Hey friends,

We’re finally ready to share more about Craft with you all! If you didn’t see our last announcement, I recommend you read that first. We’ve been making great progress on Craft, so we decided this month to start devoting 100% of our time to get it launched. Starting today, you’ll be able to sign up for the waitlist for the closed beta here: https://craftrpgs.com/.

We want to reward everyone who has been paying attention and being here early with a Founder’s edition dice skin and profile badge, so make sure you get on the waitlist before April 9th! Soon after that, we’ll begin letting in small waves of people into the closed beta. Friends & Fables subscribers will be prioritized on the waitlist (please use the same email as your Friends & Fables account when signing up). The timeline for a public launch is still TBD but internally we’re aiming for the end of April.

So what is Craft?
Craft is the culmination of everything we’ve learned in our time building Friends & Fables, bolstered by some amazing advancements in AI that we’ve seen in the last six months. While in Friends & Fables you’re locked into building settings on top of 5e, in Craft you’ll be able to customize and create any game system you desire. This includes customizing things like the GM’s personality, memory systems, custom mechanics, and more. Some things you can expect to see in Craft are:

• A world building assistant that can draw maps and help you bring your ideas to life faster than before

• A layered hierarchical map system

• Fully customizable sheets - create characters with any kind of stats or fields (with no limits on description fields)

• Modular content marketplace: share and install packs of items, characters, or rules.

• Improved memory

• A larger selection of powerful models to play with

• And much more!

We’ve been working hard on Craft and it’s looking really promising. We think it solves a lot of the frustrations that we’ve heard from you all about F&F and other AI RPGs today. In particular, we believe that RPGs need more personalization and flexibility in terms of platform constraints and mechanics - no one system, even if it’s pretty customizable, will work for everyone. So Craft is our attempt at providing the foundation for you all to be able to create the systems that match your needs.

Some quick FAQs:
Will I be able to sync my content from F&F to Craft?
Partially. We know that everyone has worked so hard on their worlds in F&F, so we are going to support syncing worlds over to Craft. Unfortunately, the map systems are incompatible. So while you will be able to sync areas, characters, and everything else in the world, you will not be able to sync all of the map data. Campaigns will be incompatible for sync.

Will my Friends & Fables subscription work on Craft?
Unfortunately due to the incompatibilities with the subscription models, we can’t share subscriptions across the two platforms.

Craft is only possible from all of your support, so we will be giving any Friends & Fables subscriber (past or present) a full free month of Craft to try at no cost. Additionally, anyone who has an annual subscription and would like to end it early to switch will be eligible for a refund for any remaining months of the subscription. This way anyone who ends up preferring Craft will be able to switch to it without any additional cost.

When will Craft launch?
TBD - this will depend on how the closed beta goes, but internally we’re aiming for the end of April. We’ll let you know as soon as we know more as the beta progresses.