Cairn 2e Boxed Set

Spanish translation unlocked! Welcome to the end of the campaign!
5 months ago – Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 05:57:10 AM

Hello everyone, and thank you all for your continued epic support! With your help we have achieved the goal of having the Player's and Warden's Guides translated into Spanish, to be released digitally for all backers. We are working behind the scenes to get more details, and will share those in the future.

We're down to the last hour of the campaign, and we want to share our effusive thanks for everyone's support throughout it. We will be updating everyone in the coming weeks with the road ahead and work in progress information.

Cheers!

Kettlewright achieved! The end of the campaign is near...
5 months ago – Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 02:18:35 PM

Thank you so much, everyone, for helping us achieve our $200k stretch goal, Kettlewright! This web-based character keeper and inventory manager for Cairn will be available in the future, free for use to everyone, whether you play Cairn regularly now or plan to in the future!

Our next several stretch goals involve translations of the core material (Player's Guide and Warden's Guide) into other languages, to be released digitally for all backers. We'll have more information on this as we get closer to those goals!

We've got just a day and a few hours left to go until the end of the campaign, after which we will be taking a small break while we prepare the BackerKit pledge manager. We will be posting a timeline for the road ahead shortly after the campaign ends, so keep your eyes peeled for that.
 

We once again thank you all very much for helping us achieve these goals. You all rock!

One week left and stretch goals in sight! Canadian shipping update!
5 months ago – Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 05:52:16 AM

Hello everyone, we hope your week is going well! We're in our last week and have the last physical stretch goal in sight. We're very close to hitting $175K, and with it we will be printing a softcover, perfect bound compilation of the previously stretched-for digital adventures for the Boxed Set tiers. Thank you for helping us achieve this!

We also have some good news for Canadian backers. We have managed to get shipping for Canada down a bit. Our current estimate is $17 USD for shipping for the Basic Tier and $20-23 USD for shipping for the Boxed Set. Please keep in mind that these are estimates, and subject to change. These will all be listed as Books/Printed Material, to keep any customs questions to a minimum. We thank you for your patience as we sort out all of the shipping stuff behind the scenes.

Also, we thought you would all like to see some images of the white box sample of the Boxed Set, and learn a little bit about the behind the scenes. Scroll down for images of all of the components!

This is the closed box with all the goodies inside.

Here's the Box with books inside, showcasing the length of the ribbon. The ribbon itself is secured very tightly to the Box bottom, and we have field tested it for hours to make sure it will remain as secure as possible for repeated use.

Perfect bound Player's Guide.

Perfect bound Warden's Guide.

Perfect bound stretch goals adventures (we're so close to this one).

Five panel Warden's Screen

Saddle stitched Adventure Module (Trouble in Twin Lakes)

Character Sheet Pad.

We're super excited to bring the Cairn 2e Boxed Set into the world, and we're very proud to be building it for many sessions of table play, and it will also look great on your shelves.

Thanks as always for your continued support!

Sixth stretch goal achieved! Info about EU and UK shipping!
5 months ago – Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 03:02:17 PM

Hello everyone, we hope your week is going well! Thanks to you we have achieved our sixth stretch goal, and are on pace to achieve even more!

First up is our next stretch goal, at $175k. This level of funding sees us collecting the digital stretch goal adventures from previous tiers, written by amanda p., Brad Kerr, and Zedeck Siew, into a perfect bound softcover book to be included in the Boxed Set tier. We're super excited to add even more value to the Boxed Set, and there's nothing better than ready-to-play adventures right out of the box.

And at $200k... we will release a FREE, web-based character keeper & party manager for Cairn 2e. It's called Kettlewright, and you can see a preview of it in action here! 

Kettlewright features:
- Procedural character creation
- Full character sheet management
- Inventory tracking
- Container management (carts, horses, custom inventory, etc)
- Text boxes for notes, Omens and Bonds
- 50 portraits to choose from, or custom option
- Share character sheets with other users in a view-only mode
- Ability to join character sheets to a party
- Item transfers from character sheet to party inventory
- Mobile friendly!
- Free (hosted on Cairn RPG servers)!

The app is nearly feature complete, but still has a few fun features we plan to implement in the near future:
- Drag + Drop inventory (main to containers)
- Export to PDF
- Dedicated NPC, Hireling, or companion stat blocks
- Integrated dice rolling/tracking
- Integrated Warden tables (dungeon/wilderness events, random names, etc)
- And more to come…

Oh and if we hit our target, Yochai will OPEN SOURCE THE WHOLE THING. That means anyone can host, hack, and spin the app to their heart's content!

Also, we have some great news regarding shipping to the EU! Our friends at Games Omnivorous, publishers of Mausritter, have agreed to work with us to import the Boxed Set and Basic tiers into the EU via Portugal. This will help us cut down shipping prices to the EU and, best of all, will ensure that once the items are in the EU, backers will not have to worry about customs and import fees. Our current estimate is $27 USD for shipping the Boxed Set, $20 for shipping the Basic Tier. Please keep in mind that these are estimates, and subject to change. 

Even more good news on this front, we're partnerning with our friends at Iglootree for UK fulfillment! Our current estimate is $17 USD for shipping either tier. Please keep in mind this is also an estimate, and subject to change, and as above regarding the EU, once the Boxed Sets and books are in the UK, backers will not have to worry about customs and import fees.

Thank you all for bearing with us as we work toward getting the price and shipping situation worked out. We are ever-working on plans for the other areas.

Thanks again and have a great week!

Fifth stretch goal achieved!
6 months ago – Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:21:27 AM

Hello everyone! Thanks to you we've hit yet another amazing stretch goal, and a third copy of the Player's Guide is going to be included in each Boxed Set. As with the previous goal that added a second copy, our goal is to "level up" the Boxed Set for at-the-table play as well as player buy-in!

This brings us to our next stretch goal, at $150,000. Zedeck Siew brings his immense talents to bear for us in adventure named THE END OF ETERNAL ZUM:

The king of the city of Zum is missing---vanished in the night into the vast and root-crossed wood! His court is in uproar. Who has stolen him? Local insurrectionists; his own treacherous admirals? Will he survive the tidal eddies, the wild crayfolk, the heron knights who do not call him liege? Find him! If the witches get him they will drown him---and so drown the city of Zum! 

THE END OF ETERNAL ZUM is a mangrove-crawl for Cairn 2e. Players will mediate between rival factions; explore a humid, intertidal forest; and search for a hapless couple and their cat.

Adding to that, just around the corner past that goal is a physical copy of all of the stretch goal adventures added to the Boxed Set. More on that in our next update. 
 
Cheers and thank you all for your continued support!