DreamSent v0.0.011

Hey there! My work this month has mostly been split between my Dice app (update coming soon, hopefully!) and DreamSent, which has been improving a lot!

This version of the Player Guide has further improved the dice system I detailed in an earlier post. (Now it’s MUCH more streamlined; just roll Skill vs Difficulty, no multiplication of boons/banes!)

It also adds a Talents system, a new Magic system (still somewhat WIP tbh), and clarifies terminology like Skills, Stats, and Tests. Also there is a Druid class now.

tbh, it’s A LOT of work! I could have sped things up SO much if I’d just used an existing system and repurposed it, but look I really wanted a system that was both simple and used all kinds of dice so here we are. It means I need to rewrite the “How To Play” section of the book about once every fortnight, and every change means I need to re-examing how classes work too.

All the changes are good and important though, I prototype little things and find ways to make the systems more lightweight and they are starting to feel REALLY good to me – I’m so excited to get to testing so I can actually play this, buuuuuut it still needs a little work on the classes yet.

Anyway, attached is the .pdf for v0.0.011, and also here is what the character sheet looks like rn (I find looking at a character sheet while reading an RPG can give a better understanding of the game. Unless the game is Pathfinder :P)

Update: I’ve added v0.0.011b which is basically the book through the “How To Play” section, but with actual layout! I’m gonna try to avoid working on stuff like this until the game is more stable and isn’t changing so much, but it’s cool to know I can put together things like this – and it might be the easiest way for you to get an idea of how the game is played if you haven’t checked out the other pdfs yet 🙂