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Council Meeting - June
🕑 Added 2019-06-01 11:49:17 +0000 UTC
Fragmented Outdoors. Working on the outdoor tiles has a been a real treat so far, creating seamless tiles with separate scenes has been really rewarding I feel. For now I've only experimented a bit with the basic concept, but there are two major paths for us to explore that I would like to suggest for our next month.
On one end we've got:
BYOB - Build your own Base
This is something I've already started with, creating these upgrade able maps that start from scratch (a simple set of ruins up to a wooden construction and then a upgraded stone construction). The idea is to in due time create a basic booklet of buildings, starting with these small one tile buildings up to bigger multi tiled buildings like a big ole castle. (I've got a great idea for this castle in ruins you can explore the first time, rebuild with wooden fortifications and then a full rebuild of the original castle). This is a cycle you can't just use to build a castle but can also work perfectly the other way around, destroying a castle and reclaiming it or fighting in the ruins of it. The booklet would contain details on construction costs, type of labor and how long it takes to build.
These tiles will come very close to my original maps, with the big added advantage that you can put any tile or group of tiles next to anything else in the set. I'll add basic tiles too of course with trees etc that you can add as a buffer.
Road - Rivers - ETC.
Now in Road - Rivers etc. I will focus on creating detailed environment maps. Here I can go into much more detail creating tiles with fragments of rivers you can stack into long rivers, roads with bridges (broken bridges, wooden, cliffs etc), but also go into more variation on the flora and fauna of the maps. These would be the ideal roadside maps, with room for camping grounds etc. This is definitely something I plan on adding in too as it will give DMs a lot more room for adding flair to the tiles and they are perfect for any random encounter.
Creature Card Creator
We've also made a lot of progress with our creature card creator, which I hope I'll be able to introduce to you all during the next month. The basic version is already working and now we just need to add more functionality, and a database for saving your cards and adding creature images. Once that is on the books (or at least as good as a beta version) I'll also do a bit of a revamp of my Patreon making it a lot more easy to read, adding a nice menu of what exactly is part of each tier, as right now it has become a bit of a mess converting from one setup to the next.
Comments
monosyllabicmonk
Yup! Second this comment - I would love to be able to build up something, especially if you are working something like "Stronghold and Followers" or a similar mechanic into the game.
Casandra
The BYOB sounds so cool! My players are always trying to find a "home base" so to have one that can be earned and upgraded (and maybe stolen by bandits while they're off adventuring) is super great!
