Dynamic Balances: Venleitche

Devlog

• Development Status 2020-04-26
  April 26, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Yesterday's playtest was successful, thnks so very much to Attercap, Foursticks, Xander, and Arcomniflash, and to the BwK DIscord for hosting the hatching of a new game system and world! We are at 203... Continue reading
• Playtest Today! (2020-04-25)
  April 25, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Today will be the very first #Venleitche Playtest, Saturday, April 25, 2020, at 3pm ET (UTC-4), on Babies with Knives Discord ( https:// discord.gg/7BCqF7J ). Please help me keep this project alive an... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-04-19
  April 19, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  We are approaching make or break weekend. This Saturday, April 25th, will be the playtest of the sample adventure, on the BwK Discord server ( https://discord.gg/7BCqF7J).). Patrons, please attend. If... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-04-12
  April 12, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Character sheets are now separate files from the manual, as there's two versions, a flat graphic and a fillable-form. The short story is under heavy revision. This past week has been less productive d... Continue reading
• Venleitche Open Playtest with Pregens
  April 06, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  We will be playtesting Dynamic Balances: Venleitche, using the Sample Adventure in the book and the Skyler's Bridge pregens, Saturday, April 25, 2020, at 2pm ET (UTC-4), on Babies with Knives Discord... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2020-04-05
  April 05, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  I spent part of this week relocating from Nashville TN to Pine Bush NY so that I could be with my family during the current apocalypse. However, progress was made. Among other changes, there is now a... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2020-03-29
  March 29, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  We held Playtest Zero yesterday on the Babies with Knives Discord server. Alice/Lallatwittle and Brandon/Bryliana built characters, analyzed the game world and mechanic in the process, and provided mu... Continue reading
• Today's Playtest is Go!
  March 28, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Last minute reminder: The first ever playtest of Dynamic Balances: Venleitche is today at 3p;m CT on the BwK DIscord https://discord.gg/7BCqF7J . Patrons get first dibs on a seat, then waitlisters, th... Continue reading

  
• Venleitche Cover v0.6
  March 24, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Here's the front cover from the game book. The L is capitalized and enlarged because it looks cool. The painting and tree-bark picture are both public domain, and properly credited. What do y'all thi... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2020-03-22
  March 22, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  There's a lot happening right now. We're going to talk about the fact that Venleitche is up 9 pages this week, some of which is due to layout elements being added for readability, and some of which is... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-03-15
  March 15, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Venleitche stands at 187 pages this week, up 6 pages after last week's massive layout-induced reduction. The Theurgy and Deep Magic sections of the Magic chapter have been completed. Child terms have... Continue reading

  
• Venleitche Playtest SIgnups Open
  March 14, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  The first ever Venleitche playtest will be on Saturday, March 28, at 3pm US Central Time, on the Babies with Knives Discord server. The link here does not expire. You do not have to be a patron to pla... Continue reading

  
• Venleitche Ready To Playtest
  March 11, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  The #Venleitche sample adventure is done. I'm going to go back through the entire GMing chapter for an editorial pass, then start thinking about doing pre-layout work on it. Yes, there will be revisio... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-03-08
  March 08, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  We're up 14 pages this week. Most of that is the Sample Adventure. The mechanic is now done enough that I can write the same adventure, and move to playtesting. I'm up to the Climax of the adventure,... Continue reading
• Update 2020-03-06
  March 06, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Just a quick note to let you all know I finished the Deep Magic section of the Magic chapter, which means the mechanic is now complete enough for playtesting. I'm working on the sample adventure at th... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-03-01
  March 01, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Don't be alarmed - this week's beta compile is down 29 pages, but that's not material being cut. That's me doing preliminary layout work. Patrons will see a significant difference in this week's compi... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2020-02-23
  February 23, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Yes, I've moved my beta release to Sunday afternoons, partly to see if it gets more traffic than Monday mornings. After a three week lag due to being overworked and not paid overtime at my day job, Ve... Continue reading

  
• Progress Has Been Made.
  February 20, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

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  Venleitche is moving again! I've separated out the new short story from the Introduction chapter, and made it a new chapter between Magic and Stuff. I've restructured the Magic chapter to follow the g... Continue reading
• My Apologies
  February 19, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  My dayjob is going through some contortions at the moment. I'm on call this week, when the average week has been 55 hours, and the paperwork is piling up because I'm too busy putting out fires. I will... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-02-10
  February 10, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  I'm sorry, folks. I've put in serious overtime the last two weeks at the dayjob, that I don't get paid for at all because I'm salaried paid as hourly and capitalism sucks. The burnout is bad this week... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2020-02-03
  February 04, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Due to an oncall week for my dayjob with 59 hours logged on my timesheet and having to work over the weekend to catch up, there has been very little progress this week. My apologies. Please see the at... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2020-01-27
  January 27, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  We have broken ten this week, up 10 pages from last week with most of it being getting our stats together in the Stuff chapter. As always, see the Changelog in the attached spreadsheet for the specifi... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-01-20
  January 20, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper#Admin

  Another week, and a rough one at the dayjob, I'm doing extra hours on a Sunday in parallel with doing this week's compile, and yet we stand at 179 pages, up 4 pages from last week. The Forvar section... Continue reading

  
• Midweek Status 2020-01-16
  January 16, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  I'm hoping to have something for y'all this week, but the dayjob is kicking my butt. I've put in two 12 hour days already this week and it's not over yet. This is going to be a slow week for anything... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-01-13
  January 14, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper#Admin

  We've got 11 new pages of material this week, including significant work on the Game world and GMing chapters. The changelog: 01/06/20 Game World Write section for Testament 01/06/20 Game World Expand... Continue reading

  
• Time Change for Weekly Release
  January 11, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper#Admin

  Thank you for your continued interest and support! This week, I will be moving the beta compile release from Monday morning to late Monday afternoon, to see if putting it in a prime timeslot gets more... Continue reading
• Development Status 2020-01-06
  January 06, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Here we are, the first beta release of 2020. I'm pushing this pretty hard to try and release by the end of March at this point. You all have hung out with me for a very long time here, and I owe a fin... Continue reading

  
• Midweek Sneak Peek 2020-01-01
  January 02, 2020 by Wandering Beekeeper

  I'm going to break a rule just a little bit and release one creature from the Venleitche Creatures chapter here. Comments are open, please tell me what you think. Chimney Sweep Averaging a foot high f... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-12-30
  December 30, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper

  Please see the original post at https://bit.ly/2ZCQRC7 for the mentioned attachment. Attached please find the spreadsheet for the last beta release of calendar year 2019. There's not been as much pro... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-12-23
  December 23, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Admin

  Original post with attachments at Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/wanderingbeekeeper This week's page count is only up 3 from last week, but there's been a good deal of revision going on, alignment... Continue reading

  
• Midweek Update 2019-12-18
  December 18, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Dynamic Balances, #Venleitche

  Been a busy week in the dayjob, extended production outage that's finally over and now I get to write the report on it yay. I can spare the cycles and attention for Dynamic Balances. Got a logo for th... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-12-16
  December 16, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Admin

  #Venleitche weekly #ttrpg manual beta compile has been released to patrons. The dev tracking sheet at https://bit.ly/2rSFKZ1 is posted as public for transparency. Major revisions include reorg of Acti... Continue reading

  
• Midweek Status 2019-12-12
  December 13, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Admin

  I've been doing a revision pass for mechanics consistency, which is one of those things you have to do on a regular cadence to keep the system trued up and playable. This has slowed down the productio... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-12-09
  December 09, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venlietche, #Dynamic Balances, #Admin

  Follow this link https://bit.ly/2PtuaeU to a public post on my Patreon with the Development Tracking spreadsheet for today, including the Changelog, Wordcount and Pagecount, and To-Do. Patrons have re... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-12-02
  December 02, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Dynamic Balances, #Venleitche, #Admin

  This link https://bit.ly/2svnDs6 redirects to a public post on my Patreon with the development tracking spreadsheet. We are up ten pages this week, partly due to addition of a new party of example cha... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-11-25
  November 25, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Tracking, #Project Management

  The weekly tracking spreadsheet for my #Patreon system, #Venleitche, is at https://bit.ly/33hk0Tm , with changelog, wordcount and pagecount, and ToDo, set to public. The actual game manual beta compil... Continue reading

  
• Where to Find Me
  November 20, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper

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  It occurred to me that I haven't told you about where to find me online. I post live to https://dice.camp/@WanderingBeekeeper on the Fediverse when I'm writing, so you can see the word count ticking a... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-11-18
  November 18, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Admin

  This post https://www.patreon.com/posts/development-2019-31639296 on my Patreon has last night's spreadsheet with wordcount by chapter, page count by week, changelog, and to do list attached. The post... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-11-11
  November 11, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Status, #Milestone

  At this link https://www.patreon.com/posts/dynamic-balances-31466133 please find the Dynamic Balances / Venleitche tracking sheet as of today, set to public in the interest of transparency. The compil... Continue reading

  
• Development Tracking 2019-11-04
  November 04, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper

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  #Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Development

  The weekly tracking spreadsheet has been posted at https://bit.ly/32isskF - no page count increase this week, but significant revisions to the character build system, sample characters rebuilt to the... Continue reading

  
• Languages of Antillia
  October 30, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Velneitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Gameworld

  As promised, here's the draft of the section on languages, providing a handy reference table showing some of the nations / kingdoms / whatever of Antillia, what their people are called, the name of th... Continue reading

  
• Character Build Beta Release
  October 28, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche

  Beta Release: The Venleitche / Dynamic Balances character build system is now open for testing! Development tracking spreadsheet at https://bit.ly/2Nk1l3l has wordcount, page count, changelog, & ToDo... Continue reading

  
• Religious Practices 04
  October 27, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Gameworld, #Magic

  Let's talk about coming of age rituals, inheritance, and blood pacts. Event-Driven Observances While girls have a ritual to mark their first blood, we’ve already talked about female moon rituals. Si... Continue reading

  
• Religious Practices 03
  October 26, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Divine, #Religion, #Gameworld

  Religious Practices 03 Further work on how the people of Venleitche live Cyclical Observances These tend to be not only time based but event-driven, done because a routine occurrence either happened... Continue reading

  
• Religious Practices 02
  October 25, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Religion, #Gameworld, #Divine

  Religious Practices 02 Continuing the section on how the people of Venleitche live their lives, which in turn will determine Professions, Skills, and various other mechanics. Everyday Observances Most... Continue reading

  
• Religious Practices 01
  October 25, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Religion, #Gameworld

  Religious Practices 01 Given the reality of Divinity in the game world, I've continued on this idea in worldbuilding, and developed out a number of ideas in parallel, such as terms for the four possib... Continue reading

  
• A Third Foray into Darkness
  October 23, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Darkness, #Gameworld

  HeartSick HeartSick seeks out key people in the community, and becomes something they routinely encounter or are close to – a memento on their desk, an old tool at the back of their workbench, a sau... Continue reading

  
• Development Status 2019-10-21
  October 21, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #ProjectMgmt

  As of last night, when this post was written, the development compile was at 113 pages, with 93% of targeted wordcount. It's become obvious that both wordcount and page count will have to expand, with... Continue reading

  
• Stenna al Tiressa v2.0
  October 20, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Character, #Mechanics

  This is the first character to be built using the Smith Profession, the current Backgrounds, and the current build mechanics. I'm going to be doing an edit on the system later to bring up the Balances... Continue reading

  
• Further Into the Darkness
  October 20, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Darkness, #Gameworld

  RivenWord, the Bringer of Secrets RivenWord shows up as a person, someone who maybe the community might know peripherally, someone whom its targets might trust, at least a little at first. It offers a... Continue reading

  
• The Darkness
  October 19, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Darkness, #Gameworld, #Religion

  Within the Dark (or Darkness, which word is used depends on where you are in the world), entities come and go, born, reborn, devoured by the greater or hordes of the lesser, an endless seething cauldr... Continue reading

  
• The Creation Myth
  October 18, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #GameWorld, #Religion, #Divine, #Darkness

  Before we talk about the Deities, and their opposing entities, and how they manifest, we should delve a bit into how the world came to be. Venleitche has only one creation myth, reflective of its havi... Continue reading

  
• The Reality of God
  October 18, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Gameworld, #Divine, #Religion

  I'm working on the religion section for worldbuilding, and giving a lot of thought to it. What sort of a world do you get when the reality of the Divine can be proven? When the deity or deities make a... Continue reading

  
• General Layout of the Continent
  October 18, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Gameworld, #Antillia

  The continent of Antillia lies mostly south of the world’s equator. While the Intemperate Lands extend across and to the north, hardly anybody lives there, as it’s just too hot for people, plants... Continue reading

  
• Character Structure 02: Connections
  October 18, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Mechanics, #Character, #Connections

  Connections All characters, whether player or NPC, have four Connections: Self, Social, Nature, and Magic. These shift according to character type, character decisions, game events, and the passing of... Continue reading

  
• Character Structure 01: Balances and General Info
  October 18, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Character, #Mechanics, #Balances

  The world of Venleitche has no elves, dwarves, or other nonhuman species. All characters are human. Following is the structure used to quantify a player character, with explanations of the qualities... Continue reading

  
• Conflict in Venleitche
  October 17, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Story, #Gameworld

  The smaller conflicts revolve around interpersonal issues, border disputes, resource allocation, and all the problems of daily living in a society with early medieval technology levels and diverse cul... Continue reading
• Magic and the Seasons: Overview
  October 17, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Magic, #Seasons

  Magic divides by the seasons, with each season having its magical nature and those whose souls are aligned to it. Each Season also has an Element aligned with it. Spring magic is the strength of the... Continue reading

  
• Obligatory "What Is A RPG" Section
  October 17, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Mechanics, #Introduction

  Introductory text from the WIP. Feel free to comment. At its heart, tabletop roleplaying games are a way of formalizing the art of storytelling. Humans have been telling stories since we learned how t... Continue reading
• Brief Summary of Game World
  October 17, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Gameworld

  The world of Venleitche loosely resembles our own early medieval Europe, but with a Neopagan twist. The dominant religion is duotheistic, worshiping a God and Goddess who each take different forms acc... Continue reading

  
• Core Mechanic Philosophy
  October 17, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances, #Mechanics

  The Dynamic Balances mechanic actively enforces the consequences of character actions, for good or for ill. Once an action is taken, the story is then driven by the consequences, as the players deal w... Continue reading

  
• Introducing Venleitche
  October 17, 2019 by Wandering Beekeeper#Venleitche, #Dynamic Balances

  Introduction Venleitche, pronounced fin leech ay, is a vaguely Germanic spelling of wenlicce, a old Anglic word meaning handsomely, in a comely fashion, agreeable, consistent, in accord with, harmonio... Continue reading