Hey friends,

Llama3 is here!!!

The big change in this week's update is Franz now uses Llama3 as the default model.

What is LLama 3?

It's one of the latest open source language models released by Meta. So far, we've found it to be quite good!

What does this mean for Franz?

• His responses should be much faster now

• He has a lot more common sense and will push back on you like any other GM would. You can't just say you found a light saber in the middle of your high fantasy campaign, he won't go along with it willy nilly.

• Much improved storytelling

• He feels way more natural overall

Please give Franz a try and let us know what you think. If you are using Mixtral as your current model, we recommend giving Llama3 a try!

Joining Active Campaigns

Gone are the days of everyone needing to be in the campaign lobby, you can now invite your friends to campaigns you've already started! Click on the invite button in the Characters tab and send the link to your friends.

The lobby page also got a refresh as part of this update 🤩

Minor Updates

• Added a retry button when Franz errors out or does not finish sending his message.

• Performance improvements, Franz should be a couple seconds faster now. We're going to continue make him even faster in future updates.

• Franz should prompt for rolls more often now.

• Simplified the profile form.

• Improved stability of realtime connections in multiplayer games.

• Added a 'quick start' option for new players when they first log into Friends & Fables.

• Fixed modal sizing on iPads.

• Fixed a bug where carrying capacity was multiplied by 5 instead of 15.

• Fixed a bug where Generate with AI button was not working on your in-campaign character.

• Fixed a bug where confirming a spell would not close the spell modal.

• Fixed a bug where Franz is typing... would stay on the screen after erroring out

• + More bug fixes to improve stability and reduce error rates.

What's next

• Unique usernames: We want Friends & Fables to eventually become a platform where you can meet others, make friends, and play together. To support this, we'll be converting the current display names into unique usernames. When this update rolls out, each user will see their new generated username on login and be prompted to update it if they wish. We expect this update to roll out within 1-2 weeks.

• Combat Revamp: We're actively working on updating the combat system and this will be the main priority for the next few weeks. Super excited to work on this and get it out to ya'll as it'll bring back some big pieces to the game. We expect to get the first version out within the next ~3 weeks. Apologies for the delay here!