Magewinds in 2025

Tagged: Updates

Hello. It’s been a while, but I’m finally setting aside some precious free time to make progress on my favourite personal project: Magewinds development!

My plan for the coming weeks is to work towards producing a reasonably chunky Summer Update, featuring rules updates and other nice things.

Rules Updates

• Improvements to the Core Rules, disambiguating certain terms, overhauling how carriable objects work, and more.
• Changes and additions to the Tempest Crusaders fighter pack, to rebalance existing fighter profiles and universal abilities and to add new ones, such as the Thief, Ranger and Alchemist.
• Changes and additions to the Into the Tempest scenario pack, perhaps even breaking the 3 and 4 player scenarios out into their own separate pack.
• Bringing the Ups and Downs optional module for vertical combat out of beta.
• Same for the Neutral Fighters optional module.

To make these updates as good as possible, regular playtesting sessions will be starting up again soon. Please get in touch if you’d like to be involved!

Enbeautification

I’ll also be adding icons, diagrams and bits of art to generally spruce up the place. This work is long-overdue and definitely worth the effort – a good game is made by vibes as much as it is by rules.

Fighter Cards

If I have time, I’ll work on a way to condense fighter profiles into printable fighter cards, to be arrayed beside the battlefield for speedy reference and clutter-free damage tracking.

Timeline

I’m setting myself a provisional, arbitrary and achievable-sounding release date for the Summer Update of August 31st… just in time for Autumn 😎

Unless I’m particularly inspired to document my progress, the blog will, like normal, be quiet until then¹. Therefore I shall wish you, dear reader, a pleasant summer containing many days of sunshine and relaxation. Farewell!

Some Magewinds fighters I painted recently.