Use to improve
Skills rise through practice. No level gates, no class locks. Specialization emerges from play.
Systems
Simulation first
Every system talks to the others. Skills affect pets. Pets affect camps. Camps affect trade. Nothing lives in a vacuum.
Advancement
Skill-based, classless
Morrowind and Ultima Online are the reference points. You advance by using skills, and the choices compound over years, not hours.
Stats matter
Attributes grow in service of the skills you actually use, not from XP pots.
Crafting depth
From gathering to finished goods, with quality, wear, and specialization.
Economy
Simulated, not scripted
NPCs produce, consume, and need. Scarcity is real. Helping a settlement recover is more valuable than looting it.
NPC Demand
Prices move because people need things, not because a quest says so.
Caravan Trade
Run goods between settlements for profit, or stock your own camp.
Caravan & Camps
Mobile base, fixed refuge
Caravans
Your caravan moves with you and other players can join theirs to yours to adventure as a group.
Camps
Set up a guarded safe camp in a dungeon. Sleep, craft, store. A camp unguarded is a camp lost.
Combat In development
Two candidates, one decision pending
We have not settled the combat model. We are toying with real-time-with-tactics settings and issuing orders, or a turn-based approach. When we decide, it will be documented in the devlog.
Option A — Real-time with tactics
Live action with pause-and-issue or queued orders. Spatial, reactive, tense.
Option B — Turn-based
Deliberate, readable, tactical. Full control of pets and party.
Relationships
Favor that compounds
Help NPCs accomplish their tasks to gain favor. Favor opens training, trade, and the occasional echo.
Favor
Tracked per NPC. Visible in behavior, not just a number.
Memory
NPCs remember deeds. Kindness and cruelty both travel.
Echoes
A fragment of an NPC that can travel with you.