Changelog

22nd of June, 2024

• Character Options
  • 10 Ataland-focused background options have been added to the Player's Guide.
• Lore
  • The A Quiet Investigation adventure has been updated and improved.
  • The guide page Law and Order has been extended.
• Changes and Additions
  • Additional map on faction pages.
  • Housekeepers and Elderly NPCs now have new character templates.
  • More settlement founders can be found in graveyards.
  • A few custom tombstone epitaphs for important NPCs, including founders.
  • Improved presentation of shop lists in settlements.
  • Add sharing button for Threads.
  • Additional descriptions for smelters & ore extraction homes.
• Fixes
  • Fixed Kali Bryro's location. (Hotfix)
  • Fixed Religious Discrimination in Kestiobar producing 500 error. (Hotfix)

14th of May, 2024

• Lore
  • Expanded lore for Ebrana.
    • Visit the capital, City of Meltford, for some political intrigue!
    • While you're there, maybe drop by the famous Meltford Maps.
    • Or celebrate Treaty Day!
    • Finally, there are two new adventures in Meltford: The Soverign is Missing and Stolen Black Powder.
    • Various other bits of lore in Ebrana.
• Changes and Additions
  • NPC job titles have been reworked to make more sense for each job.
  • New RSS Feed for this change list.
  • Improved our meta description tags. If you post a settlement, dwelling, npc etc. on social media, you should see part of that record's description too.
  • When using "Call the Guards," watchmen and guards no longer heavily favour sending out recruits first.
  • Cleaned up Settlement search by removing races that have zero results.
  • Added location map to bridges, crossroads, and docks.
  • Maps can now be found in npc inventories.
  • Itinerants lists are now ordered by their economic activity.
  • Some NPCs formally labeled as "Bandit" are now labeled as "Thief."
  • Added "Other Factions" menu to faction pages.
• Bug Fixes etc.
  • Fix bandit and pirate camp descriptions.
  • Fix storyline NPCs having incorrect ranks.
  • Fix wizards outside universities from being assigned a university title. This bug also caused there to be too few high ranking wizards.
  • Fixed historical spellbooks at Wizard Universities changing owner between page loads.
  • Fixed crossbow bolts not appearing in some inventories where they should. (Hotfix)
  • Fixed some jobs names failing to calculate correctly. (Hotfix)

17th of April, 2024

New error reporting tools have allowed us to sniff out a number of bugs. Some were addressed as hotfixes on our last update.

• New Lore
  • Added some new adventure hooks:
    • In Caspio's Avatar, meet the avatar of one of Ataland's gods.
    • In Scrumpy Quest, track down some rare booze for a barkeep.
  • Fixed some previously written lore at Sicars Beacon that was never visible.
• Changes and Additions
  • Added procedurally generated books to inventories to compliment our hand-crafted library of books. Books will also appear more often in inventories and bookshops have slightly larger stocks.
• Bug Fixes etc.
  • Fixed map on Unaligned Settlements page.
  • Fixed lore record Northheath and Vanndis not loading.
  • Fixed some "random" buttons producing 500 error.
  • Fixed error when downloading fantasy grounds NPCs, when the NPC has an empty inventory.
  • Various minor text fixes.
  • Fixed error rendering banks. (Hotfix)

4th of April, 2024

Happy Festival of Rebirth! 🐣

• New Lore
  • Added lore text to a number of authors.
• Changes and Additions
  • You can now Search NPCs by their alignment.
  • Added more variety in nicknames for unsavory characters.
  • A few more Sorcerers and Warlocks can be found.
  • Bards now have the Bardic Inspiration ability.
• Bug Fixes etc.
  • This update includes an upgrade to our framework.
  • Speed improvements on search pages and when generating inventories with Jewelry.
  • Fixed 500 error in Graveyards and Tombs.
  • Fixed guide pages downloading instead of displaying.
  • Various minor bugs and rendering issues.
  • Fixed 500 error with paladins that don't follow a particular god. (Hotfix)
  • Fix some deceased NPC links not scrolling the page to the NPCs gravestone. (Hotfix)
  • Fixed invalid dwelling URLs producing a 500 instead of a 404. (Hotfix)

21st of March, 2024

• New Lore
  • Added a new adventure, Pipeleaf Smugglers.
  • Added story to Catalyst Spire, providing a plot-hook to bring in adventuring parties from other settings.
  • Provided some guidance on running a game in Ataland.
• Changes and Additions
  • Changed the way we present lore that is attached to npcs, buildings, and locations. Lore is now grouped in to one of three categories, with potentially more to come.
    • Adventures contains plot hooks for adventures you might wish to send your players on.
    • Groups contains information about important groups of npcs.
    • Politics contains important local political information.
  • When viewing a settlement, you will now also see lore that is attached to buildings and npcs in that settlement.
  • Tavern & Inn revamp. Public houses now have a random selection of punters and sometimes hire bards as entertainment. You might even overhear some juicy gossip!
  • Marital Status added to the NPC search.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed dead NPCs rarely responding when using the "Call the Guards" function.
  • Fixed missing description texts. (Most obviously seen in Otterfolk homes.)
  • Fixed some magic users having inappropriate spells for their alignment. As a result of this fix, many NPCs have changed their alignment.

25th of January, 2024

This update focused on rebalancing the economic sim and refinements to how we approach mounts.

• Changed how citizens decide what kind of shop to build. Settlements will now have a greater variety of shops and less clumping.
• Rebalanced, renamed, merged, added, and removed many economic activities.
• Changes to stabling and mount availability:
  • Dedicated stables now only appear in the largest settlements.
  • Stabling services are instead available in some inns, taverns and adventurer's guilds.
  • Added the turtalor, an aquatic mount. A pricy but popular choice in Ataland.
  • Added mount farmers and traveling mount traders. Both horse and turtalor variants can be found.
• Other tweaks & updates to shops, including:
  • Added descriptions Barbers & Groomers.
  • An update to fishmonger's description and inventory.
  • Patisseries now come in Pastry Shop and Bakehouse variants.
• Added a short summary of road types to the player's guide.
• Old update notes now have their own dedicated page.

16th of December, 2023

Happy Halgalor! 🎄

• New Features & Improvements
  • The people of Ataland now build Windmills.
  • NPCs can be carrying new objects gifted from their spouse.
  • New plot hook search page. Settlements now have a "Find Plot Hooks near" option under 'Search'.
  • The Unaligned faction now has it's own custom map.
  • Shops can now have more variety of names.
  • Settlements now show Plot Hooks on dwellings & NPCs within them.
• Lore & Plot Hooks
  • Updated plot hooks for Mallows Ruin and The Slumbering Tower.
  • New lore and plot hooks for The Ruins of Kitsbain.
  • Some settlements are experiencing a Goblin Problem.
  • A delicate matter of freedom of speech versus the public good must be settled in Elf and Safety.
  • Help reunite a family in the Prodigal Child.
  • Also introducing the The Scholarly Society of Astrus.
  • Discover the twin cities of Northheath and Vanndis, then learn of the Mysterious Epidemic that has befallen them.
• Fixes & Tweaks
  • Fixed links to makeshift graves.
  • Fixed wrapping on some pages.
  • Previously broken unaligned temples are now dedicated to Halganon.
  • Various other tweaks and minor fixes.

27th Nov

• New Features
  • You can now find handcrafted Plot Hooks attached to NPCs, Dwellings, and Settlements. While there are only a few available at the moment, anticipate many more in the future. Plot Hooks will play a significant role in conveying Ataland's lore. See a random plothook!
  • More authors as lore NPCs. If you can find a book in a character's inventory, its author is out there somewhere...
• Handcrafted lore, NPCs and plot hooks can now be found at:
  • Jatrad
    • The City of Abingend, capital of Jatrad
    • Castle Tol-Nimlona
    • A couple of settlements near the Jatrad border...
  • Kestiobar
    • Kidsdale Town, capital of Kestiobar
    • Port Deregate and Port Dudheath Town
• Fixes
  • Sylvana Beastkin went missing. We have tracked her down and she is now back running her shop.
  • Fixed some lore NPCs' relatives having the wrong name.
  • Fixed some lore NPCs having the wrong alignment.
  • Fixed an NPC taking two lore NPC roles.
  • Fixed the name of Solinans Lamp
  • Various other tweaks and minor fixes.

15th Nov

• Handcrafted lore can now be found at:
  • Mallows Ruin
• Improvements / New Features
  • Factions have redeployed their armies to more strategic locations.
  • New "Call the Guards" tool. Find out which NPCs turn up if baddies - or the players - cause trouble!
  • Some NPCs now have titles, which count as part of their name. Try searching for Doctors!
  • Added improved contextual search menu to many pages.
  • Added "Location" and "Faction" search fields to dwelling search.
  • Added "Travel" section to faction pages.
• Fixes
  • Fixed render in some Player's & GM's Guide pages. (This was deployed as a hotfix.)
  • Various other minor fixes.

5th Nov

This was a lore-focused update.

• Lore
  • Added first look at Player & GM's guide, containing expanded information on the setting.
  • Added a short blurb on each on the faction pages.
  • Handcrafted NPCs and locations. More is coming in future updates, for now you can find new lore at:
    • Hexford Town, the capital of Driaca
    • The All Seeing Eye
    • The Slumbering Tower
  • Expanded variety of many text descriptions.
• Improvements
  • Added a button to view stats on monster hunt posters.
  • Stables now sell various types of horse
  • Emporiums can now rarely have cats & mastiffs in stock
  • Fixed & improved the icon for ruins
• Fixes
  • Removed some racial abilities from children & infants.
  • Fixed issue where NPCs changed their hair-dye on page reloads.
  • Various other minor fixes.
  • Migrated SRD licensing from OGL to CC-BY. (Only SRD text is CC-BY licensed.)

19th Jan

• Gnomes: Updated settlement and home descriptions.
• You can now search NPCs by broad economic category, as well as specific job title.
• Bard Colleges now have an inventory, including rare magical instruments.
• Map Improvements: New map markers for tombs and beacons.

5th Jan

• Gnomes
  • Gnomes have changed how their settlements are named
  • There are now more Clockwork Tinkers
• Map Improvements
  • New map markers for villages, towns, cities, castles and wizard towers.
  • Webkit support, should now work in Safari.
  • Improved path generation for smaller downloads and faster page loads.
  • Which lakes to show are now chosen more carefully.

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