Today, we wanted to share a few things with you and ask you a question (in the linked poll).

First, we wanted to announce that we’ve created a channel in our Discord server for your Indominant homebrew to be shared and discussed! We’ve already had one community member create their very own homebrew Powerset: Time Manipulation! They have already gone and created everything up to Level 5, meaning they have an Inherent Effect, Base to Tier 3 Powers, and Tier 1-2 Talents for all 5 Archetypes!!!!! We are blown away at this idea and would love for people to see it and give them some love. Join our Discord server to check out the homebrew and even share your own!

Now for another exciting bit of news… we want to run a community event with everyone, and better yet, we want your ideas for what the community event should be! This is taking the place of our Community Event Stream reward for when we hit the 250 Backers Achievement! We are updating that Achievement to reflect this change of plans.

But what will that community event be? Well, we want your input! We’ve linked a poll to this update that has 3 options:

This is a challenge that we previously ran when our community was a lot smaller, and we had to put it on hold until we grew our active community (which this Backerkit campaign has done!). The idea behind this challenge is that participants submit a story and build for a character concept of their own making, and once submissions close, we will create a series of knock-out votes to determine a winner, with 2nd and 3rd place rewards too! 

What does the winner get? Well, if we fully fund, the winner will get a full body, full-color image of their character concept drawn by Milton Aguiar, paid for by our team here at Odin’s Key Gaming!

For this one, it is quite simple. Participants would create a team of 2-3 players (we haven’t decided team size yet) and compete in combat against other teams. We would set up brackets and stream the combats, with the final Team getting a reward (reward is TBD).

For this option on the vote, you would need to comment what your alternate idea is, and if any of these ideas gets more upvotes than option 1 or 2, we would go with this option.

Wow, what a first day! The first 24 hours are nearing completion and we are over 63% funded! As a small team with a relatively small following we are so excited at the response we’ve had! Make sure to check out the below updates too, you won’t want to miss them.

We can’t thank all of you, our supporters, enough! Thank you to everyone that pledged, and those of you that are checking out the Primer and joining our Discord server!

Just before, and during our launch we have been working on a small update to the Game System Primer 2.0.

The only rules/mechanical change is that instead of having to choose 2 of the 4 available Base Power options, every character now automatically gets all 4 Base Powers for their Powerset! We made this change because selecting Base Powers could be quite a difficult decision at times, and we don’t think the pros of that choice being meaningful outweigh the cons of it being a choice that doesn’t feel like it has a “right answer”.

Other than that there was just some small wording clean-up and clarifications to some areas that got questioned somewhat regularly.

So that means we’ve included the updated Primer below (all you need to do to download it is follow our Backerkit page, subscribe to our Newsletter, or join our Discord server here)! This also comes with a new character sheet (coming soon) to give you the space you need to add those 2 extra Base Powers to your sheet!

Yes, that’s right, as of the time we send out this update, we’ve also decided to open up the Architect Pledge Level to 1 additional Backer! That means one more person will get to work with us to create their very own Powerset concept, to be added in our first expansion book!

We just got the go ahead from Backerkit to send out our Smoke Test for the Backerkit Surveys! This means that 5% of each Backers from each Pledge Level will receive their surveys so that we can test things out and make sure there are no major issues before everyone's survey gets sent!

We will be looking to send the full survey out to everyone in the next few days, after our Smoke Test folks get and fill out their surveys, and let us know if any issues exist!

It's a short and quick update today, so that is all for now, we will be sending out an update next Monday with the release of Primer version 2.2, as well as Playtest Packet #1 and the updated Character Sheets to match with everything needed for Level 6 to 10 Supers!

We just wanted to let you know that we will get the rest of the surveys out soon! We are just waiting to get the rest of our Smoke Test responses in so we can confirm that there are no issues with the surveys.

We just wanted to let you know how the process goes, and remind you of our  timeline:

Don’t forget that the voting period for the Character Concept Challenge ends tonight! You can vote down below, and go to this Community Update to read about each character!

We have scheduled the first post-campaign Q&A for Monday, at 5:00 PM Pacific Time! The first Playtest Packet, along with the Comic Editor's Playtest Packet, the updated Character Sheets, and Primer 2.2 will all be sent out to Backers earlier in the day on Monday, so you will have your chance to check out the content and then hop in and ask us any questions you might have about it!

You can find the stream here on YouTube, or on the main campaign page on Backerkit!

The vote is in, and we have our Winner! Old Man Entropy, created by Donnelly Homily, won with 16 votes! Our runner up was Shooting Star, created by Saqwana, was close behind with 12 votes! Check out the info about Old Man Entropy below. We can't wait for this character to get art made, and have them added to the SIC!

Character Sheet
Archetype: Guardian
Powerset: Ice Manipulation
Species: Energoid (Veliken)
Origin: Natural
Calling: Researcher
Level: 4
Description: Ageless, timeless, and deeply unnerving, Old Man Entropy is a figure of mixed hope and fear. Beneath his suit, he is a cosmic swirl, his lopsided face appears like a pair of black holes colliding. The suit he wears resembles a slimmed-down version of an Apollo-era space suit, with white and gold components, and a golden cape. His powers manifest as a dark frost, a technique learned from his observation of the Singraad. He draws on the draining, dark, despairing winter to strike his foes. Then, from that dark winter, he forges an inspiring new spring.