As someone who has been writing their own TTRPG and wants to create a "Beyond-alike" to make it more accessible - I'd watch the hell out of a video or series giving some guidance on how you did that! Congrats on creating your own very cool game and resources for it!
Unfortunately, I don't think my usual audience would have much patience for programming videos haha But come hang around in the Discord server, we have a "computer nerds" channel where I often go into implementation details (...and complain about Firefox)
@Trekiros Hey, thanks for the quick response! I'll do that. No-code web design is already part of my day job, and I'm looking to learn some supplementary coding skills anyway. This feels like a good excuse to get started. 😅
I'd watch something about your design philosophy... multiple somethings... for multiple hours... and I think it's far more important than the programming. Since programs for these types of games fundamentally exist to help you keep track of things and such, I'd think they'd be more simple than, say, making an actual computer game. There's the whole website backend and such that obviously needs some real skill, but I think the real treasure is the design. Can't wait to watch more about this.
Am reading through the rules currently, will come back to edit this comment as I get further with my thoughts! Just finished Basic Rules so I’ll start with them. Basic Rules: - I found it interesting that the attribute values only go from 0-5, and that you have a 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 specifically to use, rather than being given a certain amount of points to use and restrictions against making a bunch really high/low. Since I’ve only been reading the rules, I don’t know how this would play out in a game, but I personally prefer more choice. Though compared to other tabletop rpg games I can see this system being easier to understand, unlike DnD’s system which confuses a lot of new players. I also think limiting it to 0-5 could have a few side effects, if there’s levelling/another sort of progression then the growth in these scores are likely incredibly slow, or else you could get extremely high and powerful characters quickly, and there’s less inbetween within the characters’ skill with their attributes. With the combined low range and strict 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 allocation I could see it being likely that multiple characters might have similar attribute score spreads. Though, without having played it yet, I have no idea - The cost/payoffs for Short Rests. This one I think is more advice? than the comment above. The cost for a short rest is 5 biomass and a long rest is 10, but for a short rest you only regain 1 hit point while long rest you regain all. I feel that either the biomass cost for a short rest should be decreased, or the reward and time it takes should be increased, because the only reason you wouldn’t go for a long rest is if you really don’t have much time or really don’t have that much biomass, when these reward differences are so large. - This one is a big positive, I LOVE how you did character ‘deaths’. Having options for the character to possibly eventually come back but with scars/marks of their near end, or even letting you leave it up to the Plot Twister with the option for the character to come back on the opposing side, I found so fun? Not sure how to describe it, but I feel it will make the game ultimately less stressful, knowing that if a character you loved playing were to ‘die’ they could still come back, but also with a penalty and time between them just immediately being revived. It felt like a perfect way to implement the mechanic Am off to read the next section, will report back with new/updated thoughts! Edit: I’m going to add to this as I go through this sections, as using the rules I’m going to slowly build a character, and at the end of the section try out the character to fill in anything left. I’m going to build a character at level 1 (or if there’s a rule similar to subclasses I’ll build at the level that comes into play) Character Creation: Background - Nothing particularly negative to point out, I enjoyed the variety and uniqueness of all the tables included, especially the name lists and jobs. Rather than rolling, I picked out from each table which one I wanted to create a more cohesive character I could build a story around, and my choices from these are as follows: Age - 23 (8 before the Flare) Name - Viktor (thanks Arcane brainrot) Job - Tattoo Artist/Writer (haven’t decided which, will wait to see future mechanics options to set in stone) Bonds with the Party - I owe someone a debt (Not making this with anyone, if I was I would have to check with them about it, but this seems fitting so far) Personality Traits - Sociable, Foul-Mouthed, An Improviser (I imagine him being Foul-Mouthed but not in a negative/aggressive way, more like ‘that’s f-ing awesome!’. Kind of a chill, relaxed guy that made a mistake pre or early Flare causing him to owe someone a debt) Goals - I’m sick, I want to make an impact before I die (can’t help it, it’s Viktor and the arcane brainrot. Though I imagine this sickness might be a fantasy one brought on by the Flare, possibly he started improvising with new substances for tattoo inks soon after and that caused it? Something slowly chipping away at him, rather than majorly impacting him constantly) Quirks - I have a prosthetic limb, I’m in charge of the party’s playlist. There’s one called “we need to run”. (Both just seemed fitting. I imagine the prosthetic might have existed pre-Flare, but post-Flare he modified it to work as a tattoo-pen, or has a switch to make it transform into one) So far really enjoying it! Character creation is always my favourite part of any RPG and I’m getting a good idea of how my character will turn out. Will give my thoughts of the abilities section of Character Creation soon! Edit 2: Finished reading Abilities, I’ll count the trees as a subclass-type mechanic, so when I go through the character builder I’ll make my character a level where these tree mechanics come more into play, that way I can share more thoughts about them. So far I’m intrigued, but will need to read more about each one and what they do before I create a more elaborate opinion. Onto Starting Equipment! Edit 3: Just finished reading the starting equipment, I like that you offered not just a standard recommendation for starting equipment, but also specifics for different attributes. Before I go into the character builder, I’ll say what I’m planning on placing as my attributes Presence - 4 Technique - 3 Grit - 2 Luck - 1 Speed - 0 This is where I’d like more options to move around where I place these points. I don’t see my character as being really slow or really charismatic, if I had the ability to change them i’d made presence 3 and speed 1. The only reason why luck is 1 rather than speed is I don’t see my character as being particularly unlucky, if unlucky at all, aside from the Flare happening. He’s also not extremely slow but I could possibly see him more taking his time than being unlucky. Still, the option would be nice. I don’t mind having attributes being low, I actually enjoy and encourage having things you’re bad at with characters, but forcing a player to have one be a zero just feels a little bad. I’ll now go through the Character Builder to flesh out everything else, and I’ll report back with my choices! Edit 4: Went through character creation, took a while. I read through all the options currently available and they all seemed really interesting, I ended up choosing Silver-Tongues, Elbow Greese, and Lockpicking for Skills and Ambusher and Bot for Perks. I have one perk left, and I’m debating between a Techie Teir 2 or one from Tinkerer Teir 1. I’m going to continue reading the rules to learn more about what each will do, and I’ll edit with my thoughts on them and come back to my final perk and inventory choices at the end. Next update may be a while, need a break after spending so long on this, but I’ll add it eventually!
This is. The first video i've ever watched of yours and your system sounded amazing. The character creator was so easy to understand. The npc generator was amazing 😅 Thanks for all your hard work and im playing this with my friends soon!
I actually tried to make a reskin of DnD in the same setting last year. I was really struggling with it and I am so grateful that you seem to tackled all of my biggest problems with it. Thank you so much
Dude! This looks so cool, thanks for all the work you put into your videos, games, mechanics and everything thing else, it's so awesome having thoughtful, hardworking, passionate people like yourself in the world of TTRPG's! Keep it up!!
Creative collaboration in a sci-fi setting. Very cool. I also love your subtle hints at commenting, liking, and subscribing mixed into the storytelling of the video. I'm glad I stopped by 🙂
This is the first time I actually think about playing anything else then fantasy RP. Yeah I played 1 or 2 post apocalyptic one shots before, cause I know the DM and he's fun. But this is the first time something made me actually care about the setting. Subscribed and looking forward to the videos.
This is badass! I'm so glad you did this. I am inspired. Don't know if I'll create my own beyond clone, but it's a thought you implanted in my brain. I really hope this idea catches on.
This is amazing. I'll definitely be checking this out and I look forward to the videos you'll put out. I'd also love to hear more about how you made the Beyond style tools because that's wild to me for an indie ttrpg dev.
@@Trekiros i created a character on your site and it was super easy. And I also added one of your pre-gen characters. Can't wait until it's all finished
That's really cool! Definitely gonna grab those books and check them out. Might be fun to try combined with ICRPG and the GM Emulator for a solo game! If you haven't already, you should totally release the Beyond Clone open source, sans Flare Fall of course. Would be awesome for game masters and the TTRPG community at large!
Wild. Im working on a game called Ashes of Empire and its triggering apocalypse is the super nova of a nearby star creating supernatural effects like the undead rising and rifts in reality. My setting is more near apocalypse, only 3 years afterwards in 2030. The themes of mine have more to do with supernatural and gonzo mad science run amok (the world was in a mad arms race of absurd proportion and paranoia up to the Hungry Star cataclysm).
Alright, I'm ceding to the blackmail and commenting just because you called me an idiot if I didn't. I will, however, hold this against you. Loved the video and your work!
This video showed up out of nothing in my recommendations. A channel about ttrpgs that actually takes time on creating and enabling you to play that content for free? Instantly subscribed. Congrats on your system, hope I can try it out soon...
Well done. Back when zombie apocalypse (zpoc) fiction was red-hot, a LOT of people writing it completely forgot that the zombies aren't the story, aren't the setting, aren't the themes. They were elemental, no different from a massive natural disaster like you're working with. The true draw of the zpoc is the narratives between the characters. There is a VERY fine line between entertaining, character-driven genre fiction and unabashedly bad soap opera. Riding that razor's edge is what sets the true craftsmen from the posers.
Love the way he actually delivers the msj about giving comments, likes and subscribe. Its refreshing to listen an intelectual/intelligent/smart person giving a speech. PD: I can only leave a comment, other stuff are off-limits. Have a good day!
No funny comment, but I can share some sincere praise. This looks awesome! I love how you're trying to make an accessible and fun trip game for everyone!
I will never play this game, is not my setting fantasy of choice, but this guy is awesome, such willpower and capacity, he deserves to be able to live just putting his focus on his creations. I wish you the best of luck finding the target audience and people who share in your game's fantasy.
I'm a software engineer by day, so I made it up from scratch, hosting a NextJS server, etc. So depending on how comfortable you are with code, my advice could very well be useless to you 😅
I just wanna know how do you go through the process of getting the book published as well as who would you get do your player art as well as what’s the process of actually producing the book shipping and handling?
There's basically two approaches to printing: "print on demand" and "offset printing". Print on Demand is what you get on Amazon and DriveThruRPG - books are printed one by one, as needed. Offset printing is what you get from companies like Mixam or PrintNinja, and it consists in doing one big print run of 1000 or more books at once, to benefit from the economies of scale. So it usually results in both cheaper production costs, and higher quality books... But much more complex logistics for storing & shipping the books. These logistics are a bit outside of my area of expertise (I already wear a LOT of hats between youtube, software development, game design & art directin)... So whenever the game is finished, I plan on getting in touch with publishing companies to help me with this. For smaller projects, if you aren't sure you can hit the critical mass where offset printing becomes worth it, go for print on demand instead - that's what I did for Home-Field Advantage for example. For the book's art, I managed to snatch Jean Curci & Kevin Hlaing, whom you might know as the power duo behind last year's Monsoon 5e setting on Kickstarter.
@@Trekiros the reason why I asked these questions is because I have a table top RPG core book I’m working on as well as five modules for five separate campaign endings 300 monsters for the basic core book and a beast that gives you 100 more additional creatures so far have around 75 characters trying to reach a goal of at least 150 characters which shouldn’t be that hard because 75 is already within the city and the technophobic regions will probably be around 75 Then combining a blend of game mechanics at the majority of people do not approach in the way I am doing it, streamline things as well as me being the only person doing all this😅 but hey, I’m pumping out characters left and right creatures left and right even game mechanics. I got pretty flushed out for the most simplistic of stuff at least my newer game mechanics.
Sounds very fun. I will be following closely. I am curious how you are going to balance simplistic design with detailed fun. What dice are you thinking about using? Is this a d20 system or something else? Is this going to be a class based game or skill based? So many questions but love the base story concept
Lmao the description worked. I do like to read books though. I must admit I have a hard time situating a "character concept" in the near sci-fi setting. Like, would a mid-combat healer be a thing in this game? Is combat deadly? I gather the characters are tough, but can you just right off the bat assume you have drones or something?
@@Trekiros yeah but me I do not have time for that. Ember kickstarter on foundry is a first time put the dm first ttrpg -) auto track time, auto generated event proposition, auto update journal, etc.
Radio waves pretty much only work within line of sight, and only during the night There are still radio towers at the top of various skyscrapers, but the electrical grid they were plugged into is offline, and the servers telling them what to broadcast have fried. So one common adventure hook is to climb at the top of a skyscraper, plug a new power source and a new computer into an existing radio tower, and now your faction has access to radio communication within a ~10 miles radius. ...And of course sometimes that skyscraper is filled with mutant monsters. Or, an antenna you set up last month might have become the target of a gang of raiders. These skyscrapers often act as the game's dungeons :p The GM Guide is still in the very early stages but yeah radio antennas are super important to the setting
@@Trekiros Oh cool! So they might use something more like a radio transceiver than a modern smartphone. Given the fact that skyscrapers are a major source of challenge, I imagine flight is very rare or limited?
@Sting-me1hz yup pretty rare - you might be able to find working helicopters and planes every now and then, but would you trust your life to a 20 year old heli that hasn't been maintained since the apocalypse? And with a pilot who's probably never taken flight lessons? :p
Congrats on this, I look forward to the rest of the vids. edit: Don't want to be the cause of the apocalypse, but I cannot think of any funny comments🤪
Hey, just wanted to ask you, can you make a solo supplement for the game, because I don’t have anyone to play with. I know it’s Niche, but it would be nice.
This man does genuine wonders for the ttrpg community
much love and respect
Appears, makes some of the best dnd /ttrpg guides out there, almost vanishes for a year, returns and possibly shakes the ttrpg world. Absolute madlad.
I like how the message runs parallel to the story, instead of the story being the result of the message the creator wants to tell.
Hey, congrats on Flare Fall! Looks like loads of work went into it, and the website is freaking amazing!
Oh snap thank you
Been following Distal for a while :3
@@Trekiros Daww, glad to hear that. Much appreciated.
As someone who has been writing their own TTRPG and wants to create a "Beyond-alike" to make it more accessible - I'd watch the hell out of a video or series giving some guidance on how you did that!
Congrats on creating your own very cool game and resources for it!
Unfortunately, I don't think my usual audience would have much patience for programming videos haha
But come hang around in the Discord server, we have a "computer nerds" channel where I often go into implementation details (...and complain about Firefox)
@Trekiros Hey, thanks for the quick response! I'll do that. No-code web design is already part of my day job, and I'm looking to learn some supplementary coding skills anyway. This feels like a good excuse to get started. 😅
I'd watch something about your design philosophy... multiple somethings... for multiple hours... and I think it's far more important than the programming. Since programs for these types of games fundamentally exist to help you keep track of things and such, I'd think they'd be more simple than, say, making an actual computer game. There's the whole website backend and such that obviously needs some real skill, but I think the real treasure is the design. Can't wait to watch more about this.
This whole project is so amazing! And it's free! You're a real one, Trek!
Thank you Mr Mystic! 🙌
TWO MONSTERS! The new generation is here!
It's 3 AM for me now. I have a full day of running a Cyberpunk campaign tomorrow. Part of me is still tempted to spend the night reading this.
You are so incredibly good. I don't know how you do it. Your productivity is always off the charts and the quality is always incredibly impressive!
As someone who's spent a few hundreds of hours building a d&d 3.5 app, I commend you for this effort!
Am reading through the rules currently, will come back to edit this comment as I get further with my thoughts! Just finished Basic Rules so I’ll start with them.
Basic Rules:
- I found it interesting that the attribute values only go from 0-5, and that you have a 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 specifically to use, rather than being given a certain amount of points to use and restrictions against making a bunch really high/low. Since I’ve only been reading the rules, I don’t know how this would play out in a game, but I personally prefer more choice. Though compared to other tabletop rpg games I can see this system being easier to understand, unlike DnD’s system which confuses a lot of new players. I also think limiting it to 0-5 could have a few side effects, if there’s levelling/another sort of progression then the growth in these scores are likely incredibly slow, or else you could get extremely high and powerful characters quickly, and there’s less inbetween within the characters’ skill with their attributes. With the combined low range and strict 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 allocation I could see it being likely that multiple characters might have similar attribute score spreads. Though, without having played it yet, I have no idea
- The cost/payoffs for Short Rests. This one I think is more advice? than the comment above. The cost for a short rest is 5 biomass and a long rest is 10, but for a short rest you only regain 1 hit point while long rest you regain all. I feel that either the biomass cost for a short rest should be decreased, or the reward and time it takes should be increased, because the only reason you wouldn’t go for a long rest is if you really don’t have much time or really don’t have that much biomass, when these reward differences are so large.
- This one is a big positive, I LOVE how you did character ‘deaths’. Having options for the character to possibly eventually come back but with scars/marks of their near end, or even letting you leave it up to the Plot Twister with the option for the character to come back on the opposing side, I found so fun? Not sure how to describe it, but I feel it will make the game ultimately less stressful, knowing that if a character you loved playing were to ‘die’ they could still come back, but also with a penalty and time between them just immediately being revived. It felt like a perfect way to implement the mechanic
Am off to read the next section, will report back with new/updated thoughts!
Edit:
I’m going to add to this as I go through this sections, as using the rules I’m going to slowly build a character, and at the end of the section try out the character to fill in anything left. I’m going to build a character at level 1 (or if there’s a rule similar to subclasses I’ll build at the level that comes into play)
Character Creation:
Background
- Nothing particularly negative to point out, I enjoyed the variety and uniqueness of all the tables included, especially the name lists and jobs. Rather than rolling, I picked out from each table which one I wanted to create a more cohesive character I could build a story around, and my choices from these are as follows:
Age - 23 (8 before the Flare)
Name - Viktor (thanks Arcane brainrot)
Job - Tattoo Artist/Writer (haven’t decided which, will wait to see future mechanics options to set in stone)
Bonds with the Party - I owe someone a debt (Not making this with anyone, if I was I would have to check with them about it, but this seems fitting so far)
Personality Traits - Sociable, Foul-Mouthed, An Improviser (I imagine him being Foul-Mouthed but not in a negative/aggressive way, more like ‘that’s f-ing awesome!’. Kind of a chill, relaxed guy that made a mistake pre or early Flare causing him to owe someone a debt)
Goals - I’m sick, I want to make an impact before I die (can’t help it, it’s Viktor and the arcane brainrot. Though I imagine this sickness might be a fantasy one brought on by the Flare, possibly he started improvising with new substances for tattoo inks soon after and that caused it? Something slowly chipping away at him, rather than majorly impacting him constantly)
Quirks - I have a prosthetic limb, I’m in charge of the party’s playlist. There’s one called “we need to run”. (Both just seemed fitting. I imagine the prosthetic might have existed pre-Flare, but post-Flare he modified it to work as a tattoo-pen, or has a switch to make it transform into one)
So far really enjoying it! Character creation is always my favourite part of any RPG and I’m getting a good idea of how my character will turn out. Will give my thoughts of the abilities section of Character Creation soon!
Edit 2:
Finished reading Abilities, I’ll count the trees as a subclass-type mechanic, so when I go through the character builder I’ll make my character a level where these tree mechanics come more into play, that way I can share more thoughts about them. So far I’m intrigued, but will need to read more about each one and what they do before I create a more elaborate opinion. Onto Starting Equipment!
Edit 3:
Just finished reading the starting equipment, I like that you offered not just a standard recommendation for starting equipment, but also specifics for different attributes. Before I go into the character builder, I’ll say what I’m planning on placing as my attributes
Presence - 4
Technique - 3
Grit - 2
Luck - 1
Speed - 0
This is where I’d like more options to move around where I place these points. I don’t see my character as being really slow or really charismatic, if I had the ability to change them i’d made presence 3 and speed 1. The only reason why luck is 1 rather than speed is I don’t see my character as being particularly unlucky, if unlucky at all, aside from the Flare happening. He’s also not extremely slow but I could possibly see him more taking his time than being unlucky. Still, the option would be nice. I don’t mind having attributes being low, I actually enjoy and encourage having things you’re bad at with characters, but forcing a player to have one be a zero just feels a little bad. I’ll now go through the Character Builder to flesh out everything else, and I’ll report back with my choices!
Edit 4:
Went through character creation, took a while. I read through all the options currently available and they all seemed really interesting, I ended up choosing Silver-Tongues, Elbow Greese, and Lockpicking for Skills and Ambusher and Bot for Perks. I have one perk left, and I’m debating between a Techie Teir 2 or one from Tinkerer Teir 1. I’m going to continue reading the rules to learn more about what each will do, and I’ll edit with my thoughts on them and come back to my final perk and inventory choices at the end. Next update may be a while, need a break after spending so long on this, but I’ll add it eventually!
Ooh, thank you for the detailed feedback!
This is.
The first video i've ever watched of yours and your system sounded amazing. The character creator was so easy to understand. The npc generator was amazing 😅
Thanks for all your hard work and im playing this with my friends soon!
this reply is not funny, i am now the apocalypse
Somehow the Emperor has returned!
Looking forward to all the videos of that series. The amount of work on that website is crazy too !
You are great, very excited to play your game. I use your battle sim for my D&D encounters and it works great.
Not gonna lie, releasing Flare Fall in winter is a power move. Congrats on your game!
I actually tried to make a reskin of DnD in the same setting last year. I was really struggling with it and I am so grateful that you seem to tackled all of my biggest problems with it. Thank you so much
Dude! This looks so cool, thanks for all the work you put into your videos, games, mechanics and everything thing else, it's so awesome having thoughtful, hardworking, passionate people like yourself in the world of TTRPG's!
Keep it up!!
This is awesome! Thank you for your contribution to the community.
Creative collaboration in a sci-fi setting. Very cool. I also love your subtle hints at commenting, liking, and subscribing mixed into the storytelling of the video. I'm glad I stopped by 🙂
My hat's off to you, sir. Well done. Love this genre. I am looking forward to running the game with some friends.
This is the first time I actually think about playing anything else then fantasy RP. Yeah I played 1 or 2 post apocalyptic one shots before, cause I know the DM and he's fun. But this is the first time something made me actually care about the setting. Subscribed and looking forward to the videos.
Excited for this. I’ll be keeping up with the progress of this game and site
This is badass! I'm so glad you did this. I am inspired. Don't know if I'll create my own beyond clone, but it's a thought you implanted in my brain. I really hope this idea catches on.
Well, I’m totally going to check this out. Good luck with the Kickstarter, I’ll keep an eye open.
Sounds super cool, love the passion.
This is amazing. I'll definitely be checking this out and I look forward to the videos you'll put out. I'd also love to hear more about how you made the Beyond style tools because that's wild to me for an indie ttrpg dev.
I don't run D&D 5e or further anymore but I can definitely run your game. Thank you for what you are doing for the TTRPG community!
So excited for FF to go public! Excellent guidance about world building approaches, too! 🤠
Congrats on the release!
looking forward to playing my own version of Furiosa in the setting of Freefall!
Still working on the vehicle system but one is coming for sure - Mad Max is a huge inspiration
@@Trekiros i created a character on your site and it was super easy. And I also added one of your pre-gen characters. Can't wait until it's all finished
Awesome work my dude! I'll be getting my grubby hands on this right away.
This is awesome. Well done for the epic mahi (hard work)
I just looked at the rules primer and I love the concept already. Really excited to see where this all goes.
Dude i love this im hooked this is a great concept and im gonna play the hell out of it
Loving the concept of Flare Fall! Thank you for sharing - 🍪☕
Solid. I am looking forward to backing your future Adventures
This looks amazing! The art is great :D Will back when ready!
That's really cool! Definitely gonna grab those books and check them out. Might be fun to try combined with ICRPG and the GM Emulator for a solo game!
If you haven't already, you should totally release the Beyond Clone open source, sans Flare Fall of course. Would be awesome for game masters and the TTRPG community at large!
Multi-million corporation vs. dude with too much time. Dude with too much time always mean
This looks very interesting! Excited to see the rpg evolve into a fully usable system :)
Also that description is very seo my man xD
You're about to blow the f up, this is seriously impressive. Congratulations bud!
An Intuitive world remains one of the main strengths of Call of Cthulu.
looks really good! congrats!
Wild. Im working on a game called Ashes of Empire and its triggering apocalypse is the super nova of a nearby star creating supernatural effects like the undead rising and rifts in reality. My setting is more near apocalypse, only 3 years afterwards in 2030. The themes of mine have more to do with supernatural and gonzo mad science run amok (the world was in a mad arms race of absurd proportion and paranoia up to the Hungry Star cataclysm).
I like the SEO in your bio. The algorithm recommended this based on my DC20 video consumption alone though. Make of that what you will lol
That’s really cool I might check this out
Any system made with your great design principles in mind is sure to be one my friends would love! I’ll check it out now
Wow, bravo! That sounds like a lot of fun 😁
A new Trekiros video? While I was looking a for a way to kill time? YYYEEEEESSSSD
This is INSANELY cool! Subscribed and going to check out the website!
This is very impressive.
Alright, I'm ceding to the blackmail and commenting just because you called me an idiot if I didn't. I will, however, hold this against you. Loved the video and your work!
This is awesome! What did you use to make the character creator?
Elbow grease (and a metric ton of JavaScript)
@ JavaScript? :( Guess it was only a matter of time before I had to learn it. Thank you.
A passion project, I cant wait to see how it goes
This video showed up out of nothing in my recommendations. A channel about ttrpgs that actually takes time on creating and enabling you to play that content for free? Instantly subscribed. Congrats on your system, hope I can try it out soon...
Great video! I want to see a video about movies and books inspiring for Flare.
cool Trek! looking forward to the next!
I was so sure the 'most dangerous challenge' was going to be scheduling.
There is something more dangerous than a locked door. A locked mimic door!
Can't wait to play at least a one shot with my friends. Hope you get all the success you deserve 🙏
Honestly this seems really nice mix of the scifi my friends like and the fantasy i like and the fallout post apocalypse stuff my Dm really likes
Gratz! Looks very interesting.
Well done. Back when zombie apocalypse (zpoc) fiction was red-hot, a LOT of people writing it completely forgot that the zombies aren't the story, aren't the setting, aren't the themes. They were elemental, no different from a massive natural disaster like you're working with. The true draw of the zpoc is the narratives between the characters. There is a VERY fine line between entertaining, character-driven genre fiction and unabashedly bad soap opera. Riding that razor's edge is what sets the true craftsmen from the posers.
Created a new character, excited to see where this goes!
Post-Apo is a rare theme in ttrpg. You just convinced me to try IT out.
Great job keep up the good work
Love the way he actually delivers the msj about giving comments, likes and subscribe. Its refreshing to listen an intelectual/intelligent/smart person giving a speech.
PD: I can only leave a comment, other stuff are off-limits. Have a good day!
A wise man once said “you was only supposed to blow the bloody door”
This is dope gonna play it later
I really appreciate your dedication and creativity. Thank you.
After seeing all of your videos about game design I’m really interested to see how your original game functions.
This is awesome. Could this be used for any ttrpg? If so, I would love to run a DND Campaign in this setting!
Can't wait for the release of the book. I'll get a copy. I know a few peeps who'd really enjoy this.
I appreciate your appreciation for alliteration!
No funny comment, but I can share some sincere praise. This looks awesome! I love how you're trying to make an accessible and fun trip game for everyone!
I am fully hyped for this and ready to give it a go
This is dope. Count me in. Take my money. And yes, I will play test this awesomeness.
Flare Fall looks amazing and looks like loads of work into it, and the website is amazing!
This is so cool! [insert funny comment and liked the video]
I will never play this game, is not my setting fantasy of choice, but this guy is awesome, such willpower and capacity, he deserves to be able to live just putting his focus on his creations.
I wish you the best of luck finding the target audience and people who share in your game's fantasy.
Ok, funny orb.
You got my subscribe
This is so cool. I wish I had enough time to play it
All seriousness this is actually amazing ❤
Out of curiosity, what did you use to make the digital toolset? I’ve been wanting to do something like that, but I’ve not been sure where to start
I'm a software engineer by day, so I made it up from scratch, hosting a NextJS server, etc.
So depending on how comfortable you are with code, my advice could very well be useless to you 😅
@@Trekiros ah, well I’m not particularly good at hardcore programming, unfortunately
This is frickin awesome
literally just wondering if someone did this! awesome
I just wanna know how do you go through the process of getting the book published as well as who would you get do your player art as well as what’s the process of actually producing the book shipping and handling?
There's basically two approaches to printing: "print on demand" and "offset printing".
Print on Demand is what you get on Amazon and DriveThruRPG - books are printed one by one, as needed. Offset printing is what you get from companies like Mixam or PrintNinja, and it consists in doing one big print run of 1000 or more books at once, to benefit from the economies of scale. So it usually results in both cheaper production costs, and higher quality books... But much more complex logistics for storing & shipping the books.
These logistics are a bit outside of my area of expertise (I already wear a LOT of hats between youtube, software development, game design & art directin)... So whenever the game is finished, I plan on getting in touch with publishing companies to help me with this.
For smaller projects, if you aren't sure you can hit the critical mass where offset printing becomes worth it, go for print on demand instead - that's what I did for Home-Field Advantage for example.
For the book's art, I managed to snatch Jean Curci & Kevin Hlaing, whom you might know as the power duo behind last year's Monsoon 5e setting on Kickstarter.
@@Trekiros the reason why I asked these questions is because I have a table top RPG core book I’m working on as well as five modules for five separate campaign endings 300 monsters for the basic core book and a beast that gives you 100 more additional creatures so far have around 75 characters trying to reach a goal of at least 150 characters which shouldn’t be that hard because 75 is already within the city and the technophobic regions will probably be around 75 Then combining a blend of game mechanics at the majority of people do not approach in the way I am doing it, streamline things as well as me being the only person doing all this😅 but hey, I’m pumping out characters left and right creatures left and right even game mechanics. I got pretty flushed out for the most simplistic of stuff at least my newer game mechanics.
Sounds very fun. I will be following closely. I am curious how you are going to balance simplistic design with detailed fun.
What dice are you thinking about using? Is this a d20 system or something else? Is this going to be a class based game or skill based? So many questions but love the base story concept
Lmao the description worked. I do like to read books though. I must admit I have a hard time situating a "character concept" in the near sci-fi setting. Like, would a mid-combat healer be a thing in this game? Is combat deadly? I gather the characters are tough, but can you just right off the bat assume you have drones or something?
Nice initiative. To be in advance thinkbto integrate dm tools that help us run game. That's a thing not well integrated in dnd beyond.
To be honest I mostly make the tools I end up needing as a GM :'D
@@Trekiros yeah but me I do not have time for that. Ember kickstarter on foundry is a first time put the dm first ttrpg -) auto track time, auto generated event proposition, auto update journal, etc.
Great work on the website. I wonder how mobile phones would work if all of the electronics have been fried?
Radio waves pretty much only work within line of sight, and only during the night
There are still radio towers at the top of various skyscrapers, but the electrical grid they were plugged into is offline, and the servers telling them what to broadcast have fried.
So one common adventure hook is to climb at the top of a skyscraper, plug a new power source and a new computer into an existing radio tower, and now your faction has access to radio communication within a ~10 miles radius.
...And of course sometimes that skyscraper is filled with mutant monsters. Or, an antenna you set up last month might have become the target of a gang of raiders. These skyscrapers often act as the game's dungeons :p
The GM Guide is still in the very early stages but yeah radio antennas are super important to the setting
@@Trekiros Oh cool! So they might use something more like a radio transceiver than a modern smartphone.
Given the fact that skyscrapers are a major source of challenge, I imagine flight is very rare or limited?
@Sting-me1hz yup pretty rare - you might be able to find working helicopters and planes every now and then, but would you trust your life to a 20 year old heli that hasn't been maintained since the apocalypse? And with a pilot who's probably never taken flight lessons? :p
YO!! Missed your content man! How can we find you other than random TTRPG streams?
Got a discord server, where you can opt in to get pings!
Joining Discord and waiting for the rest of the videos eagerly!
@@Trekiros Yo, I'm the Baron over there, thanks for welcoming me!
Well I know what I'm gona play next
Congrats on this, I look forward to the rest of the vids.
edit: Don't want to be the cause of the apocalypse, but I cannot think of any funny comments🤪
This is what "Fine. Ill just do it myself." looks like when done by someone dedicated and hypercompetent.
If the world is still scifi, I wonder how much damage the solar flares really did
Damn, sounds super intresting
i am usually not into sifi but this is interesting... and it gives me kinda borderlands vibes, i´ll keep an eye on that :D
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Hey, just wanted to ask you, can you make a solo supplement for the game, because I don’t have anyone to play with. I know it’s Niche, but it would be nice.
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