Hey everyone, bringing news from the frontline of Rules Documents here. Our main rules document has ballooned in size since we last posted in the thread, as a result of us bringing new flavour, as well as skills and traits with more advanced options and more progression with more granular power levels. We're making steady progress but there's a lot of work to chew through after we made the changes to the rules and systems at the start of this process, so while we can't get you an update just yet, I want to give you some insight into how we're pushing the traits system while you're waiting.



As you can see, the traits here are lined up with Fire 1 coming first, and for a Trait like Fire Heritage it uses regular numbers instead of the Roman numerals we use for Skills. In addition, this new chain system allows progress through the fire heritage trait, providing new bonuses as the trait evolves. One part of the chain, Fire 3, also grants an activated ability which can be activated by paying the cost of 1 vigour and taking a Zero Action (an action with no cost, but that needs to be declared) - and the cost is denoted by the ";" that shows you what must be paid to take an action.

Hey folks, we've got another peek behind the curtain for ya!



That's right, we've got personality traits with (mild) mechanical and (more impactful) narrative effects! This is the personality traits we've lined up for one of the characters in the quest. At the risk of it being obvious, would you care to take a guess ? Obviously this category will be part of the new character sheets when we update those

...Edit: In hindsight we have been informed we were not entirely clear, but these are traits we've decided on for a character in the quest, and that character will have these traits when they appear in the quest next time

Dungeon Creator 2 - By the Light of the Pearl​

QM note: we're not ready to go back to a regular upload schedule, but we do have a good portion of the next delve firmly underway! We're going to take the next little while to update the character Crabacter sheets and get all our ducks crabs in a row while you have this update (and maybe some apocrypha!) to chew on









The shrine is a strange piece of our dungeon. At once, it is a sanctuary for our littlest crabs and a haven for the creatures of the dungeon in times of crisis, but it is also a pillar holding up the gates to a new floor.

Skali has taught us many things about the Brilliant Sky Pearl since that fateful day Snippy sat on her shell:

She started as the Mother of Molluscs, watching over her wards since the earliest days. In this duty, Nulumi reached out to the moon and coated it in reflective nacre. She became the Tide-Giver by her command of the moon. Truly, an impressive Kami.


With the support of the Brilliant Sky pearl, we can support a new floor. Are we going up or down?
[X] Down of course! We're going Deeper
[X] Up! We Rise with the Tides!


Something strange happens when we think about the prospect of a new floor, like a flood of memories we always had that were never there before. Crabs and crustaceans abound on our first floor, yet something tells us that the second floor could easily become a taiga or jungle, or even a mineshaft or haunted mansion! How strange…

A new environment with new critters, or a continuation of an ocean of ideas? What a novel choice, but an oh-so-difficult one. Bah, decisions, decisions!

What theme will our new floor have?
[X] This is the Crabby Cave! We will have crabs and caves!
[X] Write-in

Oh, it's more to it than before? We have tiles to place? Ack, why is it so much work to go deeper?

We have 9 free tiles to place, how will we arrange them? (the room the staircase is in will be part of the Shrine to The Brilliant Sky Pearl - meaning you will have a 3x3 basic shrine room to start off. See map for details)
[X] Write-in

Obviously, the tiles need something to go with them, that goes without saying. The question is, what?

Choose a starting feature:

[X] Mural of the First Reflection - A mural depicting the triumph of the Brilliant Sky Pearl. It is a beautiful set of carvings and etchings decorated with nacre and running water. They glimmer brilliantly when light shines upon them, and one large piece even shines in the dark... (Greatly Increases our Attractiveness to Delvers).
-[X] Place the Mural (Room)

[X] Overgrown Toolbox - A toolbox, covered in local flora. It's completely rusted shut, and will need opposable thumbs to even try and operate the locking mechanism. Can't be opened by cave creatures, but it does look nice with hues of red and green. Increases attractiveness to Delvers.
-[X] Place the Toolbox (Tile)

[X] Shaft of Sunlight: a small shaft in the dungeon which provides a lot of bright light to a room. This light has different effects depending on the environment and creatures inside of the room, from the obvious (creatures with light sensitivity may struggle) to large (plants grow faster, ice melts and refreezes, becoming slippery, etc.).
-[X] Place the Shaft of Sunlight (Room)

This is too much thinking, we should…
[X] Go to sleep now. We'll be awake again soon enough…
[X] Rest… just for a bit…
[X] Take a nap, Snippy and Skali will wake us if it's important!
[X] Write-in

Vote by Plan! Or Snippy WILL snip you!