Hey all, we've been working on getting all the files prepped, and I wanted to share a bunch of that work with you.
Relics, and the Vault, will represent the release of One Deck Dungeon 2.0. We're not making any massive mechanical upheavals or other disruptions to the core of the game, but we are making small revisions for QOL and some long-pending art fixes.
Edit: To be clear, this is purely a visual/QOL update (the last printing was v1.9). There are no balance or content changes that make earlier copies of the game incompatible.
Icons Upgrade
As part of the new visuals, we've vectorized all of the basic icons so that they print more consistently and cleanly. Over the past decade we'd accumulated a lot of little variations, and this cleans that all up. In print, they will be slightly less fuzzy in some places.
Layout / Templates Cleanup
With the updated icons, we've made some changes to the card template. All of the elements are about 10% larger, including fonts. This should give dice a tiny bit more breathing room, and gave us some space to expand the scroll where skills/potions go at the bottom.
This has also allowed us to address a presentation issue that's been around since v1.0 - the way skills and items line up under a Hero card. Below on the left is the old, to the right the new:
As part of the rearranging process, we've been able to make the items and skills line up much more accurately with the hero card template. You can see as well that the stone backgrounds for the four stats is a little more colorful!
Pardon the text fuzziness, the PNG exports are going through photoshop and then BackerKit's image compression - the real cards will have good crisp text!
Compatibility
If you are plaing with a mix of old and new cards, the scrolls and item icons won't line up perfectly, but the game is otherwise fully playable, you shouldn't have any issues.
Rulebook
A big part of this is integrating the new rules for Relics of the Forge into the core rulebook. The rulebook, which will be included in every print copy of One Deck Dungeon and its stand-alone expansions, Forest of Shadows and Relics of the Forge, will include all the rules for those three core sets. Mini-expansions, such as Abyssal Depths and the extra game modes provided in the Trove, will have their own small rules documents. All of these will also be available as PDFs available for download from OneDeckDungeon.com.
These rules are presented within the rulebook with color-coded boxes indicating the expansion they refer to:
We've also got a separate spread each for Forest and Relics to summarize all their core rules together:
If you'd like to see the whole PDF of the current draft (95% complete, but missing all diagram updates with the newer cards and some other graphics polish) - you can download it at https://onedeckdungeon.com/RuleBook_2_0_DRAFT.pdf
We're wrapping up work on all of the stuff in this update in the next week or so. We have a few other tasks to complete for layouts, but aim to be done and ready to print soon. Release should be this Fall, pending factory/freight/The World.
