Sixth stretch goal achieved! Info about EU and UK shipping!
11 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!
11 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!
Fourth stretch goal achieved, and more on the way!
11 months ago
– Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 12:22:07 PM
Hello everyone, we hope you had a great weekend. Thank you for your continued support and for helping us achieve our fourth stretch goal, a brand new adventure module by the great Brad Kerr! Brad has written several best-selling adventure for Cairn, including Demon Driven to the Maw, Hideous Daylight, and Fabien's Atelier. He is putting the final touches on the module as you read this and it will be getting edited and into layout shortly. We're excited to be able to offer more adventures for this amazing system.
Our next stretch goal is for a third copy of the Player's Guide to be included in the Boxed Set tier. This one is near and dear to our hearts here at SPI, as we have many years' experience running games for new groups, and what better way to get new players to keep coming back but than to give them their very own copy of the material they need to create and run their characters? The Boxed Set is shaping up to be nice and value-packed, and we once again thank you for your interest in our campaign.
We're also super stoked to now be a Kickstarter Project We Love! Thanks!
Third stretch goal down, $100k, and 2000+ backers! THANK YOU!
11 months ago
– Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:47:45 AM
Hello everyone, and a hearty and massive thank you from the entire team! The support of over 2000 of you has helped us raise over $100,000 (as of this writing). We are super thankful to each and every one of you, and we appreciate the messages and comments as we further refine our process.
First up, with your help, we have unlocked our next stretch goal, which adds a second copy of the Player's Guide to the Boxed Set tier! Now you can hand out an extra copy to players and make your games run even faster. Keep your eyes peeled further down that stretch goal tracker (see below) for further improvements to the Boxed Set, which is our focus for this campaign.
Along with this, we have released an updated stretch goal tracker. Next up is fan-fave Brad Kerr (check out his itch.io page right here), co-host of Between Two Cairns, writing an adventure module to be released to all backers digitally. Here's a little more info on Brad's adventure, Bloodmarm Barrow:
Out in the windy moors, bandits have claimed a lair in an ancient burial mound. They've raided local farms and taken hostages. Arthur, a bloodied and bandaged hog farmer, escapes and petitions the player characters for help. The mound swells with treasure and undiscovered magic. But why do all the bandits have the same face? Bloodmarm Barrow is a mousetrap dungeon for Cairn with themes of dungeon delving, infiltration, and survival.
But wait, there's more! Yochai is releasing a free dungeon for Cairn today! It's called Rise of the Blood Olms, and you can grab an early copy from here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CvZ869xI1DBtJgk7ZfSS5BWMsezvrFFn/view?usp=drivesdk
We again super appreciate all of you along for this hexcrawl, we hope you have a great weekend!
Edit: the graphic originally posted here mistakenly said that the $130K +1 Player's Guide was a Digital stretch goal. It is indeed a Physical stretch goal to be added to the Boxed Set tier. Thanks for the catch, Corey Gross!
Second stretch goal down, and more on the way!
11 months ago
– Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 06:05:11 AM
Hello everyone! We slept a bit and woke up to our second stretch goal achieved! We're so excited to have amanda p., fan-fave author of Tannic (you can check it out digitally right here), onboard to write a brand new adventure. It's called Dread Hospitality, and is a mansion adventure that explores the grotesque, solipsistic nature of absurd wealth and power. Here is an uncut slice of it:
The Situation
Lord Horace Appleblossom has ruled his demesne through petty tyranny and oppression. He sought money, power, and life to excess. A notoriously faithless noble, Horace betrayed his fellow patricians, shirking deals, and defying the terms of ancient aristocratic agreements. As assassination attempts dogged his footsteps, he hired builders to create AGONIUS HALL, a residence, fortress, and laboratory to explore his occult interests. Paranoia suffused the home’s design. Defense mechanisms were added in case a grudge came home to roost.
Three months ago, Horace hosted a dinner with three great rivals, after which a great storm struck the area, seemingly centered on Agonius Hall. Green lightning arched across the sky. Since that night, no one has emerged. Strange reptilian beasts emerge from the grounds, spreading death and mischief. In taverns, over their cups peasants speak of vast treasures contained in Agonius Hall.
amanda is hard at work finishing the draft, and then it's off to layout for this one. We're super stoked that you all get this in digital form, and maybe another form if we hit future stretch goals!!!
With that said, our next stretch goal is another big one that we're very happy to put into play. If we hit $100,000 we will add another copy of the Player's Guide to the Boxed Set tier pledges. This means you have an extra copy of the PG to give to players at the table, making your game sessions play out all that much faster.
Seriously, thank you to everyone who is backing this, you all are champions!
