Someone please fill me in on how this works...
I don't have the $100 at the moment, but if I give it any time before July 2, I still get the benefits... is that correct?
You pledge it and can change it as often as you like until July 2nd.
Come July 2nd, whatever you've pledged is charged to your chosen form of payment.
You do not actually pay anything until July 2nd.
If the project doesn't get enough backing, you don't pay anything (that is not applicable in this case, as the project has vastly exceeded its minimum funding threshold)
I'm just going to second what Marcus said. This book (along with Slumbering Tsar and The Black Monastery) are DM gold mines. You can pull out anything from a single room up to a whole level and just drop it in your game.
If you are considering pledging, jump in at a lower amount and start setting money aside. You are not actually getting charged until July.
Here's hoping for $100K!
-Aaron
Now 766 bucks short of 80k!
OK, put in my $100... leaving $666 remaining. Ominous?
OK, put in my $100... leaving $666 remaining. Ominous?
Fortuitous and darn near prescient. If you hang on till the end and read the entire thing you will see what I mean. Also, it's a sign that you need to run this adventure with some good friends who don't mind awfully much if their character happens to die. Make sure they bring the food and drink to the game to pay you back for your foresightedness.
I have to say that I view this purchase as a necessity. As a GM, I went to tell the long-running stories which, yes, requires that my players' PCs live (for a time).
But I also want them hanging on by their knuckles, praying for Fate's blessing, tearfully kissing every gold piece. I want dungeons to be fearful again.
Another reason for getting this that's somewhat unrelated, is that I'm starting a middle-school Pathfinder club and part of how I want to gear the game is to have it focus more on cooperation to solve puzzles and riddles. I imagine there would be a lot of creative thinking required to survive Rappan Athuk, yes? :D
I have to say that I view this purchase as a necessity. As a GM, I went to tell the long-running stories which, yes, requires that my players' PCs live (for a time).
But I also want them hanging on by their knuckles, praying for Fate's blessing, tearfully kissing every gold piece. I want dungeons to be fearful again.
Another reason for getting this that's somewhat unrelated, is that I'm starting a middle-school Pathfinder club and part of how I want to gear the game is to have it focus more on cooperation to solve puzzles and riddles. I imagine there would be a lot of creative thinking required to survive Rappan Athuk, yes? :D
Just broke $80k! Good times guys, and thanks so much!!
SG
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Let's keep this rolling, Rappan Athuk + Slumbering Tsar + Tome of Horrors, we can begin to construct a veritable tower of babel out of big books. ;)
Also, perhaps of interest to folks: KickTraq projects this Kickstarter could exceed $300k at the current pace!
Awesome!
Congratulations!
Woohoo! Free frogs for everyone! (Or something. :) )
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Woohoo! Free frogs for everyone! (Or something. :) )
The last time that we went to the dentist, our dentist gave my son a little bag of plastic frogs as a prize. Each frog is about 2cm long. I was looking at them last night and thought, "Wouldn't it be funny if Frog God Games tossed a little plastic frog like this into each Rappan Athuk box that they ship out?"
-Aaron
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Woo Hoo! Broke the $80K barrier.
The next bonus goal is $96,327...which has some awesome extras attached...and would officially make Rappan Athuk the highest-funded RPG Kickstarter project to date.
The extras attached to this bonus goal are as follows:
$1+ Pledge:
Wallpaper artwork of Rappan Athuk Cover Art
Special Tribute Illustration (Rumored to be Orcus drinking from a vampire's skull)
$40/$70 Pledge
Players Guide to Rappan Athuk PDF
$100+ Pledge
Rappan Athuk Battle Maps
Softcover copy of the Players Guide
Cyclopean Deeps bonus modules PDFs
Both versions of PDF (Pathfinder + Swords & Wizardry)
The Libram of Fortunate Happenstance booklet (allows players to change their fate)
$250+ Pledge
Exclusive GM Screen
Hero Lab Data Files
D20Pro Digital Mapset
Cyclopean Deeps bonus modules
$650+ Pledge
Will receive a custom hand drawn image on the inside cover of ONE of the copies of the Rappan Athuk book by Artist Chris McFann, signed and dated.
And that's on top of the $40K, $60K, and $80K bonus goal extras, plus all the cool stuff you get just for making your pledge.
Any clue as to why the next threshhold went from "$100,000" to "$96,327"?
Any clue as to why the next threshhold went from "$100,000" to "$96,327"?
Yes - that threshold makes it the apparent #1 RPG kickstarter, so it was more significant than $100,000 to the frogs.
Edit - ninja'd by Kthulhu
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Agreed. The first Kickstarter project I ever funded met it's funding on March 21, 2010. While the most recent updated DID finally give a fairly substantial preview PDF, the fact that it's taken TWO YEARS to get there is pretty horrible.
Yes, I doubt that I would be in the kickstarter if they were talking about sometime next year. I love that the Frogs have been hard at work on this for months and want the kickstarter to print more books and get them into the Gaming Stores rather than start the project from scratch once it is funded.
Good Froggies...
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I think the main difference would be that FGG is doing this Kickstarter to help fund something that they had already begun, and would actually be putting out even if the Kickstarter funding had somehow failed.
The project was getting close to completion even before the Kickstarter began, in other words. Whereas many/most Kickstarter projects don't really go beyond the concept stage before funding is secured.
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Agreed. The first Kickstarter project I ever funded met it's funding on March 21, 2010. While the most recent updated DID finally give a fairly substantial preview PDF, the fact that it's taken TWO YEARS to get there is pretty horrible.
Oh man, that was my first kickstarter too. That $250 doesn't seem as worth it anymore, but I don't really miss it.
The project was getting close to completion even before the Kickstarter began, in other words.
It was? I must have been napping...
LOL
SG (going back to pulling his hair out)
And having nightmares, poor Skeet. It is actually a lot farther along than you make it sound. Don't pull your hair out! (Unless you are going for the Telly Savalas look.)
P.S. I promise to get you the next batch of edits tonight! Though, it might occur after your bedtime.
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Skeeter - Well, I remember reading in the blog quite a bit about the new levels having been written before the KS started out.
Plus there's the fact that large portions of RA have existed since the 70s and 80s.
Not trying to say you guys aren't working hard on it, but I think it's very fair to say that RA was well past the concept stage when the KS went live. And 3 modules and a boxed set from Necromancer kinda prove my statement. :P
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Tri - From the preview, they do seem to have upgraded things to be PF-compatible. I noticed that the entries all had CMB and CMD.
I should go check my copy. That's a bit strange considering it was supposedly going to be used with Trailblazer.
$250? I didn't even realize that Patrons of the Monstrous Arts even had a pledge level that high.
Only three of us. :)
And having nightmares, poor Skeet. It is actually a lot farther along than you make it sound. Don't pull your hair out! (Unless you are going for the Telly Savalas look.)
P.S. I promise to get you the next batch of edits tonight! Though, it might occur after your bedtime.
I guess we'll have to suspend Skeeter's bedtime until August... You can sacrifice that much sleep for the sake of Rappan Athuk. Just drink lots and lots of coffee :)
forget coffee, need rum
(P.S. I thank Steve Russell for putting that idea into my head!)
I guess we'll have to suspend Skeeter's bedtime until August... You can sacrifice that much sleep for the sake of Rappan Athuk. Just drink lots and lots of coffee :)And having nightmares, poor Skeet. It is actually a lot farther along than you make it sound. Don't pull your hair out! (Unless you are going for the Telly Savalas look.)
P.S. I promise to get you the next batch of edits tonight! Though, it might occur after your bedtime.
Nah, Skeeter's going to start handing off pieces of the football to me very soon. I think that he'll coast through July after he hands off the relay baton to me.
Nah, Skeeter's going to start handing off pieces of the football to me very soon. I think that he'll coast through July after he hands off the relay baton to me.I guess we'll have to suspend Skeeter's bedtime until August... You can sacrifice that much sleep for the sake of Rappan Athuk. Just drink lots and lots of coffee :)And having nightmares, poor Skeet. It is actually a lot farther along than you make it sound. Don't pull your hair out! (Unless you are going for the Telly Savalas look.)
P.S. I promise to get you the next batch of edits tonight! Though, it might occur after your bedtime.
Sooner then you think, 21 levels compiled today alone. Should be "finished" by Sunday sometime.
I hear voices...
sg
forget coffee, need rum
(P.S. I thank Steve Russell for putting that idea into my head!)
Coffee and rum? Best of both worlds! :D
I pledged at the $100 level. I regret having missed the hard copy of Reloaded, not realizing at the time that it was such a limited edition.
With the pdf of Reloaded, having the monster/npc stats in the back of the huge pdf file made running the adventure difficult--as scrolling from the monster and then back to the room description took time with such a large file. Eventually, I figured out to have multiple copies of the pdf open at the same time, with each copy open to different pages of interest to eliminate flipping back and forth. However, it would have been easier to have monster/npc descriptions with the room descriptions (or to have links you can click). Alternatively, have the monster stats at the end of each level/chapter would make it easier.
I only ran a small part of Rappan Athuk, but the size, complexity, and lethality made it fun. I'm looking forward to running more of it. Having a hard copy should help.
I pledged at the $100 level. I regret having missed the hard copy of Reloaded, not realizing at the time that it was such a limited edition.
With the pdf of Reloaded, having the monster/npc stats in the back of the huge pdf file made running the adventure difficult--as scrolling from the monster and then back to the room description took time with such a large file. Eventually, I figured out to have multiple copies of the pdf open at the same time, with each copy open to different pages of interest to eliminate flipping back and forth. However, it would have been easier to have monster/npc descriptions with the room descriptions (or to have links you can click). Alternatively, have the monster stats at the end of each level/chapter would make it easier.
I only ran a small part of Rappan Athuk, but the size, complexity, and lethality made it fun. I'm looking forward to running more of it. Having a hard copy should help.
We're following Paizo standard in that stats are in the relevant areas. There is a monster appendix at the back of the book showing stats for new monsters as well.
Let's keep this rolling, Rappan Athuk + Slumbering Tsar + Tome of Horrors, we can begin to construct a veritable tower of babel out of big books. ;)
Also, perhaps of interest to folks: KickTraq projects this Kickstarter could exceed $300k at the current pace!
Awesome!
Kicktraq is a very nice site, but the trend/projection is lacking. If you look at the details and graphs you see that the Kickstarter will probably converge around $100k at most. Hint: Click on the pi symbol in the lower left corner for the Experimental Projection Cone.
Well, I finally decided to take the plunge. I have to say I'm looking forward to this book.
Then I'll finally be able to answer the immortal question. How many bites dose it take to get to the chewy center of an adventuring party?
I regret having missed the hard copy of Reloaded, not realizing at the time that it was such a limited edition.
You can get a RAR for $ 159 on ebay right now. I saw a few for even cheaper...
I'm in at $100. Considering I never GM, that's saying a lot. This project looks awesome... maybe I can get my group to do some old-school spelunking...