Compendium: 48 Hours Left

We're now in the final 48 hours of the compendium Kickstarter campaign. This is your last chance to sign up for the limited edition hardcover book.

Generous backers ripped through all of the stretch goals I put down, over and over again. We now have only one left: the map pack PDF.

This means the book now contains 48 remastered adventures, settlements and wilderness regions, an illustrated bestiary, a history appendix, a detailed index, a full-color campaign map, a bonus adventure, and (as of now) 5 additional wilderness regions. Phew!

On top of that, three supplementary bestiary PDFs each add stats for Dungeon World, B/X, and 5e!

Time is running out..

So if you want in before time runs out, hop over to the Kickstarter!

Compendium Offset Print Run

The Trilemma Adventures Compendium will now be manufactured by an offset print run.

Ever since I conceived of this book, I've been on a knife's edge about how to get it printed. I explored both options carefully. Ultimately, I decided to follow Kevin Crawford's advice: if you're a one-person RPG writer, you win by writing, not by trying to be a publisher, wrestling with distribution and inventory management with no economy of scale.

For that reason I chose DriveThruRPG as my fulfilment option. As a Canadian with most buyers of my buyers in the US, trying to figure out cross-border (and international!) distribution for 200 copies of my book made no sense.

DTRPG makes a solid book (especially in the premium colour version that I've selected), and distribution is one-step easy. Obvious.

What's Changed?

With the incredible amount of support I've received from backers, however, things look very different now. We hit 200 hardcover copies on the first day! If things stay on track, it could easily be 800 by the time we're done. This completely changes the situation.

It means that an offset print run is now a completely practical approach for delivering this book, and it will be a better book for it.

Eight days remain!

5e Stats for Trilemma Adventures

Over on the Kickstarter, first we unlocked B/X stats, then we unlocked Dungeon World stats. Now it's time for the big one:

Fifth edition.

Do you love 5e? Do you know Dungeon Masters who do?  If so, please help spread the word, so we can rip the lid right off this thing and unlock everything.

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If you're joining the battle late and you've missed the play-by-post action, you can catch up here!

Here are all five of the comic updates:

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5

..and here is the complete map of the fortress—at least, the bits that the axewives are aware of so far.

Compendium Kickstarter News

We've now reached the mid-way point of the Kickstarter campaign for the compendium. The fifth battle update went out this morning, showing the beginning of the Dradkin counter-attack plan.

It's very bad news for the axewives of Grinvolt.

On the 'book' front, layout is progressing very well, and I'm starting to fill in the spots I'd marked off for extra illustrations. You can see one here, down at the bottom of The Mermaids' Knot.

Here's a detail WIP image of a Priestess of Suvuvena, greeting the adventurers. This one is by Juan Ochoa, who contributed the awesome Heelan warrior for Lair of the Lantern Worm! I saw the sketch of the whole image and I can't wait to see the whole thing.

On May 30, the gate closes for good, and anyone not inside gets turned into chirpers. Any help you can offer, spreading the word to people you think would enjoy this compilation is much appreciated!

$45k Kickstarter Unlock

Things have been busy over on the Kickstarter. A surge of people pushed it up to $45,000 by today (day 8), and as I write there are 997 backers.. three short of a thousand people. (?!)

The stretch goal that was unlocked today was a second gazetteer entry, this time for the south coast. Here, along a strip of rocky coastline are the ancestral lands of Grinvolt, stretching from the labyrinthine High Uttvelt all the way to slumbering Tealwood. In this entry: the hallowed stacks of Millvale, the speakers of the Talking Wood, and the crawling ghosts of Halet Girm!

This means the book is now:

• 48 adventures
• A bestiary of 90+ monsters, with OSR stats in a companion PDF
• A regional hex map
• Four pages of regional gazetteer entries
• A history appendix on the cultures, Seree magic, and the nature of the underworld

The play-by-post mass battle against the Dradkin also took a surprising turn! The axewives picked a startling strategy to deal with a hideous monster:

If you'd like to join in, please do!

Smashing Stretch Goals

The last 24 hours have been remarkable, smashing through six stretch goals. A bunch of people weighed in with their tactics for preparing for the battle.. and now it unfolds.

If you feel like joining the battle, please do!

Trilemma Kickstarter is LIVE

The wait is over, the horn has sounded! Grinvolt axewives are now pouring down the stairs to the Dradkin fortress. Who knows how far they will get, or what awaits them in the darkness?

The Trilemma Adventures Compendium is now live on Kickstarter!

What's in the Book?

• 48 two-page adventures lovingly illustrated with isometric maps

• Remastered for glorious landscape, revised and re-edited

• Ten of the adventures get full-page expansions!

• A detailed index of people, places, gods, and monsters

• Adventure summaries for speedy selection on game night

• Up to 45 pages of stretch goal content! (If we get there..)

For all the details, click through to the Kickstarter page! Grinvolt needs you!