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You know you want to play a Dragon!
Not a half-dragon, not a reptilian humanoid, but a DRAGON!
Come and find out if those who meddle in your affairs are crunchy and good with ketchup. Level up as a dragon and grow to the size of a house, breath fire, (or other energy types), struggle for territory, win prestige amongst dragons, slay giants, rule the sky, and embrace you true draconic essence right alongside all the other player characters. Create the dragon you want to play in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
This revised compilation full-color hardcover print + PDF product includes the new dragon race the Taninin, racial traits, alternate racial traits, the core class archetype (which works with 31 different classes), the paragon racial class, and draconic feats, all so you can play dragons alongside any other player character in any high fantasy campaign setting.
This revised and expanded version also includes information on the Campaign Setting known as The Lost Isles; Its history, society, draconic rituals and rites, dragons of note, draconic magic items, plus expanded draconic archetypes.
Coming to Kickstarter May 20th.
This is unexpected. Not unwanted, just unexpected. Sadly, it can't come at a worse time for me. My gaming budget is low, very low. I'll definitely support it because I've really loved your dragon stuff so far. It just won't be as much as I'd like. :[
Sounds amazing! Do very much want.
This is unexpected. Not unwanted, just unexpected. Sadly, it can't come at a worse time for me. My gaming budget is low, very low. I'll definitely support it because I've really loved your dragon stuff so far. It just won't be as much as I'd like. :[
The kickstarter will run till June 22nd.
So am I right to assume this is your current "In The Company of Dragons" plus new stuff?
The current one is 20k words, the plus new stuff is 30k, plus we are hoping to hit a stretch goal to add a 20k adventure.
I own almost everything Rite has published, but I don't own In The Company of Dragons. This is mainly because I do not like the idea of PC dragons. I never used to like NPC statblock compilations, but I was a kickstarter backer for Faces of the Tarnished Souk because i trusted Rite Publishing. Faces of the Tarnished Souk is now one of my favorite RPG supplements ever made. Anyways, lots of internal conflict for this kickstarter.
I remember seeing the announcement that a Lost Isles kickstarter was in the works a month ago on your blog. I'm definitely going to back!
I was sort of expecting 'Lost Isles' to be in the title. At the very least, I think the title of the final product should be different from that of the original In the Company of Dragons. And, if you ever decide to do something like DSP's "Psionics Unleashed Revised", having different titles makes it easier.
The final title is probably going to be In the Company of Dragons Revised. The reason I did not call it Lost Isles has to do with marketing. Dragons is a much more attractive name.
I own almost everything Rite has published, but I don't own In The Company of Dragons. This is mainly because I do not like the idea of PC dragons. I never used to like NPC statblock compilations, but I was a kickstarter backer for Faces of the Tarnished Souk because i trusted Rite Publishing. Faces of the Tarnished Souk is now one of my favorite RPG supplements ever made. Anyways, lots of internal conflict for this kickstarter.
The option we are doing here is also similar to Council of Wyrms where everyone plays dragons. Though folks still have the option to do PCs, its all about finding the best balance.
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Okay, that makes sense. I know 'dragons' would likely grab me more than 'Lost Isles'. Or at least, I guess it would, since for me the actual things attracting me to this project are the fact that I liked the original, your previous work, and Wendall Roy's previous work.
I have one more question (for now). During the playtest for the original In the Company of Dragons, Jade Ripley released a PDF of psionic dragons, which were eventually part of the Psionic Bestiary. Someone else (not me) asked on the Rite forums if psionic options for dragons were to be included in In the Company of Dragons.
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So now that the Psionic Bestiary is out, are options for psionic dragons going to be included as a stretch goal?
I can neither confirm nor deny that our third streth goal is one where Jeremey Smith of Dreamscarred Press is set to write a 7k word supplement about Psonic Draconic Hero's and Psonic Draconic Exemplars :)
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Here you go, right HERE!
Is this gonna work like eidolons or iron titans, where you purchase abilities using points and customize your dragon as you see fit?
Backed. Looking forward to this. Hope it does well.
I'm in. More dragon options are always a good thing.
I'm in I love dragons and playing one is just tooo cool.
Dot!
I agree with 137ben. There should be listed stretch goals and possible add-ons. I'm a backer because everything I own from Rite has been great and I trust the publisher. You should maybe brag more about previous work and the authors involved. I would recommend copying the campaign formats that Legendary Games, Kobold Press and Frog God have done in the past as they have had very successful kickstarters.
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Is this gonna work like eidolons or iron titans, where you purchase abilities using points and customize your dragon as you see fit?
Not points but it is very customizable
I have set up a short PDF preview on the Kickstarter and here it is as well PDF Preview
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I agree with 137ben. There should be listed stretch goals and possible add-ons. I'm a backer because everything I own from Rite has been great and I trust the publisher. You should maybe brag more about previous work and the authors involved. I would recommend copying the campaign formats that Legendary Games, Kobold Press and Frog God have done in the past as they have had very successful kickstarters.
I have added a free preview. And added two of the stretch goals.
1st Stretch Goal $11,000 (+$5,000) 20k word adventure by ENnie award winning game designer Ben McFarland, who has done work for Paizo Inc, Kobold Press, and Atlas Games. This will be a 1st-6th level adventure where a group of dragons sent by the Council of Elders, must investigate an insignificant outlying island that has stopped communicating with the Council.
2nd Stretch Goal: $14,000 (+3,000) 7k word supplement about Psionic/Gem Dragons from Jeremy Smith of Dream Scarred Press Co-Author of Ultimate Psionics, Psionics Unleashed etc.
This has hit 90% and we're cruising towards my dragon-tastic adventure!
Come join us and see if those who oppose you are crunchy and delicious with ketchup!
-Ben.
Well done Steve. I have a feeling you guys better get started on that adventure. :)
I can neither confirm nor deny that our third streth goal is one where Jeremey Smith of Dreamscarred Press is set to write a 7k word supplement about Psonic Draconic Hero's and Psonic Draconic Exemplars :)
So this proposed Psionic supplement. Would it include its own Racial Paragon (Psionic Dragonic Exemplar), or would it be extra choices in dragonic essence, weaponry, and such?
Congrats on funding. Now onwards to that adventure please. :-)
Well done Steve. I have a feeling you guys better get started on that adventure. :)
Already on it!
-Ben.
Wow, it's already funded and on to its first stretch goal!
(I'll be pledging next Friday-Saturday, assuming I get paid.)
@Adam,
That will be up to Jeremy.
I expect it will be an archetype for the Draconic Exemplar or just new options with a specific essence.
Plus it will mean psoionc class options for the Draconic Hero archetype.
So Paizo is putting a new type of true dragon, 'Dream Dragons', in Bestiary 5. Since Bestiary 5 is coming out well before the expected release of ItCoD:Revised, what are the odds of us getting five more draconic essences corresponding to the dream dragons?
You idea of well before and mine are probably different because the manuscript has to be finalized before we got to editing, before we go to layout, before we go to proofing before we send it to the printer for a printing proof, before we ship the signed copies, and before we ship the books.
Bestiary 5 is due sometime in the fall...October-ish, I believe.
EDIT: late-mid-Novemberish, but then.
-Ben.
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Rite Publishing is happy to announce the author and lead designer of TSR's Council of Wyrms AD&D 2nd edition boxed set, Bill Slavicsek has agreed to write the foreword to the 175 page full-color hardcover In The Company of Dragons Expanded
As of this writing we are 155% Funded! 1st stretch goal 66% funded! 26 Days to go!
In the Company of Dragon Kickstarter 166% to goal with 23 days still to go!, just a little over $1,000.00 away from our first stretch goal!
Become a dragon and find out if your foes are crunchy and good with ketchup! Play a red dragon, play a imperial river dragon, or heck even play a faerie dragon!
In The Company of Dragons Kickstarter (PFRPG) video blog with Ben McFarland, Wendall Roy, and Steven D. Russell
Why is there a 5 dollar delivery fee for PDF files if you are not an American.
This looks like an arbitrary charge, if there is a reason share it and I may reconsider my decision to not back because of this apparently unethical charge
Why is there a 5 dollar delivery fee for PDF files if you are not an American.
This looks like an arbitrary charge, if there is a reason share it and I may reconsider my decision to not back because of this apparently unethical charge
As was stated in the comments it was me being a moron ( copy past error).
Please just list your address as the USA if possible so it does not try to charge that, since the kickstarter has started I can't change it. I have a ticked into to kickstarter for them to change it but i expect the kickstarter will be over before then.
Thanks for clarifying that. Sorry for sounding so irritable , I should not post after a very long day.
Sadly Kickstarter recognises I live in the UK , then enforces the $30 limit I will try to see if there is a way around it later
Please just list your address as the USA if possible so it does not try to charge that, since the kickstarter has started I can't change it. I have a ticked into to kickstarter for them to change it but i expect the kickstarter will be over before then.
AFAIK, you could create a second PDF only tier, this one without the shipping charge error. Mark it as being the one with the error fixed and it should be good to go for international backers.
Did what Paul suggested.
Thanks
I have backed it now
You know you want to play a Dragon!
Not a half-dragon, not a reptilian humanoid, but a DRAGON!
Yes, yes I do!
...But I don't want to wait a year. Is there a reward level that includes a more immediate delivery of the current PDF version?
I'm definitely interested in learning more about the lost isles.
You know you want to play a Dragon!
Not a half-dragon, not a reptilian humanoid, but a DRAGON!
Yes, yes I do!
...But I don't want to wait a year. Is there a reward level that includes a more immediate delivery of the current PDF version?
Yes I am planning to do just that once I have the moneies paid from the kickstarter to all backers.
Also for those who care we have video blog with Wendall, Ben, and myself talking about In the Company of Dragons.
183% to goal, 206 backers, And we hit our first stretch goal! 3rd stretch goal announced (Mythic Dragons by Jason Nelson). 18 days to go! Come Join In the Company of Dragons Kickstarter (PFRPG)
So I'm quite hopeful that we can hit the third stretch goal. Why? Because of your first update:
This is very important because 90% of all kickstarters that reach 30% in the first five days hit their goal, so I am extremely excited to be so far along.
That indicates that 90% of kickstarters reach a level of funding 10/3 times what they had after five days. After five days, this project was 137% funded ($8220), which is 30% of 27,400 dollars. If the trend holds up, we have a 90% chance of hitting 27,400, well past the Legendary Mythic 17,000 stretch goal. And, hopefully, if we do get that far, there will be an equally awesome fourth stretch goal.
Steve,
I think I already know the answer to this, but have you spread the word on other message boards?