The WarHams Roadmap

Hey everyone!

Firstly we’d like to say thank you to everyone who has supported the show thus far. We as a team have learned a lot by doing this show over the year and a half since we started. The amount of love and support has been amazing, and we’re happy to continue doing what we can for all of you.

If you’re wondering why we’re making these radical changes and restructuring, look at our post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54448140

Here is a table of contents to help you Control + F and search the various points we’re covering here.

1. What we’re 100% going to be doing

1. The Main Campaign
2. Zoran’s Campaign
3. Content for Patreon
4. Content distribution

2. What we want to do

1. Side Campaigns
2. Web Comics

What we’re 100% going to be doing.

Once both Warhammer themed campaigns have ended, we will be starting up a new campaign with the same cast you know before. With addition to Odoroshi joining the main crew!

1. The Main Campaign

We are looking at moving the main Warhams campaign to be in a Medieval Fantasy world inspired by the worlds and visuals of Dark Souls and Elden Ring, along with some of the tones of Warhammer. Like the existing Warhams show, the setting is going to be grimdark, but filled with the wacky garbage you all know and love for our episodes. This campaign also has the whole cast you know and love, including bringing in Odoroshi. So it will be Thurston Hillman developing the world, setting, and campaign. Zoran, SpeakerD, Earndil, HulkyKrow, and Odoroshi will be players in the campaign.

Once the initial art and characters are completed, we will be revealing them to you as things get finalized. We’re currently brainstorming characters and conceptualizing things. So stay tuned in the coming weeks and months for announcements of our character building streams and all sorts of extra preview content.

1. Zoran’s Campaign

In the same world that Zoran and Thurston are creating, Zoran will be DMing his campaign called “The Dern Chronicles.” This party will be set in the same world as the main cast. But the players will be a whole new cast. The overall theme will be the same as the main campaign, but more emphasis on the undead portion.

This is something that is very likely to occur, but still being developed as of this time. If not this, then Zoran’s D20+ One Shot show will take its place.

1. Content for Patreon

(Example of the type of monsters we’re planning to provide.)

In the past when we talked about what we could add to the Patreon, we felt limited. Namely due to GW’s and Cubicle 7’s policies on distributing custom rules and content. Not to mention the challenge of getting the huge influx of people involved or mentioned in the show itself. It’s a massive undertaking, and we’ve never been satisfied with it.

We're looking at restructuring the Patreon benefits to provide better content for the people supporting us. Due to the switch of the systems we’re doing, we’re going to be able to make TTRPG content for our supporters and distribute it here. This means custom art, stat blocks for monsters & NPCs, Tokens, battle maps, lore documents, and even module/adventure documents about the world we’re creating. Now you can adventure with the show, and more! (Seriously, this is really exciting and something we've had people asking us about since we started, and one of the big reasons we're really excited to make these changes).

We’re still ironing out the details, but we’re in a position to provide you with a lot more than just a shoutout.

1. Content Distribution

Things like PDFs, lore, art, etc will still be posted here on Patreon. We’re looking for a better way to do so currently.

Videos such as Youtube VoDs and the Mp3 files for the podcast will need to be rethought. ZoranTheBear is one of the few people behind the scenes via production. On top of everything WarHams calls for, he also is sustaining his Twitch and Youtube platforms. In addition to all the side jobs he needs to do to keep things running. It’s a lot, and this portion of the process gets messy.

To help with Zoran's workload, we will be extending the weekly upload time from one week to within two. Patreon will still get the VoD converted to Youtube within a few days. So no worries about that. (We need to be conscious of Zoran's contractual agreement to not post streams anywhere else within 24 hours.)

We wanted to take this approach to allow for the Podcast and Video versions of the show to be cleaned up and enhanced with music and sound effects. It’s something that's bothered us for a while with the previous campaigns, so this is to help make the experience and quality overall better. While also giving Zoran and crew some sanity back.

We're still trialing video editors on taking the episode's vods and enhancing them a tiny bit. This is a paid gig, so please DM Zoran on discord if you have the skills. Please send a portfolio or your best works, simply saying "hey I can help" actually doesn't help. Show Zoran what you got!

What we want to do.

1. Side Campaigns

These mostly rely on the attendance, views, and overall reception of the new main campaign.

We really want to do a side campaign that's integrated with Alfabusa’s plans to head into the WoD(World of Darkness) lore. This would be Game Mastered by Speaker D, and played by the rest of the gang(except thurston he hates being a player). We’ve spoken to Alfabusa about this, and we both are pretty happy with doing it.

We also discussed running another Science Fiction themed TTRPG. The issue is that most of the books and settings are tied to IPs that would cause legal issues. And others are just… yeah. We’re still discussing possibilities, but we’ll more than likely discuss it more seriously if the reaction to our current projects are positive.

1. Web Comics

This is entirely based on how well people like the main campaign. We’d like to start it a couple of episodes in, and have it be aligned with the main story. But we'll set this as a Patreon goal to gauge.

We want to make it happen dag nabbit.

Why not BattleTech or X Game or X Thing?

Specifically toward BattleTech, after talking to friends who played the tabletop and rpg for awhile. We don’t believe it would translate well to a TTRPG show. The battles are insanely long, the chances for RP are weird and rare, and various other reasons.

To note that we’re not 100% closed to most systems. But we’re looking for a system that can translate well to stream, and not fry our brains in terms of bookkeeping and mechanics. Currently Zoran is looking to grab a few friends and find a fun RP way to play the MechWarrior5 game. Use mods to make it super hardcore and add some production value to it. Stay tuned to the Twitch Channel for more.

For folks wanting us to play in a certain setting. We probably will skip most due to legal issues or lack of interest. One shots of those brands can be possible, but we’d have to be careful. Still give us feedback on what you'd like to see, but please understand out worries if we don't pursue X, Y, and Z.

When is all of this happening?

We hope to have everything up and going around January 2022. But things may delay us, namely time commitments and navigating through everyone’s busy schedules. It’s a lot of logistics, so please bear with us as we get everything developed and sorted.

What is happening now?

Right now we’re finishing up the current campaigns, which may be a month or two out. In between when we have time, we’ll be doing several test/character building sessions.

Once the campaigns have concluded, and if we have time. We’ll try to do a couple of one shots if able to fill in the weekends. But more than likely we’ll spend this time to breath, develop, and come back with a show you’ll love. It's scary as all hell for us, as this usually kills shows and people lose a lot of interest if we're not consistent. But we want to try, and we just pray that people won't forget about us.

With that, thank you all so much for your time and support. We wouldn’t be able to do this without you.

- Love,

The WarHams Crew