Halloween Stretch Goal SUCCESS!
over 3 years ago – Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 02:30:49 PM

Mwooo-hahahaaha!  The ghosts and demons of the night have gathered, enacted their fiendish concoctions, and the resulting chaotic conclave has coalesced into not merely one, but a delightfully devilish DUO of burgeoning bonus Stretch Goals!*

Newly-Unlocked Stretch Goals

$10,000 Halloween: P2E Version: A Pathfinder Second Edition version of the adventure content will be produced.  Everyone who is entitled to a product for which a P2E edition is produced will receive it FREE automatically; anyone who is entitled to an at-cost print code for such a product will receive a code for the P2E version as well.

$10,000: Grimdark ULTRA: For those who wish to imbue their gothic horror roleplaying with a bit more old-school lethality, IGS hopes to release its own homebrew tweaks on 5E and Pathfinder rules that help it resemble OSR, while maintaining the fun complexity and modern capabilities we enjoy.  ULTRA stands for Unbelievably Lethal Tabletop RPG Addendum.  It's an entirely optional way to play through a Dark Harbor adventure or campaign, or a rules extension that you can apply to any game or campaign setting completely separate from Dark Harbor.  ~64 page softcover.  Free PDF and POD code to ALL backers.

Hope you all had a fantastic Halloween, and thanks again for your support and enthusiasm!

Onward!

* Alliterative prose is not necessarily indicative of that which will find its way to final writing.

New Pledge Level Added: "Complete"
over 3 years ago – Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 04:31:06 AM

Missing Pledge Level!

Apologies: some of the project description refers to a "Complete" pledge level, which had not existed until now!

This level is the same as the "Together" level, but adds POD codes for at-cost hardcopies, and the VTT ultra-high-resolution individual map files for the entire project.

Complete Pledge Level

(As "Together", but for those who plan to run adventures in VTT tools, and/or order hardcopies.)

Receive PDFs of the Campaign Setting AND the Adventure Book AND the Players' Guide, and at-cost print codes for all Dark Harbor products produced by this Kickstarter. Receive all of this in both 5E/Fifth Edition, and Pathfinder rules formats.

Also receive ultra-high-resolution individual map image files from every book for use in VTT or other gaming purposes.

Last-Minute Notice

All backers will have the ability to change their pledge level after the Kickstarter campaign wraps up via BackerKit survey.  So if you're busy this weekend and don't see this message, and/or are confused by what was totally my mistake, don't worry!

Thanks much to the backer who pointed out my error on this!

Onward!

The Final 3 Days... Halloween Challenge for P2E!
over 3 years ago – Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:56:37 AM

Thanks once again to everyone who has pledged so far.  

It's hard to believe it's going to be Halloween this weekend!  

H30 P2E FTW (OMG)

In honor of the holiday, I'm going to automatically unlock something special if we hit $10,000 by midnight All Hallow's Eve (EST)... a Pathfinder Second Edition version of the materials!

If we hit this goal, the Campaign Setting and Adventure Books will then be available in 5E, Pathfinder First Edition, and Pathfinder Second Edition rules system formats.  Anyone entitled to these books will receive them in that edition as well automatically.

In addition, the unlocked Aquilae: Gothic Horror Bestiary will also be produced in Pathfinder Second Edition format, as a FREE PDF for all backers!

Onward!

Areas of Interest Overview
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 09:31:05 PM

We've been gaining and losing pledges this way and that, so rather than wait for a milestone or arbitrary number,  I figured I'd post the promised Areas of Interest (AOI) overview.

Areas of Interest

Each of these is a visitable region on the Wandering Island of Dark Harbor.  Each will receive full-color maps, several variant maps for those pieces of terrain that do not always appear the same way, encounter seeds and hooks, Quests, adventure snippets, and more--2-20 pages each is reasonable, depending on the complexity.

Each Location of Interest is a "setpiece" sort of focus, and receives much more detail than a given Repeating Location of Interest.  Indeed, it's feasible in the future for each major Location of Interest to receive its own dedicated sourcebook, though the books from this campaign will provide everything necessary for a GM to run adventures which include these settings.

Although the lists below are just that--lists, I wanted to provide a bit of additional detail and flavor as to what you might expect.  So, here's a quick example describing one of the Locations of Interest in a bit more detail.

Example: The Church in the Woods

This can take many forms, and generally appears in a form familiar to those who worship.  A Paladin, for instance, approaching the Church may see something very different from a Cleric.  Similarly, two Clerics with vastly different deities will encounter different forms of the Church.  

Above ground, the Church appears as a mostly normal--though ghostly, mist-surrounded, and eerily vacant--terrerstrial church.  The entirety of its above-ground presence is illusory, though supported by substantial and ancient magicks to preserve the deception.

Beneath, however, there exist endless catacombs and threats.  The Church in the Woods is a gateway to something much deeper, darker, and menacing within the Island; it is both a generator of nasties and a means to venture closer to the thing's heart.

Those who submit to the whim of the Island, and fully sacrifice their will and soul to its energies, undergo a terrible ritual here, the true nature of which no mortal has witnessed and survived to encode.

Locations of Interest

Each of these receives 5-20+ pages of dedicated content, including multiple ultra-detailed maps.

1. Fort w/Garrison
2. Commoner Village (Vileville)
3. Well-to-do Village (Vallancoeur)
4. Castle Gardens
5. Castle
6. Vystallus' Mansion
7. Slave Camp
8. Funary Generators
9. Church in the Woods

Repeating Locations of Interest

These are more types of locations of interest.  Multiple iterations of each can pop up anywhere in journeys around the vast and polymorphic landscape of the Wandering Island.

• Sacrificial Posts
• Eyes of the Forest
• Darkshrines: one for each sin
• Traps
• Lairs
• Abandoned Lairs
• Torture Posts
• Thornspires (these are like watchtowers but completely enveloped in mist and largely invisible from the ground)
• Burrows & warrens
• Chase sequences
  

Onward!

$7,777! Area of Interest List Coming Tomrorow!
over 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 04:55:51 PM

I'm busy tonight, but as we've hit a magic fun milestone of $7,777, I'll be sharing the Area of Interest list tomorrow... stay tuned and thank you!

Onward!