D&D 5E Richard Pett/Frog God Games Huge Twisted City And AP The Blight Kickstarter—65 Hours until the End!

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Richard Pett/Frog God Games Huge Twisted City And AP The Blight Kickstarter—65 Hours until the End!

The kick-starter for Richard Pett's huge twisted evil (with a veneer of civility) city, The Blight, campaign setting and combined adventure path is less than 3 days from finishing.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/the-lost-lands-the-blight-richard-petts-crooked-ci

It has already funded (85k currently) and is into strech goals. It's for 5e, Pathfinder and Swords and Wizardry. The main book and all add-ons are available as 5e PDFs but if they get another 15k then they will also be available in print (950 page hard-cover main book, softcover addon modules etc). Considering it's already at 85, and kickstarters usually get a big bump in the last day or two it seems very likely that I'll get my 5e Hard-Cover too

It's a wonderfully twisted and dark setting. I can't do it justice so if you're interested then check out Richard's updates on the kickstarter link. Here's a section of one of them where he talks about 'The Sinks' locale in the massive city.

“Decay. The whole pace reeks of it, from the stinking stagnant canals crossed by the broken skeletons of rusting bridges to the sagging moss-suffocated walls of buildings falling one into the other. One day soon the whole place is going to topple one to another to another and the marsh will reclaim her; reassert her right to be seen and to rule this sodden corner of the city once more.Nature is slowly winning this war; the gardens are choked with weed and briars, the streets are awash with the stench of urine and effluent and poison. To walk the streets of the Sinks is to enter a world of stinking twilight, where daylight is rarely but a distant glimpse; a glint upon a chimney, a flare from a passing gutter gargoyle high above on the rooftops.
This corner of Castorhage has become home to those who fester in decay; the true rulers of this place thrive on such endless death. The unseen leaders of the district come abroad at night and dwell in a sick image of the Capitol, a decadent despairing dance of excess. The aristocrats who come here are exiles; the misfits, the demented, the disgusting, cast out of the Capitol but above the call of the executioner; royals do not kill royals, at least publicly. So they cast them here to rot. Some live out lives of facile normalcy; a veneer of life beyond the damp decay; others embrace the macabre joy that comes from living in such a place and with such company.

It's a Frog God Games project and they've a peerless track-record of delivering these massive books via kick-starter. It's the first really huge campaign setting they've done for Fifth edition, but they have already done a smaller (but still big) sandbox campaign setting (The Borderland Provinces), 3 hard-back volumes of 5e quests, a bestiary (Fifth Edition Foes), spell books and probably some other stuff I can't think of for 5e. They've done this all before many times for Pathfinder and S&W. At least 1 of the Frogs has 5e as his primary system (I think 2 do, but I can only remember Chris now who definitely does. Maybe Shadow Demon also?)

This is the sort of stuff that you're unlikely to get from WotC as it's so dark and its lack of generic fantasy-ness means that it won't probably won't appeal to quite as wide a base as Forgotten Realms. If it does appeal to you though, it's going to appeal a whole lot more due to its uniqueness. You can probably tell that I love their stuff, and I'm really excited to see them becoming more and more invested in 5e