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
21 days 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
about 1 month 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
about 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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Aston
2 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...
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3 months ago
We Hath Returned! Playtest 04 Survey, and Final Call!
Hail Noble Wanderers and Adventurers!
I hope the season of merriment and celebration was great for you whatever form of holiday, event or ancient ritual you celebrate!
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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!
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!
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 a choice for what you want to see next! As of right now we have three major options for what we can offer in the next Content Drop update (scheduled for the 10th of March). At the bottom of this update there will be a poll allowing you to select which form of content you'd most want to see!
Your three options are:
Revised Class/Subclass PDF with adjustments based on feedback provided by yourselves (The subclasses generally reviewed very well so there will be nothing majorly new here, just minor balance adjustments and whatnot!)
Player Heritages! Both the Etterkin and Cairndwin are mechanically done and ready to show off alongside a Sidhe subrace for multiple races who want a bit of a faerie flavour!
Magic items themed around all four houses of Faerie! A large chunk of the magic items in the book are complete at this point and we know both players and DMs alike love treasure so maybe this takes your fancy?
May your votes be swift! It is no pressure if your choice doesn't make it for the next update, all of this content will likely be shown off at some point or another prior to launch! But if you feel like chatting with the community about which drop you're most excited for feel free to come and join the discussion over on our discord!
Attention Valiant Dukes!
Keep an eye on your inboxes over the coming week as I will be dropping you an email to schedule the calls with yourself and Conor so we can start the initial works on your terrifying beasties roaming the lands of Faerie! Conor has been thinking long and hard about some of the concepts and ideas you've provided so I'm sure whatever comes out the other side will be equal parts brutally terrifying and terrifyingly brutal! (Of course with some gorgeous hand illustrated art to go alongside!)
Thats all for me this week! If anyone needs any support with ongoing payment issues or has any other questions as usual feel free to reach out at [email protected]!
