West Marches & LMaO (Patreon)

Due to the world shutting down recently and many people being trapped in their homes I'm going to be doing my best to get updates out more regularly. The next LMaO build should hopefully be out either Friday or Saturday. It'll probably be similar to the last build, just a few new scenes here and there. But it will also add XP values to items. Monetary and XP values will generally be identical for items. However, this change will let me have unique items that are explicitly intended for leveling as quest rewards. It'll also allow me to lower XP value for equipment.

Also in regards to everyone being trapped inside. I feel like people could use an outlet to hopefully destress and have some fun. So I've (finally) started taking in applications for a West Marches game. For anyone that doesn't know what a West Marches game is, allow me to explain.

West Marches is a style of D&D game where there are dozens of players who form small groups of 4-5. The DM (me) will then run them through a small adventure that will (hopefully) take 4-5 hours. Essentially doing some kind of quest or mini dungeon crawl. The groups and players all rotate and gradually gain experience and loot and do their best to survive in a hostile environment. The thing that's great about this style of game is that the world is persistent. If one group goes into a crypt but they get chased out before killing the wraith inside, another group can go in and try to beat that wraith. Additionally a group might clear out an area which allows a new group of creatures to take up residence there later on.

If you haven't played D&D before and are interested I would love to have you jump in. It's a really great time and I love teach new players and introducing people. If you're a veteran you're also totally welcome to jump in. Anyone who is interested can do so by checking out the announcements and West Marches tabs on discord https://discord.gg/b2gStF
(That discord is also used for the D&D game I run on twitch Sundays with Fek and a bunch of other wonderful folks. Everyone is very nice so please feel free to stop by and say hi.)

Aside from just trying to help with everyone getting a little stir crazy, this West Marches game is also really important for the future of LMaO. I'll be setting the West Marches game in a similar world to LMaO (minus the sexual overtones because that'll just get weird and unpleasant in a D&D setting) This way I can use West Marches to help flesh out encounter ideas, potential quest lines, traps, dungeons, environments and NPCs (again minus the thirst). It'll also let me see how other people respond to those traps, dungeons and NPCs and hopefully help me write better scenerios with more desireable options.

So if you're at all interested in D&D please jump in and feel free to message me. If not there should be a LMaO update in the next couple of days. I got a lot of writing done today and a little bit of coding fixed. I'm feeling pretty good about getting a build out Friday or Saturday at the latest.

Also just in regards to Covid-19 and all of the craziness. I'm sure people are sick of hearing about it at this point but I just want to extend my thoughts very quickly. I hope everyone stays safe. I know this is a hard time for a lot of people with work and money might get tight so if you need to drop support here it's totally understood. Please take care of yourselves first and stay safe. I'm so grateful for all of your support. Thank you. <3