We did it… broke through $50k raised in this Kickstarter, and unlocked Mark Teppo’s Eternal Queen! Congrats, Mark, clearly this necessitates sitting down over another round of rum cocktails and hashing out the best way to put sea monsters on the map. It's a rough job, this is, but someone has to do it.

Next stretch goal

Our next theme is written by Campbell and Hugo award winner Elizabeth Bear. She has been a D&D player for quite a while, as most recently evidenced by a recorded game with her and a bunch of other fantasy authors that must have been a blast. (It’s out there if you look hard enough!) But like several of our other fantasy authors, she’s never written an adventure for publication. Until now…

Stronger than Magic explores a theme that’s often overlooked: the evolution of technology in a fantasy world. Just because the elves light their cities with magic doesn’t mean the dwarves can’t light theirs with coal gas. Or build steam engines to help with the mining. And more than magic, technology evolves. Time passes. Things change, and the future is a different place than the past.

The cool thing about themes is that by choosing which ones you include, you can create worlds with very different feelings. If you’d like to stick with a more purely magical world, you don’t have to include this theme… but if you want your adventurers to hear the whistle of a steam engine, and encounter some of the conflicts that newfangled sources of power bring about, Stronger than Magic will add a refreshingly different touch to your campaign.

Final three days

The Kickstarter comes to an end this Thursday at 7pm Pacific Time. If you want to see us make the remaining stretch goals (and maybe add one more if things get crazy enough at the end), this is the time to spread the world!