Mattyrial Plane [1]

Here’s a new section I was inspired to make due to book real estate being occupied with plenty of flavor text yet still not encompassing my full intent with word choice.

It’s less an explanation and more a self-indulgent ramble so please bear with me!

Insular

An in-book screenshot of Insular Dice and how they interact with Pool Dice.

As one of the original pieces of vocabulary from when the idea was coming together, it was a word that became deeply important to the central ethos of the game.

With the focus of community and how individual actions shape the surrounding world, there needed to be a starting point where characters tunnel on their own abilities. For better or for worse.

Insular Dice are a mechanic and symbol from the perspective of an individual’s effort. It is unable to interact with others’ efforts and is insulated from effectively collaborating in full.

Insular Dice are not necessarily bad! They just represent a categorically different approach despite the attempt at collaboration. Please engage with and use them, and you will find your own answer towards your character’s place in the mix of life.

-Matty

A sketch of me as I write this, courtesy of Taima.

World’s Tempo Roadmap

Hello again! Here with another small update as we playtest here and there.

I’ve come to see opportunities for more specificity in areas of the system, so those are being addressed. As much as rules-lite systems offer freedom, specific limitations also breed their own creativity! Balancing all of that on top of the rolling system provided is quite important for expressing this system’s strengths.

And thus, here is our development roadmap for the Basic system. Laying these foundations will be central in hastening development of more ways to play using the Tempo system.

Roadmap

2024

  1. 0.8 Release; Downtime and Crafting (Unique/Target Checks)
  2. 0.9 Release; GM Tools and Support
  3. 1.0 Release; Glossary, Pickup Story, and Art Completion

2024-2025

  • In Flux; Main Conflict System
  • Two Additional Modified Systems

-Matty

World’s Tempo v0.7.1

Thanks everyone for sharing your support since our release! We are happily taking in feedback and considering the best changes for everyone to enjoy World’s Tempo to the fullest.

There will be a release this weekend for v0.7.1, which mostly includes:

  • Edits for formatting.
  • Changes in sentence structure for clarity.
  • Diagrams for some of the core mechanics to supplement the wordier explanations, so that mechanics and their interactions are more clear.

Going forward, our goal is to finalize World’s Tempo by June. This is mostly an extended timeline to complete additional art, as well as to collect and implement feedback.

Thank you again for your support!

-Matty

Welcome Home!

It’s been a long labour of love, sweat, tears, and honestly various other effluvia to manifest this project. There is an endless amount of gratitude for anyone viewing these pages, and the pages of the book that will soon be released.

Picking February 17, it’s been almost a year since the original idea’s inception. This moment was a culmination of slowly collecting inspiration into something that has yet to be further distilled. However, my cohorts and I are happy to continue this work, collecting more until the bosom of this work is well weighed upon the scales of what it could be.

In summary, we’re happy to welcome you! Hope you’re as excited for World’s Tempo as we are.

– Matty