Knowmads Travel Agency

Atlas-building Trifold Journaling MicroTTRPG

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Enclave of Cloaks WIP #3!

The hand-drawn draft version is now gone and most of the structures are blocked in. The forest looks way better than I expected and I'm super proud of this weird air-vessel-platform-strapped-to-the-hand-of-a-god thingy in the top left. Way weirder than an upside down zepplin. The first yurt living space on the right has been set up as a cut away for an interior living space view.

Peep the tiny dot in the middle. That's a Knowmad for scale.

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First Map WIP Part 2!

The Enclave of Cloaks, the home base of the Knowmad Order. Here I've started making space for the text boxes and laid the bigger lines that need to be straight, such as buildings. I'm pretty proud of how the audience pit came out~

I'm focusing on finishing the main tableau since it will be the base of two other panels (if I manage the layers correctly [i wont] it will save me some work.) and made space for my text boxes.

Next I need to finish out the broad strokes of the area, place all the building shapes and figure out wtf is going on with that river and road out front. Is it stairs? Is it water? Idek yet.

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First WIP for the first map

This is the Enclave of Cloaks, the home of the Knowmads and where you report back to Those That Know after spending 8 3-nights on a map. I thought it would be best to have the first map give you a picturee of where you're going when you make these reports.

The trifold design is structured so that the front page (Page 1 Panel 3) shows the empty chamber and when opened reveals directly underneath it the outer flap (Page 1 Panel 1) with the same chambers but with knowmads walking around interacting, which under that unfolds to reveal Those That Know now filling the chamber.

Along with that, the full campus is shown across Page 2 and the full set of numbered labels for navigation. This includes the industries that keep this monastic order funded on the left and the domestic necessities for housing so many rotating residents on the right.

This map will likely have the most text of any of the maps I make in this initial pack, mostly because I think it's important to have most players on the same page about the basics of the world, but a lot of the intention behind the events visible in the scene will be left to interpretation.

I am choosing to make the lack of a vanishing point a choice and not admit I'm just bad at perspective.

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Final third of the rules books: Optional Rules!

This includes rule clarifications, additional combat rules, safety tools, and more. I'd like to highlight the example of play and how to make a map sections especially!

During gameplay, you'll probably only need the extra questions and NPC archetypes, otherwise keep this to the side and reference rarely.

As with the other trifolds, print two-sided & flip on short edge.

Next, I'll start posting WIPs of the initial pack of playable maps!

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Character sheet!

With this and the core book, you have everything you need to get started - rules wise. I'm still drawing up maps, turns out the art part is a long process.

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Knowmads Core Book 1.0

Basic rules and premise, made to be printable (flip on short edge). Full text version for reading accessibility is in the works!