Greetings, Dan Here!

The BTE Pregen Pack 1 is now up and available for download. This pack of pregenerated mechs is meant to help GMs looking to run a quick one-shot whether that be at a con or friends who just want to try the system before signing up for a campaign. The mechs were directly pulled from the series of Mech Construction Showcases that had been posted here on the devlog with four additional builds that were not featured in the showcase series. These have been organized into Starter Mechs, Mid Tier Mechs, and High Tier Mechs. I'm not sure we'll be going back to the Mech Construction Showcases, but I may drop one of those on here from time to time.

Some of you may be wondering why there is a #1 in the title of the pack. When creating the PDF, I noticed that while there was a good variety across all the mechs featured in the showcases, some of the sub-groups, particularly the Starter Mechs were heavy in one style of combat. As such we'll likely put out another pack or two in the future with more playstyle variety. Heck perhaps at a later date when more people are playing we might even put out a community mechs pregen pack!

In other updates, professional layout has begun on the Premium/Print versions of the game. We're still aiming for release in early 2024. As soon as I have some page previews I can share I will post them here. In the meantime I am continuing to build our Community Discord Server. Thank you for your patience on that while I work through that process. To tide folks over you may have noticed that community posting has been opened up on the itch.io page. Feel free to discuss your games, ask questions, or share any homebrew you might work up.

Lastly for today, the DriveThruRPG shop has been created; though, naturally it is pending products. I will be uploading the Beneath Twisted Earth Free Version, Pregen Pack 1, and the Preview Book there in the coming days. While the premium version of the game will be available on both sites, the print version will be availably on on DriveThruRPG. I'll post more news regarding that as it becomes available.

As always, thank you for your continued interest, and I look forward to seeing you all at the launch of the Premium/Print Versions!