Hail and well met Wanderers!
I hope you are all fairing well and enjoying (for those in the northern hemisphere, apologies to our Australian and Kiwi backers) these early we...
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Aston
24 days ago
Faerie Playtest Survey 05: Better late than never!
Hail Adventurers!
While going through our Class feedback to tweak and modify the classes for their finalised versions we realised we didn't actually collect feedback for pla...
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Aston
about 2 months ago
The People Have Spoken: Faerie Playtest 06
Hail Valiant Wanderers!
This week an act of democracy was enacted and thou have deemed it right to call forth the Player Heritage playtest packet!
Contained within the PDF ...
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Aston
2 months ago
Choice & Consequence, Duke Projects begin!
Hail Wanderer's!
Back this week to offer a choice! With a lot of the major mechanical work being finalised on the book we have a lot to show you but wanted to offer a bit of...
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Aston
2 months ago
New Year, New Art!
Hail Wanderer's!
While our major content drops are done for the time being, I still come bearing gifts! Today is a bit of a showcase of some of the art Conor has been workin...
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3 months ago
Cards have been charged!
Hail Adventurers!
We have charged cards for any remaining balances as of a couple of hours ago! This has worked swimmingly for most of y'all! But we did want to mention a co...
Our campaign for Faerie is over, twas a battle well fought and a victory well earned! Thank you all for raising your banner amongst our own, and making this our most successful project to date! If you’re reading this and didn’t have chance to back, our pre-order store is now open too, and will remain so until we lock orders for manufacture and fulfilment next year.
Now onto the final business for this week, including a round up of loose ends and a key dates roadmap of what you can expect from us and when!
Willow’s Fate
If you’ve not already, go check out our final update on Willow to learn her fate, and find out what awesome rewards you have all unlocked as a result of your choices and rolls! The final roll was done live on stream, and thanks to my sleep deprivation and the efforts of your fellow backers, something pretty wild happened…
Post-Campaign Survey
Expect to receive your post campaign surveys in one weeks time, August 30th. Once they’ve been sent out you will have until September 30th to complete them. If your surveys are not complete by the deadline we cannot guarantee you will receive your rewards, so please do make sure to get them filled in when they arrive.
Playtest Content
Our first playtest survey will also be released on August 30th, to collect your feedback on the preview PDF content such as the Fetch Rogue and Witch class (we will release the full class soon, and collect more thorough feedback later once all features and spells have been made available). We will also be releasing our first official playtest document on August 30th. Which will contain the Witch Knight Fighter subclass, the Circle of Blight Druid subclass, spells & more! We will release a survey the following month for you to post your feedback, alongside the next playtest document. This will continue monthly until we finalise the book ready for fulfilment!
Update & Streaming Schedule
You can expect to hear from us here on Backerkit fortnightly (every 2 weeks) with an official update that will detail progress on the book, the art, and the various rewards! As for streaming, I don’t yet know when we will be hopping on again, but rest assured it will happen and you will be notified plenty in advance. Last nights stream was a tonne of fun, we designed two new monsters and even rolled Willows final roll live! If you missed it, the VoD is available on YouTube HERE.
Fulfilment Timeline
We are penned for a June 2025 fulfilment date, digital goods will likely go out some time prior but this is the deadline we have for everything so expect notifications about receiving rewards no later than May 2025. Returning backers from Tempest can expect your exclusive “Guide to the Wyldsea” expansion to be with you sometime in the next couple months, and any purchases of the Tempest PDF or Dragons Vault Digital Collection will be sent out in a similar timescale once we’ve finished all of our backend work for Faerie.
That’s all of the important dates going forward! If there’s any amendments, changes or delays we will be sure to make you aware as far in advance as possible.
And as a final note, I’d like to say a personal thank you to every single one of you who joined us on this campaign. Because of you me and Aston get to work our dream jobs, I can’t emphasise enough how grateful we are! And if you are returning from Tempest, a special thank you for sticking with us as we continue to grow and develop! Aston will be handling surveys and content for the next week or so while I take a short holiday after working pretty relentlessly the last couple of months, I’ll still be active in our discord if you have any questions or want to talk about Faerie!
I hope you are all fairing well and enjoying (for those in the northern hemisphere, apologies to our Australian and Kiwi backers) these early weeks of spring as winter finally thaws and the land wakes up! I wanted to check in and touch on all the tariff craziness going on right now, and what impacts it could have on Faerie; But before we get into that I do also come bearing a much requested piece of the book for your eyes only!
Familiars of Faerie
There has been discussion aplenty in our discord (which you should check out if you haven’t already) about the familiars that we will be introducing in Faerie, especially those tied to the Witch and the coven subclasses. I am happy to finally return with an answer to such a request and present all of the relevant creature statblocks, accompanied by their artwork that I have been working on recently, in the backer-only section below!
Of course, these stats are subject to changes before final publishing, but this provides a very close look at just what you can expect to find in the final tome. If you have any feedback on these feel free to comment it below or in the Discord!
Tariffs
Now I would like to take a moment to touch on the turbulence being caused by the current US / China tariff situation. As I am sure many of you are aware, like most small tabletop studios, the physical production of our goods is currently based in China and a large amount of our backers are in the US. Which means we fall firmly within what economist's call the "screwed by the tariffs" category.
I'm not here to worry you or make any declarations, it is still extremely early in this whole fiasco and it seems to be changing on a near daily basis. I am hoping that by the time we have to make any final decisions there will be some resolution to this mess that will allow us to continue with our original fulfilment schedule without any real changes. Regardless of the outcome I'm confident we will figure out how to get everything sorted with minimal impact on you all.
For the moment the only thing to do for most of us is wait and see. If you do happen to be in the US, you actually can help by getting in touch with your local representative via THIS LINK, and letting them know how concerned you are.
That’s all for now! Apologies for ending on a less bright note, but I wanted to make sure we continued to be as open with you as we possibly can, and this is something that really will affect us all as enjoyers and supporters of this hobby. Hopefully the next time I have to mention tariffs it will be accompanied by much better news!
In the meantime enjoy the familiars, and make sure to bask in the spring sun if you're fortunate enough to see it!
While going through our Class feedback to tweak and modify the classes for their finalised versions we realised we didn't actually collect feedback for playtest 05, so before we chuck out the survey for the Lineages released last update we're just gonna run our standard survey for the Barbarian and Cleric Subclasses! You can find that specific Survey here! We can't wait to hear what you think of our final Subclasses!
Also we've had a couple of questions about the interactions between the Cleric Dream Domain and its interaction with the 2024 edition of 5e, specifically Channel Divinity: Divine Slumber. While all of our mechanics are pretty much exclusively designed with the 2014 rules in mind we do want as many people to be able to run the Faerie classes as possible, one potential tweak to bring this in line with the 2024 Sleep well is:
As an action, you present your holy symbol, and cast the sleep spell at the highest level you are able to cast, but do not expend a spell slot when doing so. When cast in this way you may subtract half of your cleric level rounded down from each creatures Wisdom saving throw to resist the spell.
This tweak is untested but still provides a scaling buff to the sleep spell in line with the design of the original subclass. If you're primarily a 2024 player we'd love to know what you think of this fix but please don't give that feedback via the above survey as that is for current class balance rather than the adjusted version! If you wanna chat to us or other members of our community about this feel free to hop onto our discord!
As always, I hope you're doing wonderfully and I'll be back in a couple of weeks for the Lineage survey! Aston
This week an act of democracy was enacted and thou have deemed it right to call forth the Player Heritage playtest packet!
Contained within the PDF at the end of this update you will find 3 entirely new heritages for characters wandering the lands of Faerie:
The Sidhe: A sub-lineage for preexisting PHB lineages to give your character just a little bit of a fey twist if you cant help but make your dwarven cleric or elven wizard!
The Etterkin: Master craftsfolk of legend, spinning incredible silken garments and slinging web.
The Cairndwin: Faerie denizens with one foot in the grave, mastering the power of their own life force as an expendable resource.
Additionally you'll find some lineage exclusive feats for the Hagborn (released in the preview doc), Etterkin, and Cairndwin if you really want to lean into the (frankly downright creepy) flavour!
We hope you enjoy! And as always if you want to join the discussion, have found exploits or fun combos feel free to hop on over to our discord! Balance notes and such should mainly be reserved for the survey but we're always happy to hear what you think!
