What do you know — it turns out that Wall of Fire and the performance optimizations we made last month do actually have a use 💛. Some lag was still present on Steve's stream, but it was low enough that the "500 kobolds" modded map is now indeed playable 😅 (VOD at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2b5...)
This week, we implemented some of the more unique spells into Dawnsbury Days such as Contingency which allows you to prepare a trigger and a companion spell out of combat, and then have it cast automatically when the trigger condition happens!
I saw this screenshot of a player's Dawnsbury Days character library, which made me feel really proud and realize how far we've come since the beginning, and how expansive in terms of character content Dawnsbury Days now really is ❤️.
Today I saw a new piece of fanart depicting the Dawnsbury Four in heroic poses of an adventure book cover! I think it looks amazing ❤️! Art is by @its-hutao.bsky.social.
Playtesting has begun on level 12 content of the upcoming expansion.
Early playtest feedback from the Insane difficulty is "sweet baby jebus this first encounter is BRUTAL" ^^;
I must rely on playtest feedback for this because I myself can't win on that difficulty... (that's why it's Insane)
Not all encounters should be solved with might. Some you may tackle in a couple different ways, such as this Great Shrieker! (Shrieker art by Qwert, aquarium art placeholders by me ^^.)
Among the 126 (!!) mods for Dawnsbury Days are a couple of "official" mods that I maintain myself, including one for the variant rule Automatic Bonus Progression.
Yesterday, in preparation for the Four-Leaf Clover, I updated it all the way up to level 20!
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They faced undead, devils, and two demon lords with courage, but how can Anna and Scarlet be expected to face such impossible challenges as cold water and holding each other's hand?? (art by @nacraova.bsky.social)
Dawnsbury Days now has armor property runes — you can use these to customize your armor with additional abilities such as fire resistance, invisibility, or flying!
I posted a behind-the-scenes blog post on the Dawnsbury Days art process!
Design articles like this are what you sometimes get access to as a bonus when you support Dawnsbury Days development through Patreon, for as little as $1/month.
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