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Era: The Consortium: The Kickstarter
The Game
Era: The Consortium is the story of a Colony Ship launched from Earth and the habitable world it discovers, Taranis. The game follows the inhabitants of Taranis as they create a society, encounter alien races and explore the space nearby.
The game allows the GM and players to choose where to begin playing - at any point during the 500 years of history. You can be the first scouts to explore new planets and areas of space, experience the wonder of discovering new alien races, command a ship in wars spanning entire solar systems, and join a Resistance movement against the government to save or destroy billions of lives.
The Rules
The Era d10 ruleset is designed to allow you to experience this universe in a way that is as unobtrusive as possible without being misrepresentative. By choosing your skills carefully, your character can dominate in any of 5 forms of combat, talk their way out of any situation or protect their teammates from harm.
The Book
We are offering you not one, but two books! The Rulebook Primer and the Full Rulebook are done and ready to go! All that's waiting... is you! We've been very lucky to find a group of talented people who are willing to work so hard on this project. Over the last 2 years, we've put over $30,000 and thousands of hours into this book to bring you the very best experience that we could produce, as a team.
A word about shipping. We have made the choice to offer free shipping to people in the US, UK and Canada. As a result, the reward tiers may be slightly repetitive (and even a little confusing). We apologise - Kickstarter doesn't support shipping to multiple specific countries for free, and they told us this structure was the only way to do this.
Rulebook Primer (Travel Through Time / Light Armour)
The Rulebook Primer is a 40-page book that provides everything that you need to play the game, given created characters and sessions. Each edition of the Primer sold in this Kickstarter includes a single session from our Patreon campaign. More sessions can be found there, and we'll continue the monthly sessions as long as people want them!
The Full Rulebook (Senate Seat / Medium Armour)
The book, 300 pages long, contains everything you need to run hundreds of games of Era: The Consortium: the full story, collected summaries of the information about important factions and places, Character creation and examples, equipment lists with first available dates, the full rule set with examples and GM material including sample sessions. The Full Rulebook is also available in hardcover (Heavy Armour).
Artwork
The Comic
You might think, "You are producing a roleplaying game, why are you making a comic?". The reason is that the Universe is so huge, with so much story and so much potential, we can't fit it all in a 300 page rulebook (not that we haven't tried!).
So, yes, we are producing a comic that accompanies the rulebook. This comic describes the Resistance's greatest heroes, explaining how and why they reached the situation they did on the front cover of the book.
Our Goal
For people who know me, it is no surprise that I am producing a roleplaying game - I have been designing games as a hobby for over 20 years and running games for nearly as long. Since deciding to move ahead with a real project, I have met some amazing people who saw the potential of this game and have given 110% to make sure that Era: The Consortium becomes everything it can be. When we are funded, this will give us the money we need for a minimum print run of this book in the UK, US and Canada, bringing the game out to the players in the way we had always hoped and putting it on store shelves.
We intend to release the book and comic on the Kindle store and send out PDFs as well as physical copies.
Stretch Goals
$1000 Funded!$1500 Mobile Character Creation Application - iOS and Android - to assist with character creation. It will keep you to the rules for creation and provide you with all the choices you would get from the rulebook. You will even be able to export characters as printable character sheets! This will be included with all digital and physical copies of the full Rulebook (DRAFT CHARTER - $45 - and up!)
$2000 Comic - We'll provide digital copies of our unreleased second comic "Counting Down From One", upon its completion, to everyone who has pledged $5 or more! Not only that, those people who until now had not been getting the Last Stand of Stiletto Unit comic will now receive a digital copy!
$3000 Digital Copy - Everyone who ordered a physical copy of a book gets a digital copy as well!
$3500 Extra Booklet "The Secret War" for those with the Full Rulebook - (Digital for those with Digital orders and Print for those with Print orders) - describing the activities of the espionage forces within the Consortium, their modus operandi and the equipment they use, making them playable in Era: The Consortium.
$4000 Mobile Character Creation Application Expansion - We'll provide the ability to store characters and then retrieve them in a combat screen with the correct amount of health and the ability to order them for Initiative. This provides a GM with the ability to create NPCs ahead of time and retrieve them and their skills with dropdowns that give you the number of dice to roll for combat!
$5000 Extra Booklet "Equipment - an RTFM guide to the Consortium" for those with the Full Rulebook (Digital for those with Digital orders and Print for those with Print orders) - Adding a little more equipment, the things you guys want to see, which includes next-generation weapons like Plasma Cannons and Laser Sniper Rifles!
$6000 Extra Booklet "The Fifth Race" for those with the Full Rulebook - Events from the year 451: A crash landing on Lugus by an unknown alien ship and the emergence of a fifth playable race with surprising levels of insight into Consortium society.
$7000 Hardcover Print for all rulebooks books above the $60 tier (CONSORTIUM CHARTER).
And many more!
NOTES:
The game itself is more or less complete at this point. And the books are actually at the same level of completeness. At this point, we are in the last stages of playtesting those last little hick-ups out of it. The kickstarter goes live in a few days time.
The kickstarter can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/redirect.php?num=SoVKick
The official website can be found here: http://eratheconsortium.shadesofvengeance.com/
If anybody happens to be in London for MCM Comicon in a few weeks, we'll be playtesting it there for the public, but if not, which seems to be more likely, the guys over at Dice and Stuff are running a playthrough right now: http://www.diceandstuff.com/category/podcasts/
The Game
Era: The Consortium is the story of a Colony Ship launched from Earth and the habitable world it discovers, Taranis. The game follows the inhabitants of Taranis as they create a society, encounter alien races and explore the space nearby.
The game allows the GM and players to choose where to begin playing - at any point during the 500 years of history. You can be the first scouts to explore new planets and areas of space, experience the wonder of discovering new alien races, command a ship in wars spanning entire solar systems, and join a Resistance movement against the government to save or destroy billions of lives.
The Rules
The Era d10 ruleset is designed to allow you to experience this universe in a way that is as unobtrusive as possible without being misrepresentative. By choosing your skills carefully, your character can dominate in any of 5 forms of combat, talk their way out of any situation or protect their teammates from harm.
The Book
We are offering you not one, but two books! The Rulebook Primer and the Full Rulebook are done and ready to go! All that's waiting... is you! We've been very lucky to find a group of talented people who are willing to work so hard on this project. Over the last 2 years, we've put over $30,000 and thousands of hours into this book to bring you the very best experience that we could produce, as a team.
A word about shipping. We have made the choice to offer free shipping to people in the US, UK and Canada. As a result, the reward tiers may be slightly repetitive (and even a little confusing). We apologise - Kickstarter doesn't support shipping to multiple specific countries for free, and they told us this structure was the only way to do this.
Rulebook Primer (Travel Through Time / Light Armour)
The Rulebook Primer is a 40-page book that provides everything that you need to play the game, given created characters and sessions. Each edition of the Primer sold in this Kickstarter includes a single session from our Patreon campaign. More sessions can be found there, and we'll continue the monthly sessions as long as people want them!
The Full Rulebook (Senate Seat / Medium Armour)
The book, 300 pages long, contains everything you need to run hundreds of games of Era: The Consortium: the full story, collected summaries of the information about important factions and places, Character creation and examples, equipment lists with first available dates, the full rule set with examples and GM material including sample sessions. The Full Rulebook is also available in hardcover (Heavy Armour).
Artwork
The Comic
You might think, "You are producing a roleplaying game, why are you making a comic?". The reason is that the Universe is so huge, with so much story and so much potential, we can't fit it all in a 300 page rulebook (not that we haven't tried!).
So, yes, we are producing a comic that accompanies the rulebook. This comic describes the Resistance's greatest heroes, explaining how and why they reached the situation they did on the front cover of the book.
Our Goal
For people who know me, it is no surprise that I am producing a roleplaying game - I have been designing games as a hobby for over 20 years and running games for nearly as long. Since deciding to move ahead with a real project, I have met some amazing people who saw the potential of this game and have given 110% to make sure that Era: The Consortium becomes everything it can be. When we are funded, this will give us the money we need for a minimum print run of this book in the UK, US and Canada, bringing the game out to the players in the way we had always hoped and putting it on store shelves.
We intend to release the book and comic on the Kindle store and send out PDFs as well as physical copies.
Stretch Goals
$1000 Funded!$1500 Mobile Character Creation Application - iOS and Android - to assist with character creation. It will keep you to the rules for creation and provide you with all the choices you would get from the rulebook. You will even be able to export characters as printable character sheets! This will be included with all digital and physical copies of the full Rulebook (DRAFT CHARTER - $45 - and up!)
$2000 Comic - We'll provide digital copies of our unreleased second comic "Counting Down From One", upon its completion, to everyone who has pledged $5 or more! Not only that, those people who until now had not been getting the Last Stand of Stiletto Unit comic will now receive a digital copy!
$3000 Digital Copy - Everyone who ordered a physical copy of a book gets a digital copy as well!
$3500 Extra Booklet "The Secret War" for those with the Full Rulebook - (Digital for those with Digital orders and Print for those with Print orders) - describing the activities of the espionage forces within the Consortium, their modus operandi and the equipment they use, making them playable in Era: The Consortium.
$4000 Mobile Character Creation Application Expansion - We'll provide the ability to store characters and then retrieve them in a combat screen with the correct amount of health and the ability to order them for Initiative. This provides a GM with the ability to create NPCs ahead of time and retrieve them and their skills with dropdowns that give you the number of dice to roll for combat!
$5000 Extra Booklet "Equipment - an RTFM guide to the Consortium" for those with the Full Rulebook (Digital for those with Digital orders and Print for those with Print orders) - Adding a little more equipment, the things you guys want to see, which includes next-generation weapons like Plasma Cannons and Laser Sniper Rifles!
$6000 Extra Booklet "The Fifth Race" for those with the Full Rulebook - Events from the year 451: A crash landing on Lugus by an unknown alien ship and the emergence of a fifth playable race with surprising levels of insight into Consortium society.
$7000 Hardcover Print for all rulebooks books above the $60 tier (CONSORTIUM CHARTER).
And many more!
NOTES:
The game itself is more or less complete at this point. And the books are actually at the same level of completeness. At this point, we are in the last stages of playtesting those last little hick-ups out of it. The kickstarter goes live in a few days time.
The kickstarter can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/redirect.php?num=SoVKick
The official website can be found here: http://eratheconsortium.shadesofvengeance.com/
If anybody happens to be in London for MCM Comicon in a few weeks, we'll be playtesting it there for the public, but if not, which seems to be more likely, the guys over at Dice and Stuff are running a playthrough right now: http://www.diceandstuff.com/category/podcasts/
