Thanks for taking the time to post. I am familiar myself with the frustration of waiting for something that I want to use and feeling like progress has slowed, but I can share some information here that I have shared the last couple of months in our Dev Update streams that will hopefully help.
First, due to the way that we are developing the character tools part of our platform, the love that Pathfinder is currently getting is actually also giving love to Vampire. Pathfinder is simply our pilot game (chosen for a variety of reasons, but one of them was its complexity - we knew that if the platform could work for Pathfinder, it would be able to handle all the other games).
In short, all the work we have done on Pathfinder in the Closed Alpha is work we have also done on Vampire, Avatar, and so on. While it has taken us many months to get to the point we are at with Pathfinder, most of that effort has been at the platform level, so we wonāt have to do that kind of heavy lift for subsequent games. With our next game, we will be talking only a couple of months. With the next one after that, we expect to be talking in units of weeks. That kind of platform scalability is an intentional move on our part, because we knew unless we had such a platform, we would never be able to keep up with our pipeline of games.
Also, to be very clear, Vampire character tools are absolutely without any doubt going to release before any 5e character tools. We havenāt even started on the 5e NEXUS - the announcement a couple of weeks ago was simply that, an announcement for something that we are going to do.
Our first three games that will receive a character builder and digital character sheet are Pathfinder, Avatar Legends, and Vampire. We are actually working on all three of those in parallel at the moment. I honestly canāt yet say which of them are going to release to the public first, because we are going to release them when we are happy with where they are. Since the testing we are doing in the Closed Alpha for Pathfinder has been so extensive, and all the polish we are putting in place for Pathfinder will apply towards Vampire and Avatar, we expect the alpha period for those two games to be very brief (likely only a couple of weeks).
Lastly, I normally donāt share dates externally because over the years Iāve found they often bring nothing but disappointment to all involved, but I will share that our internal target for all three of those first games to have character tools out and in use is before the end of July. Of course things could go wrong, but the fact that Iām even sharing an internal target is evidence of our confidence in hitting it.
So Vampire is currently being worked on, and we are very excited for fans to get their hands on the character tools - we love what we are seeing internally.
Outside of the Dev Update streams, we know that we havenāt provided updates as frequently as we perhaps should in our other channels like here in the Forums. It is without a doubt all a matter of focus - ours is very intently on completing the development for the character tools right now. We will start shouting things from the rooftops once character tools are ready for prime time, as that has been our marker for when NEXUS is fully launched.
Thanks again!
