What happen to Day 19? Family and anime~

Day 18 was reading over and noodling on starting an adventure, engagement rolls, and the like.

Today I got most of the content done for starting an adventure. For those counting at home it was 991 words.

There is one section left for it to be complete. While the word count may not be large it has a large impact on how the games works and deviates from almost all Forged in the Dark games.

There is no "detail" to pick from while planning out an adventure. Instead each adventurer will take one action prior to departing. That action be gathering information or preparing by acquiring a specific item or favor. Then they will come up with a general plan and then roll the engagement.

By having the players take that action it gives ample amount of opportunity for players to flashback to something easily. "Remember when I was talking to the druids at the Circle about the monster in the Emerald Quag? We'll while I was there I got a special fish that I can give to the moon octopus."

The other reason I got rid of the detail is well.... many dungeons are just a single entrance into a "dungeon" and many times the first "room" wouldn't be swayed by different "detail" approaches. (Hopefully that makes sense...)

However, there are many adventures to be had that have multiple ways of approaching and the players and GM should be able to come to an agreement on a loose plan.

I feel like I need to share the section when I'm done with it and see if it causes any confusion...

What happened to day 16? Family time~

Why no post on Day 15? Crazy stuff happened across the street in my neighborhood. The other side of the street is cursed. If you wish to know of these curses ask me sometime in person.

Aaaaanyways, I completed cohorts! It was pretty straight forward. For those counting at home an additional 980 words were added.

The one thing I need to figure out later is what to call a group cohort. In Blades in the Dark they call it a gang which I feel doesn't fit high fantasy. If you have any ideas let me know~

One thing I really like from Beam Saber was the additional material about mistreating cohorts. It made them feel real and not just a mechanical bonus that you can abuse. So I added it to the rules as well. Thanks, Austin!

Next up is engagement rules, to give me a little break from guilds, and then factions. Once factions are figured out the rest of the guild writing should fall into place since all the "currencies" will have been defined.

Where did day 11, 12, and 13 go? Family, friends and anime! (There is so much good anime this season! Feels like we are back in 2013~2014 again.)

I pretty much finished the upgrades tonight! There are a couple details to address later. For those counting at home that is another 621 words for a total of 1908 words.

I went with general upgrades for now. It reduces my heartburn for this whole upgrade process and as stated other times the difference between each crew's upgrade choices wasn't really different enough.

Next up for me is Cohorts which shouldn't be too bad and then engagement before taking on factions. Factions are the next big thing I've been low key stressing about. But that's for another time~