The Lost Lands: Bard's Gate Kickstarter

With a few weeks to go the Lost Lands: Bard's Gate Kickstarter is the latest mega-manual to come out of the Frog God Lair. Check it out:



I'm in for the $100 level for a 5E edition. I waffled on The Lost Lands: Borderland Provinces Kickstarter and regret it (when I finally landed my book copies through retail I was incredibly impressed). The Kickstarter is covering 5E, S&W and Pathfinder editions, this time cleaning up the process by letting you elect your preferred edition in the backerkit section. I've cancelled other KS's to make room for it, in fact.

I'm sincerely hoping 5E dominates as a request; I'd love to see older Lost Lands tomes converted to 5E (though converting the S&W versions is easy enough). In fact I'd really love to see Razor Coast converted to 5E although based on the history of that particular production I'll assume such a conversion is likely a pipe dream for now!

Kickstarter Report: The Lost Lands: Borderland Provinces, Tome of Beasts roars along, and Delta Green is confusing?

It looks like Frog God's latest will be a menagerie of books that all tie into the Lost Lands setting. The Kickstarter is out, and it's offering your preferred edition (Pathfinder, D&D 5E or S&W). I'm in at the $95 level, which I think gets me one of each of the books in print.



If you want to see how to make a Kickstarter confusing, check out the Delta Green RPG! Is it just me or is that a serious mess to wade through? I'd like to back it at a level that says "Pay this and we will give you one of each book you need," but it's kind of hard to figure out which tier that is....when you need a matrix to try and assess backer levels and rewards I kind of think maybe you're doing it wrong....

Meanwile, Kobold Press's Tome of Beasts roars along at over X4 its target as of this writing....



Latest Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls update is in as well, and Rick is indicating that all hard covers, including the special editions, are now done and they have 500 to ship out. I may at last see my copy....possibly before I see Primeval Thule, which is itself steamrolling along, and according to the latest update it's about to go to press in time for a post-Thanksgiving release (barring completion of the add-ons). Only downer is the add-ons will ship with the core to those who ordered it all (i.e. me) which suggested that I might not see my book in December if the add-ons aren't complete and printed by then...we shall see.

Lost Lands still lost; Frog God cultists need to pray for improved inventory and shipping controls

I was very excited today as my Swords & Wizardry editions of Lost Lands: Stoneheart Valley, Lost City of Barakus and Sword of Air were scheduled to arrive. Alas, only Stoneheart Valley was actually for S&W, the other two were for Pathfinder....also known in this neck of the desert these days as "that thing we played while we waited for  a real D&D to come out."

The Frog Gods are awesome and I have to thank Krista for her work in sorting things out, but they definitely need some organization/inventory management, especially since I bet they have an escalation of sales thanks to all the special offers they are pumping out these days. I'm still waiting for a couple other books from last month (Tome of Horrors Complete for S&W and a print copy of The Tome of Adventure Design) and suspect that someone else may have received them in error. A couple months ago I ended up with a bonus copy of Razor Coast, too....not a cheap book.

Soon now, hopefully, I will have a complete set of The Lost Lands in the S&W format once this shipping error is corrected. I plan on starting a campaign in the grandest old school tradition once it's all actually here....although with Stoneheart Valley I think I have enough to get the ball rolling (plus I always had Tomb of Abysthor, which is part of the book, as one of my favorite D20 era Necromancer Games modules).