The Crossblog

Welcome back to the Crossblog! Please pardon our dust as we continue the construction. We are continuing to work towards the completion of this endeavor. As such I figured that I would do something a little different this time, and simply give a couple updates as to things that are happening with the game. LIKE A PHOENIX RISING FROM THE ASHES... First off, the playtest that I spoke of in  Playtest Evolution #1  that was on indefinite hiatus is starting back up. We actually just completed the first session this past Sunday and it was a roleplay heavy session which was good for reintroducing everyone back into the fold after being off for 7 months. The session also started with them being walked through a level-up. This was significant because as the previous posts stated, their characters started as Lv. 4 characters that were sent out from the Adventuring Academy on their first assignment. For the sake of the playtest, I was going to grant them an accelerated TRIPLE level up...

Welcome to everyone taking the time to read this. My name is Darrick Herring and I'm the creator of Crossroads: The Yzyrra (pronounced "ee-ZEH-rah") Chronicles. I've been a fan of role-playing games for almost 25 years. I originally started with video games, then eventually branched out into table-top role-playing games thanks to some friends that I went to college with. I was GM for a handful of 2nd Edition Big Eyes, Small Mouth adventures and a campaign that ran a year and a half. While all of this was going on, I had dabbled in countless MMORPG's, both big and small while I was kicking around this idea for my own RPG. While I slowly worked on my own setting, I went through iteration after iteration trying to figure things out, how to design a game with so many moving parts. However one game kept sticking out in my mind, Final Fantasy XI with its sub-job system. I tried countless combinations, some more effective than others. I wanted something along th...