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

Ultimate Rulership PF2 is ready for YOU!
about 3 years 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!
about 3 years 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!

Ultimate Rulership PF2 over 21,000 words! And Mediterranean Monsters 69 hours left!
about 3 years ago – Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 05:43:42 PM

Hi all,

I've been getting a lot of work done on Ultimate Rulership (PF2) last week, and it keeps growing and growing just with the rulership. We are looking forward to putting together a great supplement and making plans for future supplements devoted specifically to mass combat and to cities and settlements! I thought I might get the book done last week but not quite; however, things are looking good for getting it to layout by the end of this week and then out to you shortly thereafter. This book includes 4 sections, dealing with Kingdom Basics, Leadership Roles, Kingdom Skill and Feats, and Advanced Rulership (including expanded rules for treaties, alliances, trade routes, and commodities)! 

We also wanted to give a final shout-out to our Mediterranean Monsters 5E Bestiary Kickstarter project, which ends in just 69 hours on July 27th! With nearly 1000 backers already, this beautiful bestiary brings you over 140 amazing monsters from the marvelous mythologies of Greece, Italy, Malta, Sardinia, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya! Plus, we've unlocked a third adventure for the Greek-inspired Mother of Monsters Adventure Path, bringing that spectacular saga to 400 pages of killer content with the new adventures False Prophecies and A Threatened Democracy to really make the mythology of the Mediterranean come to life in an epic campaign! And if you missed out on our previous bestiaries, we'll be offering a Massive Monster Master Mega-Bundle of over 1,100 creatures and counting, nearly 1,500 pages of insane monstery goodness (and evilness) from around the world! If you've enjoyed any of our projects over the years, we hope you'll check it out and consider supporting this project! It all ENDS Thursday, July 27 so pledge today and DON'T MISS IT!

Faerie Campaigns 5E and PF2 print proofs reviewed and ready for printing!
over 3 years ago – Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:38:48 PM

We received the sample pages and full inkjet "plotters" (a full-color test printout) for both versions of Faerie Campaigns this week and did a final proofing pass on every page. We found a few missing colons and bolds and a couple of minor edits were made, but those corrected pages are now back with the printer, as well as the final covers and bar codes, and we are ready to start printing both books next week! I'm including some pictures below so you can see the high-tech process involved in this final phase! :)

When you've only got a few issues, it's easier to just have the layout artist export a fixed version of the individual pages rather than repackaging the entire book. You can see my note about the dark art, but looking at it on the ozalids it's fine so I crossed that one out. Page 30 is A-OK! 

Hopefully some of you enjoyed this little behind-the-scenes peek at the process. Sometimes old-school visual checking with a Sharpie just helps you find things you didn't see the previous 50 times you looked at it on a screen. Hey, if it works, it works! 

Last but not least, we've got two quick notes for you: 

• Ultimate Rulership (PF2): In any case, I'm looking forward to finishing up the "short version" of Ultimate Rulership PF2. The very large majority of backers for that particular book said they'd rather wait until later this year for a larger, more holistic ORC-friendly kingdom and warfare supplement (including a higher price tag for that extra content), so I think that's the direction we'll go for the most part. HOWEVER, some folks did ask for just getting the basic Ultimate Rulership expansion now, and that's what we proffered in the Kickstarter, so I'm going to have layout put together a PDF version of that (and a print-on-demand version, for those who just want a print version of the same) so that we can finalize that for backers and then we'll revisit the expanded version later on. 
• On Mediterranean Monsters: We've just passed the halfway point in this project and are now over 900% of our funding goal, adding a new creature from Tunisia to the book, and our next stretch goal unlocks another adventure for the Mother of Monsters Adventure Path! For our PF1 and PF2 fans, we are happy to report that both of those versions are humming along nicely, with over a dozen Pathfinder monsters coming in over the last week. We are definitely looking forward to hosting that Quick-Starter later this year! We just wanted to show off some of the new creatures added to the book since we launched! We'd love to have any of our 5E fans climb aboard this latest monster and adventure project; it all ends July 27th!

Faerie Bestiary (PF2) Modules are ready! And Mediterranean Monsters continues!
over 3 years ago – Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 02:29:29 PM

Hi all,

We are delighted to report that we have finalized the Faerie Bestiary for Pathfinder 2E on Foundry, and the activation codes have been sent out through Backerkit and should be available in your downloads! It took a bit navigating the always-evolving VTT upload system after we got the modules finished in late June, but everything is where it needs to be and we hope you love this fantastic VTT supplement for your campaign and spread the good word to all of your fellow PF2 fans! 

P.S. We're continuing to find through our big pile of Mediterranean Monsters for PF2, with ten MORE new stat blocks coming in this week! As we've noted, we're looking forward to running a second Kickstarter later this year for both PF1 and PF2 versions of this book. For any of our 5E fans (or fans who play multiple systems), we definitely encourage you to check out our Mediterranean Monsters bestiary and Mother of Monsters Adventure Path Kickstarter live right now!