The Oak Log

August 31st, 2026

Ruins & Expeditions

• The six Ruins & Expeditions playbooks now have their suggestions. The Dealer, Gourmand, Hunter, Nomad, Orphan and Scourge were the only playbooks with nothing marked as suggested during character creation. They now show their printed species, natures, drives, connections, demeanor, looks and trinkets, the same as every other playbook.
• Their playbook moves are not yet marked up, so those six still ask you to choose three moves with none granted automatically. Check your playbook for what your character actually starts with.

Joining a campaign

• You can make a character straight from an invite. Before, if you had no spare vagabond, the invite told you to go and make one first and then you had to find the invite again. There is now a button that takes you into character creation with the campaign already attached.
• Your GM's rules now apply while you build. Strict playbook options, the species move setting and any factions your GM has switched off all take effect from the first step. Previously none of them could, because a character had no campaign until after it was finished.
• GMs can set which books the campaign uses. Characters made for the campaign start with those ticked, and players can still change their own.
• While building for a campaign, a note at the top of each step names the campaign and lists what is switched on, so you can see why your options look the way they do. There is a link to build outside the campaign instead.

August 29th, 2026

• Fixed the error when saving a longer background. Writing more than about a sentence into any of the background or details boxes made the save fail with a server error. Those fields were capped at 100 characters, which one ordinary sentence already goes past. The cap is gone, so write as much as you like.
• The background questions are proper text boxes now. "Where do you call home?", "Why are you a vagabond?" and "Whom have you left behind?" give you room to write, and any line breaks you use are kept when your answers appear on your character sheet.
• Demeanor, Looks and Trinket stay on one line so they can keep offering the suggestions printed on your playbook, but they take as much text as you want to give them.
• The same crash could happen when naming a homebrew item, a connection or a campaign. Those are fixed too. Very long names are shortened to fit rather than failing.
• If a background you wrote was cut short before, open your character and fill it back in.

August 27th, 2026

• Fixed character creation letting you take a full set of playbook moves and a full set of species moves. A species move is taken instead of a playbook move, so the two share one budget: step 9 now shows a running count and stops you either way round.
• If you made a vagabond while that was broken, they may be carrying more moves than the playbook allows. Nothing has been taken away automatically: have a look at your sheet, and drop the extras next time you edit your character.

August 26th, 2026

Features

• Added ko-fi widget

Fixes

• Fixed the Outfitter charging a different Value than the preview showed: item tags were being counted twice, and weapon skills were not counted at all. Value now follows the book: wear + extra ranges + tags + weapon skill tags, minus flaws.
• Equipment can have more than one range again (a dagger is Intimate and Close). Extra ranges add to an item's Value, as they should.
• Fixed every item showing 2 harm. The baseline is 1, and armour and gear no longer show a harm value at all.
• Fulfilling a Drive no longer forces you to swap it for a new one. You keep the Drive and get the advancement; each Drive can be fulfilled once per session.
• Split the one item in the equipment deck whose name covered two separate items.
• An advancement that could not be applied (a maxed stat, a move you already had) no longer silently disappears.

New

• Undo advancements. Your sheet now keeps an Advancement History. Picked the wrong thing? Undo it and the advancement comes straight back.
• End of Session move. Frees your Drives for the next session, and optionally swaps one Drive, Nature or Connection.
• Species Moves from Travelers & Outsiders, in either of the book's two modes: taken in place of a playbook move, or as separate advances.
• Masteries. Master basic moves and weapon skills to unlock 12+ triumph results, which the dice roller now recognises.
• Reputation Moves are on your sheet, and roll against whichever faction you pick.
• Playbook gear. The Pirate's ship, the Prince's heirloom weapon and legacy track, each with their own wear track and options.
• Adjust Value. Record Value earned or lost in play, not just spent. Setting an item's value override to 0 makes it free.
• Character creation now highlights the species, natures, drives, connections and details printed on your playbook, and grants the moves your playbook always starts with. Everything else is still selectable.

For GMs

• A Rules Options panel on your campaign page. Switch Species Moves, Masteries, Reputation Moves and strict playbook options on or off for your whole table.
• Turn off factions your Woodland does not use: their Reputation tracks are hidden, never deleted, so switching one back on restores it exactly as it was.

June 19th, 2026

• Added the option to upload custom profile pictures.

June 19th, 2026

• Fixed exile having unique background choices during char creation.
• Fixed exile having unique reputation changes.

June 17th, 2026

• Fixed character name dissapearing from character creation.

June 15th, 2026

• Fixed raconteur feats and stats.
• Fixed showing correct starting stats playbooks.
• Fixed upping harm tracks on levelup.
• Locking maxed stats and harm tracks on levelup.
• Fixed item value calculation bugs.
• Added the option to override item value on homebrew item creation

June 1st, 2026

• Fixed reputation adding prestige/notoriety instead of rep points on character creation.
• Fixed "Cascading" rep changes now working correctly.
• Added a - button to prestige and notoriety for tighter control.
• Added a custom species button to character creation/editting

May 11th, 2026

• Fixed title text size on wizard steps.
• Made all popups "in website" rather then browser prompts.

May 11th, 2026

• Fixed a bug where change portrait button was invisible.

May 6th, 2026

• Added more portrait options.
• Went with a square portrait to better show off the arting.

May 3rd, 2026

• Moved account recovery email to its own settings page.
• Added the option to delete your account to the setting page.

May 2nd, 2026

• Added inline Markdown editing for Character Session Notes.
• Added Public and GM-only notes to Campaign pages.
• Implemented rigorous backend sanitization for text inputs.

April 27th, 2026

• Initial beta release of The Oak Log.
• Character creation wizard is live!
• Equipment outfitter and basic moves are fully functional.