other expansions as well but that's the what's coming out hopefully before February.

Glad to hear you're enjoying it. 

The autofill sheet is fan made though and I don't know how that tech works. We'll see if we can get it sorted but it'll be quite a while as we're swamped just now.

Seeing as ya begged ;P

I've put up both the original full colour ones and one that is as print friendly as I could make it without removing the design.

Thank you!

Unfortunately as it's a joint product I can't put out community copies. Sorry!

Yup! Here it is https://itch.io/s/122343/blackwell-bundle

Resets completely once you land on a Planet. Though if you'd like to do it the latter way, I'm sure that would feel more realistic :)

I'll add it to my to do list!

Thank you :) 

I'm not sure if it'll ever see a physical release on its own but it may see release in a special edition of Apothecaria at some point!

Generated via Travel Events or as part of some backstories

Hey Nick, send me an email at annablackwell1994[@]gmaildotcom and we'll sort out a PDF copy to go with your physical book :) 

I need to sort out the ship plans! I discovered yesterday that they hadn't been uploaded like I thought they had. 

Glad you're having fun with it :)

I'm not entirely sure where you're getting the Secondary Sections bit from. It could be referring to the fact that Reagents have multiple locations that they can be foraged from? In that case, it's all still the primary locales you just look at the Tags next to the Reagents and apply them appropriately e.g. something says Forest (5) then that's Glimmerwood Grove.

Or are you meaning Blastfire Bog, The Cloud Isles, Dreamwater Depths, and The Strange which are Locales which have requirements you need to meet in order to enter. In that case, there's an explanation for that in the book.

There's no difference between this version and the BOH copies. 

And you arrive with no Silver :)

Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me this <3 I'm so glad you've found some peace through my game! 

I too hope we can get a big deluxe edition of Apothecaria soon :)

Both completely unrelated. Delve Deeper looks like it came out in 2010 and I'd never heard of it. Mechanically it looks very different.

That's awesome :) I'm glad you're enjoying it so much and cheers for supporting the Ukraine bundle!

I didn't realise that was an issue, thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'll sort that out when I get a chance

I love it when people share their journals, we've actually got a channel dedicated to it on the Blackwell Games Discord :) 

https://discord.gg/QCSt2Fn8

Of course, sharing it on social media is a great way to support the game as well as it gets new people interested in it :)

Glad you're having so much fun!

The game isn't trying to provide a pre-built universe, it's trying to give players the power to explore and create. The best way to think of it is that the galaxy is a framework to help you create. If someone is from Forge, you get a chance to think about how their clothing, technology, health, mannerisms, culture, etc might reflect their upbringing on an industrial factory world with all the pollution that entails. Then, you can compare that to someone from Harvest or Windsong and because the game encourages you to think about these things rather than just giving you 13 generic species, it'll hopefully let you engage with it on a deeper level.

Thank you so much :)

The expansions are books of their own and will be released later this year.

There are no defined alien species in the book but instead systems that help you to create the intelligent species and encourage you to think about the flora and fauna of the different Planets.

Literally got copies the day after UKGE, raging doesn't do it justice XD

FSCSAW is a 256 page solo/co-op RPG about being a human captain in charge of an alien crew. It is a game about exploration not just of the wider galaxy but of the aliens you share your ship with. To get started you generate your Captain and your Crew, choose their skills, and customise your ship to better suit the type of Missions that you want to undertake. Whether that be as a passenger transport, cargo delivery, bounty hunter, diplomat, explorer of uncharted worlds, asteroid miner, derelict salvager, shuttle racer, criminal, or researcher.

As you play, you will use a deck of playing cards to generate story Events that prompt you with scenes that build a narrative with your alien crewmates. After generating the basics of your alien crewmates, the rest of the game gives you ways to learn about their biologies, their cultures, their personalities, and their pasts naturally though gameplay. Share a laugh about some ancient sci-fi films and learn about how their species depicted aliens before they met them. See their best side as they push themselves to help during a difficult spacewalk. Learn why your pacifist monk pilot took their vow. There are endless possibilities for how your crewmates will shape up!

https://blackwellwriter.itch.io/for-small-creatures-such-as-we

I do it at random times to ensure that predatory people can't abuse the system. We've had some folks in the past leave a rating so that I'll put up community copies for them to take.

I keep forgetting to add it because it's not even part of the game, just a little thing I threw together when experimenting with beak zine formats. Really not important.

Blackwellwriter.com only has my games that are available physically at the moment. There was some confusion from early customers about PDF only products, I may put them on there later now that the theme has changed and it is easier to tell the difference when buying.

How did I not notice that :O Timely Tome was cut for the final release, I must have exported the pages version at a different point. I'll get that fixed up when I get a chance

Reprints have already been ordered and will be available next month via blackwellwriter.com :)

That's not a good way to go about it. Especially as you've rated it 3 stars, that actually affects the game's ranking quite negatively.

Did you rate the game before buying it just to get me to add community copies? :S

It should be the case that if you've connected your Patreon account to your Itch.io account, it just offers you a key for this on the store page for Shimmersnow, right?

I'm actually not too sure how it works from the patron side of things.

I just put up a couple last night are they gone already? :O

Hoping to have it in print in time for the UK Games Expo at the start of June.

The files over on blackwellwrites.com have been updated :)

I will update the file on blackwellwrites.com tomorrow. You will then be sent an email from blackwellwrites.com with your new download link. 

If you bought it from itch then there should be a wee grey bar at the top of your screen that tells you when you purchased it and has a "downloads" button. Click that and it'll take you to where you can download the files :)

Hey Gia, the newsletter stopped for a while while I was moving house and dealing with other things. Hoping to get it up and running again soon. In the meantime, there is a Quest Board in the Blackwell Games Discord :)