Dark Obelisk: Berinncorte Basecamp Setting (Pathfinder/5E)
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300-500pp color PDF/hardcover with detailed NPCs and extended bestiary expanding the campaign setting of Berinncorte for Pathfinder/5E.
Backers: 100
Average Pledge Per Backer: $63
Funded: $6,273 of $1,000
Dates: Mar 8th -> May 7th (60 days)
Project By: J. Evans Payne
Backers: 100
Average Pledge Per Backer: $63
Funded: $6,273 of $1,000
Dates: Mar 8th -> May 7th (60 days)
Project By: J. Evans Payne
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Last Updated: May 7 @ 12:30 -0400 GMT
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Latest News
Final 45 Minutes!
May 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Nearly to our last Stretch Goal, the Map Pack and Premium Atlas for Barrowton. We might make it! Reminder to all those who are still pledged at Citizen and similar levels to check your pledge level, as not all pledge levels include the unlocked... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Carnage!
May 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow! It sure was a treat to wake up this morning and discover that overnight, the juicy 6K Stretch Goal had fallen and Barrowton is unlocked! So excited to do that product. FYI, I will not be adding any further Stretch Goals to this project. This... (Read More)
Another Stretch Goal Smashed!
May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Congrats everyone--free map pack and Premium Atlas for the Pit of Hope! Huzzah for the final-weekend funding push! (Read More)
Huzzah! And Product Clarification
May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow! Quite a strong late surge in funding! Many thanks! We've unlocked the Pit of Hope! AND, we've unlocked free Premium Atlas PDFs for BB and unlocked Stretch Goals. Huzzah indeed! A few backers have asked about pagecounts for future... (Read More)
Final 48 Hours for Berinncorte Basecamp & Stretch Goals!
May 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Final stretch, folks: Thanks again to all who have already helped make this project an enormous success. We're pushing 700 pages of content already, and that's not even counting unlocked Stretch Goals. If you're of a mind to help out, Facebook... (Read More)
Art Update: Berinncorte City After the Fall
May 4th - via: kickstarter.com
3 days left! Still possible to get to that critical $5k mark for those tasty Stretch Goals. I'm thrilled to unveil one of the main scenes from BB. It shows the outside of the city, in the dismal grey after the Eruption in DO1. Couldn't be more... (Read More)
Sneak Preview: Coming May 8th
May 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
#intentionallyVagueUpdate (artist credit Kim van Deun) (Read More)
5 Days to Go! & Free Sneak Preview Coming Soon...
May 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Some new backers giveth, and others taketh away; were hovering in the mid to upper 4k range. There's usually a boost at the end, as folks who had starred the project end up committing to it, but we will see. The 5k Stretch Goals seem possible, but... (Read More)
Reviews for All Published DO1 Books
April 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Check out the full suite of 6 reviews here. TL;DR Good. Great, even. Lots of feedback to learn from to improve future products! Crunch Commentary TL;DR: After extensive research, and subsequent discussion with the reviewer, I think you can trust... (Read More)
Add-Ons
April 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Sorry to double-post, but I was too eager hitting "Publish"... I've updated the Add-Ons section to reflect add-ons related to the new "Vanity" pledge levels: Design an NPC ($75) Design an NPC, w/Quest and likely future storyline involvement ($125)... (Read More)
New Pledge Levels!
April 27th - via: kickstarter.com
9 days to go, and things are going great. My thanks again to all of you for your support and faith. In response to backer suggestions, I've added two new "vanity" Pledge Levels, as follows. Hardened TravelerHelp design and name an NPC for the book.... (Read More)
DO1 Premium Atlas Reviewed
April 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Check it out here. TL;DR: 5 stars, good impression, well-received. If you're curious as to what to expect from the Premium Atlas & Map Packs that are planned, this review may help give you an unbiased perspective on things. :) (Read More)
Endzeitgeist Reviews the Dark Obelisk 1 Players' Guide
April 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Self-explanatory. I respect the hell out of this guy, so for him to have positive things to say is beyond neat. http://endzeitgeist.com/dark-obelisk-i-berinncorte-players-guide-system-neutral/ As the Players' Guide is included in many pledge... (Read More)
Artwork Preview: Berinncorte City Aftermath
April 24th - via: kickstarter.com
As work continues on the content--nearly finished crunch-ing out the new NPCs, and the mapping continues--artwork commissions are progressing nicely. I'm thrilled to see an advance preview of a major scene from the Berinncorte Basecamp book, which... (Read More)
Production Update: April 20th
April 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Just a quick update this time: Mapping has begun in earnest. As in full-color, fully-detailed, official mapping, not just the pencil-by-hand stuff that I've been doing thus far. Probably going to do a lot of the BB and DO2 stuff in the same stretch... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Milestone!
April 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Huzzah, thanks to a major backer just now (you know who you are...), we've crossed the $4k mark and unlocked Greatsnake Compound. I've added a ho-hum Stretch Goal at the $6,500 mark; basically it's the free map pack for Barrowton should that be... (Read More)
Production Update: April 17th
April 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Latest Pagecount: 610. Um. I really need to draw the line here at some point, recognizing that I've got lots of NPCs to add in, and there's a hard limit of 840 pages for hardcover books on the publisher's printhouse! #goodProblemToHave (Read More)
Production Update: April 14th
April 14th - via: kickstarter.com
TL;DR: Pagecount is currently 523 laid-out-and-ready-to-go pages. Not included in that total: Pre-Eruption content, Post-Eruption content, dozens and dozens of new characters and statblocks. There's provisional outlining for those things but no guts... (Read More)
Production Update: April 10th
April 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Artists... Plural and Full-Color!Thanks to some hunting and generous information-sharing from fellow indie RPG publishers and KS project owners, I've connected with four artists, all of whom have outstanding commissions for upcoming IGS books.... (Read More)
Update
April 9th - via: kickstarter.com
So for a few days we were super close to the 4K mark, but there were some pledge adjustments and we've slipped farther from that mark. No worries; we'll get there. And when we do, I have a new Stretch Goal to announce. So fingers crossed for that.... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Unlocked! + New Stretch Goal
April 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Huzzah, these Stretch Goals keep falling! We've unlocked five already, if you can believe it, with still 34 days to go in the campaign, so I've posted a new Stretch Goal on the horizon. Already unlocked! $6,000: BarrowtonNestled among the... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Update: April 1st
April 1st - via: kickstarter.com
I'll soon be adding a new Pledge Level: "Eternal Completionist" $10,000 Receive PDF and hardcopies of every Infinium Game Studio product ever released, ever, forever and ever and ever. (Forever ever?) (Yes, this is an April fools joke, but in all... (Read More)
Mistdelve Cover Draft
March 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Gotta be honest: Not 100% sure if this will be "Mistdelve" or "Mistwalk". Cover draft (Read More)
Stretch Goal Unlocked!
March 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Just a teeny smidge over the line to $3,000, so we've unlocked another awesome product: Mistdelve! I'll post a mock-up of the cover soon as a thank-you. That makes two Stretch Goal products unlocked for the "Plus" pledge levels. If you haven't upped... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Unlocked! And New Stretch Goals Announced
March 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Huzzah, nearly everyone gets a free map pack to celebrate crossing the $2,500 mark. Yay! As promised, I've updated the project description to include two new Stretch Goals now that one has fallen. While these may seem waaaay off from our current... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Update
March 28th - via: kickstarter.com
We're tantalizingly close to the $2,500 mark. Upon hitting that--probably in the next few days!--not only does everybody get a free hi-resolution Map Pack of both Berinncorte Basecamp and Sin Furnace, but I will reveal the next Stretch Goal as... (Read More)
A Bit Quiet Because Yay
March 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
This week (and likely next) I will be a bit quiet with updates. Why? My wife and I welcomed our third child, a baby boy, on Monday! So I'm a bit out of pocket with things IGS-wise. ;) Trapped in a hospital room with little sleep and surfing through... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Update
March 21st - via: kickstarter.com
You may notice we're back below the $2k mark. I spoke with the backer who canceled and it's totally understandable and unrelated to the campaigns product (s). So tell ya what I'm gonna do: I'm going to leave Sin Furnace unlocked. I have confidence... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Success!
March 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Congrats, due to the generosity of backers, and your general awesomeness, we have a new product unlocked that I'm super excited about! The Sin Furnace of Arghastar is another in a line of tomes that promises to be half setting sourcebook, half... (Read More)
Stretch Goal Update
March 18th - via: kickstarter.com
We're tantalizingly close to our $2k stretch goal, and I have a wedding to attend this weekend, and Endzeitgeist just gave a Kickstarter shout-out last night, which usually results in a boost. So I'm gonna go ahead and post the next Stretch Goal.... (Read More)
Options: Add-Ons & Stretch Goals
March 16th - via: kickstarter.com
TL;DR: BackerKit will be used after the campaign to handle "a la carte" add-ons to your pledge if you don't want to commit to the Completionist pledge levels. Take a look at the list and see if you might want to up your pledge now so we can count... (Read More)
Stretch Goals Unlocked!
March 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Huzzah, we're funded! Time to reach for the stars. TL;DRThere's cool stuff on the horizon. Check the newly-added pledge levels to see if you'd like to upgrade on the assumption that we'll make it there. Basically, the Completionist... (Read More)
Production Update: March 13th
March 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Production Update(the campaign description has been updated to reflect the below) Writing and design are underway. The book is already over 400 pages long. Looking to end up being more in the 500-700 page range now... meaning the hardcopy pledge... (Read More)
Backer Update: March 9th
March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Many thanks to all those who've backed! Very exciting to be nearly 70% funded after only one day. Once we cross the 100% funding mark, I'll start posting Stretch Goals... I'm pretty psyched about them, so please share and spread the word so we can... (Read More)
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