The Core Rules have been upgraded to support games with more than 2 players in v1.2.0. Many changes and small tweaks have been made to various fighter types in Tempest Crusaders v1.5.1. Into the Tempest has gained a new 3-4 player Battle Royale scenario, and numerous other improvements, in v1.4.0.
The work doesn’t end here, though – I need to come up with some special rules and narrative elements for the big day. It will also be an unmissable opportunity to try out rules for neutral fighters, such as monsters, and rules for playing on battlefields with verticality, so I should start writing those down too!
On top of all that, I should really do some painting… and making things like fighter card templates and other things to make playing the game easier… oof baboof 😮💨
I’ve moved the scenario rules have been moved to the separate rules repo, and I’ve put in place for exporting them back to the website and into PDF format. This means my project of refactoring how I produce updates to the Magewinds rules is more-or-less complete and I can finally actually get on with doing the updates I want to do before the meetup! Before you ask, no, I haven’t just been doing this as a way to procrastinate…
Slowly, but steadily, progress is being made on my big rules-refactoring project. I now have the Tempest Crusaders fighter pack fully extracted from the website repo and added to the separate rules repo, and can generate a PDF as well as files in the format the website generator uses.
The final step in this process is to get the scenario rules moved over too. I’ve done this two times already, so hopefully this time it’ll be pretty straightforward…
Quick one today as I am quite behind where I hoped to be! – but I wanted to provide an update nonetheless.
This evening I hope to establish a process for producing printable assets for the Tempest Crusaders fighter pack and Into the Tempest scenario pack. I’m sure I won’t get it all done but if I can make a good start I’ll be very pleased with myself.
In my first post in this series I wrote about the work I was doing to make publishing rules updates easier. I am relieved to say I have completed the first major chunk of this work! 😤
There is now a shiny new PDF for the current version of the Core Rules (v1.1.2) available on the Rules page of the website (or just click here). It was generated using Pandoc and Weasyprint. Henceforth, when I want to produce a printable PDF of a version of the Core Rules I need only press a single button – previously I would have to separately maintain a Word document from which to generate a PDF, which was such a faff I only ever bothered once.
I think this will be a great workflow improvement for this game. (And for future projects!)
Please take a look at it if you have time and let me know if you spot any issues with it, or improvements that could be made. For example you might want the rules available in A4 rather than A5 booklet format, and I can certainly look into providing that as an alternative.