We raised just short of 13,000 dollars for Child’s Play in the first phase of our open beta alone. I can’t tell you how incredible this is to me. For now, the beta book will remain accessible without any associated fee, charge, or required donation. Anyone who has donated will always have access to the book, and eventually we hope to publish an SRD. We’ll talk more about our larger plans when we release Osaka Street Stories. Right now, I just want to tell everyone that Legend will remain readily available, particularly to anyone who’s on the fence about the game.

Your charity, kindness, and devotion to the cause of complete strangers has let me pursue a childhood dream. And not just pursue it. Surpass it. We’ve moved over 20,000 copies of Legend so far, which is a positively insane number. We’re going to move plenty more. We’ve got some incredibly cool things waiting in the wings to show you guys, including a really clever hack that produces a seven-level lightweight version of Legend.

Cordially,
Jake

First order of business: those of you who like the feel of a good sharp sword as it cleaves through yet another dragon will find this new track of interest to you. If you prefer to blast the dragon from afar with magic, or if you would rather be the dragon, then you’ll also be interested in that link, because the Order of the Black Dragon takes both of those under its wing.

You’ll notice that this is the first DLC put out in quite a while. This is because we’ve been working on our first adventure module. And now it’s done, barring a few editing passes and art assets, and weighs in at a solid 48 pages. In addition to the 14-encounter adventure, the module also introduces Skill Games (skill-based challenges that work on a bidding system similar to what we use for Social Combat) and six brand-new Consumables.

Looks like site maintenance has seen them right.

ChipIn (the service we use to process donations for Child’s Play) has been having issues today. If you see that the ChipIn widget in the site banner and/or the download page has disappeared, this is not because the pay-what-you-want period has ended. We don’t know how much longer this problem will persist, because the ChipIn site is also down, so they can’t make an announcement about it.

The download link for Legend, however, is still active, so if you’re looking to make a donation, feel free to download the PDF now and donate when the ChipIn widget is back.

First of all, thank you all for your donations. We hit the $12,000 mark a couple days ago, and the numbers are still going up. That’s pretty cool.

Second, we have integrated the newest errata into the Legend PDF. This errata cleared up some imbalances and bad interactions in the Rage, Undead, and Utter Brute tracks, as well as clarifying some things in the Scene rules, the glossary, and the item rules. Download the PDF to catch up!

Finally, we’ve decided on new donation bonuses for the $11,000 and $12,000 dollar marks. For the $11,000 bonus content, expect a set of new feats and spells for the magically-inclined! For the $12,000 bonus content, we are releasing a new track for characters who just like to hit people with swords. A lot of you have been requesting one or both of these things, so we’ll release them as soon as possible.

As a pleasant side bonus, you no longer need to right-click on the download button in order to download the PDF – the download dialog window will appear as the default action.

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of short interviews with people who helped inspire Legend directly or indirectly. This interview is with the inimitable Danielle Corsetto of Girls with Slingshots. Her example as a self-employed cartoonist and general bon vivant helped me make my decision to take a couple months off of traditional work as a programmer to finish up Legend. Find the interview after the cut!

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Polls: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

The last poll of Vote Up A Track is finished, with Hope as the most popular option. Just as a reminder, the other winning options in the series of polls were Dreamer, Walking Nightmares and Oddball. Looking forward to see how they all combine? Stay tuned, and feel free to speculate.

Should be resolved now, as we’ve switched to S3 for hosting the pdf. Please please please let us know if you still have any problems.

Several people have reported issues with downloading the Legend document, where the download stops mid-way through. We are working on fixing the issue as quickly as possible; in the meantime, try saving the document directly to your computer (by right-clicking and selecting “Save Target As”, “Save File As” or a similar option depending on your browser) rather than opening the document in your browser.

Past polls: 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Another landslide victory – this time, for the Oddball role, with a staggering 48%. With that, we set the stage for the final poll. After this poll concludes, the Rule of Cool team will design the track in full, based on the results of these four polls. The final track will be made available on the website as soon as possible.

This poll will close on January 18th.

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