Sin ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gshowitt/sin-a-spire-rpg-sourcebook/description) is in the last two days on Kickstarter, and we've run out of stretch goals. Unlike previous campaigns we're not going to add any more at this point because we've already got LOADS. Here's what a pledge gets you for FREE (thread):
First up you get a pubcrawl map of the North Docks by @kylelatino (image below by him, broadly representative of what we're going to commission). The North Docks is filled with Knightly Orders, each of whom run a pub and extract protection money to pay for gaudy codpieces.
You get the Spire Quickstart which is perfect for handing out to players or for first-time GMs wanting a straightforward intro. We're going to write up a simple adventure in our open-ended style, do some pregens, include a cut-down rules section - everything you need to play.
You get the Solar Basilica map, which is actually five maps, created by @carlydraws. The four private seasonal temples are rife with intrigue and backstabbing, and the central temple is open to pilgrims of all types. (Again: this isn't the map, but it's by her, so that's nice.)
You get a Red Row Mansion Map by Alex Damaceno ( https://www.instagram.com/gnarledmonster/ ); we're trying for something audacious here and want to come up with something really detailed - kind of like a level from Thief or Dishonoured, with loads of stuff to explore.
(Basically: I want a map with a sexy party AND a murder scene AND a minor siege AND a heist AND a mysterious summoning ritual plot all in one, and I want to see if we can pull it off.)
You get THE MAGISTER'S GUIDE, a GM's guide to Spire using the lessons we've learned from Heart to help people make their games as exciting as possible. Also: mechanics for city control and Ministry interference, advances for specific schemes and gambits, all that good stuff
(and essays, too, and general tips and advice sourced from the community, because now hundreds of games of Spire have been run and as a group we've got a better handle on how to make it sing)
You get a map of THE HIVE, simultaneously the most secure and the most dangerous prison in Spire, by @MarcoMA4PS; going to fill it with unstable people desperate for rescue and no safe routes out. Don't know how abstract the final piece will be but this is some of Marco's stuff:
Most exciting of all: you get all the digital files for a RED STRING MURDERBOARD and accompanying GM screen. It contains portraits, location images, and a booklet of random motivations that you can quickly stitch together into a convoluted conspiracy for your players to exploit.
Want to stress this again: all free. Gratis. After the campaign ends we'll still sell them but they'll cost money. (Also: the book itself, Sin, is really good and by a mix of fresh talent and established designers, so really that's worth the entry fee alone)
(and there's two full classes in there, and they're both cracking, and loads of setting stuff, and also three big adventures including one where you can engage in film noir tropes to charge up an artifact that destroys nations)
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