Journey to Valeria

A play-when-you-want RPG. Hop on, explore our worlds, and build your story!

[journeytovaleria]

Hi, hello! Once all the planning is done and ready (no rush), will this be open to players? Your world intrigues me so much. I hope you're having a lovely day!

Yes it will!! We’re hoping to get a good amount of it done over the summer, including world-building and game mechanics. But as soon as it’s done, we’re planning on opening up to whoever wants to play!

(Found the ask! Tried to answer it on the wrong blog... 🤦‍♀️)

[journeytovaleria]

Here’s what we have so far in terms of development for the game! This is 22 pages’ worth of development and thought, and there’s still so much to go. Coming up here soon I can talk about action categories and different parts of Steere, plus maybe some classes I’ve been working on!

Also, the ask box is very open! Any questions, or anything you want to know more about? Please let me know!

[journeytovaleria]

Lore? Lore.

Lore!

There is a longstanding habit of avoidance between the Weaver class and the Reclusive Steerean race. Why? Good question.

Weavers are the most powerful illusion-based class on Steere. Reclusive Steereans usually stay in the oldwood forest biome due to the sensitivity of their skin to unimpaired light. The technology on Steere is all based on solar power, which means that Reclusive Steereans can’t access it as much.

But Weavers? Their illusion-based powers hold the capability of mimicking sunlight.

It’s not unheard of for Reclusive Steereans to capture Weavers and exploit them past exhaustion (until death) for access to working technology. Definitely not unheard of, and just a little more common than uncommon.

So... yeah, Weavers tend to stay out of oldwood forests.

[journeytovaleria]

A Bit About Classes

Hey all! Accompanying this wonderful bird GIF is a bit of information about the class system of Journey to Valeria. This is still pretty rudimentary and will likely change in the future, but I like the idea of documenting all of our ideas.

About Classes

In designing this RPG, my two main goals are organizing pace and allowing for more customization of characters. Therefore, the class system we’ll be using has a few different tiers. Each tier has a wide variety of options (or, it will once more progress is made) and some will be specific to some races, while others will be available to all. There are three tiers!

Primary Classes

A character’s primary class is like their main schtick. This is the thing that can be developed the most and commonly used in terms of power, skills, and abilities. These are the ones that determine what a character’s secondary and subclasses can be. They have such a large effect because some primary classes are so powerful and extensive that they don’t allow for pairing, and others are incompatible with each other. Primary classes, while powerful, will have varying access to different actions based on their power level and what other classes they can be paired with.

Primary classes that can’t be paired with a secondary class or a subclass will inherently have access to more actions and abilities to balance out the lack of other options.

Secondary Classes

The secondary class is meant to be a companion to the primary class. These classes are somewhat commonly used and can be developed to about half the extent a primary class can. This means that more players can use them as they are much less specific and can usually be paired with other primary classes.

Subclasses

Subclasses are the lowest tier and are generally characterized as a single skill or ability that can be developed. For my lovely DnD players, think of this as the difference between a ranger and someone who knows archery. Kind of like that!

Combinations of Classes

As mentioned, different types of classes can be combined with each other provided they’re compatible. The only general rule is that two primary classes can’t be combined. Secondary classes and subclasses don’t have any rules for which types they can be combined with; everything is determined by the rules outlined by the primary class. Here is a list of possible situations:

Primary + Secondary + Subclass

Primary + Secondary

Primary + Subclass

Primary

What happens if there is no primary class? In some instances, players can choose to forgo the selection of a primary class. Their options would be instead:

Secondary + Secondary + Subclass

Secondary + Subclass + Subclass

Subclass + Subclass + Subclass

Unless otherwise explicitly stated by the primary class, combinations come in threes. When in doubt about whether your character can have a certain class, defer to the rules of the primary class. Primary class is king.

As I mentioned earlier, this is totally subject to change, but I think it’s a good base to start with! As development continues, it’s both possible and probable that you will be able to learn more about some of the class types, different specific classes, and some interesting combinations.

Thanks for reading!

[journeytovaleria]

World-Building Progress!

We’re still working on Steere and its geographical development, and I’m outlining what the rest of this week is going to look like. Hopefully I’ll be able to add a few new biomes to the planet, but other than that...

I’m going to spend the whole week talking about trees.

And I mean, just trees. Different species, where they’re found, how they grow, what they do... I have 1/5 species generally developed right now, but with new biomes comes new species.

You guys had better appreciate all the tree work that’s going into Steere or I just might cry.

[journeytovaleria]

We have a name!

After spending some time thinking on it, and mentally rifling through a few names, we’ve come to a consensus on an official name for this game. We’re so excited to announce our RPG:

Journey to Valeria!

In the coming days as things are developed and shared more, you’ll get a feeling for why the name is what it is. Until then...

[journeytovaleria]

About the Planet: Steere

We are working on the development for one of the planets in the system! This one is called Steere, which we can lovingly refer to as the forest planet.

Similar to the way oceans grow deeper towards their centers on Earth, on Steere the trees in the forest grow taller. There are several different types of forest, including the oldwood and the overlight, as well as a few different biomes of interest. Omnipresent in all of these is the oldwood mushroom, a fungus with the potential to strip an area of all life as it continues its spread.

There are two different intelligent species on this planet, both forest-dwelling humanoids: Reclusive Steereans and Shallow Steereans, sometimes referred to as shallows. Reclusive Steereans, typically solitary, live, hunt, and explore in the depths of the oldwood forests. Shallows usually live everywhere but the oldwood forests, and they’ve even created a civilization called Heartland that seems to attract every shallow on the planet.

We’re super excited to see where Steere goes from here as we develop culture, government, and technology! 

If you’re interested in seeing how you can play in this RPG as a character from Steere, make sure to follow us @thediscordrpg​!

[sunnydwrites]

Creating an entirely new world means spending 4 pages talking about a single mushroom and how it affects literally everything on the planet. (It’s called an oldwood mushroom, in case you were wondering.)

- Follow @thediscordrpg to stay up to date!

[journeytovaleria]

This is Our “Hello World” Post!

So... hello world!

You’re seeing us in your beginning-most stages. We just started development of this game a couple of days ago, but we’re already so excited for where our journey will take us!

Here’s what we (and you) know so far:

We don’t have a name yet! We’re not “Unnamed Discord RPG” just to be cheeky, we’re just still in the thinking stages for that one.

We’re going to be a play-when-you-want RPG hosted on Discord!

There is going to be so much world-building.

And we’re hoping to keep you updated on the journey! This is going to be a huge, crazy, complicated, in-depth project and we want to share every step with you. Stay tuned for some awesome world-building and gameplay updates!