Sword Maths

It's been a while since I crunched the numbers, so I thought you might enjoy a Swords-eye View of the series and the journey it's been on.

I think it's easy to lose sight of some things when you're standing in the middle of them. I maybe didn't fully appreciate the magnitude of how the Patreon has almost doubled slowly over the last 18 months! Thank you!!

People get worried sometimes that the series is a bit slow or that I've disappeared for a bit too long, but there's usually a reason. March and April 2021 were all triple-length episodes building up to the Season 3 finale, so it's fair to say March this year was the slowest on record - but I did explicitly announce a hiatus to ship cards.

October 2019 is the only time I successfully did an Inktober/Swordtember and actually finished it. But I'm a silly boy, so I'll probably try again this year!

And So, The Current Roadmap:

• Swordtember in September - we can make a prompt list together, let's make it weird

• Finish the Patron Swor'nament in October and squeeze in a Halloween episode after

• Try to reach Swords #1000 by Christmas, but failing that, the 8th Anniversary in March is a nice time to do something big with Kargob and panDEMONium too.

It would have been nice to race gracelandwest to 1000 episodes (952/1000), but I'm still a bit too far behind (936/1000) without some sort of unhinged comic marathon to close the gap. I probably have healthier things to do.

It's about time to finish Quest Sprout's Main Quest too... but I'll need to decide if I can commit to that in August or it should wait until November. It's definitely happening before Episode 1000, even if I have to make Episode 999 a 10-parter.