Wanderlust

On the mention of art - New icons for this account and the discord were made by @ghostnet.tech !

It's official - @torideer.bsky.social has accepted a contract to do art of the playable characters in Wanderlust starting in August!

They aim to do a few characters every month, and I'll be releasing their art along with character backstory, information, stats and abilities on a PDF for each lad.

The small niche tasks like figuring out the iconography of this elaborate stat / attribute system was a bit of a challenge I actually enjoyed here.

The 25 warband characters are being finalized over the next month or two - excited to start a few contracts to get some artwork and references for them all.

Also intending to release lore and backstory with each of those references - most likely in a PDF format some point.

The con circuit is officially complete - back to work on things here!

Been spending time ironing out the generic skill and spell system after Expedition 33 gave some inspiration (yes, I should actually be working on writing but number crunchy yum yum).

268 skill and spells in total.

I've made a permanent invite link to the Wanderlust server and a schedule update for my potential work times in said server. Hope to see you folks there!

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See you for a few hours this Friday.

😅 Words cannot describe how extremely validating to see folks create and make some beautiful systems with their own works, and it does inspire me a lot on my own.

Sincerely, a weirdo with their own RPG design.

Tumblr likes this post a lot and it makes me want to finish that wiki now 🫠
I will never escape the list making brainrot.

If you would like to join the server permanently - let me know with a DM and I can invite you. Have a good weekend!

Sorry folks - due to a work crew get together this evening, needing to file taxes and wrap up trip planning for the next few months I'll most likely not be about today and will keep finding some time most likely Sunday to work on the project - but without a public server call.

Time to work on more mechanics shenangians. Content Warning: Math
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Didn't realize I was on call with work tonight on top of feeling exhausted from my work week. Sunday it is!

Wrapping up some TSA precheck signup this afternoon that'll probably push me back an hour or two. See you folks tonight!

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Working on scripting out short story summaries for a bit tonight.

Few appointments today will be pushing back my usual start time of 3pm PST to something closer to 5 or 6 - it'll be a later evening and migjt stream this week as I work on short story synopses.

As a heads up - I will most likely be doing my usual work time this Sunday rather than tomorrow due to the holiday.

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Another character profile, and more narrative shenangians.

Gonna delay my working time by an hour today - starting around 45 minutes.

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More character sheets and a narrative outline today - potentially wrapping up the world state document.

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More character sheets and a narrative outline today - potentially wrapping up the world state document.

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Might work on a few miscellaneous things today before going back to the main document.

On Fridays between 3pm-7pm PST I will be working on Wanderlust content / material and I would like folks to join me on a public discord call to hang! (Also to perhaps make me stay on track and be accountability buddies 😅 )

Links will be posted as replies on this post. Hope to see you there!

Had a rather abrupt health scare last bit of 2024 and kind of was a potato for the rest of it, woops.

But time to get back at it.

Your interest and support is always appreciated, even if this is just barebones alpha designs and work I manage on the side as of right now. This will take a long time to get momentum built for it, but I'm confident in taking time and building things well rather than rushing.

And again, thank you!

As I prefaced before - I work in full time in medicine, so between being on call and filling shifts as well as trips and vacations this summer I can't really guarantee a set time or deadline for Wanderlust content. This is why I haven't charged money or run a subscription service for this yet.

I also began to work on character toolkits and personal chapters on the side, but one such character early on was one of the people I had to remove, so i need to replace this character with one entirely different, and that's a abrupt and jarring change that is going to take time to fix.

I've been creating a State of The World document, which will outline the history, lore and background of the world of Iaward. That is about halfway done, and hopefully when I finally get a proper weekend in the coming weeks I can post it someplace.

Apologies for the abrupt and lengthy silence - recent events in the last month brought some necessary character removals to the roster, along with a chaotic and problematic work schedule.

Needless to say, I need to replace some friend cameos with characters of my own making.

Been busy with writing various details down - but now officially starting with a short story piece involving the first two protagonists.

On the topic - is there a good platform for prose or written work that is accessible? I would like not to rely on Google documents so much for this.