Hey everyone,

Hope everyone is doing as well as can be. I just wanted to send a little update as Realis moves into its second week of release.

First of all, thanks so much for the incredible response to Realis. Any time you release something that you’ve worked hard on, it feels great. But let me tell you, getting to release a passion project after your dream project got shelved because your game studio was unexpectedly shuttered… that shit hits different. So it has meant a ton to see people chatting about the game, running it, writing reviews, and brainstorming their own Moons, Classes, Factions, and all the other proper nouns Realis brings to bear.

(Speaking of, holy shit, shout outs to the Realis Moon Jam, hosted by hamhambone! Extremely sick thing to wake up to. I hope y’all cook up some amazing moons!)

Thanks also (and especially) to those of you who have shared typos, layout issues, confusing text, and other issues with the ashcan. We’ve done our best to hit all of those as quickly as possible, and even though we haven’t sent any update notices, we’ve made a lot of tiny changes in the PDFs since release. Mostly it’s been fixing spelling mistakes and other small issues, but I did also clarify bond advancement and add a couple new Realization examples tied to added costs.

(Oh, also: Tyler also added a table of contents recently, but once we’re sure we’ve cleaned our typos out and set the text mostly in stone, we’re gonna go through and add PDF bookmarks too.)

If you notice something wrong, or if a section is confusing to you, please let us know in the itch comments! Even if it’s something big that we can’t fix quite yet, it’ll help us zero in on what to focus on in the full release.

As a reminder, if you’d like to hear the game played, you can head over to friendsatthetable.net and listen to an introduction I recorded with Jack de Quidt and (over the next few weeks) the first arc of our ongoing Realis campaign. The whole of that campaign will come out over on our Patreon, and in fact the first two episodes are already live there, with a third coming tomorrow! And if you love Realis, be sure to check out the rest of what Possible Worlds has made and published!

I’ll send another update once we finish our next wave of copyedits and add the PDF bookmarks. Until then, thanks again for your support, especially in times like these. I know first hand how ridiculous it can be to give attention to something like a game about spaceships and knights. Like I said back in 2018, games will not save us. But I also know how much games and stories—especially ones made and told with your friends—can provide respite and rejuvenation. I hope Realis has been useful for you, as shelter, as whetstone, or at least a distraction.

-Austin