“If the System is going to make everything this cheap,” Grotto grumbled, “then why doesn’t it just add us as co-arbiters and give it to us for free?” My familiar did a spin to vent his frustrations, his armored feelers whooshing through the air with some real force behind them. Kai and I both leaned back to avoid becoming collateral damage.
“The Labyrinth...
2026-02-02 10:25:17 +0000 UTC View Post“What happened?” asked Varrin. “Were we pulled into the Labyrinth?”
“We’re mostly in the same place,” I said.
“Mostly?” asked Major Kai.
“Location is relative.” I pointed up. “Relative to the sky, we moved. Relative to everything else, we didn’t.”
“Wasn’t it the sky that moved?” asked Guar.
“Depends on your perspective.” I held...
2026-02-01 21:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostPick a Subterfuge 10 evolution!
You are a natural at blending into your environment. As long as your presence wouldn’t be unusual or inappropriate (such as trespassing in another person’s home), other characters do not notice you unless you want them to. This effect does not work on characters whose Wisdom is higher than your Subterfuge skill or who...
2026-02-01 21:49:42 +0000 UTC View PostPick a Hospitality 10 evo!
Then go vote in poll 16!
Last time you all chose to be a Timan, giving you a boost to your Mystical skill progression, and also grabbed the Eye of Transgression and Smite active skills from Divine.
Nor let's finish making skill level 10 evos for your current array of intrinsics.
Food you prep...
2026-02-01 21:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostYou have earned the What a Twist! achievement!
You completed the Less-Than-Habitable Heavy Armor Course without a single death fruit penetrating your armor. That’s kind of a miracle since all of them still hit you. Really, you just sat there and ate all those attacks. Don’t get us wrong, the way you kept passionately rotating your hips to sway into ju...
2026-01-31 06:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there! Back at the launch of book 1 I'd created some incentives based around how well the book did, one of which was the creation of art commissions as voted on by Patreon and Royal Road. After a year of nonsense and budget-destroying life events, we're finally able to get back to them!
Here are the links to the ones that have already been completed:
!!!!!!!>>>LINK<<<!!!!!!!
Today's the day!
Of which we've now had four.
Launch days, that is.
You folks probably know the drill by this point. If you're newer maybe not, so here's a couple things you can do to he...
2026-01-28 18:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the ominous tone permeating our wordless journey, we made it to the Dungeon without any problems. The entrance was a hundred-mile wall of slender trees packed so tightly together that they were impassable by normal means. There weren’t any obviously intended paths through the sixty-foot thick barrier, so I simply teleported us all past the minor obstacle.
The trees in this area ...
2026-01-28 01:02:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhat race is this person? Also, start dropping your name suggestions into the comments. And go vote in poll 13!
You gain +500 inventory space and +10 to your elemental defenses.
You gain +10 darkvision range, can swim at normal speed, and gain the Stealth intrinsic skill at...
2026-01-28 00:59:28 +0000 UTC View PostPick some more active skills!
Last time you folks grabbed Fast Recharge to boost your mana regen and Justiciar to grant yourself stacks of Blessed when hitting stuff with attacks. There's definitely a strong tilt towards spell caster at the moment.
Next, let's get a couple of Divine active skills. Pick your two favorite and we'll add them to the list.
As we get farther along, ...
2026-01-28 00:23:24 +0000 UTC View PostIt also got stubbed. I posted about removing the chapters on RR but not here because I forgot to. If you're a paid member and were in the middle of reading book 4 I can send you a PDF so that you can finish. Book 4 is included in Kindle Unlimited though, so if you have that subscription it'll be a better experience. Either...
2026-01-27 18:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe initial effect of the Heirloom Tradition was already incredible. My current evolutions made the defensive weaves I added to armor twice as strong, meaning each point of attribute requirements did twice as much work. Having those effects further boosted by the inherent Heirloom set bonus would be a chunky pump to the defenses I could stack onto gear.
For example, the bread-and-butter P...
2026-01-24 22:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostChoose a WIS 10 evolution!
And also go vote in poll 11!
Your base mana regeneration is increased by an amount equal to your WIS per hour.
Your darkvision range is tripled, including any bonuses you have to darkvision range.
You are never considered unalerted.
(An unalerted character is one who has no idea that t...
2026-01-24 22:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostPick your infernal/righteous ass a Divine 10 evolution.
Your relentless pursuit of divine truth has enabled you to detect entities imbued with magical influence. You gain Magic Sense out to a number of feet equal to your Divine Magic skill level. Your Magic Sense also reveals entities considered sacred or profane to your deity, even if they are not otherwise magical. 2026-01-24 22:10:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Wands! Your girlfriend loves ‘em! Like, to a weird degree. She sleeps on them, rubs them all over her toned, athletic dragon body. Thick wands, skinny wands, short wands, looooooooong wands…
Have you considered taking the Cuck skill, because most of those wands aren’t yours, you know?
Whatever. Choose a Level 40 Wandmaking evolution an...
2026-01-21 14:18:25 +0000 UTC View PostPick a Luck 10 evolution!
Go vote in poll 9 as well!
Crits are weird so here's a primer on how they work for the game system. This informs how they function in the books, but requires a lot more tabletop terminology to give a good explanation.
Critical Strikes: In the base system there is no automatic crit range. In order to become capable of critical strikes, one must ...
2026-01-21 14:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostChoose an alignment for your deity for Divine Magic!
Last two polls got us a person who can boost spells and have psychic chats with animals. Is this person a righteous crusader or benevolent monk? Maybe they're just kind of a dick?
The way alignments work is that each deity is either Holy or Infernal. In addition, any deity is either Righteous or Wicked. Thus, each god falls into o...
2026-01-21 14:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostWell, well, well, some-body needs emergency escalation support and guess who it is? Literally the ONLY meatbag on the entire planet who we get called in to help like this. How are you doing that? Really, what’s your secret?
Come on, confess your darkest sins to us.
Before you do that, however, let’s fix whatever shit you b...
2026-01-20 11:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostChoose your Level 10 Animal Husbandry evolution!
Then, if you haven't already, go vote in poll 7!
Animals can understand your speech, and you intuitively understand the meaning of their body language and vocalizations. You can telepathically communicate with any animal within a number of feet of you equal to 40 + twice your Animal Husbandry skill level.<...
2026-01-20 11:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostChoose your first active skill!
There's a second poll again today so go vote in number 8 as well!
Last rounds we got the Subtle Skills evo for Mystical Magic. I didn't expect such a landslide there but it's a good pick.
Attributes were more contentious.
LCK was the clear winner with WIS at a respectable second place. Having mana and some situation...
2026-01-20 11:32:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe little doll moved like it was submerged in molasses as it came to life, and Déjà vu crept into the edges of that moment. The sense that this had happened before echoed across me, rebounding within my skull until it escaped the confines of when I was and swept back across my life.
Everything I’d done, I’d done before. All my choices had been predetermined, their outcomes inescapa...
2026-01-19 08:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostChoose your Level 10 Mystical Magic evolution!
When you gain this evolution, choose 1 skill you know and 1 mana shape you know that is compatible with that skill. Whenever you activate the chosen skill, you can cause it to automatically gain the effect of the chosen mana shape without additional cost.
Whenever you gain a new evolution in Mystical Mag...
2026-01-19 08:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostHey there! Today we are going to be choosing 5 levels worth of attributes, meaning that 40 points are up for grabs. We're doing a similar vibe as last time with proportional assignments based on the outcome. I'm doing multiple picks again, so choose your top 3 to advance.
Current attributes are:
STR: 3
AGI: 1
SPD: 1
FOR: 2
INT: 1
WIS: 1
CHA: 1 2026-01-19 07:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Ahoy,
Holy shit did I get sick. I've never been that sick before. I'm still not over it, but I can at least get out of bed and scavenge enough brain cells to make an update. If recovery continues to trend upwards I'll probably be back to posting chapters by this weekend. It keeps coming in waves so no promises.
Anyway, let's get another poll knocked out while we're ...
2026-01-15 01:21:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Did you know the Woodworking Dungeon is the largest one the Littans have found?” asked Ishi.
“Makes sense,” I said. “Being inside a forest and all.”
“It’s gotten larger as well,” she added. “The staff wielded by the Hierophant of the Abductor fell inside the Divine Dungeon, but it was never fully recovered. A large portion of the staff found its way across sever...
2026-01-10 12:45:26 +0000 UTC View PostSo far we've got a LCK-heavy Delver with a Mystical attunement. That means Mystical Magic is their first intrinsic skill.
Let's go ahead and get some more of those intrinsic skills situated so we've got an idea of how this person operates. Pick a category and we'll give options based on how the vote goes.
Weapons & Martial Arts
Magic
Shields & Armor
Crafti...
2026-01-10 12:41:12 +0000 UTC View Post“She was already dead,” I heard Xim say as we grew close. “My skill won’t harm allies.”
“Allies? You weren’t allies!” shouted the man. “You hated her!”
I looked the irate Littan over, recognizing him as one of the men who’d challenged me in New Krimsim–the lanky instructor whose students I’d killed back in Eschendur. He had his weapons out, pointing his cru...
2026-01-06 23:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostNow you must choose your attunement!
Last vote there was a landslide victory for... Luck.
I'm already intrigued.
The following are the proportional values of the top three choices distributed between 10 attribute points, which is the amount that is granted during Creation. These were Strength, Fortitude, and Luck. I rounded to a single decimal, leaving...
2026-01-06 22:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostYou've entered the Creation Delve. Where are you placing your attribute points?
Top three choices get allocated proportionally based on results.
Howdy folks,
This year we're adding some extra flair to what's going on here on Patreon. Part of that is letting Patreon name and design some side characters. These characters will DIE in the next book. It will p...
2026-01-05 16:05:49 +0000 UTC View PostVarrin gave me a look as the lightning mage, Alanor, continued his work. We could both sense the frustration building up in the Littans around us. It was rare that something could render so many Golds impotent to help, and being forced to watch their comrades dragged to a slow death was devastating morale.
“How long until Madel returns with Xim?” asked Varrin.
“She must go a t...
2026-01-05 07:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post