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Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

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You, the fans, have made the MYTHIC MANIA Kickstarter an amazing success, and pulling into the final weekend we’re not done yet! Three hardback rules expansions for mythic, ranging from 280 to 305 pages and counting, with free PDFs, free domestic shipping, full HeroLab support for all three books, this is an amazing set of rulebooks.

But when you have amazing rulebooks, you still need somewhere to play. Somewhere amazing. Somewhere fantastic. Somewhere LEGENDARY. But where could you go to find adventure like that, authored by the best adventure-writers in the business: Neil Spicer, Richard Pett, Mike Shel, Tim Hitchcock, Jim Groves, Matt Goodall, and Nicolas Logue.

Perhaps your characters might like to visit... LEGENDARY PLANET!

Dark Archive

Interesting.


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Sword & Planet with these authors? Yes, please!


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This finally made me sign up for MYTHIC MANIA! :)


Dotting this thread to follow....

RPG Superstar 2009, Contributor

So, now that we posted up the big secret for surpassing the $50K threshold in our Mythic Mania Kickstarter last night, I'm incredibly excited for Legendary Planet and how Mythic Mania will support it. I'm doubly excited to see just how far we've climbed in the fundraising for Mythic Mania. Over 350 backers at this point and well over $54K with a little under 3 days to go? That's fantastic!

For those who haven't seen the announcement (or haven't followed the link yet), Mythic Mania is a Kickstarter crowdsourced project which Legendary Games is funding for the Pathfinder roleplaying game. Other major third-party publishers (including Kobold Press, Rogue Genius Games, and Dreamscarred Press) have joined forces with us to inject even more interesting content into the books we're creating. There'll be a Mythic Spell Compendium (with content from all the existing Pathfinder source material, as well as the Deep Magic tome from Kobold Press). There'll be a Mythic Monster Manual (with content from all the existing bestiaries, as well as the separate content we're creating at Legendary Games plus psionic monsters from Dreamscarred Press). And there'll be a Mythic Heroes' Handbook (with loads of class options, magic items, etc., including material from a number of designs published by Rogue Genius Games and mythic psionics from Dreamscarred Press). There'll even be full Hero Lab support for ALL the content in these books!

Also, we're now introducing Legendary Planet as both an upcoming Mythic Adventure Path AND a new campaign setting which leverages the expanded content offered by the mythic ruleset and new creations from the Mythic Mania Kickstarter. In other words, it wasn't enough to just publish new rules for mythic magic, monsters, characters, and psionics. We wanted to create a whole new playground, too...namely, an Adventure Path and campaign setting in which to leverage all that new content we're creating. Basically, Mythic Mania has helped us establish the building blocks for a huge, new undertaking in worldbuilding and campaign design. And it's going to be awesome, mythic, and Legendary.

Lastly, if you haven't backed the Mythic Mania Kickstarter project yet, please consider doing so. There are less than 3 days left to get on the bandwagon. And, the good news is that the books are already fully funded. That means it's a done deal. They're chock full of mythic content with massive page counts in hardcover with great new art. They've got all kinds of cool additions from Kobold Press, Rogue Genius Games, and Dreamscarred Press. They build upon the mythic ruleset which can enhance gameplay at every level, not just the advanced, high-level "epic" characters from years past. Basically, all that was old will be made new again through the mythic ruleset and our Mythic Mania content. And these new books are quickly going to become must-have resources for any mythic game. Meanwhile, Legendary Planet can serve as the catalyst for creating a whole new mythic campaign for your gaming group, or it can serve as a bridge between your existing campaign world into a whole expanded universe for your players and their characters to experience.

What's not to love?

My two cents,
--Neil

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16

Sounds awesome - I'm looking forward to this, even though I'm not a huge fan of the Mythic rules. I've got a few questions though:

1) is this a future Kickstarter project, or is this simply a line of products following and using material from the Mythic KS?

2) will this be a collected large volume, or released in 6 installments just like a Paizo AP?

3) Will this be print as well as PDF, or PDF only?

4) Assuming that this is 6 installments, is the release schedule expected to be monthly, every 2 months, as time permits? Also, will there be a subscription option?

5) Will the AP use and expand upon rules from the technology guide tied to the upcoming AP set around a crashed spaceship?

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Neil Spicer wrote:

So, now that we posted up the big secret for surpassing the $50K threshold in our Mythic Mania Kickstarter last night, I'm incredibly excited for Legendary Planet and how Mythic Mania will support it. I'm doubly excited to see just how far we've climbed in the fundraising for Mythic Mania. Over 350 backers at this point and well over $54K with a little under 3 days to go? That's fantastic!

For those who haven't seen the announcement (or haven't followed the link yet), Mythic Mania is a Kickstarter crowdsourced project which Legendary Games is funding for the Pathfinder roleplaying game. Other major third-party publishers (including Kobold Press, Rogue Genius Games, and Dreamscarred Press) have joined forces with us to inject even more interesting content into the books we're creating. There'll be a Mythic Spell Compendium (with content from all the existing Pathfinder source material, as well as the Deep Magic tome from Kobold Press). There'll be a Mythic Monster Manual (with content from all the existing bestiaries, as well as the separate content we're creating at Legendary Games plus psionic monsters from Dreamscarred Press). And there'll be a Mythic Heroes' Handbook (with loads of class options, magic items, etc., including material from a number of designs published by Rogue Genius Games and mythic psionics from Dreamscarred Press). There'll even be full Hero Lab support for ALL the content in these books!

Also, we're now introducing Legendary Planet as both an upcoming Mythic Adventure Path AND a new campaign setting which leverages the expanded content offered by the mythic ruleset and new creations from the Mythic Mania Kickstarter. In other words, it wasn't enough to just publish new rules for mythic magic, monsters, characters, and psionics. We wanted to create a whole new playground, too...namely, an Adventure Path and campaign setting in...

What Neil said. :)

We will have a lot more to say at the What's New with Legendary Games? panel at PaizoCon, but we'll have updates on our website as well, and we'll cross-post those to this thread. We'd love to hear feedback from fans as well, and we look forward to walking down this amazing road together.

Also, serious thanks to everybody out there who is backing this project. I posted up the Legendary Planet announcement last night about midnight. It's about 7:40 in the morning, and in the intervening time we added almost 20 backers and over $3,500 in new funding in less than 8 hours! This will probably end up a bigger day in terms of money than our opening day or the day the three print books unlocked.

You guys are killing me! I go to bed we are in the mid-51's, and now we're over $55,000 with our Paypal backers.

YOU ROCK!!!


Huh, I guess I called it. :D

"and LEGENDARY PLANET will offer you the chance to take them literally to the edge of infinity... and beyond it."

That's not staying a paladin... that's Falling with style!

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:

Huh, I guess I called it. :D

"and LEGENDARY PLANET will offer you the chance to take them literally to the edge of infinity... and beyond it."

That's not staying a paladin... that's Falling with style!

Ha! Well played, sir. Do you have crystolic fusion on your planet or do you still use fossil fuels? :)


Mythic sword and planet? Oh yes. I've mostly been avoiding the mythic stuff but this is probably going to change my mind.


Is Legendary Planet part of the Golarion universe but just on another Planet?


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Oh you rat bastards! You already make me regret the size of my paycheck on a regular basis. Now you go & do this?!

RPG Superstar 2009, Contributor

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xavier c wrote:
Is Legendary Planet part of the Golarion universe but just on another Planet?

"You've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet."

The overarching premise to Legendary Planet (as a campaign setting) is that it can serve as part of any campaign's universe, be that Golarion, Oerth, Eberron, Faerun, Earth, or anything in between. Even your own homebrew campaign settings can benefit from an injection of Legendary Planet. And, as the official announcement Jason posted indicates, it's more like legendary planets anyway, not simply a single new world. Of course, just like the mythic ruleset, you can choose how large or small of an impact Legendary Planet has on your existing campaign setting. You can choose to adventure solely within your existing campaign with creatures crossing over from Legendary Planet's many "other worlds." Or, you can create a gateway from your existing campaign to a single world within the Legendary Planet multiverse. Or, you can include a much wider array of worlds out there, all with different portals which connect between one another.

The end result is an even more customizable universe with respect to mythic magic, mythic creatures, mythic characters, and mythic locations. It has a lot of sword-and-planet tropes to it...a dash of Stargate...a little Jon Carter of Mars...a bit of Planescape...some Thundarr the Barbarian...and a lot of inspiration from Paizo's Distant Worlds going for it, too...only more. Some of those other worlds will include mythic elements to make existing creatures new again when they show up in places other than whatever base campaign setting you connect to Legendary Planet. And, of course, there'll be non-mythic (but still alien) creatures and species to interact with, as well.

We'll have a lot more to say about this at PaizoCon on the "What's New With Legendary Games" panel. And I'm sure we'll have lots of questions there. If you can set aside time to come hear us, please do. We'd love to get a few reactions out of fans of Legendary Games. And, we'll obviously want to spread the word about the project as it starts to take shape over the next couple of years. It's not something which will happen overnight. It'll take a lot of effort and work between now and then. But, just like the Marvel movies took the time to lay a strong foundation for their overall universe, we're kind of doing the same with Mythic Mania, a Legendary Planet Adventure Path, and then a larger Legendary Planet Campaign Setting. All the content we've been creating is building towards a greater vision. And rest assured, it'll be...(wait for it...::pause for dramatic effect::)...Legendary.

Hope that helps,
--Neil

RPG Superstar 2009, Contributor

JoelF847 wrote:
Sounds awesome - I'm looking forward to this, even though I'm not a huge fan of the Mythic rules. I've got a few questions though...

Hey, Joel...didn't mean to ignore your list of questions, but a lot of that stuff is still on the "to be determined" list. For the moment, we're just announcing our intentions. Details will continue to take shape the further we get into organizing it. It's still a ways off, but there's going to be a serious meeting of the minds at PaizoCon and GenCon in July and August to start laying some initial groundwork for it. As our plans start taking on more definition, we'll be sure to update everyone. Just stay tuned...

My two cents,
--Neil


AWWWWWWWWWW YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Eric Hinkle wrote:
Mythic sword and planet? Oh yes. I've mostly been avoiding the mythic stuff but this is probably going to change my mind.

Hey, Eric...that's actually a very good point to bring up. As a third-party publisher using the Pathfinder rules, we want to do everything we can to support Paizo, because, by doing so, we're also helping ourselves and the gaming community at-large. So, by filling out the mythic rules with the new Mythic Mania content and eventually building another mythic Adventure Path and a "connective" campaign setting like Legendary Planet, I personally feel we're doing everything we can to foster more interest in Pathfinder, the Mythic Adventures sourcebook, and so on. I think it's our duty, as people who write for Paizo on many of these same products, to help widen the trails they've blazed. And by doing so, we're creating a highway for gamers everywhere to follow. Seeing that this announcement helped you potentially change your mind about mythic play is exactly what I hoped for...and what I think all third-party products designed to synergize with Pathfinder should strive to do.

Another two cents,
--Neil


Will I be able to get the campaign setting without also having to get the adventure path? I don't run APs, keeping my players on the rails written by someone who didn't know their characters requires more metagaming than I am comfortable with.
On the other hand, I have a high powered, enormous homebrew cosmology that could really benefit from the addition of a Legendary Planet, and of course I've been supporting the Legendary Mythic line since it launched.

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137ben wrote:
Will I be able to get the campaign setting without also having to get the adventure path?

I'm fairly certain that once these things take shape, they'll be available as separate products. So, yes...the answer to your question is you will mostly likely be able to pick up the Legendary Planet Campaign Setting to add it to your own homebrew cosmology without also having to purchase the Adventure Path. That said, much like the Paizo Adventure Paths often make for great material to enhance your game regardless of whether or not you actually run them, we'll intend for ours to do the same. So, you might be missing out on even more awesome stuff if you sit it out.

Spoiler:
You didn't think I was going to let you off that easy without enticing you further, did you? ;-)


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I HUNGER!


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Hmm. Doting for interest. (As the saying goes). :)


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber

Cool! Color me intrigued.


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A word of advice to the writers -- the same word I give to anyone interested in Planetary Romance/Sword-and-Planet in D&D/Pathfinder, just in case you haven't run across this author already: go ye forth and seek out Alan Burt Akers' "Dray Prescot" novels, variously known as the Scorpio, Antares, or Kregen series, starting with Transit to Scorpio. Of all the examples of the genre, they're the closest to also resembling a D&D world, to the point where the author threw in a nonhuman culture that builds treasure-filled tombs and has gotten into an arms race with tomb robbers that wound up becoming a formalized dungeon-crawling sport. :D


Very Interesting!

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:
A word of advice to the writers -- the same word I give to anyone interested in Planetary Romance/Sword-and-Planet in D&D/Pathfinder, just in case you haven't run across this author already: go ye forth and seek out Alan Burt Akers' "Dray Prescot" novels, variously known as the Scorpio, Antares, or Kregen series, starting with Transit to Scorpio. Of all the examples of the genre, they're the closest to also resembling a D&D world, to the point where the author threw in a nonhuman culture that builds treasure-filled tombs and has gotten into an arms race with tomb robbers that wound up becoming a formalized dungeon-crawling sport. :D

Thanks for the recommendation, EML. I hadn't heard of him but I'll check him out!


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That sounds fun, thanks EML!

Greatly looking forward to Legendary Planets, this is definitely the next AP that I'll actually play!

RPG Superstar 2009, Contributor

And we're looking forward to funding it so you can actually play. ;)

Just 8 more days.

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

About halfway there to the last funding goal on The Depths of Desperation, then we're off to the Mind Tyrants of the Merciless Moons at $44,000. Not far now...


A few things have come up for me - what would be the best place for me to explain my situation and plead for the chance to do a post-campaign pledge?

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Just email us at makeyourgamelegendary@gmail.com and we can easily work it out!

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

The art and map folio for Legendary Planet is up now! Check out our latest Kickstarter update and pick up yours today!

Meanwhile, high-level characters in a fantasy RPG are really the superheroes of their worlds. You can argue over which class or race is the strongest, but in the olden days it was not unheard-of to have cross-genre campaigns where PCs might encounter actual superheroes (I know I worked in the Casket of Ancient Winters and the Darkhold from Marvel comics into an old campaign).

I've been thinking about superheroes in fantasy gaming in part from a purely artistic perspective, since one of the new alien races in our Legendary Planet setting is a sentient construct race that resembles the Iron Man armor, or perhaps something Ultron might have constructed. You can see the new art in our latest Kickstarter update, along with the announcement of our free Art and Map Folio for "The Assimilation Strain," which we'll be doing for each of our adventures in this series.


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Art and map folio is awesome. Everything a GM could want, including marked-up and player versions of the maps, and copies of the artwork from the adventure. If my campaign wasn't going in a hugely different direction, I'd run this right now.


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Ditto ^^

Really nicely done, thanks

-- david

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Thanks for the kind words. We hope it helps make the campaign easier and more fun to run for players and GMs alike!

Grand Lodge

Adding my voice to the chorus of praise for the map/art folio.

Extremely well done and very useful!


Am I the only one having troubles in downloading it?
Both the dropbox urls I got where to files directly and now are both dead, and I haven't any dropbox folder url to download it.


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T.A.U. wrote:

Am I the only one having troubles in downloading it?

Both the dropbox urls I got where to files directly and now are both dead, and I haven't any dropbox folder url to download it.

Send an email to makeyourgamelegendary at gmail dot com, they'll sort you out a link.

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T.A.U. wrote:

Am I the only one having troubles in downloading it?

Both the dropbox urls I got where to files directly and now are both dead, and I haven't any dropbox folder url to download it.

Seems like the original links worked fine when sent but something must have changed in our dropbox arrangement because people are having trouble with it now. I think Rachel may have sent out specific links to the filenames rather than a link to the folder itself, so if anything changed about the file the first link wouldn't work. As Chemlak said, email us and we'll send you a new link for the folder.


I've sent the email and received the new link to the folder.

I've to say I'm very impressed of the Art and the Maps!
It will be very useful! Thanks!

Grand Lodge

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I also enjoyed the Players' Guide for the campaign.

However, I suspect that I will hold it back from my players until after "The Assimilation Strain", allowing anybody who wishes to create a new 2nd-level PC at the start of "To Worlds Unknown".


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well snap

totally missed being able to join in on the kickstarter for this, sounds like a blast, I'll have to check this out when it is released

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

War_Jack wrote:

well snap

totally missed being able to join in on the kickstarter for this, sounds like a blast, I'll have to check this out when it is released

Ah, but you haven't missed out at all! If you'd like to pledge in at the Kickstarter prices, we are still taking orders via Paypal. Just email us at makeyourgamelegendary@gmail.com with what pledge you'd like to make and send the corresponding amount via Paypal to the same address. Don't miss it!

Liberty's Edge

So while at GenCon I wanted to pick up a hard copy of the Assimilation Strain, but I knew the PDF was coming soon and I’d have the hardcover in time to play next year. A player of mine, not knowing I backed the Kickstarter saw it and got it for me as a gift because she hoped I’d run it. She even got it signed by Neil Spicer.

I got around 15 books at GenCon but I tore into this the night I got it. I had hoped just because it was a wild and liberating campaign that the adventures themselves would treat it as a fulfilling, detailed story, and I was so satisfied to see how this turned out. (To put it in perspective, just because it’s got bizarre locations, creatures and toys they didn’t “toss a bunch of CGI at us and hoped it would carry the story”, Not in the slightest).

What a GREAT start to an adventure path. I’m a huge fan of the PC’s starting off on a somewhat simple mission and getting dragged into something much more dark and sinister and this delivers big time. The NPCs are colorful and really have an interactive part in the story, not fire and forget types. The art is evocative and top-notch. The maps are clear and easy to read and the end encounter is excellent.

Yeah, I got caught up in a couple of simple editing things that slipped through because of the rush to get it to Con, but I know LG will clean up the finished product. I also can’t stress enough how great it is for the team for make versions for both 5E and Pathfinder.

In short I am so damn glad I backed the Kickstarter.

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Thanks much for the kind words, DM Jeff. We are a step closer to the release of To Worlds Unknown as well, as revealed in the latest Kickstarter update!

Check out the latest news and art preview, as well as announcing one vacancy each for a new Prince of the Universe and Savior of the Universe, in case anyone would like to enhance their pledge to these previously sold-out levels!

Sovereign Court

Jason Nelson wrote:
War_Jack wrote:

well snap

totally missed being able to join in on the kickstarter for this, sounds like a blast, I'll have to check this out when it is released

Ah, but you haven't missed out at all! If you'd like to pledge in at the Kickstarter prices, we are still taking orders via Paypal. Just email us at makeyourgamelegendary@gmail.com with what pledge you'd like to make and send the corresponding amount via Paypal to the same address. Don't miss it!

Is there a deadline for this?

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

We'd like to have all the additional pledges completed by the end of August at the latest. Which should be just in time to grab the next adventure, which we hope to have ready to drop somewhere around August 31st.


When will The Assimilation Strain softcover go on sale. Either here, DTRPG or on you site?

I did a dumb thing for the Kickstarter and only pledged enough extra to cover one softcover instead of both, so I choose To Unknown Worlds in the survey, but I really do want all of them.

thanks,

-- david

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

The Assimilation Strain will be on sale generally once To Worlds Unknown goes out to backers, which should be right around the end of August, give or take a little.


Thank you. I'll pick it up from here then and hopefully combine it with an existing order that will go out in early September to save on some shipping costs.

-- david

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