Hello everyone!

I had a great time running Bloodclotte at PAX Australia - it's great to know that the game works as intended, and I was fortunate enough to have very funny and creative players who surprised me again and again with their clever and bizarre solutions to the awful problems they gave to their patients. The most valuable takeaway for me was that I ended up improvising most of my Fallouts because the ones in the book didn't fit, and I took that as a sign that Fallouts needed reworking. I've rewritten many of them and added new ones as well, with the most important ones being the Major Work Fallouts that now put your patients at very real risk of dying.

The Bloodclotte V3 Playtest includes two new Classes - one from myself, and one from guest writer Tan Shao Han. Shao Han has worked on TTRPGs such as Pathfinder 2, Blades In The Dark, ARC and Monster Care Squad, and his background in Asian history and anthropology made him a great fit for a Traditional Chinese Medicine themed class. That class is the Cultivator, a healer who transforms their essence into qi and uses this to cultivate immortality inside their body. Instead of keeping that immortality for themselves, they infuse it into their patient's meridians through acupuncture and qigong to heal them. It's a class rooted in folklore and Chinese literature, with all kinds of cool abilities involving inner alchemy, pressure points and spiritual energy.

The other new class is the Nurseteer, a head nurse who uses life-size enchanted marionettes as their nursing assistants. I wanted a class that would represent the work that nurses do in a hospital, and the high-concept puppeteer aspect gave it a creepy Gothic twist that I had fun playing with. The Nurseteer is the only class that doesn't get new Wards from their Major abilities; instead, they get Stations that upgrade the General Ward for everyone using it. The Nurseteer abilities range from shadow puppets, ventriloquism, putting your stress in a haunted doll, or just putting on a show for your colleagues starring the popular pencil-faced Griboullis (my take on Australia's famous Mr Squiggle puppet show from my childhood).

There are quality of life improvements as always - single sheets are back, bookmarks are fixed, and the Ward Advice section has been done properly this time. The Death Priest's Intensive Care Ward is now the Divine Care Ward (now with 75% more leeches and maggots) and the Metaphysician's Nightmare Ward now has an explicit exit clause after an unfortunate and grizzly PC death in one of our playtest groups.

Thank you, and I hope you all enjoy the new update!