Fablecraft News

Greetings, Mages! 🎃🧙‍♂️

It’s spooky season, and Fablecraft will offer a free, fun Halloween adventure to all you Mythans in the mood for pumpkin spice and something nice. In this week’s edition of Fablecraft Friday 🎊, we’ll share details about that adventure and the update it’s coming with.

Before we begin, the planned release date: v0.19.0 of Tales of Fablecraft, which includes the Halloween one-shot, is slated to launch on October 22nd, 2024. That date could change, but we’ll share the news of this update’s availability as soon as it’s live.

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[h2]Let’s start with the update’s key features[/h2]

The Halloween one-shot won’t be the only thing arriving with Fablecraft’s next update. v0.19.0 includes some larger feature requests, bug fixes, and enhancements, too. We’re sharing the marquee items now, but we’ll detail everything in next week’s patch notes.

[h3]A place for personal notes[/h3]

One of the most requested features on our feedback site – in the number two slot as I draft this update – is a place for personal notes. That note system arrives with this update.

Players and GMs will find the note-taking tool in their side tray. You’ll be able to create distinct notes with their own titles and body text. These notes are persistent within a single campaign; that means they are only connected to one campaign, but they’ll be there every time you boot the campaign up.



This is a great place to make note of an interaction, jot down clues for a riddle, or, as a GM, record a key element of one of your player’s backstories.

[h3]Overhauled dice rolls and sound effects[/h3]

Since launch, we’ve heard from players that our dice feel a bit too floaty, slow to roll, and featured some relatively repetitive clacking sound effects that deserved some attention.

Here’s what that roll has looked like since launch.



With v0.19.0, we’ve updated the dice-rolling physics to be much more natural and realistic. We’ve also overhauled the sound effects that accompany the twists and turns of fate.

Here’s that new roll.



Way faster, right? The new roll speed feels significantly more realistic and cuts down on moments when rolls tend to go on for far too long. Specifically, these new rolls feel much better during Arena runs and when waiting for the full party to roll against a skill check.

[h3]The Brawler Collection gets its final VFX and SFX[/h3]

Finally, the Brawler Collection’s visual and aural effects have been brought up to our standards with this latest update.

We shared previously that our team fell ill as they were working through the VFX for this collection, and that was a key factor in its delay. Now, owners of the collection will find that everything looks and sounds as good as it was intended.

[h2]A Fright in Fallen Branch, your free Halloween one-shot, will be available for a limited time[/h2]

Something’s amiss in the village of Fallen Branch, Mages, and it’s up to your party to discover what’s befallen poor Dill Tallgrass. This brief adventure should run your party roughly 60-90 minutes and has been tuned for Mages at level 3 or 4. As always, if you have a stronger or weaker party, we recommend adding or removing monsters from encounters.

This one-shot features new music and Halloween variants of backgrounds and monsters from the base game.



A Fright in Fallen Branch is your new Halloween one-shot, and it will be available in the in-game marketplace for free. All you need to do is log into Fablecraft once the update is available on October 22nd, 2024, navigate to the marketplace, and select the “Free” button below the adventure.

Be sure to do this soon! The Halloween one-shot will only be available for a limited time. We’re slated to remove it from the marketplace on November 19th, though that date may change. If you’re interested in picking this one up, be sure to log into Fablecraft and grab it near Halloween.

[h2]The GM Council is here[/h2]

The Grand Mage Council of Mythas has been convened! Please welcome the first members and Mages to join this storied institution; you may know them from their Discord handles: Basil (kobanya), Eclipse_Storm, EvolDeezul, Murphy (neptune612), Sharyuan (onyx_direwolf), TGFTavern, and ChibiBree!

Our goal with this council of Mages is to work more closely with our community through these ambassadors and to have their voices added to the chorus that will help grow the Fablecraft community. We'll be sharing more very soon on how the GM Council will appear, and we hope you get a chance to meet these members more soon! Come say hi in our Discord!

[h2]Before we go, the iPad version of Fablecraft is coming very soon[/h2]

We know some folks are really looking forward to the tablet version of Fablecraft, and we have some good news to share on that front. The iPad version of Fablecraft is coming very soon.



Fablecraft will offer cross-play across all platforms, so you’ll be able to take your existing account onto new devices as they arrive.

Fablecraft feels great on a tablet, and we can’t wait for you to try it.



That’s it for this week’s edition of Fablecraft Friday. We’ll see you next week in A Fright in Fallen Branch!

Want to find a party to run through that Halloween adventure with? Join our Discord.

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Hello to all GMs & Mages! 🧙‍♂️✨

In this week’s blog post, we’re revealing our community council: The Grand Mages! This group of community members will be your voice to our development team and help shape the future of Fablecraft.

We also have a teaser, as our next one-shot adventure is coming sooner than you think…

If you want to watch today's post, here is a handy dandy vlog!

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Now for the readers... let’s dive in! 👏



[h3]What lies below the Long Meadows…[/h3]



Our next one-shot adventure is on the horizon, and a mystery deep below the Long Meadows will soon call to you…

While we don’t want to give too much away, we *can* announce that **our next adventure will be free to all Tales of Fablecraft players**! Our new seasonally appropriate adventure will join *The Road to the Starfall Festival* as a free one-shot included with your game download.

If you haven’t downloaded the game yet, now’s your chance to make your character and pencil in an upcoming Fablecraft session with your friends to celebrate the 𝓈𝓅𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓎 season.



[h3]The Grand Mage Council is called to order…[/h3]



The Grand Mage Council of Mythas convenes once again and calls some mages within our community to its ranks!

The GM Council is a community group of players & GMs who will help shape the future of Fablecraft. They are our ambassadors to other groups, they help refine the adventures we release, and they will help us tell stories within the world of Mythas.

We hope this group will bring us even closer to our community and ensure our journey through our Early Access period will refine Tales of Fablecraft into a platform that can help a weary GM do their session prep, help a new player find the magic of playing a tabletop RPG with your friends, and even help that aforementioned weary GM find a place as a player at their table instead.

You’ll be able to spot our council members quickly through a Discord role, but you’ll also begin to see their voices and influence in future updates, livestreams, and even patch notes.



Council members will also get some neat perks in exchange for their help: they’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at what we’re cooking up, and they can even get their own personalized digital membership card so they can, of course, brag at parties and produce it dramatically to skip long queues. (Note: We do not recommend either.)

The terms of our Grand Mage Council members will also be time-limited (but available to be extended) so that our members do not burn out, and so we can introduce new voices to the council over time.

The council is currently invite-only, but we will expand the program over time! If you feel passionate about supporting the game and want to join, hop into our Discord server and make some noise our way. We’re always scouting for new members.

Our first council members are still being confirmed, but our new members will be revealed very soon! Though, we hope they don’t get power-hungry and turn evil…





That’s it for this week! Please follow us on social media to keep up with the latest, and hop into our Discord to chat with the dev team, find groups for adventures, and share tips with fellow GMs.

We hope you have a great weekend, and we’ll see you in Mythas! 👋

Greetings, Mages! 🧙

It’s been an adventure-filled week for the Riftweaver team and Fabelcraft, hasn’t it? Yesterday, we launched our first one-shot adventure, Object of my Affection. It was created by Felicia Day, and partnering with her was fantastic.

We also launched the Brawler Collection–it features 14 new foes and six new animated battlemaps for GMs to use in homebrew campaigns or within our pre-written adventures as their parties veer away from the planned course.

In this week’s dev vlog and blog, we’re looking toward the future. We’re ready to unveil the newest iteration of the Fablecraft development roadmap, and we can’t wait to share what we’ve introduced as we discuss our plans.

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Let’s begin.

[h2]It was a marvelous livestream![/h2]

Before looking forward, we need to look back. To mark the launch of Object of my Affection, Felicia Day hosted a livestream of the adventure on her Twitch. Riftweaver Narrative Designer Claire Purcell was the GM, and Felicia stood as a player alongside SWARM (the voice of Kai) and Anne the Gnome.

Here’s the VOD of the stream.

[h2]Reminder: this is a living roadmap; it will change[/h2]

As an Early Access game, we take listening and responding to feedback from our players and community seriously. That’s why we collect and triage feedback from Steam, Discord, and our feedback board. We use that feedback to help our development plans, but we have a vision for Fablecraft that we’re adhering to, too.

This roadmap represents a combination of our vision and the community’s wants. It also represents roughly the next six months of work.



Let’s start with what’s new. Spoiler alert: it all comes from community feedback.

[h3]The Custom GM Guide is coming[/h3]

Players have been asking us to open up the Game Master Guide for custom adventure creation since launch, and we’re ready to place it on our roadmap. We’ve always intended to do this, but we’re glad players want it as much (or more than) we do.

The longer-term plans here are also exciting: we intend to implement a way for players to share and, perhaps, sell the adventures they create with a user-generated marketplace. That’s far off, though, and isn’t quite ready for a spotlight on the roadmap.

[h3]More in-game lore[/h3]

Sometimes, feedback can be hard to receive. Players might not like a design choice or an element of UI that someone within our team loves. Other times? Getting feedback feels great. Players want more lore and context within Fablecraft, and that means they’re enthused by the world so far.



You’ll notice that we’ve added an in-game lore book to our plans for 2025. We have plans to make it possible for players and GMs to dig into Mythan culture and a touch of history surrounding the Shattering, and we’re excited to have it entirely in-game for all to discover.

[h3]Quick, write that down[/h3]

One of the most requested items on our feedback board is something we’ve been pushing for internally, too. A place for personal notes is planned for Q4 2024.

What you see below is only a proposed design of what this notes section could look like, but this is what we’ve been cooking up so far. It will likely change between now and release, but the functionality is in progress.



[h3]Location pinging is coming, too[/h3]

Finally, we’ve added another of Fablecraft's most requested features to our roadmap, which is also scheduled for Q4 2024.

We’re working on a location pinging tool that will let players and GMs call attention to a specific spot on the environment or battlemap everyone’s looking at. This should be helpful for environmental questions, positioning callouts, and strategy.



Thanks for peering into the future with us, Mages! Be sure to join us on Discord and talk all things Fablecraft and TTRPG while you look for your next party.

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Hi, Mages! 🧙

v0.18.1 of Fablecraft is a small hotfix that addresses a crash discovered after today's update.

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• We fixed a crash in the Solo Play demos related to video rendering issues for Intel-based PCs.
  

Hello, Mages! 🧙

Object of My Affection, a lengthy one-shot from the mind of Felicia Day, and the Brawler Collection are now available in Fablecraft. These two premium items arrive with v0.18.0 of Fablecraft, and you can find the complete patch notes at the base of this update.

[h2]Step right up to this weird and wonderful carnival[/h2]

Will you help to mend a broken heart? From the extraordinary mind of Felicia Day comes Object of My Affection.

Felicia Day lends her voice to the adventure alongside Erika Ishii, Anjali Bhimani, Jonah Ray, and Jeffrey Lewis. The all-star cast absolutely kills it.



This lengthy one-shot includes a complete GM Guide, four animated environments, two animated battlemaps, five characters/creatures, one music track, and nine inventory items. With our internal playtests, we’re marking the adventure around four-to-five hours in length, but that playtime will really depend on your group.

Object of My Affection is available in the in-game marketplace for $9.99.

[h2]The Brawler Collection is finally here[/h2]

The Brawler Collection includes six animated battlemaps—four of which feature two variants—and 14 foes. The foes offer complete combat kits with unique abilities that create fun metas and synergies for GMs to experiment with.



The Wreckweed, for example, boasts a Whipwreck attack that deals damage in a straight line and spawns Flotsam in empty spaces. With Beach Sweep, the Wreckweed’s other ability, the monster absorbs the spawned Flotsam to gain an advantage die before dealing damage in an arc.

A quick note: We originally had the Brawler Collection slated for early September. Unfortunately, our VFX team got sick and we had to delay. The Brawler Collection has some temporary VFX work in-place for some of the creatures. We will bring that temp work up to our standards in an upcoming hotfix as our VFX team is cruising through the remainder now.

The Brawler Collection is available for $14.99.

We hope you enjoy the new adventure and collection, Mages! If you’re looking for a group, head over to our Discord.



[h2]The Complete Tales of Fablecraft v0.18.0 Patch Notes[/h2]

[h3]Features[/h3]

• Object of My Affection is now available in the in-game marketplace.
  
• The Brawler Collection is also now available in the in-game marketplace.
  
• All Battlemaps, across the game, are now animated.
  
• Ever get confused about targeting? We updated some of the UI elements associated with range and targeting in combat.
  
• We performed a lot of refactoring work on the layering in our game and code; this doesn’t have a ton of external implications other than smoother game delivery. We just thought it was cool to share, okay?
  
• We added links to safety tools in the Campaign Settings card you’ll see during campaign creation.
  
• We did even more optimization, making animated backgrounds and battlemaps a bit smaller in file size and more performant.
  
• We made some smaller updates to the scene tour new players see when they enter a battlemap for the first time.
  
• We added a bunch of new combat VFX and SFX across the game.
  
• Some users were reporting that they couldn’t actually buy anything from the marketplace because their Steam overlay was disabled. We’ve added a warning message when this happens so folks don’t get stuck.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Some Mythans among us may have been hit with seemingly random white flashes while viewing fullscreen items. Not a flashbang, just a bug. It’s been addressed.
  
• We fixed some issues related to account log-ins. If you were having a problem with this, let us know if it’s still happening after this update.
  
• Some users reported that their custom portraits didn’t display properly after upload. This has been fixed!
  
• Combat abilities, openers, and talents will better auto-slot as higher levels are reached.
  
• The inventory in the Game Master Guide got a round of visual polish.
  

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]

• There’s an issue related to players undoing their movement while GMs simultaneously remove tokens that causes problems with combat in the battlemap scenes. This one is a bit harder to run into, but if you notice any battle problems we’d appreciate the note on Steam or our Discord.
  
• VO from the GM occasionally stops playing before the audio is done.
  
• Using the Galaxy Token Skin on large enemies will sometimes cause a light to flash near the top of the token.
  
• There are some smaller layering issues that we’re still solving when it comes to opening character sheets and side trays. These will be resolved in a future update!