Ultimate Faeries: Fey Monsters & Campaigns for DnD 5E & PF

Faerie Campaigns early hardcovers are here! And more awesome Faerie stuff from Nord Games!
over 1 year ago – Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 02:52:04 PM

When we do a print run, we get half a dozen pre-press copies shipped to us early for review. We've just gotten both the 5E and PF2 versions and they are beautiful! We are excited to see these books in person, and since we've got these early copies so too will some of you! As we usually do, we pull random names to get these pre-press copies, and we are delighted to be sending these early books to backers Coe, McAllister, Huang, Olgren, O'Donnell, Nichols, Reiber, and Harper! 

We're also doing one more round of post-playtest revisions on Ultimate Rulership for PF2, and we'll have those uploaded to Backerkit for download once they are complete later this week. 

Last but not least, since we know you are fey-fanciers and since this gaming community of ours works best for everyone when we all support one another, we love shouting out other companies' projects that we think our backers would love, especially when they're fine folks we've worked with before! In this case, our pals at Nord Games have their own book of fey creatures that they just launched on Kickstarter this past week: Ultimate Bestiary: Secrets of the Fey!

Ultimate Bestiary: Secrets of the Feycontains over 130 new fey creatures to add to your 5th Edition games! Intrigue and challenge your party at any level! This book gives Game Masters a host of wild and otherworldly creatures, from devious hags to furtive house-fairies, along with in-depth lore, varied stat blocks, and gorgeous artwork! 

The folks at Nord do terrific work and are just all-around great folks to work with too, so if you just can't get enough fantastic fey content, please do check them out and share the good word with your friends and fellow 5E fans! Hit the link right here and pledge today for PDF, print, and more! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nordgames/ultimate-bestiary-secrets-of-the-fey-for-5th-edition?ref=49t4q3

Third Time's the Charm!!! Ultimate Rulership PF2 v3 is up in Backerkit!
over 1 year ago – Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 11:43:01 AM

Hey, hiccups happen in the world of publishing. It's all good. We are pleased at last to present the final version of Ultimate Rulership PF2 (v3) and we hope all you Ultimate Rulership backers love it! 

We are catching up on other projects, especially Mediterranean Monsters (finishing the 5E version that we just Kickstarted and prepping the PF1 and PF2 versions for a Quick-Starter later this year), but we'll be circling back soon to Ultimate Cities to get the next part of this spectacular series up and ready for you! 

Meanwhile, we raise a cup to all of you for your amazing support of this project and we look forward to receiving our books and getting them shipped out to you! 

Ultimate Rulership PF2 v2 is up in Backerkit!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 02:44:17 PM

Thanks to our dev team for going back over and finding and clearing up some errors, plus deciding to add an extra 2-page Appendix that clearly categorizes kingdom actions and attributes for ease of reference. If you backed Ultimate Rulership PF2 as part of your pledge, log into your Backerkit and grab the new file! 

Ultimate Rulership PF2 is ready for YOU!
over 1 year ago – Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 02:07:50 PM

At last, the final piece of the Ultimate Faeries puzzle is here for you, our faithful backers, with Ultimate Rulership for Pathfinder Second Edition! I've just uploaded this file to Backerkit and set it live for distribution there, so if you've backed this book log into your Backerkit account and download awayyyyy! 

This 56-page expansion brings a ton of terrific new options, expansions, clarifications, and more for your PF2 kingdom rules. It also integrates your PCs and their abilities more closely with their kingdom leadership roles, kingdom action choices, and effects that the kingdom has on individuals. You also get additional effects of kingdom advancement, including more robust XP rules and an organic system that allows you to build what your kingdom can do with the Focus Pool system, integrating it with your kingdom's skills and gives you a giant pile of new kingdom feat options. Despite all that content, however, this is NOT the last word on all things kingdom-building for PF2. At nearly 30,000 words, it fills in admirably with what we promised in the Kickstarter, but we've got more expansions to come. 

NEW BOOKS IN THIS SERIES

• Settlements Coming Soon. Next in line will be Ultimate Cities, which will delve specifically into your kingdom's settlements, including new buildings, new civic actions, alternate rules for how to construct and connect buildings, strange and unusual settlement types, natural advantages and attributes, magical and supernatural settlement effects, and so much more! We're already approaching 20,000 words on that followup book and we hope to have it ready for you in the next month or two. 
• Mass Combat. After that, we'll be able to pivot to mass combat, which might be a single book or may be split like our PF1 and 5E books were into two, with Ultimate Battle being a massive expansion of the core mass combat and warfare rules, including weather, terrain, logistics, and more, and Ultimate War broadening the scope of mass combat to naval and aerial battles and sieges and other specialized warfare options. We'll see how it all comes together. 
• Other Books. Down the road, we also might revisit other books in our Ultimate line, like Ultimate Strongholds (exactly what it says on the tin, including new stronghold-focused spells and class feats) and Ultimate Intrigue (to create your social power base and manage your factions against your rivals) and more. Perhaps even Ultimate Relationships! 

WHY NOT DO EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE?

• Bandwidth. The short answer is that there are only so many hours in the day, and all of everything is a BIG project. Will we eventually make a single massive expansion that covers everything? Eventually, perhaps. We don't know for sure, so it's far better to focus on putting out several books around 30, 40, 50, or 60 pages on a progressive release schedule than tying up design, editorial, and/or layout for a big 200 or 300-page book. We are a small company and there's only so much we can do at once, so balancing projects is always a challenge. 
• Time to Market. If we wait until we have all of everything together at once, that means we're sitting on a lot of not-finished work for months if not years waiting for everything to come together. People (at least *some* people) would like these products now. We could make a great product a year from now, but if someone else does a smaller product first, they might move to the front of the line. This has certainly happened before and will happen again in this marketplace. It's better to plant our flag first and then build around it. 
• Will It Sell? At the same time, while being first to market is definitely a useful thing, right now, we don't know for sure how well the PF2 audience will respond to kingdom-building expansions. They were very popular for PF1 and 5E, and there's clearly at least some interest as evidenced by this Kickstarter right here, but for PF2 it's a largely untested market. Starting with a series of smaller projects not only lets us get them up and out the door a lot faster, it also lets us gauge the appetite for more of them. If sales are great, awesome, we keep doing them. If they are not what we need to see, we finish the ones that seem most important and call it a day. 

That's all of the "inside baseball" you probably want for today. Suffice to say we're excited to see what people think of the expanded rules. Some changes are big and obvious, but others are smaller and more subtle, and we hope you'll love them. 

For now, grab your copy of Ultimate Rulership and we hope it makes your kingdom-building experience truly Legendary! 

Ultimate Rulership PF2 is off to layout!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 06:27:03 PM

Just finished moments ago, clocking in at a whopping 28,080 words, we are excited to get this ready for our backers first, but then up and ready for everyone! Here's a quick sneak peek as to what's inside!

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Ultimate Rulership is a massive expansion to the Pathfinder Second Edition rules for building and ruling a domain of your very own! Building upon the rules introduced in the Kingmaker Anniversary Edition Adventure Path by Legendary Games and Paizo, Ultimate Rulership provides extensive new rules for trade and diplomacy, including special resource trade routes and rules for diplomatic missions to establish embassies, treaties and alliances. You’ll also find 50 fantastic new kingdom feats for customizing your domain, from Multilingual Kingdom, Divine Right, and Adaptive Armies to Sea Power, Hidden Refuge, and In Magic We Trust! You’ll also find over a dozen of new kingdom activities to manage your territory like Breed Livestock and Magical Terraforming. You’ll also find tons of smaller optional rules, expanded kingdom abilities and leadership roles, resource dice, terrain effects, taxation, and more, along with references for a wide variety of noble titles, precedence, and forms of address. Your heroes can establish their own domains and becoming a force to be reckoned with in the campaign world, striking out into a position of leadership with amazing depth and detail. Grab this fantastic Pathfinder 2E supplement today and Make Your Game Legendary!