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Biomes of Ice & Dust Expansion Released

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You and your traveling companions have been traveling for half of a ten day now. The blistering sun which rides high in the desert sky seems unforgiving. The desert, as you and your group already know by now, is a terrible place to travel. The five of you discuss your regrets and often bicker of the sun and the brightness of it all. The tanned cracked dirt beneath your boots, the rigid brown cliff faces, only off putted by the occasional sight of green cacti. Hopefully the loot will be worth it….

Talespire’s newest update: Biomes of Ice and Dust, brings thirty six new amazing tiles to the table for all of your harsh adventuring. May it be for an unforgiving journey to an ancient pyramid in the heated desert, or a marathon of hiking through a stormy blizzard up a mountain to slaughter an ancient white dragon.

Within talespires latest asset bundle contains tiles for desert, tsundra, and jungle environments. For deserts this asset pack includes eight ground tiles of varying designs and then six props to liven up the surroundings (as much as you can within a desert). The asset pack also includes an entourage of cliff faces and rock piles for desert environments.

The tanned colors of rocks and dirt isn’t the only thing included however, as mentioned early Talespire is preparing you and your players for a harsh winter with eleven assets which are sure to immerse your players within the chilled reality of your game. A variety of dead bushes, snow mounds and snowy cliffs and boulders are included. And lastly but not least, a few misc assets were added in this pack, those being a handful of jungle plants and ferns along with a few rocks and boulders.

BouncyRock once again brings yet another update to Talespire which helps bring players further into an immersive world for which Game Masters and Dungeon Masters can drag their players into for a night of virtual tabletop fun. You’ll adore the snowy aesthetic of this update. We’ve used multiple tiles from this to create a low level one shot involving a white dragon wyrmling. Here’s the link to the TaleSpire slab We’ve created for this one shot using assets from this update, hopefully it brings you inspiration, and if you need to use it for a last second “Oh crap, I forgot to prep!” go right ahead!

Check them out the new assets here.

LDC Contest Price Increased and Water Released

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Just a quick update today. First, thanks to a donor the prize for the LDC Contest has been doubled from 25€ to 50€ . You can find out more at https://talestavern.com/ldccontest

Also, in exciting news this week we now have water now. Set the height and bam, instant water. Very very cool. There will be more eventually but this fills the need well for now. Thank you Bouncy Rock! See more at https://bouncyrock.com/news/articles/beta-update-27-below-the-surface-of-water

Enchanted Forest Booster Pack has arrived

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The woods are not merely alive, they are watching. You are leading your friends and compatriots into the forgotten forest- why was it forgotten again? You remember talking to the town elder about something pressing and a salivating amount of gold on offer for the job but, for the life of you it escapes your memory…before your foot catches on a root that you swear jumps up to trip you to the ground. Your face smacks the soil hard leaving you dazed as you rear up, suddenly faced with a toad. Or at least the belly of one, a big one, nay a man-sized one that croaks deeply as you scramble back to your party. But they are already drawing their weapons, hoisting you up as the same tree that tripped you begins to shift and shamble towards the team threateningly. It seems you might have forgotten a few important details about this enchanted forest…

Talespire’s Enchanted Forest booster pack is a small package for your favorite digital tabletop system, but as with the winged fairy included within- size isn’t everything! Four minis for your foray into magical woods untarnished by man join the ranks of the wonderful fey models Bouncyrock Studio has intricately put together. It isn’t hard to find uses for any of these, in and out of the feytouched woodlands!

First is the tiny fairy of the forest, a green-clad pixie with wings like a dragonfly whose ginger hair flutters about as if mid-flight. This fey creature is more tied to her realm than the rest, where she sprinkles magical dust to keep the woods alive and brimming with enchantment. Next to the giant toad, a surly-looking amphibian with a horned and wrinkled face only a four-legged mother could love. A massive and tongue-shooting beast he is, creative game masters might find the mini perfect for swamps, marshes or bogs as well, perhaps shrinking him down to a more manageable size- though no less dangerous if you get that toxic slime on your skin.

The third miniature in this Talespire update is the long-awaited magic hammer, a bright and shining weapon of the woad held aloft by powers naught understood by man. This pink and blue battle-ready model shines bright on any board you choose to place it on, whether a holy weapon of the devoted, an enchanted artifact haunting an abandoned manor, or whatever purpose you can imagine this ethereal slammer was conjured for. Finally, the towering treant with a glowing green eye lumbers forth onto your screen and towards your players, animated limbs filled with strength only the most valiant can hope to abet. Is this abomination brought to life to defend the creatures of its magical wooded home? Maybe it is a summon by your fey druid to defend the chosen representative of the forest! Or perhaps foul magic leaks from its rotting wood, a grisly and horrifying warning of the perils waiting in a blighted, necrotic corner where the dead whisper in their unlife…

These four assets for Talespire have their own important niches that you might’ve never realized you needed filled. The attention to their shape as well as digital details the developers gave to their 3D models allows all four of these minis to look fantastic at any size or distance, and you’ll capture amazing images of awakened trees charging the magic weapon-wielding cleric with no effort at all! Need a slab to set the stage for this scene? Why not try this enclosed swamp slab off of Tales Tavern? With a bit of atmospheric lighting customization you can make this terrain tileset a perfect home of the fey for your adventurers to come knocking. Thanks for supporting the devs on this journey, and enjoy your time with Talespire and its Enchanted Forest booster pack!

Miniature Update Spotlight: A Call for Heroic Miniatures 6

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Oi, everyone get in here there’s a right ruckus going on! What was once a wee quaint afternoon for us chefs and stout folk ‘as turned into a raging battle with servants of evil sorcery aye it has! They be wielding weapons and crystals and magics unseen by commoner eyes, and what are we to do but grab what gear we got and meet them at the door! But someone try to kickstart those two-legged automatons that mustachioed gentleman’s been tinkering with, a metal pair o’hands is better than no pair o’hands!

Talespire’s Call for Heroic Miniatures asset pack 6 brings a cavalcade of new mini options to BouncyRock Digital’s virtual tabletop, coming in various shapes and sizes to fill your roleplaying game niches better than ever before! A full twenty-one figurines have been modeled and added to the software selection to be used in or out of battle, for player characters or NPCs alike. This update focuses on a few types of humanoids: first are a few commoners, some human and some horned ones; next are the short and stout folk who come in various adventuring and working classes. A few more humans and elves join the ranks for magus and drow needs, along with a pair of automaton humanoids for the fantasy cyborg lovers out there.

The rest of the minis are an assortment of hero and perhaps villain models, a set of half-demons and half-orcs armed with weapons or magical apparatuses to act as your morally-grey or plot-antagonistic figures detailed for maximum ferocity. Do they seek power? Retribution? Chaos? These arcane and armed warriors will give you plenty of opportunities to truly display the power of allies and enemies in your fantastical imagined worlds using Talespire. If you’re looking for a map to set the hectic scene with these heroic miniatures take a gander at Istallri’s Naonez Bastion slab on Tales Tavern, where you can find the best boards and slabs while keeping up to date with BouncyRock Digital’s one-of-a-kind virtual tabletop. Thanks for supporting the project thus far, and here’s to innumerable dice-rolled memories online!

LOW . DETAIL . CITY – Example 2 – Naonez Bastion

Explore Mount Saint-Mikkel a new adventure release for use in TaleSpire (or without)

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Istallri Astra has created a new adventure series in conjunction with Tolkraft have released a free new adventure. It is released in English and French. This can be run on TaleSpire or regular pen & paper style. You can see the description, video, materials and even the TaleSpire slab right here on Tales Tavern. We’re excited to see this but also the new usage of our improved collection and resource components. Great job.

Eldritch Foundry and TaleSpire/Bouncy Rock new partnership

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The incredible team at Bouncy Rock announced a new partnership with another amazing team at Eldritch Foundry. Working together there will be amazing new minis coming to the game that look fantastic but also can be created even faster than before. This is a very good day in the TaleSpire universe. See what they were able to do in a week and a half from one part time artist.

Read the entire announcement here.

Fourth Beta Key Drawing Complete

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Congratulations to Snor from the TaleSpire and ModCity discords on winning our fourth beta key for TaleSpire. We know you’ll put it to good use, enjoy. We still may have one more drawing next month so watch here for details or shortly we’ll have our new notification system in so you can sign up and get notified of new news.

Fourth Beta Key Giveaway Announcement

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Yes, you heard it right. Our fourth beta key giveaway is starting September 1.

We’ve done a couple of drawings and a scavenger hunt. This time it should be much quicker and easier. We’ll simply have a survey to get your opinions on some things TaleSpire and Tales Tavern related. That’s it. Simply give us your opinions and you’ll be entered into the drawing. We’ll post all the nitty gritty details on September 1 so keep an eye out. And good luck!

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