#wellspring rpg

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the creeping dark. the all-eater. the gloom.

Wellspring RPG is available now on itch.io. Join us in our fight against the ever-looming gloom.

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Do you play tabletop rpgs? Do you want to play ttrpgs, but are intimidated by the dense rules of the big-name games? Or are you just looking for something new? Well, we've got good news for you: we've got it.

Wellspring is a new ttrpg from The Mirage Company, which currently consists of an artist-writer duo of game designers. We're a game focused on the aesthetics and storytelling sensibilities of manga and jrpgs, especially those world-spanning adventures with equal parts wonder and danger.

In Wellspring, players take the stage as travelers — explorers, traders, and heroes who are all  trying to carve out a life on a dangerous planet. Some will journey through the most perilous depths to save those lost within the Gloom, some will mine it for mysterious treasures from ages long lost to catastrophes. Others will aim to find the source of the Gloom; clearing the lands it's claimed before it overtakes civilization itself.

Wellspring RPG offers a scene-focused journey system that plays out in chapters, and (coming soon!) grid-focused tactical combat with deep customization. In Wellspring, your table can tell the stories you love.

The setting features inspiration from the dying earth genre, famous manga both old and current, and future funk / glitch / vaporwave aesthetics.

If you're interested in checking it out, come hit up our itch.io! A link to our discord server can also be found there. We host playtests fairly frequently, so you can drop in and give the game a try. And of course we have the tumblr, where you can find various ttrpg shenanigans and keep up with game updates!

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Hello to my friends, followers, and distinguished mutuals! You may or may not know that I've been hard at work for the past several months on a TTRPG by the name of Wellspring, and we recently put out the very first alpha version of the game for public consumption!

In Wellspring, players take the stage as travelers — explorers, traders, and heroes who are all  trying to carve out a life on a dangerous planet. Some will journey through the most perilous depths to save those lost within the Gloom, some will mine it for mysterious treasures from ages long lost to catastrophes. Others will aim to find the source of the Gloom; clearing the lands it's claimed before it overtakes civilization itself.

Wellspring RPG offers a scene-focused journey system that plays out in chapters, and (coming soon!) grid-focused tactical combat with deep customization. In Wellspring, your table can tell the stories you love.

The setting features inspiration from the dying earth genre, famous manga both old and current, and future funk / glitch / vaporwave aesthetics.

If you're interested in checking it out, come hit up our itch.io! A link to our discord server is also available in our Development Log. For those who don't have a group to playtest with, I'm also going to be hosting regular oneshots for folks who want to test the game in the discord, so don't be afraid to pop in.

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Wellspring Alpha v0.1.5 is out now! Come get it while it’s hot!

0.1.5 is rounding out the changes we started implementing in 0.1.4. It’s a bit of a smaller one, but nonetheless pretty impactful to the game overall. As minor note, we plan to drop a quick hotfix of 0.1.5a sometime today with some minor editing fixes that we missed. I’ve also got a couple art previews to share with tumblr today.And I can actually go into some detail about the process, too! Fun stuff!

Check the patch notes below the cut.

Changelog

Some traits have been rewritten and fixed for clarity. Also new traits!

New Traveler section and character creation fix.

The Company section has been overhauled. No more personal inventories!

Company Specializations and Ratings have been added.

Followers have been reworked.

The Caravan has been reworked.

Gear is back! And it's better than ever. It is completely reworked.

Downtime overhauled. Take part in downtime scenes after your journeys.

Countless grammatical / clarity fixes throughout the book.

Caravans now have frames, traits, and upgradable features.

The Inventory is now Company-wide, a shared reserve for all. Rejoice.

Let's Chat / What's Next?

0.1.5 rounds out our new vision for the narrative side of the game. Mechanically, all of the pieces are in place, and we'll be focusing on tactical combat going forward. Next up are setting changes and another round of playtests! Join the  Mirage Company Discord if you're curious about those, or what the day-to-day looks like for the devs.

We're outlining our plans to round out 2022 and start the next. 0.2 is coming, and so is the Miragecast. We can't tell you much about it yet, but as it sounds, we're planning a podcast for Mirage Company news, q&a, and community updates.

We're also planning the website and Substack blog. We've got a lot of food cooking in the kitchen, and we're excited to serve up some tasty games. We're diversifying as we ramp up into version beta.

if you're a member of the Night Market, you get insider previews on the far future of the Wellspring ecosystem. Join our Patreon here. You'll also see how combat is coming along.

Until next time,

-gwaja and abby

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Wellspring version 0.1.1 is out now!

Version 0.1.1 marks our first major update to the game's alpha version, and the first official post on our new tumblr.

Check it out on our itch.io, and when you're done, come catch us on our Discord.

Patch notes and devlog are below the cut. Give it a read if you're interested in seeing what our next plans are!

It's a big update, so this changelog isn't as exhaustive as our future ones will be. Here's the rundown:

Changelog

New layout!

More illustrations!

New section: Downtime! Relax after every journey.

New section: The Vibes

New section: Leveling Up

Sachi added. Make money moves.

Journeys: Traverse events and random encounters have been overhauled.

Vehicles and vehicle upgrades have been added.

Gear and gear tags have been added.

More incantations have been added. We have 100+.

Skill changes. Some skills have been reworked.

Great Family text updates. More rumors.

Ancestries: New sublima text and table.

General text refinement and expansion overall.

And so much more.

Pretty good stuff, we'd say. Check it out.

The Future

Now that we've got that big one done, it's time to look towards future updates. The work is never-ending, especially when hunting the Gloom in the Neverglades. An abominable place to journey. That cursed place is an example of a legendary biome to debut in 0.1.2. Biomes in general will get some sprucing up, with their own pages and tables to inspire your adventures.The Index will make its debut — a world government. It's sole purpose is to protect the Great Family (you, and I, and many others) from the Gloom and to learn about the hostile planet we crawl upon. It's bureaucracy is built for efficiency, just like the civilization it forged. With us. We will learn of its branches, and the Archive.

Some naming conventions may change as we playtest this version. Things may get abbreviations for easier referencing, and we'll be building the appendix anew.

More illustrations are on the way.

There will be more improvements to most facets of the game's book, now that we have a new layout.

Then we will march onwards to the mechanized behemoth known as Alpha 0.2. This monster holds tactical combat in it's clutches. We're going to defeat it and reveal combat to all of you in that update.

We're aiming for bi-monthly updates, so expect to hear from us soon.

I'm sure I'm missing even more sparkly, new things to come. Keep your eyes on the Discord.

The Patreon

Join the Index. You should join it along with the rest of our patrons. Meet them, and let's talk about the many secrets of the world. Illuminate these dark sectors, so we may prosper on this planet.

The Index gets first dibs on populating tables to be released for free in Discord and Patreon. They gain access to our Virtual Tabletop (VTT) tokens and miscellaneous assets. They learn the shocking secrets of what's to come for Wellspring RPG, before we announce them to the world.

Until next time, stay safe. The Gloom looms.

- gwaja & abby

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Stop! New Wellspring Update!

Well, sort of. Mostly I wanted an excuse to use this illustration because it didn’t end up making the final cut. :(

Wellspring’s tactical combat is finally available for preview! This is a patron-exclusive preview, but it lays out the basic details of our combat rules in a small 10-page PDF. All the critical crunch is here: action economy, movement, and, most importantly, How to Hit Things. We finally did it! (For those who have not been following us for long, we’ve actually been slowly chugging away at the combat system basically all summer and fall. Like, we initially said it would be out by September. Whoopsie.)

For those who are not patrons, fret not—0.2 is well underway! Beta will be bringing the full tactical combat system along with major overhauls to the book’s structure to make it easier to find critical information, a brand-spankin’-new layout (again), and all sorts of fun stuff.

We’re still working out if and when the combat preview will be available to non-patrons, but we’re going to tentatively say it’ll be sometime following internal playtesting, which we are looking at being ready to begin this month. So, if all goes well, our followers who don’t belong to the Night Market will see combat in some form come the New Year. In the meantime, you can come join the Mirage Company discord server for updates on what’s new in the world of Wellspring.

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sick.

panel from the new Looks page in Wellspring Alpha v0.1.4.