A set of supplements focusing on terrains, transportation, and traveling of any fantasy world all wrapped up in 500 stunning pages.
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Meet the Narrator
over 3 years ago
– Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 07:56:56 PM
Thank you all so much for supporting and below you will see the outline of the update:
We like to provide little outlines to every update to help you see what is in the update. Your time is important, and we do not want to waste it, if not needed!
A hulking man with large muscles and when looking upon him you wonder if he from a race of giants. Toburny Lynnris in fact comes from the traces of the Goliath race but seems to have absorbed the more human side than his stone giant heritage would give thought. He wears loose pants that look as if they might have been made of cloth once, but years of wear and tear have found them patched with all sorts of leathers. A sleeveless black leather made from some unknown creature rests upon his torso, but of course, to Toburny Lynnris, sleeves only restrict movement. His brown eyes dart around the room hyperactively observing anyone and everything but only when he is not wearing is one of a kind set of goggles.
Personality - He is a large man who does what he needs to while traveling all around the realms. He is a jovial happy person but at times he can admit a tone of over seriousness. He is convinced people are living their lives too quickly and would do far better traveling the realms as he does. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles, and listens to stories told by travelers. That is of course when he is not traveling across the realms on his next adventure.
History - Toburny Lynnris was born to a poor family of goliaths that was trapped in mining resources from the earth. Like any good son, he found himself doing exactly what his family and ancestors had done for years but when his brother died his life took a different direction. The winds of travel took him to travel the realms where many adventures took place. His adventures brought him across hundreds of animals, travelers, and ways to get there. For some reason, he had a fondness for hags and their antics but also kept a safe distance. Yet, no matter the terrain, roads, or issues, he always found himself back home.
2020 has been a hard year for us all but in August, my father died doing exactly what he loved. They say that things happen for a reason, and to be honest, my dad was never one to play games as I do. Yet, while no one ever wishes for loss, if there was ever a book that would be perfect for my father to fit into as an NPC or narrator. Then it would be the books that Toburny Lynnris (aka the fantasy NPC version of my father) will be narrating for are known as Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go & Terrific Terrains & Terrible Travels. I am so immensely proud to be able to include him and I truly hope he will find a happy home in your games at your table.
Toburny Lynnris as a narrator will be taking a from a distance form of narration as a sort of birds-eye view of the goings-on in both the fantasy worlds and directly to the reader. This will allow him to seem as if he has a greater awareness and allowing him to comment on or display an attitude towards the reader and the content within both books in a unique fashion. We feel that it can be satisfying for the reader of the books, though possibly more because of the father like humor and enjoyable personality he will emit. There will be a great amount of enjoyment hearing about backers and readers trying to decode what the narrator is trying to get at, and truly this comes from the interesting personality of my father.
Toburny Lynnris was known to possess a magic ring that allowed him to pull forth from some extraordinary dimension a unique mount of both mechanical and magical wonder.
While others stood staring at the massive figure of a goliath flying by on a two-wheeled vehicle, the only thought that was ever in the mind of Toburny Lynnris was “I just want to ride”.
As a thank you to every backer, we will be delivering a free digital copy of the Legendary magic item known as the riders’ ring. It is said that the very personality of Toburny Lynnris embedded itself into his favorite ring due to the free nature of his personality.
The sentience of the ring will often say things like “that is a different kind of deal, isn’t it?”, “well did you learn anything?”, or “if it’s worth doing, it is worth doing right”.
You are all backers of projects of old, found our project through Kickstarter, or from a social media source. We want to ensure that you have the chance to get the content for the cheapest we can offer it. This takes the form of 300 super early bird awards available for 48 hours and 1000 regular early-bird rewards available for the first 7 days.
$25 - Early Bird - Distant Vagabond – 45 Remaining until December 8th - PDF copies of both books.
$65 - Early Bird - Drifting Vagabond – 6 Remaining until December 8th - Both Standard Copies
$85 - Early Bird - Nomad Vagabond – 54 Remaining until December 8th - Both Exclusive Copies
$105 - Early Bird – Smuggling Drifter – 240 Remaining until December 8th - All digital rewards
$220 - Early Bird - Bandit – 97 Remaining until December 8th - All physical rewards and standard hardback books.
$250 - Early Bird – Bandit Lieutenant – 95 Remaining until December 8th - All physical rewards and Kickstarter exclusive covers.
$350 - Early Bird - Bandit Captain – 40 Remaining until December 8th - All physical rewards, Kickstarter exclusive covers, and swag items.
These rewards give you the most bang for your buck, so do not miss your chance to get notified and allow us to give back to you for once. This could even be an amazing gift for a tabletop friend or your favorite game master and will give them something to look forward to!
Hey, we are small and while we have amazing content it is hard to get the voice out! So, we depend on you all to help us out! This is your campaign as much as it is ours, so consider sharing the sample page PDF to help get people excited about it, share our social media posts, or just come follow us!
The Trough
One thing to expect, if you haven't been part of or run a Kickstarter campaign before -- every Kickstarter follows a similar 'U'-shaped pattern.
We get a big exciting rush of backers at launch and it always seems to backers that things are really going to be extraordinary! Then as it gets a long, slow period in the middle, followed by a rush at the end. That middle period can be tough to deal with, and together as backers and creators, we need to keep promoting solidly during that time. It's important to understand it happens to everybody; it's not just this Kickstarter. So this is one of the reasons we need your help to share the project!
We are forever grateful for your support and cannot wait to see the new tabletop games, accessories, and content we will create for us all to enjoy.
Please use the above hashtags when sharing on social media and this will help us track shares of the project. In addition, we can offer even more rewards based on these hashtags.
Simplified Reward Contents by Tier - Quick Update
over 3 years ago
– Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 07:56:52 PM
Apologies for the confusion for the tiers and the rewards they offer, and to alleviate some of this I wanted to post an update that I will link to the campaign. This is meant to be a bare-bones look at the rewards:
A few quick things,
All reward tiers have access to Free Rewards that are released viaupdates.
All rewards will have access to the backerkit survey after the campaign closes.
Shipping fees will be charged for tiers during the survey period.
Addons are not required, we are testing out Kickstarters new feature
Addons will be available during the survey.
Follower - $2
This is meant to be a follow tier or to pledge at a later date.
Map Maker - $5
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
Navigator - $10
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
Terrain Battle Maps - 40 HD Digital Battlemaps
Distant Roamer - $15
Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go - PDF
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
Distant Traveler - $20
Terrific Terrains & Terrible Travel's - PDF
Terrain Battle Maps - 40 HD Digital Battlemaps
Distant Vagabond - $30
Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go - PDF
Terrific Terrains & Terrible Travel's - PDF
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
Terrain Battle Maps - 40 HD Digital Battlemaps
Drifting Roamer - $40
Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go - Standard Hardback
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
Drifting Traveler - $45
Terrific Terrains & Terrible Travel's - Standard Hardback
Terrain Battle Maps - 40 HD Digital Battlemaps
Roaming Nomad- $55
Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go - Exclusive Cover
2 Physical Decks of Decks of the Arbitrary Athenaeum - Horror & Hag Tomes
Roaming Smuggler - $100
Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go - Standard Hardback
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
3 Physical Marvelous Menu Decks - Drinks, Starters, Entrees, and Dessert
3 Physical Decks of Casual Characters - Travelers, Merchants, and Hirelings
2 Physical Decks of Decks of the Arbitrary Athenaeum - Legends & Myths
Smuggling Drifting - $125
This is the all-digital package
The PDF's for both books
Print & Play PDF's for all 14 decks
Bandit - $240
All physical rewards standard
The standard hardback copies of both books
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
Terrain Battle Maps - 40 HD Digital Battlemaps
Physical Deck prints for all 14 decks
Bandit Lieutenant - $270
All physical rewards exclusive
The exclusive hardback copies of both books
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
Terrain Battle Maps - 40 HD Digital Battlemaps
Physical Deck prints for all 14 decks
Bandit Captain - $400
All physical rewards swag
The exclusive hardback copies of both books
Physical Deck prints for all 14 decks
Traveler Map Assets - 100 Digital Map Assets
Terrain Battle Maps - 40 HD Digital Battlemaps
Signed book copies
Exclusive swag items
I hope this helps!
Wicked Intent & Ancient Origin - Content Update
over 3 years ago
– Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 07:56:39 PM
We have hit our first stretch goal, and are well on the way to hitting our second! When we hit 50k, we get to put them in the hag and custom hag covens to the book!
Thank you all so much for supporting and below you will see the outline of the update:
We like to provide little outlines to every update to help you see what is in the update. Your time is important, and we do not want to waste it, if not needed!
We always strive to keep content that makes sense and flows along a line in a fashion. This makes the content, and the writings flow well and allow backers and customers to build their worlds slowly as they need to.
Yet here we are now with the first series of 4 books complete and excited to announce the first books in our Expedition Series. The Expedition Series will include of course the two books in this project and future writings like Fascinating Festivals & Festivities and Empty to Empire. These are future contents that we plan on writing but let us get into this project:
Terrific Terrains & Terrible Travels
Contains an extremely dangerous collection of different and unique bandit groups that any party could come across in their travels. These bandits will range from extremely dangerous to just wanting your cold. In addition to the 10 different bandit groups, there will be 5 NPC’s fully outlined to flush out each clan as well.
Contains a unique collection of different nomads that are each as unique as the last. These nomads are not necessarily wanting a fight, but they will not shy away from one. In addition to the 10 different nomadic clans, there will be 5 NPC’s fully outlined to flush out each clan as well.
Includes content to truly expand your fantasy world with terrains like the arctic, canyons, highlands, forests, and more. Detailed with evocative content such as wilderness terrain features, unique landmarks, sights, sounds, smells, flora, and fauna.
10 new hags will come to life along with will all the details of how they interact with their home. Those 10 unique hags are truly completed with 50 creative hags NPC's and stories and books hags would possess.
Gives you several unique and creative chances to throw a plethora of hags at your party. Half the fun of traveling is the interesting encounters with unique individuals, and we will not disappoint with these NPCs.
Different books or tales one might encounter when dealing in areas known to be the home of hags. While the adventurers can roleplay and make up their own stories, this collection is more based on the NPC’s that travel, and the tomes and books hags are known to posses
Desert hags are relics of their biome. Old and tired of the world they live in the desolate realm in hopes of avoiding life and the labors it brings. They take the few locals they encounter as slaves to facilitate their desire to do little and steal their homes to save building lairs.
They interact with beings of power, merchants, creatures, and locals that are found in deserts only when in need, the hag having little love for gossip or social interactions that many of her kin hold.
This stark personality is a representation of her surroundings. The desert hag thrives in the bleak unending heat. They slowly and carefully move through it with ease and joy, twisted skin burnt and frayed. The desert hag knows that the extreme conditions they reside in offers no reprieve for those that fall within her grasp, the isolation, and hazardous lands forcing many to seek her aide, and never able to leave again.
Personality - A rare, old, and miserable hag, that of the desert is a true loner of their species. They reflect their surroundings, bleak, desolate, and unending. The desert hag is a slow creature, the sickly hot weather that they enjoy causing them to walk, act, and move at extremely sluggish rates unless in dire need. Often wishing to avoid the basic mundane tasks of life they are quick to take slaves, with most hags simply moving to a small village, or finding a nomadic tribe, enslaving them, and taking their homes like her own. The desert hag will nearly never seek out travelers unless she needs more servants. She will rarely attack unless in danger. Rarely speak unless a point must be made. Rarely perform a task unless her servants are unable to perform it for her. The desert hag is often happy with the number of deals and contracts they make yearly, with travelers on their death bed easily falling upon the hag, many willing to trade their soul for a ladle of cold water.
Deals and Danger - The deals and dangers of a desert hag often come in two forms. Those that would enslave the unfortunate soul unto the hags will, and those that would send the victim to complete a difficult and dangerous task that the hag is unwilling to waste her slaves on. These deals are generally hard to say no to, the alternative often a slow and painful death under the merciless sun outside the lair. Hags will resort to manipulation and twisting words upon contracts when in need, but in most cases, a simple mug of cold water across a table will cause any traveler to agree to anything.
Of course, more is included than the above content, but we hope you enjoyed the preview of a portion of the content for each hag type.
These full-color battle maps included in this project are featuring terrains that are heavily detailed in our books and in addition, contain a map of hag’s lair of that specific terrain type.
The maps are provided to all backers above $15 dollars as a digital format and are in High Definition. Each individual map is 18 x 28 squares in size, with each 1-inch square scaled to represent 5 feet.
You are all backers of projects of old, found our project through Kickstarter, or from a social media source. We want to ensure that you have the chance to get the content for the cheapest we can offer it. This takes the form of 300 super early bird awards available for 48 hours and 1000 regular early-bird rewards available for the first 7 days.
$25 - Early Bird - Distant Vagabond – 0 Remaining until December 8th - PDF copies of both books.
$65 - Early Bird - Drifting Vagabond – 0 Remaining until December 8th - Both Standard Copies
$85 - Early Bird - Nomad Vagabond – 41 Remaining until December 8th - Both Exclusive Copies
$105 - Early Bird – Smuggling Drifter – 234 Remaining until December 8th - All digital rewards
$220 - Early Bird - Bandit – 94 Remaining until December 8th - All physical rewards and standard hardback books.
$250 - Early Bird – Bandit Lieutenant – 94Remaining until December 8th - All physical rewards and Kickstarter exclusive covers.
$350 - Early Bird - Bandit Captain – 40 Remaining until December 8th - All physical rewards, Kickstarter exclusive covers, and swag items.
These rewards give you the most bang for your buck, so do not miss your chance to get notified and allow us to give back to you for once. This could even be an amazing gift for a tabletop friend or your favorite game master and will give them something to look forward to!
Hey with this part of the update I want to talk about How to Create Realistic Fantasy Characters. Writing a legendary campaign, a detailed city that lives and breathes, or even something as simple as connecting characters is not easy. The premise has to be on point, the plot and subplots need to be seamlessly weaved in, and the cast of characters need to jump off the page as if the account is not of ink-and-paper creatures but of flesh-and-blood people and their real-life story.
The reason why you need to make your characters human, even if they are not.
The reason why your NPC's end up alienating the players of your games is that Human beings are already incredibly complex. This is because, despite all our universal similarities, we are all still quite different. We are unique and that is exactly what you should be aiming for when writing a character for a memorable story.
The truth is, regardless of the type of character, whether they are human, humanoid, or bestial, your cast of characters need to be “human” that your players might encounter. If not, then your players will not connect with them and be vested in their fictional lives. That does not mean you cannot imagine a race of beings who are utterly emotionless and base their actions on the greater good rather than the preciousness of individual lives. You will just need to draw from the life experience and thought process of human sociopaths to create such a race of beings. Anything less will just leave these characters chasing the goblin you added to the campaign as a mob and now the party has a pet goblin.
That is why creating believable characters is so tough. If you do not understand the nuances of being human, you will always fail to create a flesh-and-blood character whose emotions and choices make a story tick. Do not fret, there are some common personalities and themes that we all embody.
We will continue with this tips and tricks section later in later updates.
Time Goes Quick – 48 Hours Down
over 3 years ago
– Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 10:08:19 AM
Thank you all so much for supporting and below you will see the outline of the update:
We like to provide little outlines to every update to help you see what is in the update. Your time is important, and we do not want to waste it, if not needed!
We always strive to keep content that makes sense and flows along a line in a fashion. This makes the content, and the writings flow well and allow backers and customers to build their worlds slowly as they need to.
Yet here we are now with the first series of 4 books complete and excited to announce the first books in our Expedition Series. This Series will include of course the two books in this project and future writings like Fascinating Festivals & Festivities and Empty to Empire. These are future contents that we plan on writing but let us get into this project:
Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go
Will cover the fantastic and more animal-like mounts that the common races of the fantasy realms ride. These races include dwarves, elves, humans, orcs, gnomes, halflings, dragonkin, elementals, celestials, and fiends.
Will explore fantastic travel with 10 unique ways to travel the realms fantasy-style like Tarv’s Tavern which is a large inn and magical building that looks extremely tiny from the outside. Yet, the magic of the tavern expanded to make the tavern more accommodating.
Will be on interesting individuals who travel the roads of fantasy realms. It comes with details about caravans & a caravan generator that you can fill with 150 NPC’s of everyday travelers, merchant travelers, and caravan hirelings.
Caravans that travel the realms will be covered in large details. In ancient times, all the way up to before railroads became mainstream, people used carts and wagons to travel.
Different tales one might hear while on the road will be covered. While the adventurers can roleplay and make up their own stories, this collection is more based on the NPC’s that travel, and the stories about unbelievable myths and incredible legends will be written for your leisure.
As a thank you to every backer, we will be delivering a free digital Print & Play PDF of our Traveling Currency PC Cards. This is an amazing resource for GMs because they can simply print all the cards, they need to provide an easy tool for players to track things like rations, spell components, ammunition, torches, and more.
Let us face it, players often forget about these crucial components but when they are traveling, they cannot just run down to the newest blacksmith, fletcher, or general store to get what they need.
We do little stretch goals that promote sharing and new backers coming into the project. This gives backers more content for the books and every single share can make that much of a difference that we want to give back to you all. So if we hit 55k in 24 hours from the time of this update, all backers will gain 3 pages of additional content in the form of smuggling rules to the digital and physical versions of Magnificent Mounts & Where They Go. From the posting of this update, the timer begins, and this content will go away forever if we do not hit this goal by December 4th, 2020. So, share all the content that you can and never forget the power of the word of mouth.
Hey, we are small and while we have amazing content it is hard to get the voice out! So, we depend on you all to help us out! This is your campaign as much as it is ours, so consider sharing the sample page PDF to help get people excited about it, share our social media posts, or just come follow us!
These full-color battle maps included in this project are featuring terrains that are heavily detailed in our books and in addition, contain a map of hag’s lair of that specific terrain type.
The maps are provided to all backers above $15 dollars as a digital format and are in High Definition. Each individual map is 18 x 28 squares in size, with each 1-inch square scaled to represent 5 feet.
The First 24 Hours Down
over 3 years ago
– Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 02:56:14 AM
Sorry, everyone, I was finally able to get some rest and much-needed sleep! Thank you all so much for supporting and below you will see the outline of the update:
We like to provide little outlines to every update to help you see what is in the update. Your time is important, and we do not want to waste it, if not needed!
The Voyages of the Vagabond is a combination of fantasy roleplaying game supplements that can be used by any Game Master to help detail and build their fantasy worlds. In this project, these supplements will be focused on the roads of fantasy worlds and the environments that they exist in. It is a great way for a Game Master to expand their fantasy world, build upon current writings, or even pull content that fits their world the best.
A Want for Realism – We have always strived to create the content that creators want us to, which is highly detailed realism and fantastic all at the same time. The aim of all our content is to be more than a paragraph and a piece of art, which is quite common in much of the content available from other creators. In that same instance, we want the content to be steeped in fantasy and this gave us the unique position to combine the fantasy tropes that we all love with untouched realism which is familiar to us all.
Inspiration for the Project – The inspiration for this project came from the natural build of our content to this point. The question that often comes to us is “What is next?” and that brought us to think of the natural process of the world. We have created earthen elements, flora, fauna, and mechanics for surviving them. The next natural idea would be to build upon the fantasy by expanding upon terrains, traveling, biomes, and everything in between.
You are all backers of projects of old, found our project through Kickstarter, or from a social media source. We want to ensure that you have the chance to get the content for the cheapest we can offer it. This takes the form of 300 super early bird awards available for 48 hours and 1000 regular early-bird rewards available for the first 7 days.
$75 - Super Early Bird - Smuggling Drifter – 174 Remaining until December 3rd - which gives you access to all the book PDF's and All 14 of the PDF's for the print and play decks
$175 - Super Early Bird - Bandit – 13 Remaining until December 3rd - which gives you access to both standard hardback books - All 14 of the physical printed decks
$200 - Super Early Bird - Bandit Lieutenant – 27 Remaining until December 3rd - which gives you access to both exclusive hardback books - All 14 of the physical printed decks
$300 - Super Early Bird - Bandit Captain – 40 Remaining until December 3rd - which gives you access to both standard hardback books - All 14 of the physical printed decks - and all the swag included for the captain reward
These rewards give you the most bang for your buck, so do not miss your chance to get notified and allow us to give back to you for once. This could even be an amazing gift for a tabletop friend or your favorite game master and will give them something to look forward to!
The old school way of gaming was focused on dungeon diving: the deeper you descended into the dungeon, the better the loot became. At Deep Dungeon Games we embrace that “old school” philosophy with every product we offer; the best gameplay “loot” for the best gamers.
Since 2016, from a small town in Texas, we have been delving deeper into our own dungeon of creativity, looking to create content that gamers have always been asking for to really flesh out their realms and adventures. Since then, we have strived to provide the best of everything from wood crafting to writing supplements for any game you play and especially the 5th edition of the world’s most popular role-playing game. Deep Dungeon Games. We provide you the best supplementary content for your RPG tabletop games and the adventurers who play them.
The house of my youth in my hometown of Perryton, TX.
There are some items that backers may want but do not want the other items that come with a certain reward level or perhaps they want to spread the cost out of the different items. The rewards in the Kickstarter will always give you the most bang for your buck.
Kickstarter has developed a new add-on system that allows backers to include more through Kickstarter than in later surveys. We will have add-ons offered on the Kickstarter page and through Backerkit during the survey period. However, backers will get a more affordable item by supporting it during the Kickstarter.
Rewards will still be available through backerkit and for ordering later.
Unfortunately, we cannot fix any of the rewards explanations or lists but there is a simple list in the FAQ
We have put a ton of information in the FAQ section of the Kickstarter page. Content creators are limited to the number of words they can place on a page and images also subtract from the total word count. So, in an effort to provide you the most detailed, complete, and beautiful Kickstarter to date. We have had to place some of the information for this Kickstarter in this location. Unfortunately, we are unable to update this area until after the official launch date, and while we have the content for the FAQ page written and prepared. It does take a bit to upload it all to that section, so stay tuned and check back in this section for the first few days of the project.
