Discover

In January, we made updates to make it easier to create and export creations to your workshop. Now, you can share and publish all of those creations to the Discover page!

To share a creation, click on it from the workshop and tap on share in the top right to update its visibility:

Please keep in mind that all published content must abide by the Community Guidelines.

Likes

Everything on the Discover page is now likeable, so you can like your favorite content and see it saved as bookmarks from your likes page. Also useful for worlds you want to bookmark and play through multiple times without adding them to your workshop.

In future updates, we’ll let you add content directly from your likes and the Discover page into worlds and campaigns.

Public Profiles

Each account now also has a public profile that showcases all your published content!

You can share the link to your profile with others so they can see everything you’ve published. Additionally, you can now update your profile picture from the account settings or public profile page.

We’re excited to see what you all make! Feel free to post your creations on the Friends & Fables subreddit and public creations channel in Discord!

We’re excited to release the newest version of our Narration module. This is the module that powers the style, tone, and pacing of Franz.

Based on the feedback from our alpha testers, you should notice:

• NPCs have much more personality, feel more dynamic

• Scenarios of NPCs interacting with each other, environment feel more lively

• More realistic dialogue

• Variations in response lengths are more fitting to the situation. i.e, longer response if Franz is introducing an area you’ve just arrived in, shorter if an NPC is talking to you and expecting a response from you.

• Overall increase in intelligence

If you’ve been playing F&F in the last couple of days, surprise! You were actually playing the alpha version. After receiving some good feed back from our testers, we wanted to put it out there to get some of your unbiased feedback. We got reports of responses being too short all the time, memories not being recorded, etc. Those issues should mostly be addressed now. That being said, it’s hard to find all of the edge cases until more of you continue to play and report things. Please let us know if you run into any weird behaviors, we’ll try to fix them ASAP.

Quick update for world building, you can now generate classes, races, items, and spells with AI like you can for characters & monsters.

Create one of them and click the generate with AI button:

The refreshable free tier is here! Here’s how it works:

When you run out of credits, you can roll a D20 once per day. The outcome of the roll determines how many credits you receive for the day.

You’re guaranteed to earn at least 5 credits: if you roll below a 5, Franz will top you up and give you a few extra. If you roll a nat 20 then you get 5 bonus credits!

To claim your credits, log in each day and they will automatically roll when you have 0 credits and it’s been 24 hours since your last roll:

You can also see your credits and the time until your next roll in your account page:

With the new free tier refresh, we hope this helps make Friends & Fables more accessible to everyone who wants to play!

Subscription Plan Updates

We’ve also bumped up the benefits on Starter and Pro tiers,

• Starter

  • World slots increased from 12 to 24.

  • Now able to host up to 4 player campaigns.

• Pro

  • World slots increased from 24 to 48.

  • Now able to host up to 5 player campaigns.

Quick quality of life update - when you move an area or POI, you will now move any sub-entities together! So if your area contains multiple POIs, characters, and monsters, they will all move together. Same goes for POIs!

Hope you world builders enjoy this one!

You can now bulk import everything from the workshop to a world or campaign. And you can now also export from a world or campaign to the workshop!

You can access both of these from the action dropdown beside the search bar in the World tabs for Characters, Races, Classes, etc.

When importing anything, it now defaults to a multi select so you can select multiple items to add to your world or campaign.

And likewise whenever you choose to export something to the workshop:

We hope this makes it easier for you to add cool stuff back to your workshop and world build!

Improved Chat Connection

We’ve also changed how the Campaign Play screen works behind the scenes, so you should notice the chat being more stable with less ‘Reconnecting’ messages occurring whenever you change tabs.

From inside a campaign, you can now get changes from the world the campaign was started from, and if you’re an editor of the world, you can also now push changes from the campaign to the world.

For players this means you can now pull in changes from a world that has been updated since you started the campaign. And for world builders, we hope that this makes it a lot easier for you to test changes, as you can now also change things directly within a campaign world and then push them to the original world later.

To access the sync, within a campaign you can click the Sync button which is beside the Add button on all the different tabs (Map, Characters, Races, etc.).

This will open up a view where you can see all of the new entities of that type, and any which have been updated.

Clicking on ‘View Changes’ for an entity that has been updated will bring up a view that shows you all the different changes that will be applied to the campaign or the world if you decide to apply the update.

Please note at this time, when syncing Characters it only syncs the character sheet details and does not yet sync character inventory, spells, or relationships.

As always, let us know if you have any feedback or run into any bugs when using the World <> Campaign sync! In the next update, we’ll make it easier to add and use things from the Workshop.

In Message Memories

We’ve added a new collapsible UI at the bottom of Franz’s messages, so you can quickly review, edit, lock, or delete memories. We hope this makes it easier for you to see what Franz is noting down as your campaign progresses.

Good news, XP and leveling up is now back and better than ever! Franz will now dish out XP as you complete objectives, and we’ve built out nice new UI to quickly update your stats whenever you hit an ability score improvement (levels 4, 8, 12, 16, 19).

So what’s the plan for Quests?

Something we’re still trying to figure out is whether or not the current memories system is good enough to keep quests on track. If it’s good enough, we think it might actually be better to go this route as building a quest system adds complexity and can cause conflicting context. So for now, we are not planning on building a dedicated quests system. Instead, quests should be handled narratively using the memory system, and then objective completions will go through this XP system. However, we need your feedback! If you are finding the current systems are not enough to keep quests on track, please let us know and we’ll consider building a new version of the quest system too.

Other

• You can now edit everything via the minimap!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with equipping weapons on characters

• Fixed improper map scaling on PC

• Fixed NPCs not appearing in relationship creation list

• Fixed missing inventory bug

• Fixed bug when moving a character on the world map

• Fixed issue with Franz taking away experience points

• Fixed "Parent Area" dropdown anchored to top of area

• Fixed send button not working

• Fixed input sanitization for negative coordinates

• Fixed using escape key to close modals

• Fixed campaign quick display on mobile screens

• Fixed unselectable areas in worldbuilding map

• Fixed issue with adding instances of monsters to negative coordinates

• Fixes inventory scroll issue on mobile