Coming Soon Announcment for Kickstarter

Gateway To Adventure Trilogy For Old-School Essentials

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.

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