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Tales from Arcadia
🕑 Added 2023-05-12 22:56:17 +0000 UTCHey nerds! Matt and Hannah here with an exciting update!
As you know, after July ARCADIA will go on hiatus for a while. All the old issues will still be here, but the whole MCDM team will be focused on our new RPG after that.
But we want to keep making cool stuff for you folks! So starting in August, we hope, you’ll get the first Tales from Arcadia article. It’s basically a single ARCADIA-style article, same format, maybe an updated layout? We’ll see.
Tales from Arcadia focuses on MCDM’s fantasy worlds of Orden and the timescape. The same world you’ve been reading about in our hardcover books as well as The Chain of Acheron and Dusk livestreams. Basically, if you want to learn more about any of the stuff you’ve read or seen there, or you’re a fan of ARCADIA, Tales from Arcadia is for you!
The first article will probably be straight from Matt, a “Welcome to the Timescape” that introduces all that juicy lore about the MCDM multiverse (including Orden and Arcadia itself). Then we have more stuff coming, like rules and lore for MCDM dwarves and a new culture and ancestry system.
As with ARCADIA, we’ll have plenty of stuff that’s easy to drop into your existing games. It’d be great if we could say “here’s how to play dwarves in the MCDM RPG!” Buuut…that product doesn’t exist yet! So, in the meantime, the rules will be fifth edition rules, which we hope will be broadly useful for everyone.
The lore is all stuff we need to do for the RPG anyway—a lot of the content in Tales from Arcadia will make it into the actual MCDM RPG, so you could think of these as the first RPG Packets! Packets worked super well for Flee, Mortals! Might as well keep doing it!
Who, What, Where
Everyone on the $5 tier and up gets Tales from Arcadia! There will definitely be other stuff, too, but we’re not quite ready to reveal all our secrets yet.
If you also want to follow along with our RPG development, the $8 MCDM+ level gets you all the dev posts, design updates, playtest reports, exclusive livestreams (?!), and more.
When Will ARCADIA Come Back?
Probably when we have an RPG that’s finished enough to develop content for (and hire others to develop content for), plus a while to create, test, lay out, etc. that first wave of content. Sometime in late 2024, we think, but we’re taking things one step at a time.
ARCADIA in Print?
The status here is the same—maybe there will be a “Best of” book. It would be awesome, but for Business Reasons™ we need to hold off on determining if, how, and exactly when it would happen. Rest assured we have not forgotten!
Anyway…
We know you’ll miss the full ARCADIA experience. We will too! But there’s a lot of dope stuff coming and we gotta take our foot off that gas pedal to accelerate the RPG truck. Your support means the world(s) to us, and it’s what makes all of the above possible in the first place.
–Matt & Hannah
Comments
Damian Spence
I just hope that by August I'll be convinced to stick around... It'll be a tossup between free and $5, it seems.
CherryBoy
I'm really excited for the MCDM ttrpg! Damn that's a lot of acronyms lol. So I'm excited for the previews we get when the full team is working on it!
Like some above I will also have to cancel after July. Frankly I was here for Arcadia and without it, I can't continue support.
Randall Dorn
Exciting times ahead!
Brian Diehl
Can’t wait. Happy to be on board the MCDM express — totally here for the ride and the scenic views!
Peter Gorbert
Well this is a bummer. I’m subbed for Arcardia, love getting a regular magazine of content. I guess I’ll see you in 2024 😞
Sound_Tech
I'm going to miss it. Was hoping after the shockingly positive outcome of the OGL landslide that we wouldn't lose Arcadia, I've sung its praises to many of my friends, oh well. I don't know how I'll like your RPG yet so I'm apprehensive about return-to-form Arcadia being written for it but I'll probably still buy it for the dope cover art.
Bryce Miller
It's very much a "When Business Reasons Align" thing, but I would love a way to buy a big book of all the articles or a couple of annual books. Even a print-on-demand solution would be fine with me since I'm sure there isn't a huge demand for it. I've just had a way easier time referencing K&W now that I have my physical copy, and I think I'd use the backlog more in a physical format :) Very excited for MCDMRPG Arcadia!
Roosevelt Cooper
Happy to hear that Arcadia will be back at some point. In the meantime looking forward to Tales From Arcadia!
Hayden Pech
Woo! I’m excited to see the awesomeness that is inside Tales of Arcadia!
