Team Epimetheus

Hey there, my fine fellows and females. Director Producer Nathan here to give you this month’s post. Our president has just finished his “State of the Union Address”, Ukraine has been attacked by the imperial forces of Russia, Canadian overlord Trudeau is pulling a Senator Palpatine routine and COVID mandates are receding. It really has been a month to record. On a personal note I have recently lost the most important person in my life. This loss has had me in a daze for the last three weeks. My daughter was everything to me. Without her I have nothing left. So it has been very difficult to find motivation and focus. Nonetheless, there have been a few advancements in the Elven folder. Notably in maps, my least favorite task to tackle. As we have mentioned before: maps are done by starting from the continent map, zooming in and adding detail as we do so. This allows the terrain to stay consistent and somewhat realistic. In addition, it offers a sort of guide on what is available to th...

So much of the work this last month has been done on the Classes or combat professions. While tons of effort has been invested into differentiating the different playable classes, deciding which ones will be in the first release, what weapons they can wield, which types of armor they can wear, what specialty skills their class possesses, what races can choose that profession, and what sort of restrictions might apply to someone of that given profession. Behind the scenes here, that has cost dozens of man-hours. Organizing something new can be an adventure. In tandem to the efforts of crafting the combat professions, skills created for the purpose of a profession must find its way onto the master skill list. To date, we have 427 skills listed with the combined noncombat skills that have been created for the Trade professions. That number is expected to more than double as skill matrixes are developed. Image 1 To keep information clear and concise much of this data has been o...