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Thanks for sending that over Rin, I’ve emailed you back with a link for the digital copy!

Glad to hear it! Still working away on Silent Horizon, but more details dropping soon!

Hey Rin,

Rule as written is delving only when you find Minor Pits & Major mines but 2 things; 

1. If it fits your narrative you could find a pit or mine to delve into in any hex, there are plenty of abandoned, sealed up and caved in pits in county Kalabraya waiting to be rediscovered 

2. If you check out Attle cry issue 1 (free) there’s a new kind of living mine you could find where ever you want to on your map. It’s quite a bit different from a regular delve but definitely worth a look.

if you wanna fire me over an email with a proof of purchase screenshot I’m more than happy to hook you up with the digital copy dude!
Contact@overlandempire.co.uk

glad to hear you’re enjoying your time with OC&C as well and thanks for checking it out and getting it to your table!!

best

Dan 

The first addition is already out in the wild, Attle Cry the community zine for OC&C. Theres some new stuff in there from me and some of our discord members. 

https://overland-empire.itch.io/attle-cry-1

I've also recently launched the first official game jam for OC&C as i work toward attle cry issue 2.
/jam/of-hags-and-hexes

The first "big" expansion will be dropping sometime in 2027...

Its great to hear the theme resonated with you and im so pleased the opening tribute meant something to you but dude i am so sorry to hear about your grandfather... Thats awful, my condolences.


Theres plenty more to come in the future, in fact issue one of the community zine is already available for free.

https://overland-empire.itch.io/attle-cry-1

And we've recently launched the first official game jam for OC&C
/jam/of-hags-and-hexes

And youre more than welcome to come and join us on the official discord
https://discord.gg/xNKbnRy8d

the Kickstarters original  rotpunk soundtrack 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3CDnN7OQs93xhMXnOA49hC?si=Ib-QOEjVTtCtLnqETy4z...

Films that served as inspiration and touchstones for OC&C

https://letterboxd.com/axxon_n47/list/rotpunk-sermons-of-the-pit/

How to layout a zine by JP Coovert

Here's a few resources that may prove inspirational in creating your entry for the Of Hags & Hexes Jam!

https://youtu.be/v_VSdmLw6bk - Making an RPG zine from start to finish by Nate Treme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa_Hi3mjBOM - Designing & illustraing a TTRPG page by Johan Nohr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsfj_QAIUE&t - One page is all you need by Alfred Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNHTSGAd_k - TTRPG layout with Johan Nohr by inestructaboy
https://golemproductions.substack.com/p/great-games-need-great-layout - Great games need great layout https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14gzKmj4NEDxKbQLmp_YxhbTbDY1XM4WDheH8c4WvCQs/edit?gid=0#gid=0 - Public domain art scavenging guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j0ZhSZ7NFY_Yo1Ak1nnL1cwdzVrOOyXHkGPnBxYPsxg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.f61e0tcc0bu - Mork Borg Creation primer

Third Party License for Of Coal & Corpses

Compatible with Of Coal & Corpses Logo's
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N8yZrAEAqiki64W7PRC0cQuJ_ps5UC1v?usp=sha...

There is an SRD in the works for Of Coal & Corpses too, that i expect to have ready in the coming weeks.

Please feel free to comment any other videos, resources and articles you think might help out a fellow creator!

Best

Dan / AxXon_N,47
Overland Empire

Hey XelMoore, Great to hear your having a blast with OC&C! & my apologies for the delay in coming back to you.

Not dumb at all dude, the setting in the book is deliberately evasive around time frames and tech to give people some leeway with how they want to appraoch.

But my canon for it is that it the timeline split somehwere around the 15th Century during the war of the roses. That war never ended, it just morphed from bloodshed in the fields to blood shed for industry as the two houses become competing corporations. So when we get to where i see OC&C as being set and its like the 80s in the early 1900's, similar politics, attitudes & agendas less tech. Theres no real consumer automotive market, no TV industry but radio is going strong. Long distance communications are limited to the corporations. Everyone else has to still send mail or deliver the message in person. There's no computers in the public realm. 

So yeah the tech is exactly what would have been around in the early 1900s with maybe some extra's thrown in... At some point in this timeline beyond OC&C's core setting, York Coal & Lancaster Mining Co rebrand to York Tech & Lancaster Industries. And thats something theyve had in the works for a long time. So who knows whats behind closed doors, or escaping out into the wild...

I Hope that sets the scene i had in mind a little bit more for you. I do just want to come back to the lack of explanation in the book though. When OC&C's at your table it can be the above or any variation on it that works for you. In Solo play I dont like to feel hemmed in and i wouldnt want anyoone else to feel hamstrung by the setting. Later expansions & adventures will start to plugg in some of those intentional gaps over time.

If you have any other questions do drop me a line or swing by the discord and say hello!
https://discord.gg/h5WHFnNFZ

Awesome, welcome aboard!

I’ve emailed over a key for the full digital edition as well, so you don’t have to rely entirely on the printing and postage gods. 😄

Hopefully the physical copy won’t be too far behind, but at least you can get stuck in while it’s making the long journey to Australia. I can’t wait to hear what you think once you’ve had a chance to play.

Ahh, this has absolutely made my morning! Thank you so much for sticking with the search and for ordering a physical copy.

It means a lot to hear that Of Coal & Corpses stayed with you for that long, and I’m really glad you found your way back to it. Thanks again for the support, I can’t wait for your copy to reach you.

We’ve also just opened the Overland Empire Discord to the public, so you’d be very welcome to join us there too 

https://discord.gg/AuHyhnyjU

Excellent! Hope you enjoy your time delving beneath the soil in KERGÜS! Let me know how you get on.

I love getting stuff from Pit Trap! 

If you do pick it up from there, drop me a line and I’ll hook you up with the digital copy & a link to the discord too!

Hey Simone, thanks for checking out KERGÜS! So the locations table replaces the one in the base game for your hex crawl.
Any time you roll up a black soil result, its essentially the dungeon in the expansion. So you start a dungeon using the room size, exits & events tables in BTBS, same as you would in the base game. 

Awesome welcome aboard! Newsletter goes out every 4 weeks and sometimes in between if theres big announcements that cant wait.
But I post articles weekly on the substack that the newsletter comes from. 

There's a handful of advance copies of Of Coal & Corpses available at the pit trap shop now. General release, physical & digital coming soon through overlandempire.co.uk, itch & dtrpg
https://pittrapshop.com/products/of-coal-corpses

Any other questions please do get in touch!

looks rad! Can’t wait to put this to the table!

Apologies for the delay in coming back to you Yeoman. I've been terribly neglectful of my Itch page while trying to wrap up fulfilment on the Kickstarter. The discord is currently backers only but will be opening to the public once fulfilment is complete. As soon as it goes public ill be sure to drop you a line, will be in about a months time. Pre-orders likely to be early spring with a summer release. 

oh absolutely yeah! I’ll get one exported and uploaded when I get 5 this evening.

Will post a devlog update with it as well so people know it’s available. 

Thanks for the suggestion!

And it’s awesome to hear you’re enjoying Once more into the Pit! Would love to hear more about how get on with it or if you have any feedback/ thoughts on it do drop me a line!

ah no worries, easily done.

honestly, it depends how quickly it gains traction in terms of campaign followers but I’d like to say in 3 weeks time. End of July, start of August. Could be a little sooner, could be a little later. But if you follow the campaign you’ll be the first to hear when it launches.

I’ll probably announce a date on here and my other socials to give people like a weeks notice before launch.

hey thanks for following, hugely appreciated.

The creature & peril tables are on the top of page 5 (front page as 1) 

Hey Mr Hand,

Thanks for getting in touch, great to hear your enjoying the game!

the only special location you don’t roll exits for is the Oubliette, you can exit the way you came in unless you roll a 4 then you’re trapped forever.

You can freely move through hex’s you’ve previously explored. But monsters that you fled from are still there waiting to be fought.

if you want an extra challenge

You can roll a d4 on a previously explored hex

1. Peril

2. Weak Monster

3. Tough Monster

4. Encounter 

hope you continue to enjoy your time with the game and thanks for backing the kickstarter, couldn’t have done it without you guys!

best

Dan/AxXon_N.47

Sorry you missed out on the kickstarter  but glad youve found us here!