Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose. I have once again liberated my office chair from the cat (for now, anyway) and I’m here to present this month’s fantastic issue of ARCADIA. Here’s what’s inside:
Cover Art ...
2023-03-29 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose, here on a beautiful spring day with a beautiful table of contents for your perusal. Here’s what’s coming in ARCADIA 26:
The Nocturne Market by 2023-03-22 18:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! As I said in the last update, there’s not a lot to talk about right now, everyone’s working on Flee, Mortals! and ARCADIA, but I thought it would be fun to pitch you on the class ideas we’ve been talking about in...
2023-03-21 19:36:30 +0000 UTC View PostAnother playtest and a whole new set of problems and ideas! But first, a story…
I was working on a video game years ago and the artist I was sitting next to suggested we should implement a very complicated new feature.
We’d been wo...
2023-03-13 18:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post
We ran another playtest last Friday. I don’t think every playtest will automatically cause an after-action report like this, at some point we’ll be testing too often for that, and sometimes we won't be testing anything new, just “wh...
2023-03-02 17:39:16 +0000 UTC View PostWe just released the announcement video for our new RPG, really just announcing that we’re working on it, so we thought it’d be a good idea to write something up welcoming folks and sort of setting expectations.
First of all, hello! My n...
2023-02-24 01:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose, here with the TWENTY-FIFTH issue of ARCADIA! And it is, if I may say so myself, a total banger. Here’s what’s inside:
Cover Art by 2023-02-22 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose, here with the table of contents for a very cool issue of ARCADIA. This month is all about leaning into things that are epic, weird, and delightfully extra.
Legendary Inspiration 2023-02-15 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Incredible Patrons,
It’s me, your James Introcaso. We had another playtest of the new MCDM RPG on Friday last week. This time I was the GM, and we had two players new to the RPG, Nick and Grace from our art team. It was my first time...
2023-02-13 18:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re doing a weekly test on Fridays (alas, not every Friday, Flee, Mortals! and ARCADIA still come first) and tinkering with the rules for our new game and I want to make sure folks understand exactly what we’re doing and wh...
2023-02-10 18:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt ran the Delian Tomb for a few of us in the office last week. But we weren’t playing fifth edition. We were playing our new RPG.
James Introcaso, MCDM’s Lead Game Designer, here. I know you’ve been following our updates for a bit a...
2023-02-07 21:19:11 +0000 UTC View PostThere's not a lot of fun mechanical stuff to talk about right now, and probably won't be for a little while as we iterate on the core die mechanic and dial in something fun that we like.
So in the meantime, we thought you folks ...
2023-01-29 20:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose, here with the year’s first issue of ARCADIA—and a little something extra! Here’s what’s inside:
Cover Art by Grace Cheung
When I told the team that we’d ended up wi...
2023-01-27 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all! It is I, Hannah Rose, here soaking up some SoCal sun before I return to my beloved but damp Pacific Northwest tower.
tl;dr ARCADIA 24 is coming out this Friday instead of Wednesday.
Long(er) versio...
2023-01-23 20:24:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a real design doc written by the design director and shared with the team. This was not originally intended to be a patreon post. It has been lightly edited to reflect this.
What’s the purpose of Armor in...
2023-01-23 19:57:40 +0000 UTC View PostThis is probably the last update for a little while. We all got other stuff to do. But actually, we’re so enthusiastic about the current direction, I suspect we’ll be noodling on it and tinkering with it and testing it in our spare time. Matt ...
2023-01-21 22:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostArmed with a dice mechanic and some newly minted Goblins, a Tactician and a Beastheart with their pet Fungus Dude (Mot!) we played a combat.
It went ok. We learned a lot. Basically, we learned we didn...
2023-01-20 19:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostMCDM is almost 5 years old (!) and so far, we have been an explicitly design-driven company. Matt’s a game designer, so that makes sense, but also the company’s projects focus on new optional rules for 5E, and new ...
2023-01-19 18:19:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe other day we discovered Patreon may randomly get unlinked from users Discord accounts, and users may not properly have their roles updated when swapping patreon tiers. This resulted in a sizable number of users retaining access to channels tha...
2023-01-19 03:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose—and I’m writing this in the airport because I’m on my way to the MCDM offices for a week of design jams, brainstorming, and rolling some dice with the team! As Matt covered in 2023-01-18 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We don’t necessarily want to make a generic fantasy game. We sorta got one of those already, don’t we?
Well what’s the alternative? Probably the alternative is; it’s about something...
2023-01-18 18:36:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt is the end of the first day of design on the MCDM RPG and I’m thinking about two things. Flow, and the Null Result.
There was a point in our prototype combat between James’ Goblins and Hannah’s Tactician where James ask...
2023-01-17 17:58:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons! It is I, the Baron Vladimir Harko…wait, no. It is I, Matt Colville! Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all….
Anyway enough with the literary allusions, there’s a ton of stuff happening right now, including Big C...
2023-01-12 00:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose, closing out the year by brining you the most excellent ARCADIA 23!
Cover Art by Patrik Hell
A st...
2022-12-21 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose, here with a snoozing voidcat, a big pile of dice, and the table of contents for ARCADIA 23!
Gemstone Arcana by Mari...
2022-12-14 19:36:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Folks,
It is I, your James Introcaso! We are currently exploring the possibility of making a Best of ARCADIA compilation that compiles beloved articles from the magazine's first two years—in print! At the moment, we’re not...
2022-12-12 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose, here with the newest awesome-stuffed issue of ARCADIA.
Cover Art by Martin Sobr
This cover evokes a classic dungeon crawl with adventurers beset by the forces of evil, delvin...
2022-11-23 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello folks! It is I, Hannah Rose (as well as the cat squeezed between me and my laptop), here with the table of contents for ARCADIA 22.
Heroic Champions by 2022-11-16 18:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Snazzy Patrons,
James Introcaso here with just a quick update. ARCADIA 6 is now available on Roll20! You can pick it u...
2022-11-09 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, folks! It is I, Hannah Rose, here with the latest issue of ARCADIA just in time for All Hallows’ Eve. Here’s what’s inside:
Cover Art by 2022-10-26 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post