If you've been holding off backing Pets & Sidekicks, you have just one day to pull the trigger, as the Kickstarter campaign ends tomorrow. As always with EN Publishing Kickstarters, the digital rewards will go out as soon as the campaign ends (in other words, tomorrow) and the print run gets commissioned as soon as the Kickstarter funds clear and everybody has provided their shipping details in the pledge manager.
Pets & Sidekicks brings you rules for allies, adversaries, pets, and companions who can level up alongside your characters, along with a ton of player options and magic items to support characters who choose to adopt a pet. These rules are designed for D&D 5E, Level Up: Advanced 5E, and other 5E-derived games.
- Various types of companion, with rules on how to use them, how to lose them, abutton maker
- nd how they gain heroic levels.
- New Beast Friend background, 12 new feats like Bonded Companion, Expert Rider, and Ringleader, as well as a new combat tradition and 7 new character archetypes (subclasses) like the Sculptor, and the Cavalier.
- A catalog of pet tricks allows you to customize your companion. Pets can scout, track, herd, guard, and more.
- Heroic features like blindsight, fast movement, innate spellcasting, and tough hide, which can be chosen as a companion levels up.
- From various bardings and saddles, to carts, sleighs and sleds, there’s a wide array of equipment.
- A slew of over 45 new magical items— the collar of disguise, saddle of recall, awakening gem, and much more!
- Over 170 heroic companions, including animal companions like bears, dogs and cats, beetles, lizards, raptors, sharks, tigers, and spiders; monstrous companions (and foes) like dragons, flumphs, zombies, pseudodragons, spirits, and owlbears; plus allies (and villains) including adepts, bards, wizards, knights, goblin rogues, and kobold sorcerers!
- And so much more, including companion flaws and traits, downtime activities, and rules for loyalty and motivations.
