Player Survey on Adding Spell Scrolls to the Base Game
RAIDBORN - Founder's Pack · published
Update June 11th, 2026: Thank you all so much for participating in the survey and openly sharing your feedback. If you are interested in the survey results and the actions I took in response. Please refer to this post for more information. Original Post: I have received a lot of feedback on the recently released Spellcraft & Wizardry expansion. I would have happily reduced the scope of the magic expansion and made it part of the base game if I had correctly anticipated your feedback. Unfortunately, this was not the case. But I take your feedback very seriously and would like to provide you with a possible solution. For this reason I have created a super short survey to evaluate your thoughts on the solution I have proposed below: The only feasible solution I can offer at this point is adding spell scrolls and scroll crafting to the base game. With this, you would have access to all spells of the expansion, and it would also align well with the otherwise melee and ranged combat focus of the game. At the same time, the expansion would still offer a large amount of new content. In case you didn't know, the Spellcraft & Wizardry expansion adds much more than just a magic system. For more information, please refer to the store page. Please note that this still isn't trivial to implement, given this feature is deeply integrated with the magic expansion, but I am willing to take the effort if enough players can accept this as a compromise for the request to have magic be part of the base game. I am also open for any constructive feedback on how to improve upon this solution. Before you suggest anything outside of my proposed solution, though, please kindly read about why other solutions that have been brought up to me are not feasible to avoid repetition. Please click here to share your feedback on the solution I have elaborated above. Thank you so much for your time! Why are other solutions not feasible? Making the whole expansion part of the base game is unfortunately not a feasible solution. A large number of players have already purchased and enjoyed the expansion. Making it part of the base game now would be unfair to those who chose to buy it and support development. Refunding those purchases also doesn't lie within my possibilities as a developer on Steam. Besides, I also cannot magically (pun not intended) make the production costs for this rather large expansion go away. Please note that the Spellcraft & Wizardry expansion was a substantial investment with many months of development costs, four professionally voiced characters, and a translation into 5 languages. This might not sound like much to you, coming from AAA games, but it is a very significant investment for a small solo-indie developer like me.
IMPORTANT: The purpose of this post is to discuss solutions only. If you want to vent or participate in the general debate surrounding this topic, please refer to the pinned posts I have specifically created for this purpose: Why is Magic part of an expansion?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1546090/discussions/0/572665855469489856 Why are there two DLC at launch?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1546090/discussions/0/572665855469490515