PROGRESS UPDATE (Patreon)

It's time for another update concerning our progress. The posting of Career Paths will resume again tomorrow (unless I sneakily add one late this evening - watch this space!).

So, how are we doing?

CAREER PATHS
Unless you've skipped the last week, you'll probably have noticed we've been diving deep into our updates to the Career System. So far, we have 10 Career Paths on the blog alongside an additional post explaining everything.

We have:

ADVISOR
AGITATOR
CLERIC - PRIEST OF SIGMAR
ENVOY
GHOST STRIDER
NOBLE
SCHOLAR
SLAYER
SPY
WATCHMEN 

And to make sense of it all...

CAREER PATH DETAILS 

Many more where those came from!

STUDIO
Our garage is now (mostly) clear and planning applications have been made.  We hired a chap to do the clearing for us, because it was all a bit overwhelming. When he arrived, he instantly regretted the job.

Why?

Well, let's just say that it wasn't an ideal day for it.

He got very wet. Poor chap.

The garage is now home to a few thousand miniatures and little else.

TEMPORARY STUDIO
Progress clearing our temporary livingroom studio is also underway. We're currently boxing up the room and storing everything upstairs in the space our eldest daughter just left (she has moved out to study Games Production at Abertay University). There are a few hundred games in that room, so even though we've cleared out tons, there's still a lot of work ahead. But, we're getting there...

The above is just games from one set of shelves! Cripes!

EQUIPMENT
We're now in the progress of sorting all the equipment we need to start streaming. 

One of our players, Ed, has stepped up to collate everything we have. He has done a lot of audio/podcast shenanigans in the past, so is much more well-versed with this than me. At best, I know what mic I use for Inside the Rookery, and that's about it.

HOUSE RULES
Our house rules are now in a very good place. The core is finished, all that's left is all the embellishments. Such as spells, career paths, prayers, mutations, and so on. So, still tons to add, but the actual rule bit is largely finished.

And, yes, posts to come about that.

And now that all the rules are in place...

PARTY
Our party of 5 adventurers were completely rebuilt using our new rules last Friday. These are the characters we'll take into the stream itself. A momentous evening finalising our PCs.

They were built with the new Character Generation system and expanded with the new Career Path system. Both worked a treat, and were immediately recognisable as WFRP4, but tweaked, so were super smooth to use.

Given we've been playing with these PCs for a while now to get used to the rules, each other, and the game setting (some of the players have never played WFRP before), each PC started with 2750XP. Somewhat similar to the Pre-generated PCs in the WFRP Starter Set. Indeed, one of our PCs was even mentioned in that publication. Can you guess which one (there is a hint in the image below)?

CULTISTS
Our party of Cultists is also completed, and will have its first adventure next Monday. I will be posting about this in more detail to All-Access patrons a little later. I am super excited about this second group, which will be running con-currently with the first, and whose actions will directly influence events presented to the Party. And vice versa...

DISCORD
Lastly for this update, our Discord community is growing from strength to strength, and now has almost 150 members. That being the case, we recently put out a call for Mods to help us run the place and expand it. We've had many applications already, but our doors have not yet shut for this.

If you'd like to join in, there is a special bonus for all mods, as covered in this post.

Also, we've set a deadline of Sunday the 18th 6pm UK time for all applications. So, only a few days to go!

PATRON EXTRAS
Now that we're drawing closer to actually streaming, it's time to get the Patron rewards in place. Tomorrow a post will go up explaining how to access cool stuff available from tiers like Walk-on LAWhammer or Hero of LAWhammer. I'm enormously looking forward to what you all want to contribute to our game. As mentioned on those tiers, the conversation concerning all of this will be handled on the LAWhammer Discord server.

Really looking forward to seeing you all there.

Until next time!

Andy Law