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5E Campaign-length adventures, my rankings: Top Tier Curse of Strahd - probably the best 5e adventure. Strong out of the book itself, but add in all the fan love available and it is amazing. Tomb of Annihilation - really strong adventure. Biggest problem is the tone shift between the first half...

I'd definitely suggest checking out Born from Ice. That is basically what we are doing - a no magic pre-historic setting on earth, based in science.

Designer of Born from Ice here. While the game is technically designed around the period leading up to the Neolithic, there is very little that would separate the time periods other than some advances in technology (specifically around farming and animal domestication, and the slow change from...

Interestingly, using the Creative Commons version of the SRD doesn't open you up to data mining in the way using the old OGL version does. The old OGL makes everything in the work that you don't explicitly call out as Product Identity pretty open to use. Using the Creative Commons SRD just...

Agreed! I specifically appreciate the highlighting of my project this time around, but in general also really appreciate this column. I've spent incredibly far too much money over the years because of Egg's efforts here!

Thanks for continuing to highlight Born from Ice, Egg! We are about $3,500 away from the goal, and averaging around $750 a day in pledges. So we should be funded early next week. Hopefully we can hit that playable Neanderthal species stretch goal!

It depends a bit on what you include for averages. Our adjusted calculations are putting it around $750 a day. Unless something changes, it should fully fund in the next 5-7 days. We expect that once it funds, and especially as it hits the last few days of the campaign, people who have been...

Agreed! I wish Kickstarter was more designed/functional around this concept!

I'm less convinced that has anything to do with 5e and more to do with the size of my pre-existing audience (and funding goal, see more below) versus the Free League audience. Every Free League Kickstarter I've seen in the past few years has hit funding within, as you say, minutes of going live...

There is 100% less PC shopping :)

Sure! I'll try to do that without creating too many spoilers about the adventure itself! A major concept of the game is that, most of life during this time period is very similar day-to-day, and that the adventures that are played are moments of particular note that will be included into the...

The base of the class is probably similar power level to a 5e Fighter. I mean, the base 5e fighter gets extra attacks, a fighting style, some HP regen, and a couple of utility abilities that recharge on rests. Nothing in there doesn't work in Born from Ice. Where you'll hit the difference is in...

Part of the reason we chose to create this as a 5e project was compatibility with other products. While we have a vision for the core game, we love the idea of people doing mashups of Born from Ice and other 5e games!

With the complete revamp of the system, even the higher levels don't necessarily feel like superhero/mythic play. Removing magic, coupled with some of our revisions on how enemies work, changes the leveling experience of the game. That said, some of the power level is also worked into the...

If you pledge at the $1 tier, you can then put it in as an add-on.

We have a 50 page Quickstart Guide and a 34 page adventure you can try now to play for yourself! In playtesting, it has really changed the feel of the game. Without magic, everything feels more dangerous, and players definitely feel more vulnerable. Characters tend to play more tall than wide...

Thanks for the great write up, Egg!

Anecdotally, I have successfully backed 300 projects on Kickstarter. with my first pledge during Double Fine Adventure way back in 2012. Most of my pledges span video games (a lot of my early pledges), TTRPGs (the largest percentage), and board games. While there are quite a few that are still...