Director's Briefing - February 2026

[NicholasHMCaldwell]

Welcome

To the one hundred-and-seventy-fifth Briefing and second scheduled Briefing of 2026.

Foundry Software

As promised in the January Briefing, we have launched Foundry for RMU. As Bob was very confident in the quality of his software (and justly so from the rave reviews he has received for it), we were able to release the four RMU core volumes as Foundry modules across four days rather than across a week.

There is also a DriveThru bundle product of all four core RMU Foundry modules. All of the Foundry modules are solely available from DriveThruRPG. For simplicity, we are not using the Foundry marketplace.

Bob will be focusing on additional improvements to the modules, one of which I will talk about below. He is then expecting to start work on the Foundry incarnation of HARP in a few months' time.

Shadow World

Again as noted in the January Briefing, we have the completed RMU Shadow World conversion guide in full draft. Although we have not published this as a pdf yet, with the assistance of Brett Nash, we now have the conversion guide as a free Roll20 module!

In the world of Foundry, creating a free module would involve us putting a zip on DriveThru (which is easy enough at our end) but then requiring manual installation (which is more annoying for you). Instead, Bob is integrating the Shadow World guide into Core Law for Foundry and Spell Law for Foundry. All being well, these module updates should be available in March.

HARP (and RMU and Roll20)
We have released the adventure module HARP Banecroft: The Mage's Tale on DriveThru as a pdf, going live on 1st February. Originally pitched to us as a standalone HARP fantasy scenario for higher-level adventurers, this has since gained RMU stats. Because he could, Brett Nash has produced a Roll20 module version!

We expect to publish a print version of Banecroft in due course. Due to the page count, this will be softcover only.

Works in Progress

RMU Arcane Companion is well underway in terms of writing. I am expecting to issue various contracts for artwork on RMU Character Companion this month. The second volume of Creature Law has not been forgotten about. 

HARP Steampunk is still with me with final adjustments. I also made a few adjustments to the HARP Something Wicked Something Wondrous manuscript, and detected a couple of omissions in the rules requiring some additional material.

I have also been in contact with various of our writers to check on progress on existing projects and prepare the way for some new projects.

Until next time

Please stay safe and keep gaming.
Best wishes,
Nicholas

Director, Iron Crown Enterprises Ltd

[Thot]

Any ETA on Creature Law 2?

[jdale]

Any ETA on Creature Law 2?

It's much too early for that. It still needs stats and text finalized and then edited, those are the most uncertain parts of the process.

[NicholasHMCaldwell]

We do have a lot of the artwork in hand for Creature Law 2 - although final text and editing changes may require some additional artwork to be commissioned.

Best wishes,
Nicholas