A set of supplements focusing on terrains, transportation, and traveling of any fantasy world all wrapped up in 500 stunning pages.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Wicked Intent & Ancient Origin - Content Update
over 5 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 5 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 5 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.
Successfully Funded in 10 hours!
over 5 years ago
– Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:00:46 PM
Thank you backers to celebrate I am making tacos, and I am pretty excited about that as well!
For those of you who are new to our projects, it is nice to meet you! My name is Hobie Hill, and I am the do it all guy for Deep Dungeon Games! I am also one of the writers on this project. So you will be hearing from me quite a bit and have part of my writing in the books of this project! We are excited that you have decided to join us on this journey and it is time to mount up for another amazing project!
For those of you who are return backers for a Deep Dungeon Games Kickstarter. I truly hope you all got to take advantage of the early bird rewards. I really hope that backers who are consistent backers and followers of our content were able to get them and trust me I notice your name every time it pops up when you like an update or comment on an update. I am sure your thinking this guy is a mad man but, I just basically do not sleep.
Well, it is nice to meet you or see you again and I see you are surviving this year. I hope you are being safe and sound in 2020. We could small talk for hours about what we all have been up to but mostly it has been keeping our noses to the grindstone and keeping the lights on. We are ecstatic to see your support for the first time or as a returning backer for another Deep Dungeon adventure! Now that introductions are over, let us get to the main announcement, shall we?
Reward Tiers Explained
So, I know the rewards might be a bit confusing but I promise there is a method to my madness. I am a sucker for themed content and this is no different for our projects. There is just something about the names of the rewards tying to the written content that makes me happy. Anyways, so the naming of the different rewards was meant to be a theme but it led to being a bit more confusing. If you are needing a bit more help in figuring out your reward level, the Kickstarter page has links to an excel breakdown and PDF breakdown.
One thing about Kickstarter rewards is once they have been chosen by a backer, the creators can no longer edit that reward. Obviously, this makes complete sense unless a creator wished to simplify the text within the reward. We will also be adding a very simple breakdown of the rewards in the FAQ section of the Kickstarter.
The others involved in this project are just blown away by the tremendous support from you all and honestly, it is bringing a lot of emotions to the table for many of us. We launched only 10HOURS ago and we raised $35,000 for the funding of the two books in this project! We are beyond humbled and truly wish we could shake each of your hands or give you a hug, but we will refrain, with the knowledge that we know are able to bring you something amazing.
This Kickstarter is by far our most successful to date, and we are so thrilled to see records broken. We do not take your support lightly, friends. We have got heaps of fun announcements and teasers planned for the remainder of the campaign, so keep your eyes peeled! Thank you all so much for your support!
We have really tried to organize our updates, provide interesting content for you all, streamline information flow and communication, and everything else that we could to help the process of this Kickstarter. In future updates, you will see recurring keywords in the update outlines and a short description will help you understand what we are providing in future updates:
About – This type of content will be detailed information about numerous topics. A lot of it will be inspiration or historic content that drove us to write the content for Voyages of the Vagabond.
Content – This subject will be giving previews of drafted content for backers and visitors. The hope is that you will love what you see and be engaged in the funding of the project.
Stretch Goals – Any relative stretch Goal content will be titled with this header.
Art – As the campaign continues, we will continue working diligently on content, creation, and of course artwork. This header will be displayed when we are showcasing a piece of art for you.
Tips & Tricks – This header will be displayed when we share a video or content for creating your own content, giving worldbuilding advice, or similar things along those lines.
Free Content – Truly we could never do this without you all and we wish we could create for free. This content that we are providing to backers and visitors of this campaign is titled with this header and is a small way of saying thank you.
Sharing – This header will be displayed when we have a new form of sharing, links for sharing, or just a reminder to keep sharing the information, free content, and the campaign everywhere you can.
FAQ’s – Any new Frequently Asked Question, or when we need to point backers where they might be able to find information will be coined with this header.
Thank you all so very much and stay tuned for free rewards, detailed tips & tricks, and progress reports as the project continues.
