It’s been two years since the release of the Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy Roleplaying Game Core Rules, one year since Kings, Nations, and Gods, and the Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy Monsternomicon will soon be available to the public. It is also, coincidentally, 100 days until my second anniversary as an employee of Privateer Press, so please forgive me if I get a bit misty-eyed about both the past and the future of the Iron Kingdoms roleplaying line.

Between book releases, there have been the fantastic No Quarter Presents: Urban Adventure and eleven issues of No Quarter, filled with gradually increasing—and diversifying—roleplaying game content. Alongside the great material in No Quarter, we’ve put out a ton of fun content in the Full Metal Fridays series, focusing on whatever corners of the Iron Kingdoms piqued our interest.

On the horizon, fans of the Iron Kingdoms have a whole new treat waiting for them: the Iron Kingdoms Unleashed Core Rules. It’s another huge book filled with all the best that the wilds of western Immoren have to offer, and it has definitely been the most significant project I’ve been working on . . .

. . . but not the only project.

For a while, we’ve been keeping a surprise for the Full Metal Fantasy line. Today we’re releasing Bitter Medicine, the first in a series of digital adventures for the Iron Kingdoms roleplaying game.

Working on Bitter Medicine was a fascinating process. After hashing out the story with Matt Wilson, William “Oz” Schoonover and I sat down and began hammering away to design rules and encounters in tandem. It became clear the adventure would be a great way to introduce new concepts into the Full Metal Fantasy Roleplaying Game that would extend beyond the final scene of the adventure—something that could transform various aspects of people’s home games. There are blocks of new rules in appendices following the main story of Bitter Medicine, so long that we couldn’t fit them in an issue of No Quarter—and Editor-in-Chief Mike Ryan won’t let me take over a whole issue . . . yet.

Those of you who went to Gen Con were the first to get a copy of the new Monsternomicon, but now everyone can pick up Bitter Medicine through the PPDigital app or our DriveThruRPG.com store!