It’s Jonathan here with another signature DR:TX Rules Ramble, leading up to our October live event DOWNFALL! This will be the first full game run under the new DR Live system and our first DR Live NATIONAL EVENT, led by Heather Halstead and Jonathan Loyd. Each week, I’ll discuss in detail an aspect of the upcoming event, compiling the rules and lore into one easy place to read! This week, we are covering some updates to our event that have developed since we began ticket sales in July.
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As a reminder, we’ve covered a LOT on Downfall so far:
Downfall Introduction - You can read about our content warnings and expectations for the National Event.
Character Creation Guide - We’ve provided a step-by-step guide for creating your first character on the DR Live Database, Juno.
DR Live: Where to Start - This is a handy guide on how to tackle reading the rules for the new system. TL;DR, there’s a LOT of books already for this edition, but the best place to begin is the Player’s Guide.
Frequently Asked Questions - We’ve made a few updates over the past few weeks and we’ve tried to anticipate most of your questions. We’ve updated this as of October 1st!
What’s Different in Texas? - If you are traveling to a Texas event for the first time, I’ve readied a guide for what to expect from our local game culture. Check it out!
TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW FOR DOWNFALL! GET YOUR FIRST LOOK AT THE NEW DR LIVE SYSTEM IN PERSON!
Our photos for this post were taken from previous DR:TX events by our talented Photo Team, including Lily-Jay Jones and our marketing guru Kiara Everlen.
Changes for the National Event
It’s hard to believe that Downfall is happening next week. We are only a few short days from our first DR Live National Event and I’m so excited. We launched our ticket sales way back in July and there’s been a lot changes since then!
We’ve had multiple books revealed by that Network Support team, we’ve had a Blueprint Unboxing, multiple Discord hangouts, and we’ve kept a chat running in our DR:TX Discord over the past few months. That’s a lot of places to make some clarifications and to decide on some changes as we literally get new information from our national team. Players have asked some awesome questions, and we want to make sure y’all are caught up with some updates for Downfall.
Let’s cover some of the big changes we’ve made to the Downfall event since we began:
You can play your Alts!
After hearing the feedback from our players, we’ve clarified that you can absolutely bring your alts to play at Downfall. There was some confusing language in our FAQ, but it’s been corrected.
You can absolutely bring your favorite LC! While you can play alts at Downfall, we recommend focusing on just one character. You’ll be learning the new rules in person, and we believe it’ll be easier to adapt to the changes with just one character at first. But, if you want to have fun as your alternate character, go for it!
However, you will only receive one set of Gear Loadouts (the starting items, plus your two choices of role items) in total, regardless of how many alts you check in. You can split these items between characters if you choose.
Bring Your Blueprints!
During our Blueprint Unboxing, we showed off all of the prints we will be using during the DOWNFALL event. I’ve collated the lists at our Downfall Blueprint Checklist, but we probably won’t have access to Blueprints on our Juno server until after our event. With that in mind, we’ve revisited our Blueprint item suggestions from the FAQ that once recommended leaving the blueprints at home.
With the lack of easy Blueprint access in the DR Live database, we have made the decision to honor blueprints that have a 1:1 equivalent in DR Live. You can bring your current 3.0 blueprints and they will ‘count as’ the equivalent blueprint in DRL for purposes of copying or crafting.
Keep in mind there are many brand-new blueprints for DRL that will need to be acquired through other means, such as a Zone of Mechanics or interactions with a NPC. We won’t be doing any conversion of existing blueprints for this event. You’ll need to either reference the DRL material needs for the print from a digital source at game, or check at the Post Office.
Here’s what is in your survivor Packs:
We were waiting on the final blueprint release to confirm, but here’s what to expect from your starting gear packages. As we’ve mentioned before, we won’t be doing conversions of existing 3.0 items into DR Live versions for this event. As such, we want to make sure that we help folks test out a new system at mostly the same level of resources, so we’ve elected to provide some starting gear.
This equipment is complete FREE as part of your ticket. No mind, no scrap needed. You can read the complete list on our Frequently Asked Questions page. Here’s what you get:
Starting gear loadout
1 weapon
1 suit of armor
1 gizmo
1 Lineage specific healing Injection
TWO Choices of additional Loadout Options:
Artisan, Cook, Criminal, Melee, Gunslinger, Shield, Criminal, Priest
Survival Pack
If you bought your ticket prior to August 30th, you also receive:
DR:TX Currency Collection:
1 Brass, 1 Lead, 1 Tin, 1 Amaranthite, and 1 Shard of the Red Crown
1 Lineage Specific Recovery Brew
1 Lineage Specific Healing Injection
1 random Scrap or Herb
You should get a survey in your email asking about your preferred items for the loadout. Check your junk box just in case! If you have no preferences, you can choose “RANDOM”, and we will provide you with one of the brand new items available for DR Live in that slot.
Honeysuckle Huts will be used as “NPC Land”
Our Storytellers have had some awesome ideas for mods and such, and we want to continue to have a space that allows us some ‘away’ mods during the game. While we have previously suggested that camping will be allowed in the Honeysuckle Huts area (previously known as Zuni), we will be keeping this area as a limited access space for Downfall. We have plenty of other climate controlled cabins and open air cabins across the Bluebonnet Shores site, so we will have plenty of camping places for every attendee.
Starting XP is now available on the Juno Database
When we held our Character Creation Discord event last week, we shared that the additional 50 XP for character creation would not be functional on the Juno Database. As previously mentioned by Michael Pucci, all existing 3.0 characters will receive 50 additional ‘creation XP’ at the launch of DR live in 2025. This will help smooth out the start for most folks and remove some disparities for new players that start shortly before the transition. However, the Juno database didn’t really have a way to make this happen. At first.
Thanks to the hard work of Gloria, our network support genius, the Juno database has now been updated to reflect this starting XP! If you already have created your experimental slot character, you should be able to see the additional XP now. Plus, if you haven’t checked in yet, the time frame to convert your character to the new database is now around 12 hours. Amazing!
We’ve updated our Caps list for DR Live!
We’ve posted the Wishlist for our Downfall event via Facebook and Discord, but you can still earn some local Texas CAPs for the big event. We’ve updated our list of rewards to also include some DR Live specific items, so check it out on our Community Action Points Page.
Check out the downfall Wishlist!
Community Action Points is a system of thank-you and rewards that exists to give to players that work to make the community of Dystopia Rising a better place. These points can be turned in for things that will enhance their in-game experience. This program aims to offer a way to show our DR:TX team appreciates people who want to make things better for those around them and want to reward them with the thing that we all came here for: fun!
Character Creation is due on October 5th
We’ve opened up the Juno database for you to start building your characters for the event last week. You still have until this weekend to finish up your builds to make sure we have a printed character sheet ready for you on site. You have until October 5th at midnight to finish up this task.
Any character sheets completed after this point will instead be printed on site during registration.
Non attending Tickets will Be available end of downfall
If you can’t make the trip down to Texas, you can still access the extra XP for your characters for DR Live later this year. We are leaving up the ticket page for non-attending tickets all the way until the end of our event. You’ll be able to purchase your ticket at the door as well in person, as usual.
Based on our current license agreement, we won’t be able to sell Back Buy XP for Downfall once the event is finished, so if you’d like to support our local game and get some tasty XP we’ve love to have you support our chapter. Our ticket sales help us pay our teams, invest in cool props for DR Live, and manage growing site fees. After this event, your money will instead be spent through the National website to purchase Back Buy XP.
Here's a sneak peek of some of the in-character events to watch out for during the Downfall event!
Wrap Up
That’s it for today Vados! Short and sweet!
Next week I’ll cover the few unique rules we will have for this event, including the dangerous Exclusion Zone, how you can unlock some new blueprints with the RRC Invention Exchange, and other Zones of Mechanics to watch out for during the Downfall event.
Will you side with the Wells Society or the Temple Evolution? Will you have an opinion to share with the infamous General Mustang? Will you survive the strange new undead and deadly raiders in the world of DR Live? Let’s find out together next week!
