Artifacts of Legend: Coming to Kickstarter May 25

[Juan]

We have received PDFs with the almost-final version and I just wanted to say how cool these books are.

You get fantasy artifacts you can throw in your campaign. Most of them make good final rewards after a long quest. Some are such evil you want to make sure they are not in the wrong hands.

- You get cool rumours about every Artifact. Mixing facts and false information about an object always makes it for me. It is not really legendary if skalds do not embellish the truth!
- You get interesting NPCs linked to the artifacts. People who can help or threat the delvers or even be the seed to an adventure.
- You get a new racial module (irzhajötun) with upgrade options.

- You get new spirit-binding rules. Rules for divine imbued items! Magic infused stuff! Easy personalization of power items and legendary weapons!
- Random tables to flesh out your creativity.

What I like the most is that you get TONS of adventure ideas. Inspiration is what I want an RPG book for and you find it in every page.

Super happy with my purchase.

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Juan

We have received PDFs with the almost-final version and I just wanted to say how cool these books are.

You get fantasy artifacts you can throw in your campaign. Most of them make good final rewards after a long quest. Some are such evil you want to make sure they are not in the wrong hands.

- You get cool rumours about every Artifact. Mixing facts and false information about an object always makes it for me. It is not really legendary if skalds do not embellish the truth!
- You get interesting NPCs linked to the artifacts. People who can help or threat the delvers or even be the seed to an adventure.
- You get a new racial module (irzhajötun) with upgrade options.

- You get new spirit-binding rules. Rules for divine imbued items! Magic infused stuff! Easy personalization of power items and legendary weapons!
- Random tables to flesh out your creativity.

What I like the most is that you get TONS of adventure ideas. Inspiration is what I want an RPG book for and you find it in every page.

Super happy with my purchase.

Thanks, Juan!

Even as the publisher, I'm very pleased with how the draft has evolved into a final, polished product with not just a "take this unique thing" catalog, but a metasystem to create your own legendary items.

The spirit-bound thing was something that came up between Marko and I as we talked about extra content for the book (though it is not unique to us, or even GURPS, to have spirits or entities locked inside of items) and I'm again very pleased with how it came out.

And of course, I cannot say enough nice things about how the art team responded to the concepts I provided. They really, really did a great job with these books.

It's not too late: Backerkit is supporting "late pledges," which means you can still get the same stuff at the same prices that happened in the Kickstarter.

We're coming down to the end of that, though, as the late pledges terminate when I order the physical copies of the books from the printer. Then it's "pre-order at retail" for the rest.

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Juan

We have received PDFs with the almost-final version and I just wanted to say how cool these books are.

I finally had some time today to look through them (although I've only made it through Artifacts of Legends so far), and I strongly agree. In fact, I went ahead and made an artifact for Shigran (the character I built with DtG, then threw up against some monsters from the Bestiary) - Geirverðjå. I did have to come up with a new Minor Ability to get the weapon I wanted, but that's because I tend to do weird things (in this case, it's a spear where the head can "bend" to function more like a scythe); I eyeballed the value by comparing it to some of the traits that could be reproduced with "Natural Weapons" modifiers.

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by Varyon

I finally had some time today to look through them (although I've only made it through Artifacts of Legends so far), and I strongly agree. In fact, I went ahead and made an artifact for Shigran (the character I built with DtG, then threw up against some monsters from the Bestiary) - Geirverðjå. I did have to come up with a new Minor Ability to get the weapon I wanted, but that's because I tend to do weird things (in this case, it's a spear where the head can "bend" to function more like a scythe); I eyeballed the value by comparing it to some of the traits that could be reproduced with "Natural Weapons" modifiers.

Nice use of external material. I can’t draw from that pool but you can. Excellent.

[DouglasCole]

Last Call for Late Pledges!

I'm going to be placing the order for the print books in a few days. So this is the last chance to place late pledges and get add-ons at the Kickstarter discounted prices.