Lightside Redesign in the Works

Hello everyone! Huge apologies if you've been hanging on for more Light Side updates. I moved across the country late last year and I feel like I'm still catching up. I also have a new restaurant job where I have to work a little bit more hours a week and it has killed a lot of the free time I spend on AP podcasting and working on ttrpgs. 

THAT BEING SAID, I'm in a much more comfortable place with my schedule at this point and I have purchased Adobe Illustrator. To learn how it works I have been working on a graphic overhaul to Light Side, and tweaking the rules as I go. I am far from an expert at this, but the game already looks a lot better than the plain Jane text document that is its current state.

Now is a good time to send me your feedback from your Light Side games either by reply here or at ian@maudlingames.com. Your feedback could really shape how this game changes in the next update.

Here is a short summary of what I plan on tweaking:

• Making changes to Resist the Dark Side. Characters like Andor and Din Jarin can exist without falling to the Dark Side while Jedi seem to struggle more. I'm also tweaking the balance so that it more dramatically improves your balance if you succeed.
• Removing Rebuke Influence as a move. I always forget about it, and I just don't think it thematically fits. Feels like a half baked measure.
• A few playbook move tweaks. I want to go through and add playbook moves that integrate into new mechanics like Downtime Activities and the new Basic Move Investigations
• Speaking of which, Investigations, has added a lot of utility for non-jedi in my home games so I'm going to go ahead and permanently add it in.
• With this large project of redesigning the graphics of this game, I probably am tabling Ship Playbooks for a future update. Bums me out cause I think it's a really cool concept, but I've got enough on my plate at the moment. But who knows? Maybe one day it'll hit me in a feverdream and I'll have to type it all out do avoid madness!

Cheers,
Ian