Geek Native covered the Legends of Avallen beta test back in June, and it is good to see a successful Kickstarter launch. The RPG explores Celtic mythology and humble beginnings in Roman-occupied Britain.
Designer Deren Ozturk set the target pledge total at £8,000, and now, a few days later there are well over 150 backers and nearly £9,500 in the campaign. You can follow the progress here at the Kickstarter page.
A pledge of £20 will get you the PDF edition of the rules and a coupon for an at-production-cost hardback edition. It’s not unusual to see Kickstarters taking a few quid in exchange for that “at-cost” coupon, and it’s nice to see Ozturk not doing that here.
Legends of Avallen is a game with a strong art style and makes use of playing cards in the system mechanics. If you want a deck of exclusive Legends of Avallen playing cards, with the PDF and hardback coupon, then it’s £30.
As is increasingly common for Kickstarters from small publishers being mindful of their fulfilment duties there’s no option to get a physical edition from a print run. If you want to go paper, then you’ll need to take the print-on-demand coupon to DriveThruRPG.
Wise? Well, Deren Ozturk has a PhD in granular physics, is published in Nature and the campaign has funded. So, yeah, it might be disappointing not to have a deluxe edition of Legends of Avallen, but the POD and PDF strategy seems to have been the intelligent one.
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Deluxe editions of the playing cards are possible, if 500 decks are sold via the Kickstarter, then they’ll come in a custom box and have gold trim. There’s even a separate artbook to showcase as much as possible of the game’s impressive illustrations.
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