Oh man this is exciting haha. Welcome back Tim, but most important of all welcome to 13TH AGE BABY OK, meshing it with proactive stuff is actually really easy since so many of the mechanics interact with icons specifically, and the icons are basically factions. So whenever an icon is involved in a plot, their faction is involved. That means that tying character goals to the world is really easy, because you just: - Look at their one unique thing - Look at the factions they have positive/negative relationships with (decided or rolled on during character creation) - Pick goals that serve a positive faction or harm a negative faction - can be super vague at first if you like and then fleshed out later when they have more context And then when you're designing encounters, it's easy because you already know which factions are involved and why. The icons tie them to the world in a way that should make deciding on goals pretty easy!

@James Willetts Welcome to Notion! Think of it like a wiki. You can do all kinds of formatting stuff (and you already have, it looks like, with your toggles), but the real strength of Notion is in the links and relations. It's a little overwhelming at first, but hopefully the video helps with that.

On the page there is this paragraph: "The app: a completely new type of RPG product The Darkest Woods app is a digital product designed for the needs of a game being run and played online—and built to take maximum advantage of that mode of play. Think of it like an RPG book that’s been reimagined from the ground up for the online environment; with pages formatted for your screen, easily-sharable resources, no page-flipping, intuitive navigation, and additional features that don’t just make online gaming easier—they take advantage of its unique nature to deliver a better RPG experience. Your players may find the Darkest Woods a daunting challenge, but you’ll find it amazingly easy to GM. Check out this helpful guide to The Darkest House’s interface!" OK, I'm really curious about "the app". It's like the app version of the book? So instead of having a generic e-reader app or a tabletop system app, you have an app that's specific to the adventure itself? That's kinda genius actually, since you could link stuff exactly where it needs to go and update clocks and processes in the background and take care of a LOT of the prep. It seems like a ton of work, but they probably vibe-coded it. Did you use the app? Was it good?

Can't make this time, but excited to hear about it. Hopefully someone has a chance to post about it afterwards. I had a fun time with this over the summer. What are you running, Briggs? Floors 1-2? 3+? I'm just curious, since I haven't run anything past Floor 3 myself.

Day 1 down! Ran 8 hours or so of the DCC game today, then played some M:tG limited this evening (Hobbit pre-pre-release, the GenCon special). Tomorrow I am running a few longer games. Feeling good.