The Sundering

WE LIED!! ONE MORE UPDATE!!! ROLL20 CONVERSION!!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 02:22:24 PM

Hey all!! This is it! The final 20-hour stretch! We've blasted past 50k and as such, unlocked the virtual tabletop conversion to Roll20! We've added a few tiers and addons with it, AND the codes will be available in Backerkit as well after the fact for a few months at the discounted price! :) 

We've also announced a final stretch goal at 60k!! IT'S A MYSTERY!! 

Uh, that's about it. We love you all. Let's see these 20 hours out with a bang. :) Tell your friends, share your shares, LET'S GO!!

FINISH LINE!! HERE WE GO!!!!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 12:17:14 PM

Guys!! Thank you!!! What a journey, and we have just three days left to kick butts before we can breathe and finish making this amazing book for you!! 

In the meantime, we've hit the $45,000 stretch goal and unlocked the CHIBI JAITH SHIRT addon: 

And...the FINAL BOSS of stretch goal unlocks is creeping up on us : ROLL 20 VIRTUAL TABLETOP CONVERSION AT $50K! We are so excited about this opportunity to make The Sundering available to more people and this is the way we can do it!! If we can manage to hit this goal, we will add the Roll20 codes to the campaign as a tier and addon! If we can somehow manage to blast PAST it far enough, we were thinking of adding it to Foundry after the campaign, too? What do you guys think? (It's an entirely separate fee to do this.) 

EITHER WAY, we love you guys and we can't wait to finish this campaign out strong and SEND YOU ALL THE COOL LOOT!!!

We've also revealed the entire roster of our celebrity backer-exclusive game, though it's still a mystery funding level: 

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And, our final little Projects We Love segment for this campaign: 

The Heroes & Hardships Kickstarter is Coming Soon! FOLLOW IT HERE RIGHT NOW!!

Any Setting! Any Character! Any Adventure! Anything You Can Imagine! Guys, this one will be an instant pledge for us. We've seen a preview of the campaign and it's absolutely beautiful!! 

Heroes & Hardships is a universal roleplaying game that allows gamemasters to craft any story they desire. Heroes & Hardships contains many options to facilitate diverse styles and genres of play; GMs can easily create standard fantasy, sci-fi, modern, historical, and superhero games. And of course, feel free to readily mix and match all of these genres in any way they see fit.

In Heroes & Hardships you will find:

A universal RPG system suitable for any setting or genre; 

Extreme customization, from optional rules to hundreds of character options; 

Tightly designed game systems that work seamlessly together or apart; 

Dangerous and tactical combat, with optional rules for simpler forms of violence; 

Two interconnected magic systems for wizards and superheroes alike; 

Vehicle creation and combat; 

A bestiary full of medieval, fantasy, modern, and sci-fi adversaries; 

Extreme quality, from AAA game industry artists, to hardcover book extras like a ribbon, soft-touch matte cover, and FSC paper.
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And, of course, we have to throw in a comic project from some friends of ours who did amazing work in our ELSEWHERE anthology: Rodolfo Martinez and LUCHA COMICS are making Hungry Ghosts: A Samurai Graphic Novel!! CLICK HERE TO PLEDGE NOW!

Our story opens in 15th-century Japan. The land has been ravaged by war, and many are left facing famine. As Buddha teaches: human desires only lead to suffering.

Lafcadio Hearn was a Victorian-era European writer who, in his book KWAIDAN: STORIES AND STUDIES OF STRANGE THINGS (the most famous of his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories), told a story of Isogai Heidazaemon Taketsura, a samurai who renounced his old life and became a wandering priest.

STRETCH. GOALS. Virtual Tabletop Announcement. So Much Excite.
over 1 year ago – Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 10:15:32 AM

So, 9 days left, we've passed 40k, and unlocked the DICE BAG for everyone getting dice!! No additional charge, sexy custom bag. We've resisted calling it a D-bag...but the temptation is there. ;) 

We've also made some REALLY exciting announcements for 45k and 50k. 

45k will unlock the Jaith Kuduri shirt as an addon: 

But then we have the BIG KAHUNA of stretch goals, at $50k: 

The adaptation and addition of The Sundering to Roll20! Sigil will be doing this for us and we are SO PUMPED at the possibility. Getting The Sundering on Roll20 would be huge, and we could also offer you all codes to get in there either before the campaign ends as a tier, or afterwards in Backerkit!  So if you have any tricks up your sleeves to help us hit that 50k and pay for the conversion....RALLY THE TROOPS!

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And, of course, some Projects We Love: 

RIDDLE REGISTER: A collective of catalogued logic puzzles & riddles for your TTRPG. Each indexed by class, element & answers for your immediate access. BACK IT HERE RIGHT NOW!!

So, as a huge D&D player, one thing I have always been obsessed with is riddles and puzzle dungeons. These creators have made a BOOK of 'em for your easy access. Therefore, I am now obsessed with this campaign!!! 

Inside the Riddle Register: The Ultimate Book of Riddles you will find:

• A base of 250+ Riddles (because of our amazing Stretch Goals and yes - including the answers!) and many more as added as we go!
• 100+ pages (again because of our amazing Stretch Goals).
• At least 3 difficulty levels
• Hints (wherever relevant for the later levels)

Second, our good friend Russell Nohelty is currently running a campaign for his graphic novel, Ichabod Jones, a Lovecraftian dark fantasy horror-comedy inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands and Cthulhu mythos but set in a Christian Apocalypse: BACK IT HERE NOW!!!

Do you love crazy stories filled with monsters, magic, and humor?

Have you ever read about H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands and thought..."I wish this was funnier and gorier"?

Are you excited by stories that keep you on your toes and make you question the very fabric of reality?

Then you are going to love Ichabod Jones Monster Hunter.

Ichabod Jones is about a mental patient that escapes an asylum and becomes a monster hunter during the Apocalypse, but doesn't know if he's killing monsters, humans, or if it's all in his head the whole time.  It's a complete fantastical and psychological mindscrew.

"Ichabod comes from a deep, almost primordial, place in my soul. It's the part that devours movies like In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, and Jacob's Ladder, while still binging on Gravity Falls, Frankenweenie, and Army of Darkness. It's the part that read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and laughed hysterically at every gruesome scene."

SLAMMING STRETCH GOALS!!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 06:52:21 AM

NEWS AND UPDATES AND FREE SHIT: 

As you guys may have noticed, we breached that 35k stretch goal and unlocked the DOMINION OF REASON expansion pack:

AND we've announced the 40k stretch, which is a BIG ONE, free custom Sundering dice bags for everyone getting dice! 

We've got two weeks left to go, so we feel this is a pretty attainable one, and we want to give you guys something freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! 

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And finally, some promos for other Projects we Love: 

The CUTE CREATURES COMPENDIUM is coming to a close soon, and, really, the name is self-explanatory. Absolutely fantastic artist, Catilus, has brought a bunch of her creations to life!! BACK IT HERE NOW!!! 

45 fully illustrated, uniquely cute creatures with stat blocks ranging from CR 0 to CR 30 (Check out the shroompy that volunteered as the free sample creature here!)

• Likes, dislikes, and lore for each cute creature
• Numerous options for familiars, pact of the chain familiars, and steeds
• Rules to tame, befriend, and even build some creatures!
• Adventure hooks, optional rules, tables, and other extras to enhance worldbuilding
• More than 50 detailed illustrations, including art for each creature, by me!

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Next, we have another 5e book we're obsessed with : INTOXIMANCY!! A boozy wizard subclass for 5e!! Your guide to becoming a drunken master of the mystic arts! Plus new spells, items, and creatures! BACK IT HERE NOW!!! 

• Rules for the Intoximancer wizard subclass: a fun, powerful, and playable subclass for fifth edition
• A guide for creating each Intoximancer's unique Flagon - a magic drinking vessel which levels up and gains powers as the Intoximancer does
• Variant rules for those wizards who prefer pipeweed over ale
• New spells and cantrips like Cheers and Blackout Drunk
• New magic items like the Beard of Holding and the Crapulancer's Great Staff
• New creatures like the Hobgoblet and the fire-breathing Pseudoflagon

EXCITING UNLOCK, and Future Cool Stuff!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:21:29 PM

I keep writing these updates like "we have no words", because we really don't! We're so excited that YOU GUYS are as EXCITED about this book as we are!! 

We've had a few questions about getting The Sundering up on virtual tabletop platforms and it's something we REALLY want to do. Currently we've been told that it'll cost us a LOT of money to have done, but if the campaign continues as-is, it is certainly a possibility. :) We are in contact with Sigil VTT Services as we speak! Also important to mention - we will be making sure our book is up to date with the Character Origin update just recently released. 

Next: Stop the Press, Who is THAT?!?!

None other than Dungeons and Dragons: A Darkened Wish author B. Dave Walters! Published by IDW and Wizards of the Coast, Walters also appears as Victor Temple on Vampire the Masquerade: LA by Night on Geek and Sundry. He is also a SDCC and Wondercon featured panelist on the topics of Spiritual Themes in Comics and Media, creator and DM of the Shadow of the Red Rage streaming show for Wizards of the Coast, and an all-around TTRPG guru.

What does that mean for you? 30k Stretch goal achieved! There is a brand new reward tier available, and it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. B. Dave has agreed to host a ONE-SHOT, for this special tier and all the backers who pledge to it. You will get the chance to play a truncated adventure with B. Dave Walters as your DM in the brand-new world of The Sundering.

Your party will begin its journey with B. Dave Walters at the head and explore the diverse and lore infused world of the Sundering from a master of the 5e arts! This is a TTRPG player’s dream come true. So join us, while we thank all of our supporters for crashing through the 30k stretch goal and we send a VERY SPECIAL thank you to B. Dave Walters for joining the Sundering.

We've also announced our next stretch goal, at $35k: 

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And, some projects we love: 

ADVENTURES AWAIT: ARCANE ARMAMENTS is a collection of 200+ 5e compatible magic items that are ready to be inserted into your home games at a moment's notice. With an easy to read layout, quick reference guide at the front, and incredible art to showcase to your players, you can easily pluck out an item whenever you need it and deliver unto your party a magical reward worthy of a hero or heroine. BACK IT HERE NOW!!

In the comics world, our friend Travis Gibb at Orange Cone is running a campaign for PUP VAN WINKLE, which you can BACK HERE NOW!!

This mini-series will take you to Winkle County where Foley, a fluffy Border Collie and bestest boy extraordinaire, awakens after 15 years in the woods to discover that ALL DOGS have been banned by Sheriff Dwayne Spivey- a deep south, zero-mercy law enforcement officer with a penchant for cats, guns, and self righteousness - What could go wrong?

And, finally: 

Intelligen Comics has just one week left to fund their book, 2100 AD, BACK IT HERE NOW!

In the year 2100, the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence unit Arthur has gone rogue.  Humans are hunted, targeted with autonomous vehicles and drones, forced to avoid cities, and scavenge.  Mankind’s greatest hope?  A small group of programmers, engineers, armed forces, and ex-government employees.  Together, they represent humanity’s last stand in a war against a superior consciousness.