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[Compendium] - Aboard the Cogwork Citadel
🕑 Added 2023-01-25 15:01:00 +0000 UTCI was slightly worried at the start of the brainstorming period because I only had abstract ideas, but nothing concrete. I'm pleasantly surprised to see how well this turned out, and without overworking myself either. I made the (good) decision early on to separate the plane/archon/demigod Axiom from the Citadel itself, allowing more focus on the cogwork aspect and letting a potential future month explore the plane of law.
The Citadel is pretty straightforward in areas, serving as a home for the Bureau of Fundamental Law, but has an excellent collection of fun locations and unique adventures. I in particular really enjoy the idea of the Tempo of the Cadence Engine and how that might affect combat, as well as the adorable as heck coglings that can be used in any game (especially for artificers). A 100+% efficiency engine that relies on a large pendulum's rhythm and timing is also fun to explore and thematically appropriate. I'm pretty pleased!
Also the polymajigs are so strange and fun. I'd love to run some combats with them.
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Download the pdf to check out 24-page compendium presents 15 new items and 12 new monsters alongside gorgeously illustrated art, as well as 8 pages of lore, features, and adventure hooks for the roving Cogwork Citadel and the Bureau of Fundamental Law.
Head over to this post for several polymajig monsters exclusive to this compendium. (Those monsters can also be found in the compendium as well)
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Thank you as always to the patrons who support me and even stuck around throughout December. I can't be grateful enough that I am able to do this at all, and I get that realization every month.
As far as the DnD OGL is concerned, Wizards has walked back on the three most important issues for their new draft, so I'm content. As scummy or short-sighted the previous draft was, I don't particularly want to put in the effort to switch to a new system or create system agnostic content, since a lot of my balancing experience took over 3 years to collect. For now, I'll just keep an eye out for the next OGL and see if anything concerning pops up. Thank you to everyone who was worried about my content and livelihood :)
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