(ENN) Kobold Press’ Midgard Coming soon to Kickstarter

Wolfgang Baur, publisher at Kobold Press, has been in touch to let us know that a revised Midgard Campaign Setting for 5^th Edition D&D and Pathfinder is on its way! The Kickstarter should be launching mid-January so we’ll keep our eyes peeled for it and see if we can get some preview at or something off the Kobold team to share with you.

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THE WORLD SERPENT AWAKES

The age of heroes is dead, and the bridge to glory is broken – Bifrost fell long ago. Midgard is lost in an age of war, of dark wilderness and lost empires sunk beneath the waves. Only magic and the warmth of hope keeps lights aglow when dread things prowl and priestly wardings shake, bent by demonic rage.

Now, sinister forces are forming new and terrifying alliances throughout the world. The roads to the shadow realm are open again, and the fey have returned to claim their ancient tribute. In the north the giants prepare for Ragnarok, while the goblins in the west grow restless. In the Crossroads, the shadow of the vampire princes fall across the land. The World Serpent is stirring – and not even all-knowing Baba Yaga can say what will happen next.

It is a dark time. But a new breed of hero is coming to stand against the dark, driving it back with spell, steel, and cunning!

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[Raddu]

Time for a sneak peek! Chapter 3 of the Midgard Heroes Handbook offers more than a dozen new clerical domains for 5th Edition clerics. Here we give a quick summary of what 11 of those domains cover and the channel divinity option available to their adherents.

Domains sneak peeks include: Apocalypse, Beer, Cat, Clockwork, Hunger, Hunting, Labyrinth, Moon, Ocean, Prophecy, and Speed.

What are the other new domains, and what powers might they provide? Let the rampant speculation begin!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...tting-dark-roads-and-deep-magic/posts/1795402

 

[Monkey King]

I'm all for a Kobold domain. And possibly a Forest/Green/Fertility domain, if that doesn't impinge on Life too much.

 

[Marc Radle]

The Midgard kickstarter is now at more than $98,000 and 870 backers ... and there's still almost 3 weeks to go!!

That means only about $1,800 and 130 more backers to go until we unlock a host of cool stretch goals, including an awesome GM screen, yet MORE Eldritch Lairs, Deep Magic Chaos Magic, and a bound in poster map for the main book!!!

That's a veritable metric ton of new stuff!

 

[Raddu]

You've done it! Thank you for getting us past $100,00! It's a big milestone and it brings a lot to the campaign. And now we charge on to the next stretch goals, $105k will bring us Deep Magic: Chaos Magic to the Heroes Handbook and $110 ushers in 5 more iconic characters illustrated by Bryan Syme.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/350683997/midgard-campaign-setting-dark-roads-and-deep-magic

 

[Marc Radle]

As Raddu said, the Midgard Campaign Setting: Dark Roads & Deep Magic kickstarter reached a pretty big milestone over night: it surpassed the $100,000 mark (it's currently at just over $102,000) which unlocked a slew of new rewards and stretch goals! That's pretty darn awesome!

A bunch of new, post $100,000 stretch goal rewards have also just been added.

The kickstarter is also close to reaching 1,000 backers, at which point an awesome Midgard campaign setting DM screen becomes available

If you haven't already, pop over to the Midgard Campaign Setting: Dark Roads & Deep Magic kickstarter and join the fun!

 

[Raddu]

And now we're over $115k! The next stretch goal up for smashing at $120,000 is Deep Magic: Elfmarked Locations & Elvish High Magic, which includes Racial Options added to the Player's Guide & Hero's Handbook!

 

[Raddu]

Opening the Midgard Setting!
Kobold Press has always prided itself on welcoming new talent through brainstorms, contests, and nurturing talent--and now we're taking that much, much further!

If the Midgard Kickstarter reaches 2,000 backers or more, we'll open up the setting for anyone to publish Midgard material on DriveThru RPG, somewhat like the DM's Guild. At that point Midgard would be open for anyone to use and publish locations, adventures, characters, lairs, or other playable material (under certain conditions) with supplements that are compatible with 5th Edition, Pathfinder RPG, and 13th Age RPG. Help us get there--and make Midgard yours!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...tting-dark-roads-and-deep-magic/posts/1801665

 

[Raddu]

When we titled this project "Dark Roads & Deep Magic", we definitely wanted to give equal weight to both setting and sourcebook.

Midgard has always been a dark setting, fairly twisted in its biggest empires of evil, and one of the ways that works out best at the table is if the DM has some toys that the players don't know much about. In the early days of Zobeck and Midgard, those toys included necrophagy cast by the ghoul warlocks and later it grew to include Red Portal magic in the Southlands.

Read on to find out more about Void, Blood, and Doom magic.

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...tting-dark-roads-and-deep-magic/posts/1803629

 

[Monkey King]

Related topic: A strong review for Deep Magic: Rune Magic, which is part of the Heroes Handbook for Midgard

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product_reviews.php?products_id=190164

 

[Raddu]

We talked about new types of magic in our last update, now we share a few of the traditions for 5e characters. Wizard players, rejoice! Which of these makes you want to play a wizard in Midgard?

Chapter 4 of the Midgard Heroes Handbook offers 7 new arcane paths (plus more from stretch goals, of course). Here we give a quick summary of what those paths are about and the advantage you gain upon first setting your foot on a particular course with a 5th Edition character.

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...tting-dark-roads-and-deep-magic/posts/1805202