UPDATED – Updates will be appended to this post as the Kickstarter progresses. It is also the pinned post on my Twitter account.
A new Kickstarter, Gateway To Adventure Trilogy For Old-School Essentials, a third party OSE (Old-School) Essentials collection of supplements launches tomorrow. It is by Appendix N Entertainment, the blog and publishing arm run by Ryan (RJ) Thompson.
Gateway to Adventure is the umbrella for all of Ryan’s OSE offerings.
It features three volumes:
- Class Compendium
- Caster’s Codex
- Combat Conspectus.
Class Compendium will feature new class options, backgrounds, skills, and so forth.
Caster’s Codex features new spells, an alternate magic system (non-Vancian), ritual magic, blood magic, magic items, etc.
Finally, the Combat Conspectus has new combat options, tournaments, alternate initiative, and more.
There are several stretch goals, one of which I have agreed to write. It will be a remaster of my PDF No, Really, It’s Me! [Affiliate Link] to fit the rules and layout of OSE and the Gateway to Adventure series. It will have a Kickstarter exclusive print copy for print backers and a PDF option for all backers.
My adventure is one I’ve run at multiple conventions. It is also the adventure I ran for the first group of games livestreamed from the old Gygax House on 330 Center Street, where D&D took printed form. This was all to benefit Extra Life.
This adventure is about a group of adventurers who met their end at the hands of a band of dopplegangers. The leaders have selected a group to impersonate the adventurers and convince other adventurers to stay away and thus stop upsetting their food supply and killing them.
I have a few ideas for expanding and improving it and look forward to the challenge and sharing it with a new audience and refreshing it for the existing audience.
At the time this is published, the Kickstarter is just shy of 50% of it’s base goal.
I’ve known Ryan personally for several years. He has run multiple Kickstarters and successfully fulfilled them.
NOTE: I will update this blog post with milestones as the Kickstarter progresses.
- 16 September 2022 c. 2:00 PM EDT – $52.00 shy of 50% funded in about 30 hours.
- 19 September 2022 – Passed 50% funded.
- 21 September 2222 – $199.00 shy of 60% funded with 99 backers.
- 28 September 2022 – 92 % Funded. $1,000 left to reach funding goal.
- 29 September 2022 – 97% Funded. $456 to reach funding goal.
- 02 October 2022 – Passed base goal. $1,500 to first stretch goal.
- 04 October 2022 – Getting close to the first stretch goal.
- 06 October 2022 – Reached 1st stretch goal, $400 to 2nd stretch goal
- 10 October 2022 – Reached 2nd stretch goal, 3 days left.
- 15 October 2022 – Funded! 199 Backers and $17,204 137% Funded.
While it didn’t reach my stretch goal, I will still update my PDF with the ideas I had to make it better. I’m just excited that I was asked to be a part of it.
