A couple of months ago, I had a moment where a title randomly popped into my head: The Crimson Cask. I jotted it down and didn't think much about it. Our development cycle has slowed down (a lot). Part of this has to do with real life interfering in our writing about magic and dragons time and part has to do with being in the middle of a really ambitious project. So when we needed a quick little project to get back in the guild and start regular updates again I turned to Bentaven. The first four tales wrote themselves pretty much, some of the easiest writing I've done. The last three are a bit more involved, but the structure is there.
Ryan really hit it out of the park with the cover designs as well, I really like the covers he's designed for the project. If you're curious about the difference in skill here's the first draft of what I gave him to work with vs. what he came up with.
Our current plan is to release tales 1-4 on the guild as PWYW and a compendium of all the tales (1-7) as a paid title with new artwork, expanded content for the first tales and of course the thrilling conclusion. We've really enjoyed the "series" release and I wouldn't be surprised if we do it again after Bentaven is concluded.