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Coming in March of 2016, Everyman Gaming, LLC will be unveiling its first-ever Kickstarter Project: the Dynastic Races Compendium Kickstarter!
By March, this product will have been alluded to for roughly a year; it was mentioned as being something that author Alexander Augunas has had ambitions of doing within the author anecdote of the Samsaran Compendium. Now the time has come to finally see those ambitions realized, but Everyman Gaming, LLC will need YOUR help to do it!
The Goal
The most expensive parts of funding a Kickstarter is paying for the art and paying to print the product. The goal for the Dynastic Races Compendium Kickstarter is to pay for all-new artwork depicting characters and illustrations appropriate for the product. We’ll be using Jacob Blackmon as our artist, for his energy, speed, and bold color choices have become Iconic for Everyman Gaming, LLC.
In order to make the Kickstarter happen, we would need to raise $5,200. However, in preparation for the Kickstarter, I’ve been making dual-purposed art purchases for my other Everyman Gaming products with the intention of eventually reusing the artwork in the Dynastic Races Compendium. (Notice all the kitsune in our products for the past year? There was an ulterior motive for that besides “Alex loves the kitsune race!”) As of today, Everyman Gaming, LLC has effectively funded the entire kitsune chapter of this product, reducing the amount of money that needs to be raised from $5,200 to just $3,800. As a result, the starting goal for this project to be considered funded is $3,800, but as always we have a number of awesome Stretch Goals in mind should you manage to go above and beyond this amount.
Where Does Any “Extra Money” Go?
If there’s money left over from ordering art, getting the product edited, and shipping the product to the backers and web venues, all excess money will be funneled into making a second product that people have been asking me for: an updated version of Microsized Adventures, including a print version. This will be a direct update to the existing Microsized Adventures product, so if you already bought the digital copy you won’t need to buy it again. Call it a bit of altruism. Based on the goals I’ve set, however, I don’t suspect that the amount of money going to Microsized Adventures will be meaningful until we reach the $7,000 goal. (See below.)
What’s the Content Look Like?
The book is split into two sections: Racial Compendiums and Rules and Options. The Racial Compendiums section will feature four massive, 24-page chapters on the kitsune, nagaji, samsarans, and wayangs. For kitsune and samsarans, this information will be refined and expanded from what appeared in their respective Compendium products; for example, since all rules text from those products will be placed in the second section of the product, there are places where up to 1/2 a page of text or more was added to the flavor descriptions. Better still, the Culture sections of these products has had its page allocation doubled from four to eight, and there’s also a section on falsehoods about each race to go along with the common facts.
The races chosen for this product were picked because they are Eastern-flavored races that have gotten little exposure or expansion in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game; even other race-themed products tend to focus on general strokes about the race’s flavor and instead focus on new rules elements. This product gives you everything you need to actually build civilizations with these races; you’ll get to see illustrations of what members of the race look like at each age category, you’ll learn about their peculiarities and mannerisms, you’ll see sample religions and learn information about what separates people of each race from humanity in terms of biology and culture.
A common question that I get when talking about this product is, “Why no tengu?” I feel that tengu are a legacy of 3.5 and have had much more opportunity for expansion over the years; Pathfinder itself tends to be more willing to talk about tengu than the other races provided here, for instance. However, I agree that no Eastern race product would be complete without the tengu, so if we reach $7,000, I will add a fifth chapter to the book for tengu, plus all of the additional rules and options content that the other characters will receive. The reason this goal is so high is that in addition to needing to build up enough “excess” revenue to build up what is effectively a fifth chapter, I also need to fund the stretch goals that help us reach that lofty height.
What Kind of Rules Can We Expect?
New spells, archetypes, and feats. Stretch goals will be provided that add additional spreads with all-new information and options. For example, you can unlock a Tail Tricks spread that allow kitsune with the Magical Tail feat to gain additional powers from their tails. A shadow henna spread will talk about mystical body piercings that wayang can take in order to give themselves benefits. Samsarans will get a spread on past-life shards that they can take to give them temporary access to other feats and abilities. And much, much more.
How Do I Know I Can Trust You?
I’ve successfully run the Pact Magic Unbound Kickstarter, which should be in the final stages of book fulfillment when this Kickstarter goes live. (We still have to fulfill our Spirit Cards, but much of what needs to be done is on the end of Dario’s company, not myself.) In addition, as previously mentioned I’ve already completed the entire Kitsune Flavor chapter for this product; [url="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1094138990605691.1073741850.724155477604046&type=3"you can check it out here for free at the Everyman Gaming, LLC Facebook group.[/url]
I hope that you’ll come out and support Everyman Gaming’s first Kickstarter in March, the Dynastic Races Compendium Kickstarter!
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As the Kitsune Compendium was the single best race focused book I've ever read, I'll be on this as soon as it is up.
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Count me in as highly interested!!
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Upcoming News from Everyman Gaming!
As some of you may know, Everyman Gaming is going to be running a Kickstarter this month to get their latest product, the Dynastic Races Compendium, into your hands! This impressive tome takes everything fans loved about the Kitsune Compendium and Samsaran Compendium and enhances it while also providing the exact same treatment for other "dynastic" races, including nagaji, wayangs, and possibly tengu!
Throughout the month, keep an eye out for additional e-mails regarding more bits of information about the Kickstarter. Launch date is March 29th, 2016!
Stay tuned, and happy gaming!
Alex Augunas
Everyman Gaming, LLC