New Adventure and Gameplay Update

New Adventure and Gameplay Update

This update adds a new adventure, introduces outdoor exploration maps, expands difficulty options, and makes significant improvements to combat, looting and character management.

New adventure

• Added Bandit Camp!, featuring outdoor exploration, encounters and staged battles.

• Outdoor adventure areas now allow an new environment, not overland, and not dungeon.

Difficulty options

• Added adjustable enemy hit points.

• Added difficulty controls for resistance checks, spellcasting and adventuring skills.

• Added an option to disable armour durability.

• Difficulty can be selected when starting a new game.

• Difficulty settings can be changed later and are saved separately for each playthrough.

Combat changes

• Significantly revised weapon competency progression.

• Successful attacks against appropriately capable opponents can now provide a chance to gain weapon competency.

• Improved how defence and dodge are resolved for creatures.

• Conditions that reduce defence or dodge now work more consistently.

• Fixed some Radiance and Positive Energy spell artwork being cropped inside battlefield hexes.

Improved combat loot

• Winning a dungeon battle now immediately presents the defeated creatures for looting and harvesting.

• Items left behind are placed in a persistent loot bag at the encounter location.

• Loot and harvesting results are retained and will not reroll when reopened.

• The loot window no longer appears when defeated creatures have nothing to loot or harvest.

Character improvements

• All characters can carry an additional 10 lb before becoming encumbered.

• Wounded is now limited to a maximum of three stacks.

• Portrait importing now offers Fill Frame and Fit Image, allowing the entire portrait to remain visible when desired.

• Spell details can now be opened through a compact information popup.

• Added keyboard shortcuts for inventory, character sheets and party spellcasting.

Exploration improvements

• Added new exterior terrain including roads, paths, stone pavers and shallow water.

• Deep water can now require Athletics checks (swim) and apply Submerged (which turns into drowning) when characters fail.

• Terrain can now block line of sight or apply conditions and resistance checks.

• Added a one-time animated hint pointing to the Light Source button when the party is in darkness.

• An empty party can no longer leave town.

• Encounters placed at an adventure entrance now trigger correctly upon arrival.

• The game clock now consistently uses AM and PM.

Resting

• Dungeon rests no longer have to end after the first 60-minute Reprieve.

• Players can continue resting in one-hour increments.

• Wandering-monster checks still occur while resting.

• Recovery can continue toward the full 24-hour Recuperation milestone.

Fixes and performance

• Fixed several encounter-loot and continuation issues.

• Fixed spell conditions inconsistently affecting defence and dodge.