Hello all, Ananam here! Happy Froggy Friday! Time for our first REAL update on this project!
Current Project Scope
After the crowdfunder for the Boggits of Kingsmire was done and after we were joined by some new people to help with this endeavour (and future ones too!), we sat down to finalize the scope of the project. We had some big ambitions and while we already trimmed the scope a lot, this product is still going to be... pretty damn big! We think of the scope as "finalized" but there is still space to add or remove some elements if we feel like something is out of place or if we come up with some brilliant new ideas. Anyway, the main part of the product is shaping up to be a little under 100 pages.
The Boggits of Kingsmire book will consist of three large sections: Players' Options, Kingsmire Gazetteer, and Monsters. Each section looks to be around 30-40 pages. Players' options will have stuff like new kits, perks, complications, downtime project, titles, treasure, the boggit ancestry, three new stormwight fury kits, two new conduit/censor domains (swamp and time), new swampy elementalist abilities, shadow college of lost technology (using ancient psionic dwarven tech gadgets), power armor rules, and, if Draw Steel license will allow, three new beastheart companions. The gazetteer will be full of (we hope) interesting places and adventure hooks that will possibly fuel many campaigns and adventures set in Kingsmire.
For the monsters we will have some new monster families, like the boggits (obviously), hivehusks (shambling hives built on corpses), bog bugs (a collection of giant insects connected to wetlands), cogworks (ancient dwarven mechs powered by psionic crystals) and gnawksies (fey cursed into shapes of small toothy fishfolk wielding storm magic) with their beheel (eel behirs anyone?) pets. We will also have some new hags and solos, including the angler frog and the malchrys, both of which you can totally see and use today! You can see line art for the malchrys, a molten-gold greed demon, below!
Don't worry, this will be colored!
We will also have quests, many of them! All of them will be for echelon 1 and there will be a spread of them for levels from 1 to 3. You might remember that some of the quests will be written by the pillars of the Draw Steel Community: Cameron of Rise Heroes Rise, Jon de Nor of Goblin Points and Stawl App, and Paul Ligurski of Heart of Arcana. We are really excited knowing what they've been cooking and we can't wait for you to experience it! Speaking of...
Backer Packet #1
Today you should gain access to our first Backer Packet which will contain many things I've mentioned above! Some of the content is fresh off of our design production line, and some of it was already internally playtested. Personally I had great time playing a Lost Technology Shadow and I think KingGurke did an amazing job designing the subclass! What you will find in the packet, are: 7 new kits, the swamp domain, new elementalist abilities, three new stormwight kits (frog, croc and beetle!), college of lost technology, and A LOT of new monsters (3 new solos - angler frog, malchrys, and zaliac timeforger, and 4 new monster families - boggits, bog bugs, hivehusks, and cogworks). For dessert, there is also a quest for level 1 - Chorus in the Reeds! As you can see there is a lot of content and we hope you will enjoy it! Let us know what you think on our Discord server (link at the bottom of the post) or by mailing us at [email protected].
The art will flow
Most of the funds we gathered are going towards A LOT of art. We don't know the final list yet, but there will be like 35+ art pieces in this product and more than 20 of them are already in progress. We signed contracts with a lot of artists, most of whom we collaborate with for the first time, and we can't wait to show you the results! We will have a lot of art done by the end of this month and by the middle of March, so I guess it will be good time to share some amazing stuff with you then! The art will flow just like honey does in Kingsmire. Oh, by the way...
A monk beekeeper by Gusmang Deva
Inspired by real medieval beekeepers, we got some nice beekeeper art from one of our artists!
Art Reference - Medieval Beekeepers
We have a Patreon now!
I was convinced that we should give having a Patreon a chance and so we did! You can check our Patreon out here! You can totally join for free and there will be some posts available to free members too, but there are two paid memberships that unlock access to Draw Steel designs we do for the Patreon. The 5$ tier let's you access the PDF with the design, but for the higher tier you also get a design-process writeup from whoever designed that month's paid thing.
That's all for today! Thank you for your support! You can still pre-order Boggits of Kingsmire to get all of these cool things when the product is out! Join our Discord server for early previews and spoilers! Cheers!
