D&D 5E The 600-page Aegis of Empires Adventure Path Kickstarter - 300% funded and FREE bonus adventures!

[LegendaryGames]

Now two weeks into our Aegis of Empires Kickstarter for D&D 5E (with alternate versions also available for Pathfinder RPG (1st Ed), and Pathfinder Second Edition), we are excited to report that we are over 300% funded and knocked down on our TENTH stretch goal already and we're not quite halfway done! This continent-spanning adventure saga set in the epic Lost Lands Campaign Setting takes your heroes from haunted houses to mountaintop monasteries, through city sewers and across vast empty lands and ruined palaces to uncover an awful secret that could shatter kingdoms! All from the awesome all-star team of Alistair J. Rigg, Jeff Swank, Matt Goodall, Steve Helt, Tom Knauss, Anthony Pryor, and Greg Vaughan, veterans of legendary mega-adventures past from Slumbering Tsar and The Blight to Skull and Shackles and Reign of Winter!

Our second wave of new stretch goal art orders has gone out to make this adventure saga even more beautiful and fantastic, and now we're adding FREE BONUS ADVENTURES to all backers for the AP! Back for 5E, get a bonus 5E adventure; back for PF1 or PF2, get an adventure for that system! Back for more than one system, get free bonus adventures for each system! If you love high adventure in a rough-and-tumble world of high intrigue, wilderness exploration, requiring dungeon crashing and monster bashing but also a heaping helping of clever play to uncover secret societies, ancient menaces rising in the far places of the world, and so much more! Jump on board and share with your friends the link for this 600-page mega-adventure for 5E or even get it for more than one system!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendarygames/aegis-of-empires-adventure-path-for-5e-pathfinder-2e-pfrpg?ref=8fpd01

 

[LegendaryGames]

The Aegis of Empires Adventure Path Kickstarter is now just past the halfway mark, with two weeks left to go, and over 300% funded with ELEVEN STRETCH GOALS DOWN, with five new ones revealed!

Next up at $34,000 - 200+ pages of Maps (keyed and player-friendly versions) and art collected up into a full series of PDF Art and Map Folios for all adventures!

Plus brand-new interior art coming online!

And ANOTHER FREE bonus adventure for everybody at $40,000 with the chilling wilderness adventure into the savage frontier, Cold Mountain by Jason Nelson! Get it for every system you back - 5E, Pathfinder RPG, or Pathfinder Second Edition!

Check it all out and get 600+ pages of amazing fantasy-horror adventure in the rich and lavishly detailed and illustrated Lost Lands campaign setting for your favorite system (or get more than one system to please your gaming palate)!

It all ends June 5th! Join the adventure today!

 

[Retreater]

As a long time fan of Frog God Games and Necromancer Games, I'm really excited about this. I actually just came across it this morning and it looks pretty awesome. I just can't decide between 5e and PF2 (I know getting both is an option that I'm considering.)

One thing I didn't notice on the Kickstarter Page is if there's a timeline for the release of PDF and print. Also would all the editions release at the same time (for example, will PF2 release after PF1)?

Also, are there any plans for VTT integration?

 

[LegendaryGames]

As a long time fan of Frog God Games and Necromancer Games, I'm really excited about this. I actually just came across it this morning and it looks pretty awesome. I just can't decide between 5e and PF2 (I know getting both is an option that I'm considering.)

One thing I didn't notice on the Kickstarter Page is if there's a timeline for the release of PDF and print. Also would all the editions release at the same time (for example, will PF2 release after PF1)?

Also, are there any plans for VTT integration?

Thanks for checking in, and by all means spread the word to fellow fans of the Frogs and the classic Necromancer Games line!

Answers below!
1. Getting both is definitely an option, and you can order a second version (PDF or print/PDF bundle) at a discount as part of the Kickstarter (which also gets you all of the unlocked free bonus adventures in both versions).

2. It generally takes about 3-4 weeks for all the administrative stuff to get sorted out once a Kickstarter finishes. We'll be sending out surveys through Backerkit for people who want to add extra stuff there, get us their shipping info for print, and so on. Once that's nailed down, we'll start rolling out releases starting in July with the Player's Guide and the first adventure. I expect we'll roll out probably 2 adventures a month, and backers for the compilation will get each individual adventure in PDF as it releases. We'll be re-editing and finalizing the compilation version while that rollout is ongoing, and as soon as it's ready it'll go out to backers as well. If we end up doing any overseas print runs, that has its own scheduling requirements, but if we end up fulfilling via print-on-demand those books will start going out as soon as the final PDFs are ready.

3. For VTTs, providing the higher-res standalone player-friendly map files and art files in the Art and Map Folios (our next stretch goal) is one way to make them much easier to use. In addition, we do have an upcoming stretch goal to create digital tokens for use with VTTs, and another to create Fantasy Grounds files. It won't be part of the Kickstarter, as we've found VTT conversions can be very unpredictable in terms of how long they take, and we don't want to offer something we can't directly control in terms of timing. Looking at how this Kickstarter is going, though, we should easily make that goal and I look forward to providing FG support. We'd like to offer Roll20 as well, but they've been much slower to get things onboarded.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Can I ask what games system was the AP originally written in? @LegendaryGames

Thanks

 

[LegendaryGames]

Can I ask what games system was the AP originally written in? @LegendaryGames

Thanks

Sure. The first drafts of the adventures were done for the 1st Edition of the Pathfinder RPG. We then took those drafts and sent them out to our experienced 5E rules team (and to our Pathfinder Second Edition team, for the adventures in that system) and each adventure was extensively edited and revised, not just converting stat blocks but also content and flow, to conform to design and play expectations for each system in particular. That's the key thing when creating a multi-system project: Making sure that what you create makes sense and feels right in the "destination" system. That's 100 times more important than trying to maintain some absolute one-to-one correspondence. We've got a lot of experience doing just that, with over 100 5E products already under our belts, including both 5E-native projects and prior conversion projects over the past six years, and we think you'll be very pleased with the results!

 

[mach1.9pants]

Yeah, I ask because I am just deciding what version to buy. I'm a long term LG fan, I think I'll go for PF2, and add 5e on. $30 shipping to NZ is unprecedented, well done!

 

[mach1.9pants]

Actually the FAQ says shipping in backerkit, but it automatically added 30 for shipping??? @LegendaryGames

 

[LegendaryGames]

Actually the FAQ says shipping in backerkit, but it automatically added 30 for shipping??? @LegendaryGames

That's odd. Send me note through Kickstarter so I can check into your pledge and why it did that; it shouldn't be charging shipping until the Backerkit phase, and I'd like to see what's going on there.

 

[LegendaryGames]

Yeah, I ask because I am just deciding what version to buy. I'm a long term LG fan, I think I'll go for PF2, and add 5e on. $30 shipping to NZ is unprecedented, well done!

Sounds good for the versions you like! I'm just about finished with the final 5E editing pass on adventure #6 and about to do the same for the PF2 version of adventure #5. Then it's off to layout for initial galleys and proofing.