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<blockquote data-quote="Egg Embry" data-source="post: 7757751" data-attributes="member: 6808965"><p>Mike Myler is a staple of <strong>EN Publishing</strong>, writing for <strong><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/list.php?category/56-Mythological-Figures" target="_blank">EN World</a></strong>, editing for <strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/ensider/overview" target="_blank">EN5ider</a></strong>, and designing on <strong><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/242910/NOW-The-Modern-Action-Roleplaying-Game-v12" target="_blank">N.O.W.</a></strong> To add to that workload, he publishes a variety of RPG supplements, and has a <strong>Kickstarter</strong> funding a pair of eastern fantasy books for <strong>Dungeons & Dragons 5e</strong> and <strong>Shadow of the Demon Lord</strong>. Taking time from his busy schedule, Mike shared some thoughts on the <strong>Kickstarter*</strong>, the books, and how he became the first <strong>Shadow of the Demon Lord</strong> third-party licensor.[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK]</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]101239[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong> EGG EMBRY (EGG): Thank you for talking to me, it’s nice when the EN World family lifts up each’s work. To that end, tell us about your latest Kickstarter: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl" target="_blank">Eastern Fantasy Adventures for D&D 5e and Shadow of the Demon Lord</a>*.</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"> <strong>MIKE MYLER (MM)</strong>: Thank <em>you</em> for interviewing me! <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl" target="_blank">This project</a> is for funding 2 books for both of those RPGs. One is an adventure path that takes the party all over the continent of Soburin (<strong><em>Trade War</em></strong>; the <strong>5E</strong> version is <a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/B31LNl3ei1iH7szr14/giphy.gif" target="_blank">338 pages of proofed hardcover awesome</a>) and the other is an urban mega adventure (<strong><em>Imperial Matchmaker</em></strong>) that explores the imperial capital of Sanbaoshi.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]101240[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: This spins out of your most-backed Kickstarter, Mists of Akuma. How do these two new books you’re developing connect with it?</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"> <strong>MM</strong>: These are adventures set in the prefectures of Soburin which are themselves detailed in <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/193074/Mists-of-Akuma-Eastern-Fantasy-Noir-Steampunk-for-5E" target="_blank">the campaign setting book</a>. While having a copy of that (available cheap as a pledge reward) is definitely going to enhance your experience with either <strong><em>Trade War</em></strong> or <strong><em>Imperial Matchmaker</em></strong>, everything a GM needs is included with it—you don’t need the <strong><em><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4518/Storm-Bunny-Studios/subcategory/8690_27532/Mists-of-Akuma&affiliate_id=814082" target="_blank">Mists of Akuma</a></em></strong> setting book to use them. <strong><em>Imperial Matchmaker</em></strong> is specifically getting a whole lot of attention and we’re using the mega adventure as a space to really breathe life into the metropolis so ultimately it’ll be a sourcebook of sorts.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]101241[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: One of the systems for these books is Dungeons & Dragons 5e. You’ve done a stack of 5e books and you’ve edited even more for the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ensider/overview" target="_blank">EN5ider Patreon</a>. What do you feel is going to make this an exceptional set of 5e products?</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>MM</strong>: There’s nothing like <strong><em>Trade War</em></strong>. There are big adventure books for sure and adventure paths as well, but 90% of this book is me: writing, cartography, layout, art direction (sourcing and treating a bunch of ukiyo-e), graphics. It’s an auteur work of RPGs on a scale I don’t think exists elsewhere. There are lots of other cool reasons—the unique premise of <strong><em>Mists of Akuma</em></strong>, comprehensive eastern fantasy setting, pyrrhic victories, tsukumogami and other intelligent items—but you’re never going to find something this big this close to the source. For anybody worried that they’ve suffered from that solitary process: reviews for all of the individual adventure modules have been 5/5 stars. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong><em>Imperial Matchmaker</em></strong> is definitely not the first or only <strong><em>D&D 5E</em></strong> mega adventure set in a big bustling city. It is however the only one I know of in an eastern fantasy setting and it has another unique element: the iconics! Sadly they’re not a part of the <strong><em><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/8782/Schwalb-Entertainment&affiliate_id=814082" target="_blank">Shadow of the Demon Lord</a></em></strong> version but <strong>5E</strong> players can choose from these 8 pregenerated characters (<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16v37g8SVR8RdcyCOh4KXKXnl66wOavgp/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">free preview of them here!</a>) emblematic of the campaign setting to play through <strong><em>Imperial Matchmaker</em></strong>. Throughout the metropolis there are clues and encounters for a meaty sidequest for each of the iconics all woven into and around one another, or designed with cumulative triggers so that eventually even the plots the adventurers don’t run into (if they don’t stumble into the threads of another character’s sidequest while on their own) come and find them. For folks that want to make their own characters though each sidequest is adaptable enough that any GM should be able to bend the narrative into shape for an original PC. To put it more succinctly: <strong><em>Imperial Matchmaker</em></strong> has a very personal touch.</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: With the books available in 5e, you’d expect the additional systems you’d support would be for Pathfinder or OSR. Instead, you’re going with Robert J. Schwalb’s Shadow of the Demon Lord. This was not a part of the original Mists of Akuma Kickstarter, correct? Why add it now?</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong> MM</strong>: Correct. We started support for <strong><em>Shadow of the Demon Lord</em></strong> back in 2017 and after a lot of fiddling with print files finally got a proper hardcover together at the start of this year (originally <strong><em>Mists of Akuma</em></strong> was a grayscale book but to get consistent quality from the prints everything had to go color). I met Rob at my first <strong>Gen Con</strong> and we got along well, so when I was looking about for another project I emailed him and got to be the first licensor of his RPG system! What we <em>hadn’t</em> done was full support and up until now it was just the setting book that made the conversion leap. The third party market for <strong><em>Shadow of the Demon Lord</em></strong> is growing though and I didn’t want to abandon that so here we are.</p><p> </p><p><strong> EGG: There are differences in 5e and Shadow of the Demon Lord. Are there any story elements that you’re filling in for one system because it only exists in the other?</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>MM</strong>: There’s a much greater emphasis on unique character creation in <strong><em>Shadow of the Demon Lord</em></strong> so the iconics aren’t making the leap from <strong><em>D&D 5E</em></strong>, but otherwise I think that’s about it because on the whole the systems aren’t too dissimilar. For example, at the end of <strong><em>Trade War</em></strong> I’ve made an OGL friendly version of the <strong>5E</strong> mass combat rules and I’m relatively sure they won’t need to be altered very much at all to fit with <strong><em>Shadow of the Demon Lord</em></strong>. I’m certain there’ll be surprises here and there but I’m not seeing any yawning chasms between the two adventures aside from feats (which are treated as Ancestral Blessings in the <strong><em>Shadow of the Demon Lord</em></strong> version of <strong><em>Mists of Akuma</em></strong> and will play a big part at the end of its version of <strong><em>Imperial Matchmaker</em></strong>).</p><p></p><p><strong>EGG: Piggybacking on those questions, what prompted you to forego producing this for Pathfinder or an OSR?</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong> MM</strong>: I’m producing this at a time where it’s a little tough to muster support for the <strong><em>Pathfinder Roleplaying Game</em></strong> because folks are getting into the <strong><em>PF 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Edition</em> playtest</strong>, and even so, there are some content restrictions to be a <strong>Pathfinder</strong>-compatible publisher that disqualify <strong><em>Mists of Akuma</em></strong> (specifically the bit about harming children). Many folks have talked about how great the setting would be for <strong><em>Savage Worlds</em></strong> though and after another world of mine makes it over to the <strong><em>WOIN RPG</em></strong> I’ll look at porting <strong><em>Mists of Akuma</em></strong> over there.</p><p> </p><p><strong>EGG: You’ve done a number of Kickstarters, what is the most important lesson you’ve that you plan to apply to this campaign?</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong> MM</strong>: Don’t ask too much of folks when they first look at the <strong>Kickstarter</strong> page. Time is valuable and the more that people have to invest to understand what a project is about, the less likely they are to give it full consideration. While it might at first <em>sound</em> great to have 8 PDFs each with great cover art for every one of the iconics, in effect people are less likely to engage with it than, say, a 40 page PDF that has all of the iconics conveniently inside of it.</p><p> </p><p><strong> EGG: I’ve mentioned that you have done 5e books, can you share some of your accomplishments? Projects? Awards? Kickstarters that went well?</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong> MM</strong>: Yes! My most recent <strong>Kickstarter</strong> was for the decadently deliciously evil <strong><em><a href="http://www.makeyourgamelegendary.com/products-page/5th-edition/book-of-exalted-darkness-5e/" target="_blank">Book of Exalted Darkness</a></em></strong> (soon to be available for <strong><em>Shadow of the Demon Lord</em></strong> as well as <strong><em>D&D 5E</em></strong>), I won a <strong>Silver ENnie for Best Blog</strong> a few years ago, and this is my 8th crowdfunded project (itself a reboot of the 7th). In addition to being the editor for <strong><em>EN5ider</em></strong> I write the <strong><em><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/list.php?category/56-Mythological-Figures" target="_blank">Mythological Figures</a></em></strong> column that posts here on Mondays, and <a href="https://mikemyler.com/category/mortal-kombat-dd-5e/" target="_blank">my personal blog</a> has something special going on until this <strong>Kickstarter</strong> ends. I should probably mention designing <strong><em>N.O.W. The Modern Action Roleplaying Game</em></strong>.</p><p> </p><p><strong>EGG: I want to thank you for taking the time to discuss your <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a>. Where can fans of your work learn more about you, your upcoming work, the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/ensider/overview" target="_blank">EN5ider Patreon</a>, and <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl" target="_blank">Eastern Fantasy Adventures for D&D 5e and Shadow of the Demon Lord</a>?</strong></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong> MM</strong>: Thanks again for the interview! The <strong>Kickstarter</strong> page is a good spot to start with <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl" target="_blank">those freebie PDFs</a> but there’s also <a href="http://www.mikemyler.com" target="_blank">www.mikemyler.com</a>, I’m on <strong>Twitter</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeMyler2" target="_blank">@MikeMyler2</a>, and <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mike.myler.adventures" target="_blank">Facebook</a></strong> as well.</p><p> </p><p>* Writer’s note: Funding for <strong><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl" target="_blank">Eastern Fantasy Adventures for D&D 5e and Shadow of the Demon Lord</a></strong> ends at 11:59 PM EDT on Tuesday, September 18[SUP]th[/SUP], 2018.</p><p> </p><p><em>This article was contributed by </em><em><a href="http://tesseraguild.com/egg-embry/" target="_blank">Egg Embry</a></em><em> as part of EN World's Columnist (ENWC) program. Please note that Egg is a participant in the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to DriveThruRPG. We are always on the lookout for freelance columnists! If you have a pitch, </em><em><a href="http://www.enworld.org/ensider/columnists.html" target="_blank">please contact us</a></em><em>!</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Egg Embry, post: 7757751, member: 6808965"] Mike Myler is a staple of [B]EN Publishing[/B], writing for [B][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/list.php?category/56-Mythological-Figures"]EN World[/URL][/B], editing for [B][URL="https://www.patreon.com/ensider/overview"]EN5ider[/URL][/B], and designing on [B][URL="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/242910/NOW-The-Modern-Action-Roleplaying-Game-v12"]N.O.W.[/URL][/B] To add to that workload, he publishes a variety of RPG supplements, and has a [B]Kickstarter[/B] funding a pair of eastern fantasy books for [B]Dungeons & Dragons 5e[/B] and [B]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/B]. Taking time from his busy schedule, Mike shared some thoughts on the [B]Kickstarter*[/B], the books, and how he became the first [B]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/B] third-party licensor.[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] [CENTER][ATTACH=CONFIG]101239[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [B] EGG EMBRY (EGG): Thank you for talking to me, it’s nice when the EN World family lifts up each’s work. To that end, tell us about your latest Kickstarter: [URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl"]Eastern Fantasy Adventures for D&D 5e and Shadow of the Demon Lord[/URL]*.[/B] [INDENT] [B]MIKE MYLER (MM)[/B]: Thank [I]you[/I] for interviewing me! [URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl"]This project[/URL] is for funding 2 books for both of those RPGs. One is an adventure path that takes the party all over the continent of Soburin ([B][I]Trade War[/I][/B]; the [B]5E[/B] version is [URL="https://media.giphy.com/media/B31LNl3ei1iH7szr14/giphy.gif"]338 pages of proofed hardcover awesome[/URL]) and the other is an urban mega adventure ([B][I]Imperial Matchmaker[/I][/B]) that explores the imperial capital of Sanbaoshi.[/INDENT] [CENTER][ATTACH=CONFIG]101240[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [B]EGG: This spins out of your most-backed Kickstarter, Mists of Akuma. How do these two new books you’re developing connect with it?[/B] [INDENT] [B]MM[/B]: These are adventures set in the prefectures of Soburin which are themselves detailed in [URL="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/193074/Mists-of-Akuma-Eastern-Fantasy-Noir-Steampunk-for-5E"]the campaign setting book[/URL]. While having a copy of that (available cheap as a pledge reward) is definitely going to enhance your experience with either [B][I]Trade War[/I][/B] or [B][I]Imperial Matchmaker[/I][/B], everything a GM needs is included with it—you don’t need the [B][I][URL="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4518/Storm-Bunny-Studios/subcategory/8690_27532/Mists-of-Akuma&affiliate_id=814082"]Mists of Akuma[/URL][/I][/B] setting book to use them. [B][I]Imperial Matchmaker[/I][/B] is specifically getting a whole lot of attention and we’re using the mega adventure as a space to really breathe life into the metropolis so ultimately it’ll be a sourcebook of sorts.[/INDENT] [CENTER][ATTACH=CONFIG]101241[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [B]EGG: One of the systems for these books is Dungeons & Dragons 5e. You’ve done a stack of 5e books and you’ve edited even more for the [URL="https://www.patreon.com/ensider/overview"]EN5ider Patreon[/URL]. What do you feel is going to make this an exceptional set of 5e products?[/B] [INDENT][B]MM[/B]: There’s nothing like [B][I]Trade War[/I][/B]. There are big adventure books for sure and adventure paths as well, but 90% of this book is me: writing, cartography, layout, art direction (sourcing and treating a bunch of ukiyo-e), graphics. It’s an auteur work of RPGs on a scale I don’t think exists elsewhere. There are lots of other cool reasons—the unique premise of [B][I]Mists of Akuma[/I][/B], comprehensive eastern fantasy setting, pyrrhic victories, tsukumogami and other intelligent items—but you’re never going to find something this big this close to the source. For anybody worried that they’ve suffered from that solitary process: reviews for all of the individual adventure modules have been 5/5 stars. ;) [B][I]Imperial Matchmaker[/I][/B] is definitely not the first or only [B][I]D&D 5E[/I][/B] mega adventure set in a big bustling city. It is however the only one I know of in an eastern fantasy setting and it has another unique element: the iconics! Sadly they’re not a part of the [B][I][URL="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/8782/Schwalb-Entertainment&affiliate_id=814082"]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/URL][/I][/B] version but [B]5E[/B] players can choose from these 8 pregenerated characters ([URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16v37g8SVR8RdcyCOh4KXKXnl66wOavgp/view?usp=sharing"]free preview of them here![/URL]) emblematic of the campaign setting to play through [B][I]Imperial Matchmaker[/I][/B]. Throughout the metropolis there are clues and encounters for a meaty sidequest for each of the iconics all woven into and around one another, or designed with cumulative triggers so that eventually even the plots the adventurers don’t run into (if they don’t stumble into the threads of another character’s sidequest while on their own) come and find them. For folks that want to make their own characters though each sidequest is adaptable enough that any GM should be able to bend the narrative into shape for an original PC. To put it more succinctly: [B][I]Imperial Matchmaker[/I][/B] has a very personal touch.[/INDENT] [B]EGG: With the books available in 5e, you’d expect the additional systems you’d support would be for Pathfinder or OSR. Instead, you’re going with Robert J. Schwalb’s Shadow of the Demon Lord. This was not a part of the original Mists of Akuma Kickstarter, correct? Why add it now?[/B] [INDENT][B] MM[/B]: Correct. We started support for [B][I]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/I][/B] back in 2017 and after a lot of fiddling with print files finally got a proper hardcover together at the start of this year (originally [B][I]Mists of Akuma[/I][/B] was a grayscale book but to get consistent quality from the prints everything had to go color). I met Rob at my first [B]Gen Con[/B] and we got along well, so when I was looking about for another project I emailed him and got to be the first licensor of his RPG system! What we [I]hadn’t[/I] done was full support and up until now it was just the setting book that made the conversion leap. The third party market for [B][I]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/I][/B] is growing though and I didn’t want to abandon that so here we are.[/INDENT] [B] EGG: There are differences in 5e and Shadow of the Demon Lord. Are there any story elements that you’re filling in for one system because it only exists in the other?[/B] [INDENT][B]MM[/B]: There’s a much greater emphasis on unique character creation in [B][I]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/I][/B] so the iconics aren’t making the leap from [B][I]D&D 5E[/I][/B], but otherwise I think that’s about it because on the whole the systems aren’t too dissimilar. For example, at the end of [B][I]Trade War[/I][/B] I’ve made an OGL friendly version of the [B]5E[/B] mass combat rules and I’m relatively sure they won’t need to be altered very much at all to fit with [B][I]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/I][/B]. I’m certain there’ll be surprises here and there but I’m not seeing any yawning chasms between the two adventures aside from feats (which are treated as Ancestral Blessings in the [B][I]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/I][/B] version of [B][I]Mists of Akuma[/I][/B] and will play a big part at the end of its version of [B][I]Imperial Matchmaker[/I][/B]).[/INDENT] [B]EGG: Piggybacking on those questions, what prompted you to forego producing this for Pathfinder or an OSR?[/B] [INDENT][B] MM[/B]: I’m producing this at a time where it’s a little tough to muster support for the [B][I]Pathfinder Roleplaying Game[/I][/B] because folks are getting into the [B][I]PF 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Edition[/I] playtest[/B], and even so, there are some content restrictions to be a [B]Pathfinder[/B]-compatible publisher that disqualify [B][I]Mists of Akuma[/I][/B] (specifically the bit about harming children). Many folks have talked about how great the setting would be for [B][I]Savage Worlds[/I][/B] though and after another world of mine makes it over to the [B][I]WOIN RPG[/I][/B] I’ll look at porting [B][I]Mists of Akuma[/I][/B] over there.[/INDENT] [B]EGG: You’ve done a number of Kickstarters, what is the most important lesson you’ve that you plan to apply to this campaign?[/B] [INDENT][B] MM[/B]: Don’t ask too much of folks when they first look at the [B]Kickstarter[/B] page. Time is valuable and the more that people have to invest to understand what a project is about, the less likely they are to give it full consideration. While it might at first [I]sound[/I] great to have 8 PDFs each with great cover art for every one of the iconics, in effect people are less likely to engage with it than, say, a 40 page PDF that has all of the iconics conveniently inside of it.[/INDENT] [B] EGG: I’ve mentioned that you have done 5e books, can you share some of your accomplishments? Projects? Awards? Kickstarters that went well?[/B] [INDENT][B] MM[/B]: Yes! My most recent [B]Kickstarter[/B] was for the decadently deliciously evil [B][I][URL="http://www.makeyourgamelegendary.com/products-page/5th-edition/book-of-exalted-darkness-5e/"]Book of Exalted Darkness[/URL][/I][/B] (soon to be available for [B][I]Shadow of the Demon Lord[/I][/B] as well as [B][I]D&D 5E[/I][/B]), I won a [B]Silver ENnie for Best Blog[/B] a few years ago, and this is my 8th crowdfunded project (itself a reboot of the 7th). In addition to being the editor for [B][I]EN5ider[/I][/B] I write the [B][I][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/list.php?category/56-Mythological-Figures"]Mythological Figures[/URL][/I][/B] column that posts here on Mondays, and [URL="https://mikemyler.com/category/mortal-kombat-dd-5e/"]my personal blog[/URL] has something special going on until this [B]Kickstarter[/B] ends. I should probably mention designing [B][I]N.O.W. The Modern Action Roleplaying Game[/I][/B].[/INDENT] [B]EGG: I want to thank you for taking the time to discuss your [URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl"]Kickstarter[/URL]. Where can fans of your work learn more about you, your upcoming work, the [URL="https://www.patreon.com/ensider/overview"]EN5ider Patreon[/URL], and [URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl"]Eastern Fantasy Adventures for D&D 5e and Shadow of the Demon Lord[/URL]?[/B] [INDENT][B] MM[/B]: Thanks again for the interview! The [B]Kickstarter[/B] page is a good spot to start with [URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl"]those freebie PDFs[/URL] but there’s also [URL="http://www.mikemyler.com"]www.mikemyler.com[/URL], I’m on [B]Twitter[/B] [URL="https://twitter.com/MikeMyler2"]@MikeMyler2[/URL], and [B][URL="https://www.facebook.com/mike.myler.adventures"]Facebook[/URL][/B] as well.[/INDENT] * Writer’s note: Funding for [B][URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/eastern-fantasy-adventures-for-dandd-5e-and-sotdl"]Eastern Fantasy Adventures for D&D 5e and Shadow of the Demon Lord[/URL][/B] ends at 11:59 PM EDT on Tuesday, September 18[SUP]th[/SUP], 2018. [I]This article was contributed by [/I][I][URL="http://tesseraguild.com/egg-embry/"]Egg Embry[/URL][/I][I] as part of EN World's Columnist (ENWC) program. Please note that Egg is a participant in the OneBookShelf Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to DriveThruRPG. We are always on the lookout for freelance columnists! If you have a pitch, [/I][I][URL="http://www.enworld.org/ensider/columnists.html"]please contact us[/URL][/I][I]![/I] [/QUOTE]
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