3PP Release 3PP: Stranger Sights, on Kickstarter now!

[DM Sarah]

Hello hello! Over the summer, I've been working on a collection of 40 exploration challenges, each with an associated monster and micro-setting, and they released on Kickstarter today! Stranger Sights is 5e and a5e compatible and is designed to make your game easier to run than ever.

What's in the volume:

• 40 exploration challenges, one for almost every CR (1/8-20)
• 40 mini-settings to drop into your existing world or campaign, some with bonus settings
• a LOT of monsters (CRs 1/2-29) - one creature for each exploration challenge, but some of them, like jotuns, elder hags, and sea dragons, are multiple stat blocks per entry
• Appendices for converting between a5e and o5e
• Brand new boons and discoveries tables

The exploration challenges, settings, and monsters all connect thematically. For example, the aforementioned jotuns are paired with a Giantish Causeway setting that describes the ruins of an ancient giant city and an Oversized Terrain exploration challenge. This allows a busy Narrator to select a setting and run a short session from one or two pages. However, you can of course use just one aspect or mix and match! Maybe your party got shrunk by a fey enchanter and you need to describe how they navigate a world that's too big for them.

This book is still in the process of being laid out (hey, it's day 1 of the Kickstarter) but it's going to be around 80 pages, making it an excellent value - and if we hit $1600, we'll be able to bring it to your Foundry VTT as well. I'd love to answer your questions about it, and if you're interested in backing, you can learn more here!

 

[Mike Myler]

Backed! Sarah did great work on the Level Up core books (if you like the equipment chapter or exploration rules she's due some of your gratitude ) and I expect great things from her in this Kickstarter.

 

[jphinney]

Backed!

 

[This Effin’ GM]

BACKED

 

[DM Sarah]

Quick update: our first stretch goal, Foundry support, is live as an add-on!

 

[lycanthropejeff]

Backed! Looks great! @DM Sarah, Holler if you ever need a gnome consultant for a collaboration project!

 

[Steampunkette]

Backed it, yesterday, but couldn't find this thread 'til today.

I've had the pleasure of talking to DM Sarah on Discord, now and again. I've had the joy of watching Star Crossed Seaways and flinging comments from the peanut gallery.

I'm gonna read this cover to cover in the first hour it's in my hands.

 

[DM Sarah]

Backed! Looks great! @DM Sarah, Holler if you ever need a gnome consultant for a collaboration project!

I love this. What is a gnome consultant? Are you yourself a gnome or are you consulting on gnomes specifically?

And thanks for backing!!

 

[Xaielao]

Wow so glad I didn't miss this, insta-backed. I adore a5e's exploration system, so more of that + new monsters = everything I want as a GM.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Backed! Very much looking forward to this. Exploration Challenges are a big part of what interested me in Level Up.

 

[lycanthropejeff]

I love this. What is a gnome consultant? Are you yourself a gnome or are you consulting on gnomes specifically?

And thanks for backing!!

A little of the former and a lot of the latter! Looking forward to the content.

 

[timespike]

Backed! (In the first few hours, but I'm slow to this thread.) Sarah's good people and does fantastic work. She's done all the layout for the MoAR and Thematic Toolkit lines I publish and she breathed some much needed life into weapons and armor in the AG. I can't wait to see what she does with this project!

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Whew, lucky I saw this, reminder set, will back at end if funds allow!

 

[DM Sarah]

Just in case anyone missed it - we hit $3k a few days back, which means we have limited community copies available at a discount, no questions asked. Each person who buys a full-price copy unlocks a community copy for someone who needs it!

 

[W'rkncacnter]

ah, what the hell, why not?

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Just in case anyone missed it - we hit $3k a few days back, which means we have limited community copies available at a discount, no questions asked. Each person who buys a full-price copy unlocks a community copy for someone who needs it!

This is one of the most awesome things I have ever seen.

We have just had a few emergencies that killed our entire reserves, so any gaming purchase comes out of grocery money. I'm in for this.

 

[DM Sarah]

This is one of the most awesome things I have ever seen.

We have just had a few emergencies that killed our entire reserves, so any gaming purchase comes out of grocery money. I'm in for this.

It's something I've seen others do on places like itch.io and I really like it! Especially now, between COVID, inflation, general life crises, I want to try and build in ways to look out for folks.

 

[DM Sarah]

Four days left!! We just hit our last pre-planned stretch goal, but I've added in a bonus one: a guidebook to the monsters as a Kickstarter exclusive, free to all backers. We only hit that if we hit $10k, a lofty goal - but a possibly achievable one?

 

[evildmguy]

Backed

 

[ElliottBalding]

Gutted I missed this one! When and where do you plan on selling them outside of KS?