I'd like to announce my last-ever written DnD project, Austrangia, which is available here. There's a bit of a story behind this so buckle up.
I first started working on Austrangia in April 2022. I wanted to make something that was distinctly Australian folk horror. Eventually, the project expanded to include a couple of different horror projects. Due to my general desire to move away from DnD and focus on my own projects, I ended up putting it on the backburner.
Then the new OGL was leaked.
Suddenly I had a 15000 word project that I either needed to quickly finish and find art for, redo entirely or scrap. I was determined to retain control of the project, but things seemed hopeless. Then something amazing happened.
In the spirit of "F*ck the new OGL", several of my friends offered to help me finish the project. Some wrote sections I was struggling with, some provided tech/moral support and one particularly amazing friend is providing illustrations.Without their kindness and hard work on this project, I don't know what I'd do. While Austrangia is releasing today, because I'm honestly a little paranoid about WoTC, it is by no means a static project.
Because all of the illustrations aren't quite done yet and I don't want my friend's work and dedication to this project to go to waste, if the new OGL turns out to be backwards-compatible I'll rework Austrangia to be system-agnostic.
Keeping control of the project that was made because I have amazing friends is important to me, as is supporting said friends. If you want to support the people who allowed me to do so, the illustrator has a blog @artofcjb and you should go follow them.