The PHYSICAL books are identical. The leather clamshell edition will lack the limited-edition numbered inserts. The Affinity First Book novel is unchanged. We are adding three new supplements/adventures and the novel’s sequel, The Next Book.

No, the final books ended up including all the relevant rules required to play Affinity without Ultramodern5. However, if you want modern/sci-fi classes, you’ll need an appropriate non-fantasy 5E book like Ultramodern5, the UM5-SRD, Amethyst Quintessence, or some other 3rd-party 5E book.

Each book in AFFINITY stands on its own as a setting, and the narrative contained within is self-enclosed. However, the story segments do point to a larger connected setting, and certain aspects of this story may only make sense when reading the other two books.

Affinity was written to be 100% compatible with the 2014 original version of 5E D&D. However, we do plan on producing a 2024 UPDATE PDF to adapt Affinity to 2024 5E D&D as a stretch goal.

By default, the new supplements are planned to be adventures in each of the respective settings. However, we do plan on expanding these through stretch goals if we happen to reach them. This can include more races, monsters, and gear.

Is there any AI assistance with AFFINITY? As Affinity was written in 2020 and 2021, there is no generative assistance or generative intelligence with any illustrations or writing.

Unlike previous DEM crowdfunding campaigns, Affinity’s physical books have already been designed. We are returning to Round Colour for our printing, and the order has already been placed, putting me on a deadline to finish the novel before the books reach distribution at Studio2. The novels are being printed with Amazon Kindle, allowing a rapid turnaround of only a few weeks once the editor has finished.

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