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Premium handouts (act one) now available

At RPGNow: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/139769/ZEITGEIST-The-Gears-of-Revolution-Premium-Handouts-Act-One

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For GMs of the ZEITGEIST adventure path, these premium handouts contain letters, mission briefings, clues, and commonly-referenced details of NPCs, locations, and ships the party will encounter during the campaign. Every time an adventure includes a prop for the PCs, this pack will include it.

This pack contains 17 full-color, two-sided handouts. Print them out yourself or order the sturdy cardstock versions. The card set is useful for both Pathfinder and D&D 4E games, and when they mention game mechanics, alternate stats are presented on each side of the handout.



If you already have the Act One compilation, 90% of the pack is just reformatted versions of material already in the adventures. For instance, during the Kaybeau Arms Fair in adventure three, it'd be nice to have a handy reference for the players as they navigate the place. But the adventure has secret information on the same page as stuff that is public knowledge, so we made a handout that doesn't have any spoilers.

The pack also includes 8 x 10 sized versions of the Lanjyr continental and the Risur national map, stats of ships of the RHC, a map of the RHC headquarters, dramatis personae of who the PCs should know at the start of the campaign, and then a variety of stuff they'll discover along the way.

There's also one bit that we didn't come up with until the hardcover had already gone to print: secrets of the Vekeshi Mystics. I could say "Buy the handouts to learn the secrets," but you know your players like cool props, so you'll buy them anyway. For reference, though, here's that two-page handout. Players should not read this unless you're playing a Vekeshi Mystic.

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I've ordered a proof. Once I find out how they've turned out, I'll send out print copies to our Kickstarter backers who ordered one.

Next up, adventure nine, The Last Starry Sky!
 

Checked them the minute I got e-mail notification. And man, are they beautiful!

EDIT: I particularly love high-resolution map of Lanjyr, printing this the first moment I can, and Vekeshi Mystics info is just in time for my player's big promotion. Although I'm still going to modify Coaltongue for "One big gun" rules from Admiral O'High Seas...

EDIT2: honestly, the more I follow these forums, the more I feel like I grossly underpaid you with a single subscription on RPGnow giving so much content. We've been playing Zeitgeist since the start of this year, I think, and will be likely playing it for a year more, and that's if we don't decide to delude it with side-quests...
 
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I wish RPGNow would get its poster printing system set up. I've talked with a friend who works there, and I guess it's more of a hassle than printing books, which tend to all be the same size. I have a ~20-inch poster map of Lanjyr, and I love it. It would be a great way for us to offer high-end props, and maybe even bundle the Lanjyr and Flint maps into a boxed set some day. Which would sure as hell cost more than the $40 I paid for my first D&D boxed set back in 1995.

Plus, we've got a ton of ship maps from Admiral o' the High Seas that I imagine would sell well.

I certainly don't have any problems with people who purchased the Zeitgeist subscription early on, because it helped us fund the early adventures. That said, [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION], maybe we should raise the subscription price to $120 (then, muahaha, have a "sale" for $60 right before Christmas).
 


One awesome thing is that DTRPG/RPGNow now allow for print bundles, allowing us to create "boxed sets" (minus the actual box). For example, I'm working on a ZEITGEIST Starter Set, which is the first adventure and the two guides:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/139321/ZEITGEIST-Starter-Set-BUNDLE

Sadly, it can only bundle books so far. Not cards. So I can't include the NPC face cards or handout sets like this. I really hope to be able to do so one day.

One way around that, I guess, is to create handout books designed for folks to cut to pieces with a pair of scissors. Is that something that would appeal, perhaps? That way the cards and handouts can be included in physical bundles. A starter set bundle, the Act 1 bundle, etc.

How amazing would it be if the below also contained face cards and premium handouts? And was in a box?

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This is what a deluxe starter set, with three books, the handouts, and cards could look like. If RPGNow gets that working, this would be a wonderful thing to offer.

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It only just now occurred to me that the player handout continent map probably shouldn't have Axis Island labeled. It's kind of a tipoff that it's more important than just another Yerasol island, even factoring in that it's the main site of the first adventure.

Does the island-continent that Ber and Risur occupy have a separate name, or does local usage consider it to be part of Lanjyr?
 

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