Imagine a fantasy gaming world as rigorously realistic as ours, replete with dark, gritty, manipulative personalities and cultures. Now add to that an enormous ancient world and "magic" that is more based on a hard sci-fi mashup than fantasy hand-waving.
Players interface with ancient technologies, navigate byzantine layers of intrigue and may just survive long enough to achieve the power of the Old Gods themselves.
It all starts with TWO books, a map folio, a world map and with as little as $10 you will be welcome to The Shadowlands!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadowlands/shadowlands-adventure-game- campaign-setting
This is the last weekend to get the special Kickstarter editions and become part of BlackStar Studios and the birth of the newest Pathfinder/3.5 game setting!
Having met Chris & co. (and seen some of the awesome artwork and maps!!) in person at the kickoff event for this, and having spoken with them at length about it, I just wanna say I am REALLY hoping this setting sees the light of day!
It eschews most of the tropes associated with fantasy settings and brings something very unique and ... literary to gaming without going 'steampunk' or 'forged' in any way.
Well it certainly looks impressive, and it sounds like my sort of thing. Count me in.
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Could you please not refer to your setting as "New Pathfinder Campaign Setting?" Paizo's campaign setting is actually named "Pathfinder Campaign Setting," and using that exact terminology is potentially confusing to people. (This is part of why our Compatibility License actually requires you to refer to the game system as "The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game" and not just "Pathfinder," and also why we trademarked the term "Pathfinder Campaign Setting.")
I'd suggest saying "new campaign setting for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game" instead.
Thanks, and good luck with it!
I'd suggest saying "new campaign setting for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game" instead.
Unless they just changed it in response to your note, the actual kickstarter page says "a new Campaign Setting for the Pathfinder roleplaying game and compatible with the d20 game system!"
I suspect they weren't thinking in formal announcement terms when starting this thread.
Well, it seems like the additional advertising certainly worked well for you :) Good luck and I look forward to when I can get my 2 books :)