Shepherds

Devlog

• Rising Star Released
  November 19, 2024 by AirkSeablade

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  Greetings, Shepherds! I've got a new Story for you to explore today; Meet the Rising Star, the up and coming best and brightest of the Shepherds' League. They're recognized as being one of the finest... Continue reading

  
• Minor Story Sheets update
  November 01, 2024 by AirkSeablade

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  It was brought to my attention that the page number references for advances in the Story Sheets were incorrect, so they have been fixed. The Google Sheets template has also been corrected. Hoping to h... Continue reading
• Additional Stories!
  August 03, 2024 by AirkSeablade

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  The talented Sam Robson has created three more Stories for use in your Shepherds games! The Construct, which explores themes of identity and friendship. The Outsider, who explores themes of loneliness... Continue reading
• Small fixes to the Story Sheets
  August 03, 2024 by AirkSeablade

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  Noticed an embarrassing small-print typo in the Story Sheets, so fixed that, and took the opportunity to touch up a few other small details there. No updates to other content. Work on scenario 2 is on... Continue reading
• Small update, new art, improved Story sheets
  June 02, 2024 by AirkSeablade

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  First of all, I'd like to say thank you to everyone who check out Shepherds during the Trans Rights West Virginia bundle. If you have any questions or comments, I welcome your feedback! As for this up... Continue reading
• Third DirectRelief Payment
  April 18, 2024 by AirkSeablade

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  Greetings Shepherds! We've had a pretty decent run of people picking up the game lately, so I just settled down to turn this: Into this: As usual, I chipped in my own bit and then they got me with the... Continue reading

  
• Dungeons Mini-supplement Launch
  February 19, 2024 by AirkSeablade

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  Today marks the day official release of the Dungeons mini-supplement for Shepherds . If you've been following along, you've already had a chance to see this in beta form, and it hasn't changed too muc... Continue reading
• New Cover Edition
  December 10, 2023 by AirkSeablade

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  Since I sortof accidentally released the new cover when I posted some updates earlier, I figured I should get the whole deal done. No changes to the game text, just cover art -- though the old cover a... Continue reading

  
• Version 1.11
  November 05, 2023 by AirkSeablade

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  Greetings Shepherds! I've got a fair sizable update for you all. First off, thank you to everyone who donated to Games for Gaza and apologies for springing an update on you so soon, but this one has b... Continue reading
• Looking for feedback!
  October 23, 2023 by AirkSeablade

  I'm on the home stretch for the Dungeons supplement now, and as the last pieces fall into place, I thought I'd put a call out to see if anyone has used it and has any feedback. So, if you've used the... Continue reading
• Second Donation! Thank you all!
  October 12, 2023 by AirkSeablade

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  We were over $200 in earnings again, so I initiated another payout and sent the results on to Direct Relief! Waited for the payment to process this time, but here's the receipt! Like last time, I adde... Continue reading

  
• Very minor update
  June 19, 2023 by AirkSeablade

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  I wasn't even going to document this one since it was so small, but it looks like a fair number of people may have redownloaded since I made an update. This latest change was just to fix the PDF bookm... Continue reading
• Character keeper update
  June 13, 2023 by AirkSeablade

  Found and fixed some embarrassing errors in the character keeper -- apologies to anyone who ran into any trouble with it. I've also added a little bit of extra instrumentation to make it easier to kee... Continue reading
• Dungeons Supplement!
  April 29, 2023 by AirkSeablade

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  Today's big release is the beta version of the expanded rules for dungeons! Since it can be hard to imagine a JRPG without them, it only seemed appropriate to provide a good way to handle dungeons in... Continue reading
• Advanced Prisms -- Some fun 'loot' to play with
  February 18, 2023 by AirkSeablade

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  Today's update brings us a short document detailing some more unusual Prisms that some lucky Shepherds might be able to come across in their travels. The Advanced Prisms document (also included in the... Continue reading
• Abandoned Soul release, updated character keeper
  February 08, 2023 by AirkSeablade

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  Thanks to the Loose Playbooks Jam , I've just released a new Story for Shepherds -- the Abandoned Soul , an orphan who has never quite forgotten the loss of their family, and who seeks to find a new o... Continue reading
• Because I hear licenses are all the rage these days...
  January 12, 2023 by AirkSeablade

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  In spite of how many places this seems to touch, this is actually a pretty small update. Since licenses and licensing have been all over the news late for reasons, I thought I should take appropriate... Continue reading
• Yet more ePub updates
  January 08, 2023 by AirkSeablade

  Found that I may have introduced some problems with the ePub in the last update. Those should hopefully now be fixed. This has the slightly strange effect of also adding some minor updates to the ePub... Continue reading
• More ePub fixes, and azw3 version
  December 21, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  As part of continued accessibility efforts, we now have an azw3 ebook version. Also, as part of creating that file, I made some small updates to the ePub version as well for better image alignment and... Continue reading
• Fix to Story Sheets
  October 30, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  Apparently somewhere along the way, I mucked up the Story Sheets, so the XP Triggers and Issues weren't showing. That is now fixed. Carry on... Continue reading
• Donation Successful! Thank you!
  September 30, 2022 by AirkSeablade

  The "I picked a charity!" sale ended last night (in retrospect, I probably should've had it run through Saturday), so I've taken steps to donate the proceeds to Direct Relief. Here's the formidable pa... Continue reading

  
• New Art
  September 11, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  No substantive changes here, just a couple of new images. Also, I changed the PDFs so that if you click on the page number, it takes you back to the table of contents. Does this seem useful? Feel free... Continue reading
• Just a little something...
  August 14, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  I've added a "Look suggestions" page to the end of the Story Sheets document. Since a lot of games have suggestions/picklists for character appearance, this felt like a nice-to-have. Now you can quick... Continue reading
• Small ePub Update
  August 08, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  This is just a small update to fix an issue that may have been breaking the ePub file in some eReaders. There's no need to redownload anything unless you're experiencing an issue with the ePub... Continue reading
• Version 1.10.1 -- ePub and Fixes
  August 07, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  Everything is updated for this update. Ooof. The star of the show is that the markdown version has been replaced with a proper ePub, embedded images and all. However, since ePub seems to be more like... Continue reading
• Markdown version beta now available
  July 30, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  I've just added a markdown version of the core rules -- I'm working on epub, but hopefully this will help with accessibility on mobile devices in the meantime. It's in beta as it currently doesn't hav... Continue reading
• Scenario Released!
  June 26, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  The first 'official' Scenario for Shepherds, Fregena on the River , is now complete and ready for download! If you've previously grabbed the beta file that was included with Shepherds, that's now bein... Continue reading
• Small Update for clarifications
  June 25, 2022 by AirkSeablade

  Just a small update this time -- I realized there were a couple of important points missing from the explanation of how to use moves ("You can't just say a Move's name to trigger it" and "You should p... Continue reading
• Version 1.10 Live-ish
  June 05, 2022 by AirkSeablade

  I hope everyone is enjoying the game, and special welcome to everyone who has acquired it through the recent charity bundles. Here's hoping that reality slows down a bit so we can stop needing to do s... Continue reading
• Character Keeper now available
  May 10, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  A quick update to let everyone know that there is now a Google Sheets character keeper available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O4F7S531piD-gboNIqFZIyKID0iT7psFVyLWgZnt... Just make a c... Continue reading
• Scenario, finally!
  April 03, 2022 by AirkSeablade

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  The scenario I've been rumbling about for however long is finally here. Introducing Fregena on the River, a small shepherding village with plenty of problems, some obvious and some less so. This is so... Continue reading
• Minor Ooopsdate
  November 11, 2021 by AirkSeablade

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  Seems that the Rules Reference file had an older version of Face Adversity in it. That has been corrected... Continue reading
• Version 1.9 "Final" release
  September 19, 2021 by AirkSeablade

  This release represents something tolerably close to the final version of Shepherds. Though there may be small tweaks or fixes going forward if people encounter problems (particularly with layout or b... Continue reading
• Update progress
  September 02, 2021 by AirkSeablade

  This is just to let people know that the next/probably final(?) big revision is coming along well; The major feature is a rework of how Talk Them Down works, but it also features a bunch of changes to... Continue reading
• Price point, community copies
  May 29, 2021 by AirkSeablade

  Since the game is almost entirely complete at this point, I've decided to put a price point on it; I don't think it's particularly punishing, the story sheets and rules reference can be downloaded for... Continue reading
• Big update! Hooray!
  May 26, 2021 by AirkSeablade

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  Big update for Shepherds here finally! This represents a just-about-final version -- there's one last detail I want to work on (Retiring characters), and maybe some more art down the road, but otherwi... Continue reading
• Revised Rule Reference is done
  April 11, 2021 by AirkSeablade

  The old rules reference document had a lot of problems including being cluttered, hard to read, and out of date. There's now a shiny new one that looks a lot better and does a better job of conveying... Continue reading
• PDF Bookmarks!
  February 05, 2021 by AirkSeablade

  Affinity Publisher update, so you all get the PDF Bookmarks you've been waiting for. :) This is moving back to the front burner, so look for a more substantive update in the next month or so... Continue reading
• Layout phase!
  November 02, 2020 by AirkSeablade

  In the spirit of making Shepherds look a little more professional, I've spent some time doing proper layout on it. This is a "beta" of sorts, because I'm sure there there are still plenty of little e... Continue reading
• Rules/Move Reference
  October 11, 2020 by AirkSeablade

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  No PbtA game is really complete without a quick reference for use at the table; This might not be as quick as I'd like it to be, and I'm going to continue working on the layout, but it should be usab... Continue reading
• Story Sheets added!
  October 01, 2020 by AirkSeablade

  No PbtA game is complete without its "playbooks" so here is a beta version of all the Stories for Shepherds, with hopefully everything you need all on one sheet. Rules reference is next on the to-do... Continue reading