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Every year, we do a sanity check here at Dreamscarred Press (seems appropriate, no?). So let's wrap up 2013 and kick off 2014!
2013 was a great year here at Dreamscarred Press!
Not only did we finally finish Ultimate Psionics (now on the way to the printer!), but we launched the Path of War, bringing the maneuver-based combat to the Pathfinder RPG.
In July, we completed our second Kickstarter - this one for miniatures. And we received over seven times our funding, allowing us to create an entire product line of psionic miniatures! So far, the aegis, cryptic, dread, marksman, psion, soulknife, tactician, vitalist, wilder, intellect devourer, and astral construct have been sculpted. We still have the psychic warrior, forgeborn, duergar, phrenic scourge, psion-killer, and custom miniatures to go. These minis will not only be available to our Kickstarter backers, but will be available for anyone to purchase once they're ready to go!
Just before Christmas, we released the PDF of Ultimate Psionics. With over 450 pages, this was by far the largest book we've ever put together and we're still in the process of getting it printed. It should be done this month and into the hands of our Kickstarter supporters, preorder customers, and then to the general public. For those customers who already had Psionics Unleashed and Psionics Expanded, we also released Psionics Augmented, Volume I as a standalone release containing the 80+ pages of new material found in Ultimate Psionics. Psionics Augmented, Volume I, was also our first full-color printed book.
Beyond just new books and miniatures, we also started work on accessories for psionics. Focus tokens, Dreamscarred-branded dice, GM Screens with psionic support, psionic power cards, and psionic item cards are all things we worked on in 2013 and that we’ll have available for sale this year!
But that’s just what we finished. On to what we have planned!
Psionics Augmented wasn’t just a one-time release. As noted by the name, Volume I was the first book in the series. Psionics Augmented will include a variety of new books. First is Seventh Path, a new psionic discipline focusing around spirits, undead, and psionics. This will introduce the Medium psion to go along with the Telepath, Shaper, and the rest, new archetypes for the other psionic classes, dozens of new powers, feats, items, and more! Next is Mythic support for psionics. From a new mythic path, to new mythic feats, powers, items, and monsters, Psionics Augmented: Mythic will contain all the psionic support you need for mythic games. And we have much more planned for Psionics Augmented beyond those two releases!
Path of War will continue, with the third release focused on the Warder base class coming out in January. Path of War will be compiled into a print book later this year, as well. So far, the reviews and reception of Path of War have been overwhelmingly positive and we plan to continue the support for Path of War and martial characters throughout the year!
The long-awaited From the Deep #3 is nearly completed and should be out in February. It unfortunately got stuck in editing limbo and has nearly finished pushing through.
On the topic of From the Deep, we have our third Kickstarter planned, and it’s not a coincidence that our third Kickstarter will be for Third Dawn! We plan to kick it off in the next couple of months and have learned a lot of lessons from our Ultimate Psionics and Psionic Miniatures of what to do and, more importantly, what not to do. The Third Dawn update will include making the book available as a full-color, hardcover book. Lots more fun stuff to go over on this, but we’ll do that in separate updates.
Next, the Psionic Bestiary is slated to be finished in March! With graphics completed and most monsters written, this tome (expected to be around 100 pages) will include psionic critters of all CRs. It will be available in black & white or color softcover options.
Another book we'll be releasing in 2014 is Psionics Embodied, a book of pregenerated psionic NPCs. This will include over 20 NPCs, with multiple characters for each of the ten psionic base classes. All artwork for this book has already been completed and we'll be wrapping it up once the Psionic Bestiary is finished.
We've got lots more to come in 2014, so stay tuned!
Oohh, psionic necromancy.
Mythic Psionics!
Bravo guys! Can't wait to see the new stuff and get my copy of Ultimate Psionics. Thanks for making good books, you are one of my reliable "buy everything" 3rd party publishers and I hope you're around for years to come. Look forward to backing Third Dawn and picking up the additional AUgmented books too. Keep 'em coming!
HUZZAH!!
Just want to say how awesome it has been that you guys have been so open with development, suggestions, considerations, conversation, and ideas with Path of War. ErrantX and Prince of Knives have done an awesome job laying stuff out for us over in the PoW thread, and it's been a blast to help development along.
I'm giddy. I'm actually giddy with excitement over these announcements.
And just as an update - From the Deep #3 has gone to layout!
Psionic necromancy...
Shut up and take my money!
With over 450 pages, this was by far the largest book we've ever put together
This could very well be the largest print book that ANY Pathfinder 3PP has put together! Kudos on a great year, Jeremy and Andreas!
All sounds great, guys.
It's always gratifying to see talented people succeed.
With over 450 pages, this was by far the largest book we've ever put togetherThis could very well be the largest print book that ANY Pathfinder 3PP has put together! Kudos on a great year, Jeremy and Andreas!
I dunno, complete Tome of Horrors is pretty huuuge.
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I dunno, complete Tome of Horrors is pretty huuuge.
You mis-spelled "Rappan Athuk". I mean "Slumbering Tsar".
<Grin>
But seriously, this is a huge amount of crunch, all in one beautiful book. This is absolutely the biggest "professional" product in that it's now full-colour, hardcover. It rivals Paizo's materials, which is absolutely, positively amazing for a 3PP. The only book I know of which is of the same caliber is Razor Coast - almost the same page count - which is stunningly pretty.
Dreamscarred is frankly killing me. I've got a shot at playing a PC in about a year (when I finish running my Tsar campaign). By then it'll be about 2.5 years of DMing multiple campaigns and not playing. I'm kind of geeked to have a proper PC. And I absolutely want it to be a soulknife. I mean vitalist. I mean tactician. Did I say psion? Because I meant that. Or anything from the Path of War.
Yeah. One PC. Fourteen awesome classes. One 3rd party publisher. One hell of a choice.
State of the mind in 2014? Shattered.
