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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 8h

Dawnsbury Days will also soon have slotted inventories, so that high-level characters' backpacks aren't overflowing with worn items.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We'll be adding a prebuffing subsystem for day-long spells such as Mage Armor and See Invisibility, which you would normally cast each morning after you rest!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The world of Dawnsbury Days — Our Point of Light — now has a full-sized world map, where every point of interest is a possible adventure location! Cartography done by SavingThrower (thank you!).

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dawnsbury Days now has 1,000 reviews on Steam! Thank you for your interest in the game, everyone! 💛

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Voice recording continues! Michael Malconian returns as Seraphiel, an archangel of Heaven, to provide our heroes with some tactical (and ethical) advice!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NPC ancestries in Dawnsbury Days, in order of appearance: Human, kobold, orc, skeleton, leshy, elemental, ghost, demon, construct, tiefling, goblin, merfolk, starborn.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ten years ago, I was reading through some OGL sourcebooks and I dreamed of whether there could one day be a cRPG where you could use godlike powers, even if it's in a limited context. Well, if you want to know, consider wishlisting the upcoming Dawnsbury Days expansion! ^^

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If people tell you "using AI in software engineering is inevitable," know it's not true. We don't use any AI in programming Dawnsbury Days. It is quite possible, and, I think, necessary. I can't imagine doing otherwise. One just needs to stop seeing "productivity" as the ultimate goal of life.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We have begun playtesting the final chapter of The Four-Leaf Clover! The next step is to make serious progress on voice acting!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The evil duplicates encounter may have my favorite dialogue sequence in the expansion. I even got to do the classic "your evil twin is exploiting your worst insecurities!"

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We now have monsters of every level from -1 to 20 in Dawnsbury Days except for level 0 and level 19. Somehow no monster of those two levels felt useful in the adventures we have. Wait... what is that L22 folder? 👀

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, we finished implementation of all high-level feats for Dawnsbury Days! For the fighter, this means 16 new feats. We're getting closer to being ready for the Four-Leaf Clover playtest!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some encounters have rules special enough that they require custom user interface elements, such as this diamond counter (top left of screen) when you're gathering resources from an abandoned mine before it collapses.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm proud of the Dawnsbury Days solution to evil duplicates. We start with a base martial or caster creature, and apply an ancestry template and a class template. So if you're an elf ranger, your foe will move fast, use Hunt Prey and Hunter's Edge, but won't actually be a full mirror. (1/2)

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Achievements for the upcoming expansion are almost ready!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dawnsbury Days featured in the Party-Based RPG Steam Fest this week, and I understand for some players it featured on Steam homepage or close to it, and over 2,000 new players have now wishlisted the game. That is amazing! Welcome, everyone!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@rooryder.com will return as the angel cleric Lori, completing a storyline that started at level 5! Lori is far from the only outsider in the Four-Leaf Clover, however. This is a high-level adventure, and beings from across planes have taken interest.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Teaser! The following achievements appear in the upcoming expansion: * Allow the drow siblings to continue their Shadow Plane experiments. * Insert all four algollthu memory crystals into the block in Tomb of Memories. * Defeat your evil duplicates. * Enjoy a rest in the hot springs.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dawnsbury Days participates in this week's Party-Based RPG Steam Sale with a very high discount. In case you want to have Dawnsbury Days but can't normally afford it, this might be a good time to get it or its expansions! store.steampowered.com/app/2693730/...

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Save 55% on Dawnsbury Days on Steam

Lead a group of childhood friends through their first adventures in a turn-based tactical RPG played under the rules of PF2E, the second edition of a powerful OGL ruleset. Customize their builds, acqu...

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The first draft of the script for the upcoming expansion is now complete! With 381 pages and 3068 spoken lines, it's an expansion of greater scope than all existing Dawnsbury Days content combined!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jeff Rosenau will also be reprising his role as Tok'dar. Having overcome any remaining weakness in his heart, Tok'dar now seeks to become the ultimate paragon of good — a true paladin.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The 130+ mods now available for Dawnsbury Days add 20+ ancestries, 20 new classes (!!), and what I expected least, new deities ❤️! Many of them even follow the Dawnsbury Days concept of "every deity is an adventure plot hook!"

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We've begun recording for the upcoming expansion of Dawnsbury Days! @xitsjuststephvo.bsky.social will reprise her role as the protagonist, Anna, as she tries her best to be the adult in the room and keep her party moving in the right direction!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you don't want to think about the right tactics to use, why not fire up a Rod of Wonder, roll a d100 and let the RNG gods take the wheel? ^^ (Coming to Dawnsbury Days in the next patch.)

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

With the beautiful Efreeti Wish-Granter by @strifepainter.bsky.social, we are now art-complete for the upcoming expansion of Dawnsbury Days! The expansion required 90+ pieces of new art for the various monsters and NPCs!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Adding some more tools to enable additional strategies in some trickier encounters in the upcoming expansion.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm going through all the feedback I received from early playtesting! I applied 76 changes based on that feedback to the upcoming expansion so far. Mostly it's balancing encounters (number and strength of monsters), but there's other stuff, too, such as making burrow signaling clearer!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Dawnsbury Days casting call has now closed with 6100+ auditions submitted! Thank you all very much for your interest in the game! I'm looking forward to reviewing the files and casting!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A consistent feedback I get is to use tougher monsters, not more monsters, on Insane difficulty. This make sense — if you play on Insane, it's because you want to prove you can handle a challenge, and erasing a horde of PL-4 enemies can be less a challenge and more a distraction for such a player.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sometimes the dice won't be with you, and you'll deal 5 damage on a "deadly" crit. You have my commiserations when this happens to you 💛. On the plus side, sometimes the same will of course happen to your enemies!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are two final days to audition for roles in the upcoming Dawnsbury Days expansion such as these gnoll sorcerers. Casting call is at www.castingcall.club/projects/daw....

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You've heard of the land shark, perhaps, but what about a HELL LAND SHARK? Like a land shark but with extra fire and damnation! Only in the upcoming expansion for Dawnsbury Days ^^. (Art by Voryloop.)

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The upcoming expansion script is now almost ready. It runs at 344 pages (69 encounters). There are about 80 characters with a speaking role. If you're interested in auditioning for some of them, a casting call is in progress! (Deadline August 26th.) www.castingcall.club/projects/daw...

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dawnsbury Days now has 900 Steam reviews! This is amazing! Thank you for your interest, everyone!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm now working on the Dawnsbury Days casting call as my top priority and I hope to post it this week. If you're interesting in voicing a Dawnsbury Days character, you will soon have the opportunity to audition!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Episode 4 of my podcast is now on podcast streaming platforms! It discusses in detail how the chase noncombat system failed to work in Dawnsbury Days, how it was replaced, and what lessons I took from the failure. rss.com/podcasts/daw...

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#4: Failure of the Chase subsystem | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

When developing the first Dawnsbury Days expansion, the Profane Barrier, an early version of the first chapter involved a noncombat encounter that uses the rules for the Chase subsystem of the tableto...

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

She is the demon lord of pride, but honestly, I think all demon lords tend to be prideful and arrogant — that's generally why they tend to lose! Still, watch out for her six swords!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Dawnsbury Days now has an old-school manual with details on controls, the story, characters, and settings, and a complete list of feats and spells, among other things! All of my favorite childhood games had one ^^ You can read it on Steam if you're interested: store.steampowered.com/manual/2693730

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Dawnsbury Days is now fully furnished with the highest-level spells!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As you travel the world in the upcoming Dawnsbury Days expansion, you sometimes won't have a choice except to fly through the sky. But the sky belongs to all kinds of creatures... (song elemental art by @voryloop.bsky.social)

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The new expansion for Dawnsbury Days will add 110+ monsters, most of them for you to fight, but some of them as NPCs on your side or as possible summons to call on. Call in an angelic deva to support you with healing while you fight a gargantuan cave scorpion! (art by @striga.bsky.social)

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In podcast episode 3, I talk about initiative, skill feats, and various minor differences from tabletop that I felt were necessary for Dawnsbury Days. You can listen to it on your podcasting app or on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khtz...

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Dawnsbury Days podcast #3: Differences from tabletop, part 2

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Dawnsbury Days now has enough spells for all traditions from cantrips all the way up to level 10, for a total of 450 (!) spells! I wonder if this makes Dawnsbury Days the cRPG with largest number of spells ever (if we exclude mods)?

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Some of the harder problems coding challenges when programming Dawnsbury Days involve geometry, which I've found challenging at school because it requires a kind of spatial intuition and imagination that doesn't come naturally to me, but it feels rewarding to then succeed anyway!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One feature I'm proud of is that Dawnsbury Days updates the rules text of your spells to reflect any upgrades you have. For example, this is an upcast Heal spell enhanced with Selective Energy and Holy Castigation. As best I can tell, Dawnsbury Days is unique among cRPGs in using such "bluetext."

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a new mod (from Ordinary Magician) that allows you import and export your characters, including to share with other players!

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Announcing the ☀️Dawnsbury Days podcast! On it, I talk behind-the-scenes, such as design, history, considerations, personal thoughts, lessons learned, and more! You can listen it to in on your favorite podcast app or platform or YouTube! If interested, please let me know here! youtu.be/3qYjhu9TvxI

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Dawnsbury Days podcast #1: Precursors to Dawnsbury Days

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Maybe many of you won't care, but this has been bugging me :) . Dawnsbury Days will no longer have the annoying layout error where a single "." or ")" sometimes gets shunted off onto a new line.

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Dawnsbury Studios @dawnsbury.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Given how reluctant players are to part with even consumables, I don't imagine many will choose to avoid a fight here, but hey, when you're on a quest to save the world, conserving spell slots may well be worth the money!

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