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Gateway To Adventure Trilogy For Old-School Essentials

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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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A Quick Update

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I’m still here and kicking.

No real change from my last post. You can listen to the companion blog post here.

I have decided on surgery. I am waiting for the call to schedule it some time in July, 2020. However, things are still backed up from the halt on all non-emergency surgeries. I called to find out how long until I could schedule it and just have to wait. I’ll keep nagging them anyway, as I don’t want to drag this out. I am not a patient person for things like this and I’m climbing the walls a bit.

I’m still gaming, running my Sunday afternoon AD&D [Affiliate Link] game, playing in a B/X game on Mondays, and Wednesday, July 1st, we resume the campaign from the old AD&D [Affiliate Link] game with the same characters, but transitioned to OSE. [Affiliate Link] All of these are via Roll20.

I’m approaching 800 subscribers on YouTube and will pass 90,000 lifetime views in a couple days.

June 24th was the second anniversary of my podcast.

July 18th is the 11th anniversary of this blog.

The end of August is the second anniversary of my Patreon and my publishing efforts on DriveThruRPG.

I look forward to many more years of gaming. I especially look forward to getting surgery behind me so I can get my focus back on track.

I’ve been in a funk with the isolation and limitations of lock down/common sense to avoid being infected or spreading infection, my unexpected news about prostate cancer, and the horrid murder of a black man by police.

This has sapped my energy and seen me unfriend people on Facebook (many from high school) and lose followers on other social media. It saddens me that people can value human life and human rights so little as to want to avoid the topic because to them “it is politics.” Until the lives of people who don’t look like me (white) are valued equally, I will keep mentioning that Black Lives Matter, until we all live like they do matter, not merely change the subject with “all lives matter.” I don’t understand how some read Black Lives Matter as having the word ONLY in front of the phrase. Of course, all lives matter, but too many don’t really believe that. I won’t belabor that point here, as I know you’re here for games. I mention it since it is an important part of why my motivation is lacking. If you’re offended, you don’t have to stay.

As I said, this is a quick update about what’s up with me, and world events and my fight with cancer are the main focus of my thoughts and energy right not.

I didn’t mention party. I have views all across the political spectrum. I don’t fit a neat label. I won’t belabor the point. I just wanted to share what’s up with me, and future posts will focus on gaming.