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Greeting and salutations to all my beloved house guests.

Some of you may have read this already, but there was a note in Kevin's weekly email that's worth mentioning:

…"Plus three sourcebooks I have freelancers actively working on right now. They will each collect, update, and expand upon source material that has originally appeared in various issues of The Rifter® into a cohesive book. For many of you, all the material will be the first time you are seeing it, and for those of you who have seen it in the past, you will have it collected into one book, updated, expanded upon, made an official sourcebook, and ready to play.

Those three titles are, in no particular order: Creature Feature™, an adventure sourcebook for Beyond the Supernatural™ by Steven Dawes and others..."

Well, the cat's out of the bag. I've been writing a sourcebook for Beyond the Supernatural.

As mentioned above, it will include creatures from various Rifter books (includes mine), but all of them are being expanded and updated with additional materials and will become official! But that's not all, a few of my favorite creatures from BTS-1 (like the Nacarant and one of my personal favorites, the Malignous) will be making their way to this book as well. Along the way Kevin and I are adding GM advice on playing monsters and adding new information on various supernatural aspects like shapeshifting.

Its been a lot of work so far and I have more to do yet, but being an editor, content editor and game designer all at once has been an been an incredible opportunity and experience for me.

I even got to name the book (Creature Feature) and I got to choose the cover of the book, which will be the art used for the cover of the Rifter #32, painted by E.M. Gist! I've always loved this cover and I feel that it fits the creature theme perfectly. Coincidentally, the creature on the cover will have stats written for it as well.

Thank you for reading and have a good night.

So just out of curiosity if this goes well and creature features does well would you then have the opportunity to do Beyond Arcanum &/or Tome Grotesque so we can get those before Palladium's 50th?

Kevin and I have talked about this very thing. I may even head to the Palladium office at some point for a week to help work on Beyond Arcanum.

Hey everyone, put on your thinking caps for a moment.

One of the sections of this book is about covering aspects that haven't fully been explained yet with the supernatural, such as combat, shapeshifting, hiding in public, etc.
If there's something you've been wondering about how monsters and or their abilities work in BTS, now is the time to let me know as I'll be finishing and sending this to Kevin sooner than later.

NOTE: Broader aspects like magic and the astral plane will be covered in their own upcoming books, so there's no need to about them.

Kevin and I have talked about this very thing. I may even head to the Palladium office at some point for a week to help work on Beyond Arcanum.

Update: I submitted "Creature Feature" to Palladium late last night. I've also seen some of the upcoming artwork for it. Things are happening.

A new Dead Reign book at the printers, and a new BtS sourcebook submitted? It isn't Christmas right? Because I feel like its Christmas (and a solar eclipse, and an equinox all happening at once!)

Relax it's not like Beyond Arcanum or Tome Grotesque is coming out. If that was happening then you would know it's the end of the world.

Congratulations on the book, can't wait to get it.

The fifth horseman of the apocalypse, the promised back catalogue getting published.

The true fifth horseman would be Mechanoid Space but truthfully any of those long promised books would be sign of the apocalypse. But you know I use to think the same thing about the Cubs winning the world series and it's been more than 3 years since that happen so maybe the world will survive the arriving of a BTS book. maybe

Definitely preordering this one despite the infamous risk of doing so. I can't wait to get my hands on it!

I assure you, there's no risk my friend. The cover is finished, artwork is rolling in (I've seen some of them and loving it all) and Kevin has my manuscript and is working on editing it now. It is coming.

Totally did the free preorder option they threw up on the store about 5 minutes after I posted this

You can now pre-order Creature Feature (click here to head over and pre-order!)

Posted in today's newsletter:

The manuscript has been turned in for rewrite, additions, and final editing. New artwork is also being produced. I think this monster and adventure book is much more than what people are expecting or imagining. More details to follow. I’m excited and hope you are too. See the new description elsewhere in this update. Just one of many BTS titles in development.

I may do a thing for everyone who pre-orders this book and sends me a pic or something to help promote it.

Does our dear departed friend Louis Cypher make an appearance?

Asking for Ron Caliburn.

Good known,we get to see all the monster from Rifter.
Maybe Ther New powers and weakness for BtS,s Monsters?

I'm sworn to secrecy at this point until the book is out.

Any chance ther could be a Book on PCCs/OCCs, Adventures from Rifter?