Changelog

• added more Kingdom Mythos to enhance variety

• Add hints for users on the sign up screen to indicate if their password meets requirements and if they two passwords match

• Add new and different planet shapes for paid subscriptions such as hollow worlds, world tree, endless stairs etc

• Updated and fixed realm editing as an advanced user so the random generation works correctly

• Added ability to delete and generate new planets for advanced subscriptions

• Added ability to set a planet as habitable or not and to assign a home world for the realm if there isn’t one. Also set the system to support one home world per realm rather then one per solar system

• Added the ability to generate continents on any habitable planet for advanced subscriptions

• Added the ability to generate and delete entire solar systems for advanced subscriptions

• Various ‘ruler’ or ‘leader’ updates including a fix for kingdom rulers now being located in the kingdom they rule by default, fixes to the Apophenic Connections generated for Kingdom and Settlement rulers, and matching rulers moral and motive to that of their kingdom or settlement 80% of the time

• Updates to some moral and motive labels and descriptions. Added some data base elements for potential future expansion

A few image updates to the main site, AP logo, and NPC generation.

This updates contains the following fixes and updates:

• PC Background generator updates - resolved generator not producing background suggestions.

• Users can add their own images to NPCs, PCs, Adventuring Parties, and Organizations.

• Settlements can now be placed in regions outside of Kingdoms

• Buildings can now be placed in kingdoms or regions outside of Settlements

• Districts can now be deleted and generated from within a settlement

• New or update default building images

• Organization, Kingdom, Building, and Settlement rule limits. Limits the number of NPCs that can added as a rule to these elements based on the type or structure

• Titles. Revamped Title schema including 2 new Title table, existing title moved from Kingdoms and Organizations into the new tables, new Titles created for building owners. Additional workflow logic to set and remove titles.

• Resources. A Realm wide Resources page showing raw resources, refined resources and produced trade goods

• Can pre set moral and motive when generating an Organization

• Apophenic Connections. New connections added for Kingdoms. Fixes to AP generation for rulers and owners and title generation

• NPC/PC can be assigned a rank per organization.

Subscriptions now show the monthly costs if the user toggles to yearly (and indicates 2 months free)

Gearing up for beta, this update includes a basic user profile page, subscription updates (database tables and workflows), Stripe payment integration, FAQs, and a minor fix to dark mode settings.

Misc small fixes to mobile responsiveness of the main site and the dashboard/realm pages.

Apophenic Realms has been live now a while but it’s now entering it’s official ALPHA stage. People will be invited to try out the free features (note that data may still end up deleted prior to a beta launch).

The following outlines all the free (as well as paid) features that have been added, updated or fixed since the last update, compiled here in one post:

New:

• NPCs in regions - allows NPC to be located outside of a building or settlement

• PCs Backstories - generate apophenic connections between PCs to help seed how PCs know each other

• Trade Routes for kingdoms to trade resources and materials with each other

• Rumours for NPC - basic generation of rumours for NPCs

• Adventure Location generation to turn buildings, settlements region etc into adventure locations and table such as size, danger etc

• Language generation - a structure JSON language generation for prefixes, middles and suffixes as well as branch and kingdom/building/settlement/NOC etc overrides and generation for cultures, place names, NPC names etc

• Deity generation to generate greater and lesser gods and tables for domains, Belief generation for pantheons, cults, animism etc and tables for types and size, apotheosis, sacred weapons, animals and plants/minerals etc

• Realm History generation from ancient history to recent events for an entire realm and tables such as event types and event templates

• Castle generation and tables such as size, type, defences etc

• Culture tables such as art, architecture, governance etc and procedural generation of cultures throughout a land mass

• Feature producers - producer tables like iron veins and salt flats and generation within a landmass

• Landmarks - landmark tables and generation within a landmass

• Hazards - hazard tables and generation within a landmass

• Landmass generation and tables - procedural generation of land masses using tiles and terrain types

• Continent Generation and table such as shape and size etc

• PCs - ability to add Player Characters (DM only atm) an their basic attributes like race, class, goals, location, moral/motive, etc

• Party Roser - ability to add Adventure Party and attributes like PCs, moral/motive, goals etc

• Sub Genres for a realm - ability to add sub genres and updates to where genres are used.

• Region schema and tables such as size, condition, danger etc

• Kingdom schema and tables such as size, type, governance, class structures, and crime and punishment etc

• Terrain schema for terrain types

• Solar system, Star and Planet image generation

• Planet tables and generation - tables such as type, habitability, colour etc

• Solar system tables and generation - tables such as stars and solar objects etc

Updated:

• Additional Apophenic connections for all existing connections (NPCs, Organizations, and Buildings) with new ones (PCs, Regions, Settlements, Chronicle, and Adventure Location)

• Email verification now has reminders if a user hasn’t verified their email.

• First Realm generation tweaks - removes automatic first realm generation and org generation

• Settlement data tables - tables such as size, districts, social, architecture, history, mystical etc

• Organization presence within continents, regions, kingdoms, settlements and buildings

Fixed:

• Fixes to login and sign up process to resolve log in issues