I'm calling it early on the poll because YES to revealing the Flora pins was winning by a landslide. Go check out the Stretch Goals to see the second series of pins, featuring Night Blooming Jasmine, Tuberose, and Angel's Trumpet!
Wow!! I cannot thank everyone enough for your incredible early support, we're already funded and the first three pins will be a reality!
Now it's on to the first stretch goal—funding the second series of pins, Flora. I've heard from a few people requesting to see the Flora designs before they're unlocked...and I don't know what to do so let's have a poll. XD
Thank you again for your support, and be to share this campaign with your friends and anyone you know who loves pins, art nouveau, and mysterious wildlife. <3
Hi everyone! Quickie update from us today, since a few cool things have happened in the last 24 hours 🤘🏼
New Pledge Levels!
Reminder: Share for our Lore Blooper Cards
World Building and Breaking Livestream today at 2:30PM ET
You want it all?
You've got it all! The CONJURE and DEVOUR tiers are here! The new CONJURE Pledge Tier is perfect for anyone who already has The Story Engine Deck and Deck of Worlds and wants to pick up the new decks, accessories, and collectibles to fill out their collection. 👉🏽 Find out more here.
The DEVOUR Pledge Level, on the other hand, is for newcomers who are ready to go all-in with The Story Engine. This tier includes everything in the CONJURE Tier, along with The Story Engine Deck and Deck of Worlds, all 15 of their respective Expansions, and all 12 Story Engine Boosters. You'll also get all three playmats, since you'll be getting our Tell Your Story and Build Your World mats with our Weave Your Lore mat to complete the set.
This is the tier for you if you've never purchased one of our products and want to get caught up on everything you missed. The DEVOUR Pledge Level is the best price we've ever offered for our entire collection, so you don't want to miss this opportunity!
Wanna see the prompts that didn't make it? Help us spread the word! We'll release a FREE outtake PDF if 500 backers share the BackerKit campaign before we end on Friday, and we're almost 20% of the way there already!
Every backer gets us closer to another stretch goal, and we will make fools of ourselves (in writing) to provide a little extra incentive!
TODAY we'll be live at 2:30pm ET! We'll be joined by special guest Jordan Shiveley, who will be helping us build a new world - and then demonstrating how you can use Lore Master's Deck to break that world to unlock a better story!
You'll be hearing from us lots this week! The countdown is on to our Wrap Party this Friday, starting at 9PM ET! Bring your confetti poppers! 🎉🎉🎉 See you soon!
We will release an add-on expansion for connecting The Story Engine Deck to Deck of Worlds, completing the Bridge Expansion Trio. We will also release a collector's Bridge Expansion Set Storage Box to hold the complete set.
Goal: $400,000 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
Our Lore Master's Deck campaign passed $400,000 overnight - and that means we've unlocked our final Bridge Expansion! The Story & World Bridge will officially ship with our CONJURE and DEVOUR pledge tiers, and is available as an add-on for anyone who wants to complete their card collection!
Getting to $400,000 means that you've unlocked all of the cards we had planned for this campaign. We can still add awesome link tokens to the deck (along with some other goodies) so keep spreading the word to help us run up the score!
Who wants to see a snake deity get chased by a God-reviewer critic?
Right this minute, we're live with artist Megan McKay who is bringing her amazing, adorable art style to create doodles in live-time with the community based off prompts from Lore Master's Deck. Join us now on the main page!
We will release an add-on expansion for connecting The Story Engine Deck to Deck of Worlds, completing the Bridge Expansion Trio. We will also release a collector's Bridge Expansion Set Storage Box to hold the complete set.
Goal: $400,000 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
We will release an add-on expansion for connecting The Story Engine Deck to Deck of Worlds, completing the Bridge Expansion Trio. We will also release a collector's Bridge Expansion Set Storage Box to hold the complete set.
Goal: $400,000 reached! — We did it! This project reached this goal!
Wow, we're only on the second day of funding and there is SO MUCH to update on already!
First, the Flora pins were unlocked earlier this morning! If you've been holding off on committing to the full collection, now's your chance to upgrade your pledge while the Early Bird Discounts are still available.
Second, we've got a new Backer's Choice stretch goal that unlocks when we hit $8,500: all backers will get to vote on whether to add an alternate colorway or a glitter finish option to the collection!
Third, all of the upcoming stretch goals have been revealed, so you can now see the designs of the Stellae accent pins. These will be available as Add-ons when they're unlocked, and if we reach $18k they'll be included for FREE with the 6-pin Tiers, another good reason to pledge for the full collection now, while the Early Bird discount is available!
I've got a few more surprise additions to the campaign that I'll reveal very soon (as soon as I take some product photos!) and in the meantime I hope you'll keep sharing the campaign and your feedback—I'd love to hear any and all of your ideas for new additions to the collection (Like maybe do you have a favorite nocturnal animal or flower that you'd like to see as a pin?)
And thank you so much for supporting my artwork and this campaign, it literally could not happen without you!
Once we reach this goal we'll unlock a poll for all Backers to vote on a new addition to the pin collection—an optional additional colorway or glitter finish!
Livestream schedule update: upcoming streams on worldbuilding/worldbreaking, live-drawing lore prompts, and a huge wrap party marathon stream
Gen Con update: we'll be in booth block 1237 next to Nomnivore Games
New Community Goal
We want to pull out all the stops in our final 5 days, so we've created a new Community Achievement.
If 500 backers share our project during the final 5 days using the share button from our new Community Achievement, we will release a free PDF Master of Lost Lore Expansion featuring outtakes from the main deck!
We just added 16 more cards to the main deck, making the deck a whopping 300 cards with 2,400 cues and billions of potential combinations!
Next up: unlocking the Lore Master's Journal and Story-Bridge Expansion!
Going 🔴LIVE in 1 Hour
At 2pm ET we'll be discussing how to create great tabletop RPG settings with game designer Connor Alexander (Coyote & Crow) and artist Eren Angiolini (ArtVenturing Guild, Justice League, Critical Role)! We'll also be using the deck to quickly live-create a setting and discuss what aspects would make for the best basis for roleplay storytelling.
You can also check out our panelists' original tabletop creations live on Kickstarter and BackerKit.
Eren's Arcane Compendium of Characters: Take the story into your own hands, with this system-agnostic deck of TTRPG characters at https://bit.ly/arcanecompendium
Connor'sWolves: Pledge the latest game from Coyote & Crow currently on Kickstarter. Learn more and back it at https://bit.ly/3Oe2kCV
Livestream Schedule Update
We have so many great streams happening this week!
We'll have The Story Engine at Gen Con as part of booth block 1237! Find us next to Nomnivore Games, the creators of the tabletop RPG EMBERWIND (from whom all of our beautiful box art comes)
That's all for now! We'll see you live in 1 hour to talk about tabletop RPG setting creation!
For this achievement, we'll release a free PDF expansion of 60 outtake lore cards. Click below to visit our sharing portal with quick share buttons and further details.
For this achievement, we'll release a free PDF expansion of 60 outtake lore cards. Click below to visit our sharing portal with quick share buttons and further details.
Hello and welcome, neighbor, to the first barbeque of the season! Wow, what a start it’s been already. We’ve got 132 backers already, and we’re so excited to have you! I’m sure that you have questions yet to be answered. Fear not! We have a great list of updates ready for you over the course of this campaign. Heck, we’ve even got some real-life Greater Than Games favorite recipes for your barbeque! Here’s what we’re looking at for this great upcoming campaign:
Thursday, July 20th — Full Playthrough Video of License to Gill
Tuesday, July 25th — The Grill Itself - How the Box is Ready to Play & Hi-Pointe Drive-in Collab!
Thursday, July 27th — Behind the Scenes: Making of the License to GrillVideo
Tuesday, August 1st — Recipe - German Potato Salad
Thursday, August 3rd — All about the In-Betweens - Yellow Cards
Tuesday, August 8th — Artist Interview with Todd Reinhart
Thursday, August 10th — Recipe - Pretzel Salad
Tuesday, August 15th — Scoring More - Tablecloth Details
Thursday, August 17th — Final Day of the Campaign
But that’s not all! We also have the achievements for you to look forward to. What are achievements? Fantastic question.
Achievements are goals set to bring more content to the game thanks to your backing and interactions. The more we get, the more we get to add to this great game. As you can see, we’ve got better components and more recipes ready and waiting for you! Every update, we’ll deliver piping hot and fresh information about any unlocked features since the previous update.
What a fantastic start to a great campaign! We’ve got more coming your way so back to see more! We’ll see you on Thursday with a full playthrough update!
We did it folks!! YOU did it!! We reached out first stretch goal!! This means we have unlocked the Luxe Card Upgrade! But what does this mean, you'll ask?
Well, it means that the cards will now be 350gsm, and not 300gsm, making them more durable and even more high quality, and they will also have a beautiful matte finish, to prevent shine and help with readability. But that is not all!!! In addition to the card stock upgrade, the deck box also gets an upgrade! It had been a dream of mine to complete the "old tome" look with a box that matched the aesthetic, so I now bring to you the Magnetic Box upgrade! Made to open and look like a real ancient compendium of arcane knowledge! You'll be able to proudly display this luxurious tome on your bookshelves and then surprise your party members with its contents! And this also allows us to plan more tomes! How amazing would it be to have a full series of Arcane Compendium tomes?! *O*
This is a mock up, so the final item might not look exactly like this.
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NEXT STRETCH GOALS
Now that you know what you have already achieved with your incredible support, let's talk about the next steps! We're on our way to our second stretch goal! At 20k, we unlock two new add-ons: a token bundle and the VTT implementation bundle!
The Token Bundle will collect the tokens of all the characters of the deck and unlocked expansions, ready to use in whatever platform you prefer for your online RPG sessions. And I'd love YOUR feedback on what type of formats you prefer for your tokens: framed or not framed? Would you like to see a special Arcane Compendium token frame or would you just want a classic & simple look? Let me know in the comments!
These are just mock ups, we will work on an optimal design together.
The VTT Bundle will allow folks to access/download modules and/or assets for Foundry and Alchemy. I'm already at work with them to prepare this collaboration and both platforms have been extremely excited about it! Great things ahead! ---------
NEW COMMISSION TIER: THE SCROLL
But let's bring things back to what is currently available (but maybe not for long!!) on the campaign page! I have added a new commission tier: The Scroll! You are now able to get yourself a portrait commission (there's less than 15 available). This tier does not include any deck or expansion, just the commissioned artwork, but you can easily add the deck and expansions with add-ons. OR, if you want the commission and the full set of deck and expansions, you can always grab the Artifact Edition (less than 12 available). Here's a quick breakdown of the difference between the two. ---------
NEW CHARACTER CREATION POLL
And finally, don't forget to vote on the second phase of our character creation poll! We're now deciding what "vibe" our character will have! You can find the poll right below this upgrade! :) And don't forget that when we reach 250 backers, we'll have another poll to create a villain, since so many of you have requested it!
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That would be all from me at this time! Thank you all SO VERY MUCH for your amazing support! Take care and talk soon! :)
I guess we are just going to keep motoring through these. So be it.
We've opened up the next two stretch goals for you to unlock.
Stretch goal #3 is for a deluxe 100pp keepsake game journal for recording your vampire's thoughts and musings in. We're still working out a few of the specs, but it will be quite nice. If you unlock this goal ($21,500), we'll add the journal as an add-on after the campaign in Backerkit. Stretch goal #4 (at $23,500) will unlock a free 10 track soundscape by Dr. Mark Cox, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Central Michigan University. Dr. Cox has given us a short description of the soundscape and his motivations for creating it, which you can read below:
As a longtime enthusiast of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genre, when I was asked to create the soundscapes for the game Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, there was only one answer from me – “YES.” As I became familiar with the history, rules, and general layout of the game, I started forming ideas. Having played a ton of video games in my life, starting with Pong back in 1972, I took my knowledge as a gamer and applied it as I mapped out each soundscape. My first priority was creating music that had an appealing sound, but nothing that would distract too much from the game. I also wanted to include sounds from around where I live, so I recorded the sounds of my tires as my family and I drove across the Mackinaw bridge, used different percussion equipment that I have access to at my work, and asked my wife, a professional keyboardist, to improvise sounds on the organ and piano. After I finished recording her, I asked her permission to distort and/or contort these performances to fit what I had conceived.
Next came the hard part. I felt like I had to consider what it would be like to lose my memories, my humanity --- how would the music relate that to the players? As you listen, you should hear some familiar melodies along with new ones, superimposed over an eerie, but not too scary, background. But as the vampire loses their memories, things begin to go awry. Different keys are stacked upon each other, melodies don’t quite line up, rhythms and melodies start to fall apart, then come back together as the vampire tries to hold on to these last memories.
To keep the audio files from being too large, I created basically a 10-20 minute loop. Once the music starts, the “loop” button on the device should be on so that the music runs continuously. Yes, there is silence in between some of sections, which I found to be very common in modern-day games (which I play regularly – when work and family are not taking up my time). And feel free to end one soundscape and start another one in the middle of the game. Anything is “fair-play.”
We're just going to keep motoring forward, aren't we?
Alright then, the first stretch goal is down. We're adding the Prime Vampire Deck to the game. Don't worry though; there might be another opportunity to expand that deck coming soon.
But first, stretch goal #2!
One feature we have in the game is six sets of pregen characters, with each set of five (5) characters and one (1) prime vampire themed around a particular area of the world. These pregens are handy for getting a game of FYOV started fast (so ideal for classroom use, but also for one shots or convention play). We're still in the process of designing the sheets, which will be included in the game as a tearaway pad, but one thing we really want to include on them is a character portrait for each of the pregens.
For stretch goal #2, we'll add the first set of pregen character portraits to the game. We have a great stable of artists lined up to complete the portraits: Samuel Araya, Priscilla Kim, Goñi Montes, Allen Panakal, and the game's primary artist, Jabari Weathers. The region of the world for this tranche of portraits will be Africa. Below you can see Jabari's portraits (also found on the main campaign page). The target for stretch goal #2 is $18,500. Let's add some kick ass art to the game.
