Hey there, everyone! It’s Tony, the Communications Guy, back in your inboxes on the third Friday of the month to help Mark with the newsletter!
We are solidly in the middle of Spooky Month, but my mind is already thinking about November. I’m going to be returning to the Twitch channel, taking a look at the new Dungeon Crawler Carl game from Renegade Studios, putting together an adventure in the World Dungeon for the Lore Link Players, and then running them through that adventure using Lore Link. This will be the second game I’ve run for the players, and I’m equally excited and terrified! I mean, sure I’ve read the books twice, I’ve listened to the audio books, I’m up to date on the comic book, and I’ve been reading the PDFs of the Starter Set, but still…
As I go back to setting up OBS, I’m going to pass this over to Mark for the real meat and potatoes of the newsletter.
Mark Della-Croce, Product Lead of Lore Link, taking time between development, trips and conventions to bring you the latest news on Lore Link. September has brought us new Indie Creators, releases, and conventions and October looks to provide that and even more!
Starting off with updates, last month we had a small release and that’s a trend that we’re hoping to continue. Rather than having everything stop and wait on large feature releases (like Layout), we’re hoping to keep pushing small releases, especially as we get more valuable feedback from our users via our Contact and Feedback (now with images!) pages. In fact, this past Thursday a small release saw features requested by users such as the ability to allow Players to edit Characters that GMs have assigned to them AND adding Mentions to the Encounter system!
Spookyness has continued over on our Twitch channel. Twenty continued her trek through the supernatural themed Marvel Tactical CRPG, Midnight Suns. Following that, Mike and Twenty had an amazing time with our latest Indie Creator Series Game If I Were You by DramaDoesThings. A two player conversation game that kept both of the players on the edge of their seats for the entire game, as the conversation changed between deep and emotional, with a final shocking reveal at the end. Check out the demo of the game here and then go and back the full version on BackerKit! Next, I checked out how well Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu makes the transition to the PC with Call of Cthulhu. And most recently, Mike continued his series on planning One Ring games in Lore Link. Mike loves being able to use Lore Link to help capture the complexity of the One Ring games in his notes and make it just that much easier to run the games at the table.
Going forward Twenty will be back with a different spooky game next week and to wrap our regular streams, I’ll be talking about how to plan out that spooky Halloween TTRPG game with a TTRPG from the makers of the excellent Alien TTRPG (check out our actual play of that here!) the space exploration game Coralis. Rather than the pure stress of Aliens, this game builds up dread slowly as you make your way deeper into the unknown.
And of course, we have our first of three actual plays coming up at 1pm on Friday, October 30th, when Mike takes the Lore Link Players through a spooky adventure. Keep an eye on our Bluesky account for the exact details on what game we’ll be playing.
And lastly, if you want to catch us one last time in 2026, we’ll be at Mad Con at the Grand Wayne Convention center in Ft. Wayne, Indiana October 23rd thru October 25th. Remember: Stop by the booth and show off your Lore Link subscription to get free swag!
Alright, the night is getting darker, and the shadows are starting to grow long. I should go before it is too late…and I stub my toe on something turning the lights on in this room. I’ll turn it back over to Tony as I stumble about in the dark like a rogue rolling a natural 1 detecting traps.
All right, before I go order Mark a Clapper, I’m going to wrap this up. As he said above, you can look for us next weekend in Fort Wayne, Indiana at the second MadCon, held at the Grand Wayne Center downtown. If you’re local, or just a handful of hours away, come check out this small, locally-ran convention. We’ll have our Gamemaster ribbons, swag for our Lore Link members, and we’re testing out something new and fun for conventions you might want to check out!
As always, don’t forget about all the places you can find us other than your inbox. We have the Twitch stream, the YouTube channel, our blog, our Bluesky account, and our Discord. Thank you for reading this far! Until next month, may your dice roll true.
