Waiting for LL delivery, but also for new crowdfounding product 😍

Wait, is this a collection of already existing PDFs? Because I already have PDFs for almost every "New" district you mentioned in this video. The only new ones here are the campus and Happyville I believe.

I was excited about this until I discovered I already bought six of the districts as stand alone. Feels bad.

Love the initiative to hire experienced storytellers 😊 absolute dream job to write for this game

Oooh, this looks so good! And I sure would like to know more about Chester, Vance and such, their designs and concepts seem great

I've been looking forward to this for years now I'm even more excited I hate being broke

Looking forward to the new map! I have already run a couple of the adventures as one shots and they worked out great! Had a great moment at the end of Maestro of Chalk where one character got charmed and started fighting the group, great drama all around.

Do the one-shots contain any elements that tie them together like in Nights of Payne Town?

That seems very nice. Are there other new themebooks other than Tradition ?

Absolutely love this video and very excited for the MIGHT rules. My two cents would be: why not try a fusion of the +3/-3 system with the ability to take immediate consequences (example: servant girl killing king gets seen and has an immediate wanted level) or burn tags to lower the difficulty of these checks. I feel like this might allow crunch and narrative focus for both sides and even allow monsters/baddies to get consequences if they punch too far below their might for too long (i.e the dragon that constantly attacks the farming village might eventually stack consequences and cause an adventuring group to find their location) -- I feel like there has gotta be a way to fuse the narrative and crunch rules when it comes to might. Honestly, fantasy does this all of the time with a sort of ebb and flow of power even when a pauper fights a king.

Really looking forward to finally getting to hold these products and read them the way books should be read.

Awesome news! How long will the pre-order period run?

Had an idea for "Storm Trooper aim" You dont hit anyone but you cause everyone in a cone in front of you to use a reaction to take the nearest cover lol

Can't wait for this!!! I like character option "B" for the girl. My kids and I love City of Mist, but we are all really Gloomhaven and Tales from the Red Dragon Inn players. We love the fantasy world and so immediately backed this! Very exciting!

I really like the idea of more images (beautiful art as always!) to communicate the ttrpg I’m really excited to dive into. Words are just images we’ve given meaning and a system to. I read in the comments that other creators have tried to do this and failed to pull it off for some of the reviewers and users. The fact that many have even tried shows a desire to actually evolve and innovate a medium that hasn’t really changed much in delivery that much except in recent years because of the popularity, joy and transformation the game can instill in the players that really engage with this beautiful infinite game. I hugely admire the innovation and outside the box thinking the original city of mist had. Follow your creative instincts. Make it more accessible and inviting to even get into for more people. There are no perfect beings from every perspective, so just be perfect from your perspective (and the amazing team you’re working with). Some ripples take years to even surface visibly, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth every effort to throw the energy stone in the ocean of time.

Cyberpunk or mythology Both sounds like crap

Huge fan of solo. If possible please stay away from generalized Oracles that put too much onus on the player to generate meaning/create the world and story. For most of us, playing is about playing and roleplaying our characters in the world. The more the events in the world and what we see/what happens is created by the world and the theme the better. Please also consider, when writing adventures, how for a solo player to interface with them (ie writing it in a way where a player can go “scene by scene” and choose as opposed to a huge lore dump the GM is meant to figure out). Failing that (or in addition) solo or GM-less written adventures (or a framework for players to make them would be huge). Agree that your challenges already are really well tuned for GM-less play, the less the game relies on the player to “make sense of random out of context events/keywords” to generate a story, or just saying, “here’s how to make a journey, make one for yourself” the better. Even something like a high level story arc, that is revealed in stages, and in between there are journeys populated with semi-random events would be better than just asking the player to make it up themselves. Thanks, love what you’re doing!

The Other Ideas section for Might was very interesting. I think the -3/+3 is a good baseline for the Might Rule, but I really like the idea of incorporating some of the other ideas. Maybe as severity levels to how much more mighty a challenge is? Or perhaps being able to utilize one of the other ideas to counter or reduce the severity of the -3? I just really like the idea of facing a foe and having them burn your tags or burning your themes due to their imposing position. (disarming your sword, destroying your shield, sapping your magic, capturing or killing a close ally, etc.)

I am very happy that you aren’t shying away from the Lord of the Rings parallels. So many games try to be different or shake things up from the formulaic “classic fantasy” that they lose a lot of the soul of what made fantasy settings so compelling. I love the examples regarding Might for example. Gandalf should feel immensely powerful if a character gets to play him, but in a situation such as being among the hobbits of the shire or in the corrupted halls of King Theoden, his reputation as a wizard hindered him. I am so excited to see how this system develops further.

Can't wait to receive mine!!!🙌🏾

That gm screen is badasss

Jealous! I want the books now!!! 😭😆😭😆

So glad I backed this! Can’t wait to run the game in this system when it comes out!

Love this talk, Thanks Amit. The Mighty through consequences seems like a fun mechanic. It could lead to moments like the Jamie Lannister scenario in GoT: you have the chance/power to slay the King, but now you will go through life known as The Kingslayer and this will be a cut in all your social interactions from now own, even with your allies or the enemies of your enemies...

I really like Might as you described it. An alternative would be to increase / decrease the level of success. So a 10+ becomes a 7-9 automatically if you’re up against something causing you peril, and a 7-9 becomes a 6 or lower

Loving the info inside this update! A thing I noticed is that you kind of answer how to move forward with the Solo/DMless Mode with the segment that follows (Quests, Milestones, Abandon). By keeping the Solo Mode journey character-centric, not only could you keep growing the overall Story by using the (final) Consequence outcome to steer it upward, downward or 'organically' sideways, you could scale that triggering mechanism down to the (follow-up) Consequences and even the Threat Action "AI". This cascading of the triggering mechanisms from Threat AI -> Consequence -> Story Scene would then not only feel intuitive to the player(s) but also save LitM from becoming yet another "mindless" Solo RPG that relies on disconnected Oracle prompts and random AI actions. The Threats, Scenes and overall Story will flow more organically and actually make sense. And you wouldn't even need to flesh out hundreds of branching states in an attempt to capture this natural flow. A template structure for Story exists already in Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, while the (de)escalation of Consequences simply needs rails on both ends as not to end in Event extremes that unhinge the story. A few example situations could suffice to give the DMless player(s) guidance. I continue to be amazed by your work and use it to feed ideas into my own Solo RPG structure, which has the same goal as LitM: make the experience more cinematically centered around story, not mechanisms. No more stale random-table dungeon generation or nebulous solo journaling activities. These two extremes fail to balance out specific storytelling (with a real plot) with a usable action framework to drape our tales of adventure upon. So, I'm glad we are pointed in the same direction. This is the way forward. Thanks and... keep exploring!

Thanks for this update. It's fantastic, and it gets me excited to put my hands on this work. I was thinking about the systems, and was wondering if you'd consider having a "result upgrade at a cost" similar to what is done in Brindlewood Bay with the crowns. If you're not familiar with it, you can use a "crown" to increase the result of a roll from a failure to a success with consequences of from a success with consequences to a success without. In exchange you can either tell a part of your back story, in the form of a flashback, or expand on a current aspect of your character's life. I think it could be interesting in a game where character evolution is so essential, to add a way to reveal pieces of your background, or do like in "The Between" and have those options reveal elements of your character's evolution. Thanks for your great work!

love the hat of sorrowbalm A !

Love the video! I choose Sorrow Balm B! Can't wait for the book!

So Eowyn was burning her tags when going against the Witchking of Angmar?

I'm really a fan of the Journey idea of small vignettes/encounters!! it is exactly what I've been looking for in my campaign! the camping/rest options also seem great and I actually like their simplicity over the downtime in city of mist, for example (despite it being basically the same, it looks easier to understand). Regarding the Quest and Milestones, I've actually been using basically that for my campaign in which a character "lost" a Theme because they basically accomplished all they were looking for (in this case, discovering who their father was) so when we replaced it it was not because of breaking but by being fulfilled. Finally, about the different Power Levels thing, I actually thing the idea of +3/-3 against different levels works well. It might be numeric based, but considering how narrative the system already is, it lets players get very creative and find unique ways to overcome challenges!!! the alternatives could also work (especially the instant Consecuence one, I feel the adding or removing dice actually could go against the core of the system, and as you noted, when you have good tags or a lot of them, it might just be irrelevant). I don't really know, but in general I love this ideas!!!!!! I'm so excited for it to finally release!!!

The so-called landscape--I would say it's quite great, but Isn't it too linear to players? It seems there's no real choice if without a machanic that explain how exploring would be. it's like, a journey should be charted, Gandolf choose to venture into Moria but not cap of Rohan, right? If it's called "Landscape", players would thought they have the right to see different things and choose their path. Also,about the Might,why don't make the power(+3/-3) related to number of themes?

I'm really excited about the quests and milestones. They seem like a good way to start getting specific with a general theme right away, they give the player built-in motivations, and they give the MC build-in story hooks. I also like that the focus is on milestones rather than on completing the quest, as in many cases it feels like that just is easier to focus on in the story, especially when everyone has personal quests. There's just a lot of stuff to like in here, and a lot of stuff you can do with it. I'm excited about it.

I like the A design! ♡

Sorrowbalm B!

Sorrowbalm B! So excited for this :-)

I’m still trying to figure out exactly how to do it myself, but perhaps y’all could borrow a modified version of Position from FITD style games for Might differences, allowing players to spend power to improve their Position on the next roll or improving another PC’s chances Alternatively, it may limit how much of a success someone can get. For example, an adventurer tier PC may only be able to get a 7-9 even if they roll a 10+ when facing a mighty foe, where as a mighty character may be able to treat even a 6 or less as Dynamite! when facing an origin foe

Have you thought about Might granting an additional die, but keeping only two? So if you are imperiled you keep the lowest two dice out of three; if you are favored you keep the highest two out of three?

for me is Sorrowbalm B

Awesome update!

I really would like to do Avatar The Last Airbender using legends in the mist

I like the concept you're going with for Might, where lower Might things are beyond notice and the higher Might things are powerful, but likely to miss the smallfolk. That's a great concept, it really mirrors how a lot of fantasy stories flow where beginning heroes are able to get away with things simply because they're seen as insignificant and there's a benefit in being unnoticed. As for mechanics, I guess for might it'd first start with how you handle Stop Holding Back type actions in general. My first thought from games like CoM is that it feels like if you're a standard knight going against an epic dragon, you're using some form of SHB. You're punching above your weight class and that's the sort of thing SHB is for. If there is no SHB-equivalent in LitM, then maybe go the route of tags becoming crispy (auto burn) if used against someone 1 Might higher (or maybe 2 depending on how many Might tiers you decide on). And then after you're past that threshold of auto-burning, tags of even lower Might aren't significant enough to matter. Statuses could automatically degrade a tier or two. As for higher-powered beings trying to find lower Might beings, I think a tag cap could work well here. As the archmage you can't use your divine crystal ball, master of magic and staff of the ancients to all help you scry a peasant, you can possibly only use one of those (or maybe even none). Against a knight you might get a max of two tags. Using these powerful treasures and skills on someone so lowly could also cause themes to start to degrade as well (or negative statuses for dangers). The dark lord who must put so much personal attention into finding lowly hobbits finds his servants doubting his power. One would think a Dark Lord would have more important things to do. Are his plans really so small in scope?

love me Sorrowbalm A

For the hole Might think. I am currently working on a Fantasy Setting which was inspired by the Kickstarter vor Legend in the Mist. In this setting the skill level of a person is mesered in a scale from 1 for beginner to 7 what is some thing of a Mythic person. After this video my idee for this +3 -3 for my world would be something like the differenc determens the boni/penelety (or differens multipied). But for that one would need more levels. Nether the less I thought sharing that could be helpfull for some folks :D Bye the way gerate work and Thank you for this wonderfull systems :3

You mentioned making the rulebook almost like a story book - those don't generally work out well in the long run (based upon my own experience as well as people that I have gamed with and also many reviewers online). The core rulebook needs to present the rules so that you can initially read it but also so that you can refer back to it. It is more important to me to be able to quickly and easily refer to rules which are presented in a well-organized fashion than to have a story within - save that for the setting materials. I very much like and appreciate that you are making it so that lower power-level characters can adventure with higher ones, and they can both contribute.

B. But the choices were very close.

This is such an amazing game! Very different from any D20-system but when you take your time w it,it will be so epic and amazing and fun and deep and aaaaaa so so so good <3

I hadn't heard of this but City of Mist was brilliant so I pre-ordered it immediately

about 5 minutes for a fight with two thugs... and that's refined, and with a concession that the players and MC remember all the tags and moves. In reality, this would have been ten minutes min, probably with additional questions and explanations taking it to fifteen) idk, i love the theme and many of the mechanics that simulate it, but it might turn into a slog. And it's so rare that players just go into a battle without a five minute council) but CoM and other narrative-first games seem to at least alleviate this burden

God i expecting this a lot, I love it