Explore a megacity on the brink of revolution, where powerful factions, sentient artifacts, and heroic desperation collide. Unlock new subclasses, creatures, and body modifications in this high fantasy 5E campaign setting brimming with cyberpunk grit.
High Fantasy with Cyberpunk Grit 5E Campaign Setting
Zephyr's Veil may have survived the cataclysm caused by sentient artifacts, but the city is now drowning in chaos. Refugees flood its streets, wages plummet, food prices skyrocket, and the wealthy hoard more power than ever. Heroic desperation fills the air as the odds feel impossibly stacked against you.
But something is shifting beneath the surface…
Determination. Will. Power. You’ve fought for everything, clawing your way to the precipice of something bigger. The city hums with the energy of thousands burning for change, and you’re about to be thrust into a conflict that could spark revolution.
Start your adventure with Creed’s Codex: Echoes of the Shattered Age for 5E. Unleash new subclasses, heroic feats, game-changing body modifications, and navigate powerful factions in a city teetering on the brink of violent transformation. Every choice you make could tip the scales.
Delve into a 5E high fantasy campaign setting with cyberpunk elements like body modification and a megacity. Experience heroic desperation with new player mechanics, creatures, lore, and more.
10 Thematic Subclasses: Fresh new options such as the fighter conjureblade who brings supernatural allies to the battlefield or the hope domain cleric who provides their allies with the resolve to fight on.
10 Subjugating Creatures: Challenge your players with familiar, but fresh and engaging foes like the convergence aberrations who focus on corrupting the land in order to multiply or the divination sentinels, constructs who watch and report.
Cutting-Edge Body Modification System with 10 Diverse Body Modification Options: Think upgradeable cybernetics, but in a high fantasy setting. Arcane tattoos to increase your resilience, element-infused organs for increased healing, and replacing connective tissue and muscle with plants, crystals, and metallic bones are just a few of the options awaiting you.
Megacity Zephyr's Veil History, Daily Life, and Secrets: Zephyr's Veil detailed past history, present NPCs, and world events that can be plug-and-play or quickly massaged into your existing campaign.
Factions and Power Struggles: Assist. Resist. Manipulate. All options are on the table as you move through the intricate dances of power between these juggernauts.
Dangerous Wasteland: Venture out of Zephyr's Veil and face the environmental hazards and lethal creatures ready for encounters.
Detailed Cataclysm for a Species-Ending Level Event: Rather than hiding behind the mystique of a mysterious cataclysm, the details are here to use as is or modify for a species-ending level event in your world.
10 Adaptive Spells: Utility, offensive, and defensive options such as Wayfinder's tether help you navigate through even the most demanding environments or binding mud, which can be strategically targeted to improve your odds of landing.
10 Heroic Feats: Empower your character with specialized feats, including infusions to modify your physiology, adding an extra layer of customization to any class.
No AI Illustrations: Art crafted in partnership with humans, outputting masterpieces.
Interactive Stretch Stretch Goals: The backers (YOU!) will vote on which additional content I should pursue, which will be unlocked as we reach the associated stretch goal.
What started as a single book quickly turned into a series of books, each building on the success of the last and expanding into something even more extraordinary. While each book is a stand-alone masterpiece, together, they create an epic campaign experience enhanced by a stunning illustration that unfolds across their spines.
What began as a passion project has transformed into a fully realized, intricate world that just keeps growing. There were additional backer-requested supplements to expand the world further. By the end of this campaign, we'll have:
2 Painstakingly Balanced Classes: Psion and Summoner
50+ Original Subclasses
150+ Captivating Creatures
80+ Empowering Feats
70+ Thematic Spells
60+ Fresh Magic Items
10+ Additional Gear Options
180+ Plug-and-Play Plothooks
Replayable Arena for All Levels
Rich Lore, Sample Encounters and Loot, GM Tools, and More!
Expansive Lore and Worldbuilding
Too Much Good Stuff
As a player who has amassed a large collection of PDFs and hardcovers over the years, I know how challenging it can be to use the content I've purchased. Figuring out which book contains that perfect spell or feat can take valuable time away from your game, if you even find it. With these needs in mind, I built a tool for everyone to use: CreedsCodex.com.
Why CreedsCodex.com is the Ultimate Tool for Every Adventurer
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Dynamic and Community-Driven: CreedsCodex.com isn’t just a static library. It evolves based on your feedback, adding new features like an in-game item store and community events, ensuring your experience stays fresh and exciting.
One thing that always bugged me about D&DBeyond was the lack of recognition for those of us who had already invested in physical books. Being asked to buy the same content again in a different format felt like duplicate purchases, especially when you don't even fully own that digital content. That's why I'm doing things differently:
Free Access: The robust search, filters, work-in-progress material, SRD content, and more will remain free for all, forever.
Unmatched Value: You get the standard Hardcover and/or PDF, but every pledge also comes with a CreedsCodex.com credit worth more than your pledge amount that can be used toward a subscription. The Treasure Hoard tier is a true steal offering $1,000 in credit, giving you years of access to every Knight Vision Creative product—existing and future releases, just by buying the products you already want to use.
*By becoming a founding member, you can also lock in 50% off the subscription for life. These founder spots are limited and end September 30th. They come with a host of benefits, including inclusion in the homepage artwork!
1. Download a 61-Page PDF Preview: Dive into this extensive preview, packed with content from all the finished and work-in-progress material! While it doesn’t cover everything available in the interactive database, it gives you a great taste of the high-quality material you can expect in the final book.
2. Discover CreedsCodex.com: For the most comprehensive preview ever, visit the official online interactive database! You’ll find all the Knight Vision Creative content in one place. Best of all, everything is free to explore through the end of the month!
If you're interested in checking out the two previous books or some of the backer-requested add-ons, you're in the right place!
I put together a quick synopsis of what's inside and a video overview of each product. Not only can you see way more content than I'd be able to stick on the page, but you get some behind-the-scenes details on why things were built.
📖Hardcovers & 🖥️PDFs
Summon Forth New Options!
Unleash legendary summons with the new summoner class, spells, and feats, bringing epic companions that maintain a balanced action economy to your D&D adventure.
Balanced Summoner Class: Bring forth powerful entities to fight alongside you with this painstakingly balanced new class.
7 Distinct Summoner Subclasses: Bring forth gargantuan summons with devastating attacks with the Colossus, evolve your perfect creation with the Evolutionist's extreme precision, or explore one of the other 5 options created with extensive community feedback to meet your wants.
28 Transformative Force Augments: Unique options to dial in your summoner build such as healing allies when your summon deals damage, increasing the size of your summon, or switching places with your summon.
11 Inspirational Build Guides: Detailed evolutionist builds showcasing ideas to build everything from a guardian angel to a Frankenstein monster.
The Spirit Warlock Subclass: A new warlock patron summoning forth mighty totems and, even for brief moments, unleashing their patron themselves.
4 Empowering Eldritch Invocations: Augment your warlock with additional capabilities like Totem Conduit, damaging all who pass between you and your totem, or Unstable Earth, creating minor quakes at will.
Unleash the Power of Convergence: Tap into forbidden magic, amplifying your abilities. This power is accompanied by random effects, some of which are good such as being given a treasure map by a friendly shopkeeper or guaranteeing a critical hit on your next attack. Others are not, such as being followed around by a ghostly bagpipe quartet or falling 1d100 feet into a sinkhole that suddenly appears under you.
15 Versitile Creatures: Leverage the mental formulation, a flexible creature developed for summoners to ensure a summon is available for every level regardless of the types of creatures you've encountered on your adventures (Works for wild shape druid feature too!).
Cooperative Summoning Rules: Have more than one summoner in the party? Combine your powers to bring forth legendary creatures!
12 Exotic Weapons and Armor: Dragon silk armor, bulwark shield, and war scythe are but a few of the new tactical equipment options.
Exotic Weapon Crafting: Simple mechanics to add more capabilities to your weapons such as the ability to cleave through multiple foes or incorporate fateweaver silk to act first in combat.
Symbiotic Equipment: Clear details for creating equipment that has a mind of its own and progressively increases in strength based on how you use it.
18 Intuitive Feats: Options to bring your vision to life including the ability to manifest as a shadow upon death with one last shot at stealing life or the companion caller feat path, a five feat chain that lets you add a summoning archtype on top of any class.
41 Summoning-Themed Spells: Spells like chest burst and monstrous transformation are new options in your spellbook.
Ancient Lore of the Summoners: The details you need to add summoners and the rest of the content into your world.
No AI Illustrations: Art crafted in partnership with humans outputting masterpieces.
Unleash the Power of Your Mind!
Master the power of the mind with the groundbreaking martial psion class, seamlessly fitting into the 5E landscape.
Groundbreaking Psion Class: Martial class with 11 at-will psychic powers available such as energy transmutation and mind trick, which can be amplified with psi points.
5 Mind-Bending Psion Subclasses: Explore time with the chronostrider, shift between various stances with the psiforge, or explore one of the limits of the mind with one of the other disciplines.
34 Flexible Amplifications: Master your abilities with specializations such as moving allies out of harm's way with your mind as a reaction or gaining the benefits of half cover when you teleport.
10 Inspirational Psion Builds: Class options defined to build your favorite psionic powered character such as Neo, Green Lantern, Jedi, the Grey Knights, and more.
New Fungal Specias: The exochron species is a plant that builds an exoskeleton around itself to explore the world in a humanoid fashion.
New Premonition Background: The chronosentinel apprentice gives you a celestial mentor and the ability to witness things that may come to pass in the future.
42 Amplifying Class Modifications: With three progressively stronger options available for each class, further refine your build with options such as saving your cleric spell slots with high religion checks or increasing the range of your paladin auras.
50 Fresh Feats: Offering eight feat paths, add one such as the apparition assassin, peacemaker, or centered fist on top of your character class to make a truly unique character.
12 Psionic-Themed Spells: Fill the holes in your spell options with chords of chaos dealing damage, healing, or increasing movespeed determined by the dice or symbiotic shelter, seeking refuge inside one of your companions and enhancing their abilities while you hitch a ride.
10 Upgradalbe Magic Items: Thematic magic items with multiple levels of rarity available to grow in power or be handed out at any tier of play.
18 Captivating Creatures: With lore, tactics, sample encounters & loot, plot hooks, and an ability check interaction provided for the creatures, you have the flexibility you need to include these in your game.
5 Psion Legends: Masters of each of the psion disciplines, these legendary teachers have retreated from everyday affairs, but the details are included for them to reemerge in your game.
4 Powerful Factions: Centers of power with induction quests, membership perks, and all the details you need to include one or more of these in your world.
Rich Lore: The Chronosentinels guard the timeline, but their visions of potential future paths are suddenly blocked by the Obsidian Veil. Zephyr's Veil and the psion legends play an unknown part. Explore the world on the precipice of an unknown event of epic proportions.
No AI Illustrations: Art crafted in partnership with humans outputting masterpieces.
🖥️PDFs
Awakened Mind PDF ($25)
14 Subclasses, one for each class (including summoner and psion), with summoning and psionic themes
Full-page illustration for each subclass
$25 CreedsCodex.com credit
Coldforge Gauntlet PDF ($15)
A replayable arena for levels 1-20
Modularly designed encounters
3 different challenge templates provided
Roll tables provided to determine the competition
8 prebuilt opponent parties
28 new creature stat-blocks
11 spells
2 magic item
6 battlemaps formatted for Roll20, Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, Grid, and Gridless
6 creature tokens
Lore for each creature
30+ plot hooks to introduce future adventures
Read-aloud text and sidebars with suggested variations
Rules to scale the encounter to any size and level between 1 and 20, even split-level parties
$15 CreedsCodex.com credit
Magic Items & Exituc Equipment ($15)
29 Magic Items with an additional 24 rarity variations
Armor, Rings, Staffs, Weapons, and Wonderous magical items included with suggested prices
Flavor text for each of the magic items
11 Exotic Equipment
Exotic Equipment crafting rules
3 Feats
$15 CreedsCodex.com credit
Martial & Spellcaster NPCs & Villains ($15)
24 stat-blocks ranging from CR 1/2 to CR 15
3 legendary creatures with lairs, followers, and legendary actions
Lore for each creature with suggested ability checks
Tactical descriptions for each creature providing inspiration for how they approach an encounter
70+ plot hooks to introduce the npcs, provide side quest ideas, or general assistance in populating the world
24 detailed skill and roleplaying encounters providing ability checks, recommended DCs, failure options, and successful conclusions
95+ combat encounters providing suggested party level, difficulty, monster breakdown, and loot
7 magic items
Sidebar suggestions for variations, modifying the rules, and quickly adjusting the CR of npcs
Detailed descriptions of the npcs
$15 CreedsCodex.com credit
Paths of Power ($25)
14 Subclasses
Full-page illustration for each subclass
$25 CreedsCodex.com credit
Prison Break PDF ($15)
A D&D Fifth Edition adventure for 3rd, 7th, or 11th level characters with instructions to modify to your players' level
18 stat-blocks
5 spells
1 magic item
1 battlemap formatted for Roll20, Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, Grid, and Gridless
6 creature tokens
Lore for each creature
Tactical descriptions for each creature providing inspiration for how they approach this adventure
40+ plot hooks to introduce npcs, provide side quest ideas, or general assistance in populating the world
Read-aloud text and sidebars with variations
Detailed descriptions of the npcs
$15 CreedsCodex.com credit
Rift Wardens of the Nexus ($20)
A mini-campaign setting that is designed to be plug-and-play with any adventure.
Monsters are flooding through, and Kyrianna and her charges are the last line of defense.
3 Subclasses
10 body modifications
5 Feats
*Still under development. Final version may be slightly different
$20 CreedsCodex.com credit
Summoner NPCs, Villains, & Their Summons ($15)
27 stat-blocks ranging from CR 1/2 to CR 25
10 Summoner stat-blocks, including one named villain Sazor the Decayer
3 new skeletons
Lore for each creature with suggested ability checks
Tactical descriptions for each creature providing inspiration for how they approach an encounter
40+ plot hooks for the creatures to provide side quest ideas, descriptive flavor, or general assistance in populating the world
15+ detailed skill and roleplaying encounters providing ability checks, recommended DCs, failure options, and successful conclusions
60+ combat encounters providing suggested party level, difficulty, monster breakdown, and loot
Sidebar suggestions for variations, modifying the rules, and quickly adjusting the CR of creatures
I've put together some extra loot that can be unlocked by spreading the word about the campaign. Help smash these goals and bring even more awesome content to life! Grab a friend or 200 and bring them to the campaign!
While others race to the bottom, I'm committed to packing as much value into my products as possible. Instead of opting for the thinnest paper and cheapest materials, I've specifically chosen best-in-class components and methods to create the highest-quality books.
FSC Mix Paper: Crafted using sustainably sourced paper to ensure no deforestation, maintain old-growth forests, and prioritize environmental responsibility. The druids are happy.
Smyth Sewn Case Bound: A durable binding technique that allows books to lay flat, providing a seamless reading experience and making them perfect for frequent use.
Highest Quality Covers: Luxurious scuff-resistant, soft-touch matte lamination for a premium feel, long-lasting durability, and reduced glare for better readability.
I've assembled a top-notch team of talented people ready to knock your socks off. I've highlighted a few of their favorite past projects you will likely recognize:
Mechanics, Artwork, and Lore Refinement:
Knight Vision Creative Community
Senior Writers:
Ari Marmell - Heroes of Horror (3E), Neverwinter Campaign Setting (4E), The Lost Citadel (5E)
Brendan Jonesrebandt - Creed's Codex series: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners, Legends of the Psions
You have the freedom to participate as much or as little as you like.
Exclusive Early Access: Immediate access to the master work-in-progress manuscript as a backer. Follow the development journey and provide feedback every step of the way.
Updates: Daily Discord updates, crowdfunding updates every four weeks, regular surveys collecting feedback and giving you a channel to have your opinions heard!
✅ Daily Discord Updates
With 1,200+ passionate players driving decisions every day, I have a huge advantage in outputting content. I share first drafts of mechanics for feedback, poll on which artwork concept we should continue with, and source ideas you'd love to see in the lore from character names through plot arcs. Plus people are naturally kept in the loop with where the project is! *Also, there's a D&D campaign running regularly open to all. Whether you're looking for an occassional one-shot or want regular action with the ongoing adventure, come check it out!
✅ Lightning-Fast Delivery
I've partnered with a US-based printer for record-breaking delivery times with the highest-quality product. Creed's Codex: Legends of the Psions Kickstarter ended on September 8th, 2024, and people could access the master work-in-progress manuscript on October 13th and use the content that night! Hardcovers began arriving in hand as early as mid-May, two months before our estimated delivery!
Nothing kills the excitement more than a 2+ year delivery timeline, and I'm focused on improving this even further with every project!
💭But what does the community think?
Since they are there every step of the way, feedback has been phenomenal!
Review the master work-in-progress document and see real-time updates as soon as the campaign ends
Vote and critique artwork concepts to help make a spectacular final version
See the content come to life at the US-based printer (that's me reviewing the fatesight psion final output)
The community is a major driver of the content in these products. I think the key to making the highest-quality product that people will love is getting feedback early and often, and it is a critical part of my process. I just outright asked them if anyone wanted to say anything I could stick on here.
This has naturally led to spectacular reviews since people can provide their feedback as we're building, and I can factor it into the final product.
Knight Vision Creative books are manufactured in the United States, increasing quality, decreasing transit timelines, and reducing risk. The products will require an import/VAT tax internationally, where applicable. Sales tax, if applicable, will be charged in the pledge manager.
I've always thought it sucks having to pay such high import costs, so I'm giving international backers a free PDF. This will head out your way in September 2025.
A friend asked for my help getting a project across the finish line for their company. They were expecting it to take approximately 3 months. I decided I could squeeze it in here and there around my normal full time job. 26 months later I rolled off that project, having been working 70+ hours a week for what felt like an eternity. Shortly after that, I had two colleagues pass away while we were working on setting up an IT system for people who might not ever use it.
Feeling burned out, I began re-evaluating how I spend my time. I started looking around for a summoner class for Dungeons & Dragons. I found a few, but none of them felt right. They had weak summons, overpowered characters, or didn't live up to the dream: an epic companion that would do the heavy lifting, balanced, and focused on summoning. I started using some of that freed-up time to perform attempt after attempt to bring something to life. I finally had my eureka moment when I abandoned spellcasting as the means to bring forth the summons and instead built a points system similar to Ki and Sorcery Points (and I required the summoner to use their action to control the summon. I said these were powerful!).
During the process I invited people to playtest the class and after countless sessions had refined it into a solid contender that fit right at home within the 5E ecosystem. This process is what led me to the true strength of crowdfunding, the crowd! Bringing backers into the fold early and often to get opinions heard whether that's in relation to artwork concepts, mechanic ideas, lore suggestions, or general feedback led to a better product than I could make alone. The final result was Creed's Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners. This initial experiment was a great success, kickstarted a blossoming community, and led to tons of ideas for another highly requested class: the psion.
Leveling Up
After the success of the first project and the burgeoning community of passionate folks that had joined my party along the way, I had put out a survey looking to see what we should do next. A psion class kept coming up over and over again. I did a little digging and found a similar problem. Almost all the psions were reflavored spellcasters adding a complex psionic psuedo magic system that was competing with the existing magic system.
I took a step back and asked my community what they thought about a martial psion instead. I had a lot of support for this direction, so I started cranking away with the community. This time I decided one of my focuses with developing this book was also going to be on building a best-in-class book manufacturing company by leveraging my experience with DevOps.
I was already doing the "continuous deployment" aspect, dropping new content into my Discord server as soon as it was ready for people to start playing with it, so why not look at revamping the whole process? I ran into some crazy issues in my life during the project: two moves, my one-year-old ending up in the hospital for the majority of January, getting rear ended on the freeway on the way to the hospital, and many other challenges. With it all, I was still able to deliver the hardcover on time (the majority even arrived early)!
I also had a random comment on a facebook ad asking, "why can't the book spines make an image?" I...wasn't sure. Why couldn't the spines make a kick-ass illustration? I surveyed the community (I genuinely like to hear what you all want!) and it was clear as could be, the majority were in! I now had an awesome illustration unfolding along the spines of the books.
The Kraken
The community continues to grow, the flywheel has started to spin a little faster, but the dangers are increasing in scope as well. I encountered some epic growing pains as I begin to bring on more team members, but now I have a legendary offering for you of epic proportions. With my DevOps approach, content delivery system, and general community, we're ready to knock your socks off!
