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We’re so excited to get to show you our silly D&D game. There has been a lot of effort getting this filmed and ready (huge thanks to everyone who worked behind the scenes organising, building sets, running tech, editing, etc. You’re all amazing!)

The first episode goes up here this weekend!

We even have a proper trailer:

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Hey folks! Episode 5 of Scarlet Hollow releases in a little under two weeks! Now that the last pieces are falling into to place, it looks like it will contain roughly 300,000 words of new content for you to explore. In other words, Episode 5 is about 1/3 the total size of the game to date, and it increases the size of Scarlet Hollow by nearly 50%! So much of this size is related to branching scenarios, so I wouldn't go into this chapter expecting it to be significantly longer than Episodes 3 or 4. Some playthroughs of Episode 5 will be quite long, and others, depending on the choices you make moving forward as well as the worldstate you bring into it, may be quite short. It is easily the most replayable chapter to date, designed such that each playthrough should cast fresh light on its events. For those worried too much about exponential scaling as it relates to the rest of the game's development, I wouldn't sweat it too much. As a reminder, Episodes 6 and 7 are going to bundled together in a way that treats them as a single release, so we only have one major story update to go after this, which from this point on, we'll be referring to as The Final Chapters. A big update to be sure, but one whose scope still feels manageable to us. The finish line is in sight! One of the changes to the game I'd also like to highlight is a rebalancing of the Episode 2 trait save. In brief, it is now keyed to Street Smart instead of Keen Eye, but this change will only apply to new saves. How this will work:

A trait save in one of the last three episodes that was previously planned to be keyed to Street Smart is now instead keyed to Keen Eye.

Any new save files made after Episode 5 releases will get an updated version of the Episode 2 trait save that's keyed to Street Smart. This also applies to pre-existing saves so long as they're before the branching point where the teens sneak off.

Pre-existing save files from after the Episode 2 dilemma will still experience a future trait save as "Street Smart." That is, those files will not be able to experience that future save as Keen Eye (since Keen Eye already had its opportunity in those files) and they will instead get to take an upcoming Keen Eye save as if it were keyed to Street Smart instead.

TL;DR: the game will still continue to play such that each trait only gets one save, regardless of when you made your file. If you really like Keen Eye being keyed to the Episode 2 dilemma, you still have a couple of weeks to make new legacy files that capture this point in your character's history. Why did we make this change so late into development? We'll talk about it in a devlog down the road, but the spoiler-lite version is:

Balance from Episode 5 onwards, especially when it comes to the desired secondary functionality of each trait. This swap moves Street Smart in particular much closer to its intended niche.

In hindsight, the Episode 2 dilemma felt more relevant to Street Smart, and making the swap means that the save should now feel much more active on the part of the main character.

Similarly. the upcoming save keyed to the swapped traits feels much more in line with the fantasy of a Keen Eye character.

An argument could be made for either trait in either situation, though each has one that's a more obvious pick. I would describe the difference as someone successfully arguing that their character should be able to take an action in a TTRPG, as opposed to not even needing to make the argument in the first place. Overall, this swap should leave the game in a stronger place moving forward. Post-release roadmap:  There are two main pieces of content that had to be delayed for this release, and our intention is to finish them as quickly as possible before moving on to the final chapters of the game. Both of these should be relatively rare scenes, and them not being in the release build shouldn't have any impact on the vast majority of playthroughs. (Unless Pastor Daniel is your favorite character, in which case, yes, it will have an impact on your file.)

One of these scenes is the long-delayed additional "ending" to the clinic sequence in Episode 4.

The other is a scene at the church in Episode 5.

Given the vastly replayable nature of Episode 5, most of you likely wouldn't see this scene on your first run. If you are Guy-Who-Only-Has-One-Save-File-In-Scarlet-Hollow-And-Never-Replays, I would maybe wait for this update before playing the new chapter. If you are anyone else, I would still play at launch and replay when the update drops.

See you all soon!

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kia ora (hello/good health), i made a post about this a few years back, but i feel the need to update it. this isn't a dig at anyone with maormer ocs, just a post acknowledging racism in the elder scrolls regarding maormer.

basically, a concerning number of people don't know that maormer are based off of māori people, despite it being in the name. we understand that the races in the elder scrolls are heavily based off of real-world races and maormer is a very poignant example for this. like, in this post i point out a depiction of a sacred entity is traced into tes:o for an example of how blatant it is, so if the name isn't enough to convince you, keep reading.

māori are indigenous polynesians with a rich culture, known for our woodwork and carving, weaving, and tā moko (sacred tattooing), among other things. we have a deep respect for the ocean as voyagers.

we fought off pākehā (white colonisers) for quite awhile and thus got treated as uniquely vicious, warhungry, and violent. we did not stigmatise sex, so we were seen as overtly crude and predatory. during the musket wars/genocide, certain iwi (tribes) sided with pākehā and took other māori as slaves. while we had the concept of slavery pre-colonisation, it looked very different to modern day slavery and the slavery practiced by these iwi was taken directly from european influence, not traditional māori customs.

meanwhile, maormer are a race of vicious, tall/large slavers who pillage the mainland, the good people of tamriel. they have "intricate tattoos". they are said to have potentially been a cross between aldmer and the "bestial tribes of pyandonea", implying that there are not only other tribes in pyandonea that are racialised as primitive and inhuman, but that maormer had sex with these "bestial" beings, which is a bit. eugh. they also interbreed with sea giants to make even larger inhuman brutes. there are multiple depictions and theories in the in-game lore that imply maormer are less "human" than the other elf races.