Today, we wanted to share a few things with you and ask you a question (in the linked poll).
A Place to Call Homebrew
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!
Community Event Poll
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:
#1 - Character Concept Challenge
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!
#2 - Team Player Versus Player Tournament
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).
#3 - Other
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!
Primer V 2.1 Update
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!
Another Architect Pledge Level Opening?!?
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 know it’s short notice, but Q&A #7 is scheduled for tonight at 5:00 PM Pacific Time! We’ve decided that we are going to have at least one Q&A stream each month, and we will have these on the first Monday of each month moving forward!
We also may do some additional streams for fun in between!
Character Concept Challenge Winner - Old Man Entropy
Milton has completed the art for the Character Concept Challenge winner, Old Man Entropy made by Donnelly Homily! This one is probably one of the most unique and special characters we have art for! Thank you to everyone who voted!
The Next Community Event! Player Versus Player?!
Yes, you read that right! We are starting to plan the next Indominant Community Event! We don’t have a schedule yet for when it will take place, but we are beginning to plan the Player Versus Player Tournament! We will share the details once we lock those in!
One Shots with Devs Update
Ricky and I (Zarek) are scheduling out our times for the Dev One Shots that Backers got as part of their Pledge Level, or chose as Add-Ons! We are taking this time to also create a system on the Odin's Key Gaming Website for folks to purchase One Shots through there! All of the Backers that got this reward will be given a coupon code to select a One Shot event for free!
Hello everyone! It’s Zarek again, the Lead Designer of Indominant! It’s been a few weeks since our last update, so we just wanted to let you know how things have been going!
Playtest Packet #1 Update
There were a few errors that were caught and have been corrected in Playtest Packet 1. Normally for any updates on Playtest documents we’d wait for the next Playtest packet, but some of these cause some confusion and we don’t want folks to have to join the discord or search online to find the correct information. So Playtest Packet #1 will have a Version 2 sent out next week!
Primer Physical Copy
There are some folks who ordered a physical copy of the Primer! To them, we say thank you! We also wanted to give you an update on when you can expect your copy!
We have a few changes to the Primer that we want captured and updated on the physical version before we get your print on demand copy from Drive Thru RPG sent out. So we are working on making those changes and getting them ready for print there. The timeline we are looking at to get these physical copies sent out is roughly by the end of July 2025. We have to get the document updated, then order a proof copy before we can get copies sent to Backers. The updates to the book will be made over the next few weeks, and the proof copy process can take a few weeks as well.
New Ways to Get Playtest Access!
For those of you, or your friends, that missed the Backerkit campaign and that want to get Playtest access or support the project immediately, we will soon have 2 new ways to get access to the Indominant SIC Playtesting Packets!
1- Pre-Order a Super’s Information Codex PDF from our webstore at odinskey.com
This PDF will come with SIC Playtest access, unlike pre-ordering on our Backerkit pre-order store. Due to the nature of the Backerkit pre-order store and cards not being charged until we lock orders at the end of the campaign, we cannot give Playtest access to folks who pre-order on the Backerkit pre-order store.
In addition, we will give a credit to anyone who pre-orders a PDF from the Odin’s Key webstore towards an SIC physical copy on the Backerkit pre-order store equal to the cost of the PDF ($25 USD)!
This tier is for you to help support the development of Indominant, and gets you the Supporter role in the Indominant Discord server to represent that you help support the team at Odin’s Key Gaming!
SIC Playtester Tier - $10 USD per month
The Super's Information Codex Playtest Packets. Online Access only via Google Drive.
The Comic Editor's Playtest Packet. Online Access only via Google Drive.
Indominant Discord server Playtester Role. This grants access to the SIC Playtest Channels.
Registered Super Tier - $15 per month
Exclusive early sneak peaks of new, upcoming content.
Priority for questions during Indominant Q&A Livestreams.
The Super's Information Codex Playtest Packets. Online Access only via Google Drive.
The Comic Editor's Playtest Packet. Online Access only via Google Drive.
Indominant Discord server "Registered Super" Role. This grants access to the SIC Playtest Channels.
Before we talk about the Playtest Packet, we had one thing we wanted to update you on: Indominant Discord Playtest Channel Access.
In order to give Backers access to the playtest areas in Discord we will need you to email [email protected] your Discord Username, or you can DM Zarek in Discord with the email on your Backerkit account to verify that you were a Backer that received playtest access.
Discord is by no means required to get your Playtest Packets and other playtest documents, but it is another area to give feedback directly to us and get quick responses. We apologize for any inconvenience here. We should have had a survey question that requested this information so that we could make the process easier. We now learned the correct way to do this, and we are looking into some other ways to make this process easier for this Backerkit campaign's rewards.
SIC Playtest Packet #1 Released!
We just sent out the first SIC Playtest Packet! We can't wait for you to see all of the new content included in this Packet!
As a note, the Playtest Packet mentions that you need the Game System Primer V2.2, which you will notice has not been included with the other Playtest documents. That is because there are quite a bit of formatting changes that must be done on that document. We didn’t want to delay the Playtest Packets any further than we already did. You can use Primer V2.1 to Playtest Indominant, because the changes made between 2.1 and 2.2 are mostly formatting and error corrections, except for one Core Rules change.
Cones, Too Many Cones
The one major rules change that was implemented was the removal of Half and Wide Cones. Having multiple sizes of Cones felt like an interesting concept to us, but with more and more people playing the game we got consistent feedback that they were too confusing and tedious to sort out. So we simplified Cones down to only one type. All Cones now work just like Standard Cones; they expand their width outwards by 1 Unit (on each side) for each 1 Unit of Range they extend. This means they are effectively all 90 degree angles.
One other change to Cones is that, instead of having a max Range equal to your Range, they now have a Range of 4 Units, which is the max Range for Melee Archetypes (Bruisers and Guardians), and half of max Range for Ranged Archetypes (Arbiters: 5 Units, Blasters: 6 Units, and Hunters: 4 Units). This change was made because Cones covered far too much of an Area.
With those rules changes and the other error corrections, we provided a Primer V2.2 ChangeLog that you can use to guide you on any other changes from V2.1!
That’s it for this update! We hope you enjoy the Playtest Packet, and we are excited to get your feedback!
