Both tabletop and video gamers are going to love all the rewards you'll get for helping to bring the world of Golarion to life in Pathfinder Online! From formal titles for your in-game character to months of subscription time, the Kickstarter for Pathfinder Online will let you explore the (mostly) lawless lands of the River Kingdoms and claim pieces of it for yourself in this sandbox game. But, if you're looking to add exciting new product to your tabletop game, let me line it up for you!
First up, if you're a member of the Pathfinder Society Organized Play, don't miss out on the chronicle you get at the $5 Watcher level! This chronicle grants you a one-time use of the emerald elixir, stolen from the dark and dangerous depths of the Emerald Spire. The Emerald Spire PDF is available for backers at the $15 reward level, but we didn't stop there—and you won't want to miss out on the gathering of authors assembled to create this unique superdungeon! Each level will be crafted by authors like James Jacobs, Erik Mona, Jason Bulmahn, but also by Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens, legendary game designer Frank Mentzer, WizKids founder Jordan Weisman, and author Michael Stackpole, delving deeper and deeper into this strange ruin. If you want the PDF of the Emerald Spire and its associated Flip-Mat Multi-Pack, join in at the $75 Loremaster backer level—if you need to have it in print version, you'll get the hardcover Emerald Spire Superdungeon, the Emerald Spire Flip-Mat Multi-Pack, Item Cards, and Pathfinder Tales: The Crusader's Road with the $100 RPG Print Pack Add-on!
Need more reasons to join? How about over fifty of them? Our third-party Pathfinder Roleplaying Game publishers have contributed an ever-growing number of PDFs to the Pathfinder PDF Superpack, available to all Kickstarter backers at the Crowdforger level and above. This Superpack has over a $300 value, giving you access to a huge variety of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible products—adventures like "The Mask of Death" (the adventure played in the movie The Gamers: Dorkness Rising) and "Fangs from the Past", entirely new campaign settings like Cerulean Seas and everybody's favorite crossroads city of Zobeck, more bad guys than you can shake a stick at with Scions of Evil, even releases you can't get separately, like Cyclopean Deeps from Frog God Games!
If you don't know what makes Pathfinder Online different from other MMOs, check out this handy post from board member Andius, as well as these must-read Goblinworks developer blogs assembled by Valkenr! But for the latest and greatest, stay on top of the latest news for the Pathfinder Online Kickstarter here!
A new Add-On for Pathfinder Tabletop & Forum Benefits
Update #27 · Jan. 04, 2013 · comment
We're creating a new Add-On today that gives you the ability to get the printed versions of the Emerald Spire and Flip-Mats, plus the miniatures and allows people to get custom forum avatars on the paizo.com messageboards. Check out the project main page for all the details!
Sooo, I've scoured the KS page and can't find any of the details on the part that I bolded. Please don't play with my feeling like this. (Yes, I have only 1 feeling left at this point.)
Follow the pictures at the very bottom of the Kickstarter page. They are the most accurate.
The sidebar cannot be changed once the Kickstarter begins, and all of the changes and whatnot in the text are buried. The pictures are updated correctly though.
Basically there is an option to contribute something like $500 if memory serves and you will get to submit a 300 word description of a character for a wanted poster that will be used in the game. You would get to use the picture as your avatar on the paizo forums, and your character will appear on the random encounter tables in the Echo woods (IIRC). So you might get a run-in with your own creation in the game.
You can always click on the Updates button on the top of the page to read about the recent additions. :P
Well that would be the logical thing to do except for the fact that the update page reads: "Check out the project main page for all the details!"
Being wrote:
Basically there is an option to contribute something like $500 if memory serves and you will get to submit a 300 word description of a character for a wanted poster that will be used in the game. You would get to use the picture as your avatar on the paizo forums...
For $500 I'd expect the ability to upload whatever avatars I please without signing copyright of my IP over to Paizo. If that's all that it is then... well... so much for that one remaining feeling.
The kick starter page says that the 15$ backer lvl will get you the emerald spire pdf, this post here says 75$ lvl.
Also there seems to another pdf about for indomitable for the 75$ lvl?
Things are getting extremely confusing.
Both the $15 and $75 backer levels will get you the Emerald Spire PDFs, but the $75 level will get you the Flip-Mat PDF, along with The Crusader Road PDF and a bunch of other goodies as shown here. Sorry about the confusion!
$500 Ad-On: - You get all of the physical RPG products in this Kickstarter including the Emerald Spire Superdungeon hardback, the Emerald Spire Dungeons Flip-Mat Multipack, all of the Crowdforger-level Pathfinder Battles miniatures, a print copy of the Pathfinder Tales novel "The Crusader Road", and the Emerald Spire Campaign Cards game accessory. As an added bonus, you will get PDFs of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon, the Emerald Spire Dungeons Flip-Mat Multipack, and the Pathfinder Tales novel The Crusader Road.
In addition, you will provide Goblinworks with a proper name for a character and a 300-word description of that character for use on a wanted poster from the Hellknights in Fort Inevitable. You will even be able to tell us what your character is wanted for in the 300-word description. We will then use Paizo's Pathfinder artists to render a full-color head-shot of that character and then use that head-shot to create a wanted poster of your character.
A PDF of all the wanted posters created with this reward add-on will be included along with the Emerald Spire Superdungeon PDF, and the wanted fugitives will appear on the random encounter charts for the Echo Wood area around Fort Inevitable and the Emerald Spire. To top it all off, you will have the opportunity to use that head-shot as a unique avatar on the paizo.com messageboards.
I have a question on the offer: Are non-human / monstrous criminals allowed? How much leeway do we have regarding what we can create? Is anything that would reasonably be present on Golarion allowed, or do we need to keep things more 'standard'?
I have another question. If I get the 35$ backer lvl, then add 100$ for an add-on, can I get the emerald spire and flip mat print pack add on even though the 35$ backer lvl only has the emerald spire pdf and not the flip mat?
There's a $100 Print-Pack Add-On that gives you printed versions of some of the PDFs. I do not believe it gives you printed versions of all the PDFs in the PDF Super-pack.
I'm 100% sure it doesn't get you print copies of the superpack (or the core book). That would be prohibitively expensive (and reduce the value (to Goblinworks) quickly since it would eat into the $100).
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From the blog post wrote:
you'll get the hardcover Emerald Spire Superdungeon, the Emerald Spire Flip-Mat Multi-Pack, Item Cards, and Pathfinder Tales: The Crusader's Road with the $100 RPG Print Pack Add-on!
A quick question if I pledge $15 do I get the chronicle sheet as well or just the PDF.
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LackofFocus wrote:
A quick question if I pledge $15 do I get the chronicle sheet as well or just the PDF.
At $15 you just get the Emerald Spire PDF. To get both the chronicles sheet and the ES PDF, you have to pledge $35 and that gives you the game and a bunch of other stuff. The best way to figure what you get in each pledge level is to consult the graphics near the bottom of the KS page.
I'm 100% sure it doesn't get you print copies of the superpack (or the core book). That would be prohibitively expensive (and reduce the value (to Goblinworks) quickly since it would eat into the $100).
Edit:
From the blog post wrote:
you'll get the hardcover Emerald Spire Superdungeon, the Emerald Spire Flip-Mat Multi-Pack, Item Cards, and Pathfinder Tales: The Crusader's Road with the $100 RPG Print Pack Add-on!
The PRG Print Pack include the video game or not ?
100$ for Superdungeon, Flip mat, cards and tales ?
Excellent, looking at cross platform support out the gate. My best screen casting software is on my Mac side and not my Windows.
That said, any thoughts given to Let's Play/E-sport/Streaming support features? Minecraft wouldn't have been half the success it was if it wasn't for viral media and lots of YouTubing.
The print pack is an add on to any level of $5 or higher. The actual game is at the $35 tier or higher. Ignore the pledge information on the right side of the KS page, scroll down to the tier images for exact info.
Backers who want to get the Emerald Spire Superdungeon and Flip-Mat Multi-Pack in print as well as PDF can increase their pledge by $100 (plus $15 for shipping for non-US backers).
The RPG Print Pack includes a hardcover print edition of the Emerald Spire Superdungeon, featuring an exclusive cover available only to Kickstarter backers; a print edition of the Emerald Spire Dungeons Flip-Mat Multi-Pack; a print edition of the Pathfinder Tales novel The Crusader Road; and an Emerald Spire Campaign Cards game accessory.
Not sure where you saw the $200 value, the $100 level pledge level is a significant value, but I don't recall seeing something specific to the print pack.