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January Update

I promised an update in January... and I'm sliding it in at the last moment.

I had written some updates much earlier in the month but I suppose the honest reality is that I really don't want to write these. The continuation of Myr...

Myriad Hiatus

The patreon is paused. No payments can be charged and new members cannot join. This will be the case until I have more concrete Myriad plans. Every plan I currently have is drastic and I need some time to really think things over. I may not have a...

Gamedev: Item Generation Evolution

A lot has changed in the Myriad system. So, for a long time I've known that I do not trust the item generation system to make something sensible. On the spot, if I had to make a random equipment for players to find, there was a sizeable chance it ...

The Next Game

First of all, I apologize for the long break between Myriad content.  I paused the Patreon in the last month so that members would not be charged while not much work was being done. Truthfully, I am heavily conflicted about the future of Myri...

Post Aegis Recruits Patch Notes

Here is a list of 'patch notes' I've currently documented with some reasoning behind them. The primary goals are to reduce prep time for campaigns, sessions, and to simplify existing mechanics into their best parts.

Some of this is still bei...

Aegis Rejects: DM Insight

The campaign dubbed 'Aegis Recruits' successfully destroyed all traces of the Aegis Order on Highsword during their first mission for them (Ep9, Aegis Recruits). Here is some insight on the intent as a DM.

This isn't the campaign I ...

Simple Breakthrough

Hey! For you patreon enjoyers I thought I'd write a nerdy explanation of how one simple programming change can make a huge impact. 

Its 5 days before Aegis Recruits is scheduled to start again and I just realized something I previously ...

Rewards and Items

One of the most important things in a ttrpg is the rewards you get for completing your quests. I spent some time overhauling how items work and settled onto some stuff I'm pretty excited about.

My philosophy with consumable items ...

Consistent Baselines

Hey guys! Today I want to talk about finding some consistency for character art, enemies, and world elements and some plans that have been put in place to efficiently create them moving forward.

Ashle always wanted all the NPC and...

The System Changes

I needed an extra week to push some changes into the Myriad system, and the players finally reaching their goal of the Aegis Order castle seemed like a good time for a pause while I modified their skills. Due to the horrors of holiday time schedul...

Could we have started in a month?

Apparently not. Here's the update.

The Myriad will return in early September. I am confident in this because if I absolutely had to I could start a character creation session for the players now. Unless something ...

Can we start in a month?

After visiting Surefour and being coerced into committing to a date when he can play again, I reluctantly told him one month from now the next Myriad campaign will be ready. That would be July 21st as a date for character creation...

Whats Next?

The Fate of Sideways campaign has come to its conclusion! Here's an overview of the immediate work being done before the next campaign starts.

#1: What games are next? When?

I expect to run a short (3 sessio...

Lessons From Launch & Plans

The Myriad is 2 episodes in and I've already learned a bunch. It has been very exciting watching new players interact with the system and reflecting on myself as a DM and what I'm best at. I've been realizing how I need to tailor things moving for...

Myriad is starting next week!

The Myriad session 0 will be this Saturday, January 8th at 3pm CST! 

I've got a week to get as much done as possible, so not much else to say here! 

After session 0, which is used for creating characters, introducing players ...

Design vs. Capability

Nearing completion of the Myriad framework I naturally had to stop and review all of the current systems and see if I'm happy with how everything is. I don't think anyone would be surprised if I said I wasn't happy.

The truth is that I desig...

Myriad Wiki

There is a Myriad Wiki fandom page that has been created. I've loaded it with a lot of preliminary basic information, primarily descriptions of the differen...

Recent Testing

Hey! Not that long ago we had some test streams to make sure the combat was stable and functional so that I could finally bring a group in to play a real campaign. Lots of bugs were found, fixed, and I feel confident that the system is stable enou...

The Capitol Concept

Here is a finalized concept for The Capitol city! (Art by: Pedro Cardoso) This is a massive metropolis that no other settlement even comes close to in size. It is ho...

Enemy Intentions

I've been spending so long on character creation and itemization that I haven't worked on what players will actually be fighting in a while. Now that I've made a full circle back here and have had a lot to consider, it's pretty awesome for me to s...

Finalizing Lore & Art

This past week I've been working on some final revisions on the cosmic chart, which basically acts as the pantheon of Myriad. So - we can talk a bit about that work process instead of game mechanics for a change!

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Skill Checks & Social Skills

One of the most important goals for this working phase of The Myriad has been the implementation of a 'Social Skills' section of character progression. This will explore how rolling a skill check works now and how I came to deciding to do it this ...

Want to make custom Myriad item descriptions?

Hey patrons! Want to help contribute a little something to The Myriad?

You can respond to this post with a comment of a specific type of random item description to be put in the game! Temporarily I will also be adding a channel to the discor...

Finalizing Item Generation

Some significant progress has been made on random item generation! I thought I'd go through one weapon and point out everything that went into this image from top to bottom:

2021-07-03 17:13:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Your Myriad lets you have 2 Actions?

I fully committed to giving characters  2 actions in order to answer a question as old as time itself:  How does dual wielding work?

Seriously.

I've thought a lot about that and never have had a great answer. On one ...

Progress: Skills & Items

Hey! Quick update on the progress being made. I would have liked to do a post sooner, but honestly, this part of development really is just a significant amount of quantity being made to populate systems I've already described. You can always have...

Myriad Character Creation Progress

I threw together a video to demonstrate how character creation works and the progress that has been made on laying a nice framework so that modifying character skills is as easy as possible.

The Time Consuming Parts

I don't have as much done with Myriad as I thought I would have by now, but that's because I severely underestimated how complicated some simple changes would be. I've bounced around between a few different areas of focus, but this one thing has t...

Playing Path of Exile reinforced this concept for me

I'm not really sure how long it's been since the last post, because I've been in a self induced Path of Exile coma. Due to your ability to completely turn your brain off and think of other things while you endlessly grind  in PoE, I wouldn't ...

Character Creation & System Changes

Character creation is very important to me. Building a cool character can be as fun as playing the game. It is also the perfect time to introduce players to the world and I have always wanted the system to fully represent that. This is a huge step...