I hope you all had an awesome weekend, because WOW… thanks to you, we’ve climbed past $44,000, unlocking all the player aid handouts, and then went on to surge past $46,000+! 🎉
This campaign has outperformed our expectations at every turn, and it’s got me sprinting to keep up, pulling new ideas together, tightening plans, and building out fresh stretch goals because you keep pushing the project higher. HOW BIG CAN WE MAKE THIS BOOK? 👀✨
🎥 Missed the Livestreams? We’ve Got You!
We were on a bunch of livestreams last week, so thank you to everyone who showed up, chatted, and asked great questions.
Also, a special shoutout to our friend and fellow creator Bill Harvat, whose project Righteous Vow 4 is funding right now on Kickstarter! It hit it's funding goal shortly before our livesteam and it looks absolutely incredible. It’s pirate-themed and has everything you need to run a pirate-flavored Shadowdark campaign. If you love salt spray, cursed treasure, and steel on deck planks, go take a look: RIGHTEOUS VOW 4 LINK.
If you missed the livestreams, here are the links:
Now, let’s talk about what’s next for Titanbound.:
Titan Hunters, we’ve cleared another ledge, and the next marker is already in sight: Climb #6 is waiting, and it's packed with ancient power.
🏔️ Climb #6 - $51,000: The Relic Hunter
At $51,000, we unlock a brand-new class: THE RELIC HUNTER 🏺⚔️
Relic Hunters are explorers, scholars, and daring thieves who scour the world for ancient artifacts left behind. Equal parts intellectual adventurer and battlefield improviser. The kind of character who treats every ruin like a puzzle, every inscription like a map, and every “worthless trinket” like a potential weapon. They don’t win by brute force but by knowing what they’re looking at… and knowing how to use it.
This one has been easily one of the most fun to playtest because it adds something special to the Titanbound/Shadowdark toolkit: Relic Magic. Unlike spellcasters, Relic Hunters do not memorize magic. Instead, they wield recovered relics, fragments of immense power harvested from fallen titans and forgotten ruins.
Relics are ancient items infused with power, scattered across the world. They can be found on any crawl: beneath ancient cities, in forgotten tombs, buried in caves and dungeons, traded in black markets, or sitting in plain sight. They are yours to discover... if you know what you're looking for.
And that’s the Relic Hunter’s gift: they don’t just find relics… they know how to use their power. Relic Hunters excel at exploration, trap disarming, and battlefield control, using their found relics to support allies and manipulate the environment. At the table, it creates a unique “discovery” feeling, like every expedition, crawl, hunt, or trip to the market might uncover something brand new, and every encounter might be the moment the Relic Hunter pulls out something old, strange, and exactly what the party needs.
Side note: if you like tables, there will be tables. Lots of Relic tables.
We're so happy you've been part of making this book as packed with cool stuff as it could possibly be. Let's see how high we can climb!
