Greetings gamers, and welcome to the April news roundup! 

As more and more platforms continue to require increasing levels of age verification for access, it's becoming harder and harder to find a space to stay reliably connected with your audience as a small creator. 

So this blog series is my answer. It's a way for me to wax lyrical about the cool stuff I've been up to lately, shout out projects by my creator friends, and gives me a direct line to you so you can get the latest hot gossip from Icarus HQ! 

So let's dive into it! 

D&D 5.5 Cheat Sheets Preorders

The backerkit pre-order page for the 5.5 Class Cheat Sheets is now live, so if you missed the kickstarter you have a few weeks to get a late pledge in! 

The pre order page will be closing in late-May, as soon as all backers from the KS have finished filling in their surveys! 

The 2026 Audience Survey

It's that time of year again where I ask for 3 minutes of your time to fill out my audience survey. 

This is a super useful tool for me to find out some information about you folks, the games you are playing, and what kinds of content you want to see over the coming year. If there's ever been a video topic you've wanted to see me make, this is the place to tell me about it! 

I can't tell you how valuable the responses to this survey are for setting the direction of content on the channel, so I super appreciate you taking the time to fill it in 💜

Fill out the survey here: https://forms.gle/iv6J8jWXMu9KEYCVA

April's Videos

Let's take a look at some of the videos I've released this month! 

In this video I continue my series where I show you how to use the Affinity app to publish TTRPG books and make better looking homebrew documents. This video is all about using Text Styles to save yourself time and headaches as a project grows more complex! 

In this members-only video I showcase how I prep adventures when I am having high pain days and have no time or motivation to do my usual level of prep, focusing on only the essential bones of the adventure. 

That’s all from Icarus HQ for this month.

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Until next month
Much love
Anto