Dawn R Fischer Frog God Games |
We've threatened to nickname our new marketing director/web designer "Soulstealer Frog" for a reason, just saying. :-)
Bill keeps referring to her as the Blond Frog; and, no, he doesn't mean to imply the negative connotations of "blond".
She's a Math major, mother, avid scrapbooker, as well as web page designer. In short, she's awesome!
Blonde Frog |
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Tsathogga - Frog God Games: Rappan Athuk News - Add to the 80K Bonus Goals for all!!! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/rappan-athuk
Dawn R Fischer Frog God Games |
Tsathogga - Frog God Games: Rappan Athuk News - Add to the 80K Bonus Goals for all!!! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/rappan-athuk
The Soulstealer Frog beat me to it! WTG!
Bill Webb Frog God Games |
Michael Dean |
Is the stitched, textbook quality book coming out for Kickstarter going to be the same one released to the public? And is it supposed to be released at Gen Con. Also, are the soft cover map books going to be released to the public?
It's probably not going to affect my decision anyway; I'm most likely going to pledge at least $100, but am REALLY tempted to go to $250 for the extra goodies and risk the wrath of my wife (Wife: "You spent WHAT on a D&D book?!" Me: C'mon honey, it's just coming out of my GEN CON money! Wife: "You spend WHAT at Gen Con?!!" Me: uhhhhh...).
Chuck Wright Frog God Games |
Bill Webb Frog God Games |
Yup--what Chuck said. We pay a TON extra for textbook quality stitch binding; but I won't do it any other way. If you cannot hand your books down to your grandchildren because we made them so durable--we will have failed you.
That, btw, is one of the main reasons our hardcovers are more expensive than other companies. Our binding is sewn into 16 pages packets and then the 16 page packets are sewn together. Then they are glued (most people only glue).
I actually took a baseball bat to one to see if the binding would hold. I hit it 7-8 times, knocked the cover off, and the binding still held. I then called Emilee (our printer rep) and congratulated her. I think she laughed for at least 15 minutes. She did tell me..."Well, that's what you said you wanted"...and she was right.
The perk books may be for sale later, but not at Gencon (except the exclusive bonus level). If we have extras, we will sell the mats, map books and players guides on our website. The miniatures are kickstarter only, of course, and I am not going to overprint the perk items by many. The real intention is to make them for the project patrons.
The books will likely be for sale at Gencon (Paizo booth)--but will be priced slightly higher than on the Kickstarter.
Part of the reason it jumps to $250 is that production of a second book in small quantities is pretty expensive. The $250+ patrons also are helping to fund the overall project for everyone else--so they get something unique as a thank you from us.
I am still just in shock over this. I love our fans!
Bill Webb Frog God Games |
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Thanks to everyone, we are almost at $60k!!! I am working on some additional perks--a players guide and maybe some other things. I know we can get to $80k, and I believe we may cross the $60k bonus goal this night. The bigger the goal achieved, the more likely we can get into stores and the more cool bonus items I can make for everyone. I am currently finalizing the LAST level text of the main book. I wrote my 100 lines for lisa this morning, and sent the story off to Rachel for posting (along with a pdf of my bad handwriting of 100 lines of "Lisa was right, I should have printed more books". Keep the faith and keep spreading the word.
Wolfthulhu |
Part of the reason it jumps to $250 is that production of a second book in small quantities is pretty expensive. The $250+ patrons also are helping to fund the overall project for everyone else--so they get something unique as a thank you from us.
I am still just in shock over this. I love our fans!
For the record, Bill. With all the bonuses from the expanded goals being met, there is a lot more bang for that 250 bucks. I am currently figuring out ways to make this purchase less painful, but I will be upping my pledge. And won't regret it a bit. :D
Chuck Wright Frog God Games |
Matthew Morris RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8 |
mach1.9pants |
Just can't wait to get another great piece of gaming in my hands, I am desperately hoping that my request for LE # 333 can be mine, I have #333 RA Reloaded so 333 + 333 ....
Despite all the doom and gloom surrounding the industry it is so great to see so much quality product being available... my wallet is shuddering in pain.
Bill Webb Frog God Games |
Bill Webb Frog God Games |
Bill Webb Frog God Games |
Skeeter Green |
Not a problem, I totally understand if things don't workout, or it gets to unwieldy to do so!
this all assumes we print that many. what if we stop at 300? Just to make it valuable to collectors????????
kidding, just kidding, stop throwing things!!!!!!!!
Really, Im just kidding. I hope we can print tons of these things. I have a strange feeling you guys are going to like it quite a bit.
SG
Killer DM #0664 |
lol; Brian..like I told Mach--I will Try. If I screw up--you will have to forgive me. I will ask that question on the end survey that kickstarter has us send out.
I won't offer to match any number under 50 though--those are going to the heavy hitters ($500+)...well, and me (#1):)
Awesome! I know what number I'll request as well... :D
Dragnmoon |
I have a couple of questions...
What level is this made for?
I know you have mentioned in the future we will see improvements to your Maps, will we see that in this book? And what kind of improvements?
For the laminated Battle Map, will it be in color? B&W? Professional Cartographer or in house Map artist?
Kthulhu |
What level is this made for?
From Rappan Athuk Reloaded (3.5):
"Rappan Athuk is a difficult dungeon. Even the upper dungeon levels should not be attempted by a party of less than six characters of 4th level. Only truly veteran players should attempt this dungeon with lower level characters. Parties delving deeper than the 1st or 2nd levels of the dungeon should be of 5th level or higher. Entering the dungeon through “The Well” (which leads to level 3A) is dangerous, best avoided by parties of less than 7th level."
bigkilla |
Dragnmoon wrote:
What level is this made for?
From Rappan Athuk Reloaded (3.5):
"Rappan Athuk is a difficult dungeon. Even the upper dungeon levels should not be attempted by a party of less than six characters of 4th level. Only truly veteran players should attempt this dungeon with lower level characters. Parties delving deeper than the 1st or 2nd levels of the dungeon should be of 5th level or higher. Entering the dungeon through “The Well” (which leads to level 3A) is dangerous, best avoided by parties of less than 7th level."
Except that this new version will have new content for levels 1-10 wich will make it for levels 1-20.
Rappan Athuk, the legendary mega-dungeon by Necromancer Games is nothing more and nothing less than a good, old–fashioned, First Edition dungeon crawl updated for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and the Swords & Wizardry rules. Very difficult, Rappan Athuk will truly strike fear into the hearts of the most stalwart adventurers. It offers legions of inventive traps, tricks, strange features, and monsters -- many of them never before seen. It affords numerous opportunities for roleplaying, but anyone willing to brave these subterranean halls better arrive ready to rumble, or their lives will be short indeed.
We at Frog God Games are giving you early adopters a unique opportunity to be a part of roleplaying game history. In cooperation with Necromancer Games, your generous pledges will help to fuel the production of Rappan Athuk for both the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game system and the Swords & Wizardry rules. We hope to be able to raise enough funds to distribute this book to brick and mortar game stores! Therefore, we need to come up with $25,000 to print and illustrate the book -- The personal checks papa frog is having to lay out are getting kind of scary and mama frog said "no more!"
Rappan Athuk will be a faux leather-bound, signature stitched book (textbook bound for a lifetime of durability) with either a red cover (for the Swords & Wizardry version) or black cover (for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game). The book includes:
17 new levels (topping over 50 levels) with many revisions to the existing levels
A number of lower level areas (character levels 1-10) including the village of Zelkor's Ferry and its surrounding environs
A Temple of Tsathogga with a three level dungeon of its own
2 New Prestige Classes and a New Archtype (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Version Only)
27+ New Monsters
3 New Monster Templates
5+ New Artifacts
30+ New Magic Items (including some old favorites)
The return of Bill Webb's favorite spell from the Relics and Rituals days as an ability!
29+ miniature-scale battlemaps (detailing 10+ separate locations) provided for iconic locations and key encounter areas
and more!
Written by Bill Webb (from his home campaign), with additional material from Matt Finch, Clark Peterson, WDB Kenower, Greg Raglund, Greg Vaughan, and Skeeter Green (supported by a cast of many more). The adventure you soon will hold in your hand is the latest version of an ever-evolving campaign benchmark since its original release with the 3.0 rule system in 2000. Many, many players have lost favored PCs delving into the depths of this dungeon, all the while giggling like children and having the time of their lives. Hundreds, if not thousands of players have combed the halls of Rappan Athuk over the years, seeking treasure and fame, making it one of the best-known dungeon locations the game has ever produced. Even players who have never entered its halls know the term: “Don’t go down the Well!”
Bill Webb Frog God Games |
Yup--its level 1-20+, frankly if you ever finish it you will be playing for about 200 years. Rick Sardinha is doing the maps, and old maps are Ed Bourelle. The battle mat will be B&W: Level 0 (the Mausoleum and Graveyard) on one side, and blank on the other (laminated dry erase).
Our two in-house cartographers are professional artists, btw. The only "bad maps" I think we have had have been mine (RA 2 sucked--sorry still after 13 years) and a couple free lancers we used years ago.
Rick did the Eamonvale and Demonheart Maps, as well as half the maps in Strange Bedfellows. Robert has done the balance. Ed was our main guy at Necromancer years ago.
Thanael |
$50,000 in two days. Pretty exciting! :)
Did you see the Order of the Stick Kickstarter?
@Bill: I suggest you plot the $$$ vs time graph similar to how Rich Burlew did from the beginning of his kickstarter and then see where the curve seems to go. I.e. start inventing new bonuses fast... And don't forget to calculate overhead.
Dawn R Fischer Frog God Games |
Skeeter Green |
Steve Geddes wrote:$50,000 in two days. Pretty exciting! :)Did you see the Order of the Stick Kickstarter?
@Bill: I suggest you plot the $$$ vs time graph similar to how Rich Burlew did from the beginning of his kickstarter and then see where the curve seems to go. I.e. start inventing new bonuses fast... And don't forget to calculate overhead.
GitP crushed their kickstarter, and I think its awesome. Im a huge fanboy of rich.
I can only hope we do 1/10 of his number. but Ill take 1/5 very happily!
If that projected number held up....crikey, I dont even know!
SG
Chuck Wright Frog God Games |
Greg A. Vaughan Frog God Games |
Kthulhu |
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I'm waiting for the pledge level to be added where you guys comission a contractor to dig out Rappan Athuk under my house.
I plan on connecting it to my Zork dungeon while I'm down there.
Hmmm.....
I just had an idea....
I might just write a Zork module. I mean, the room descriptions and contents already exist, it would just be a matter of putting stats together and coming up with a map. Maybe adjusting a few things to account for multiple adventurers.
Swords & Wizardry, definately.
Jeremy Smith Dreamscarred Press |
devil.in.mexico13 |
Okay, I find that I cannot help checking the counter several times a day to see how much has been committed. Now why this would be makes no sense to me but I am fascinated by the whole process.
Yeah, I keep doing this, too. I need to stop, every time I look I get that much closer to upping my pledge. If it gets close to 100k, I might have to bump up to $250.