Tonight I'll be on with the team at Victory Condition Gaming talking about Tiny Dungeon 2e! This is a live Q&A so you can drop buy and ask all the questions you want!
The link to the Facebook Event is HERE.
Hope we see you there!
We've unlocked Sandra's micro-setting!
So, what about that awesome $25,000 stretch goal I've been teasing?
Well. It's a big one.
If we raise $25,000, Gallant Knight Games will open submission for a line of PDF releases detailing new rules, micro-setttings, adventures and more!
This will be open to the wide world, and we'll release one PDF each month in a subscription service via DriveThruRPG. At the end of the year, we will collate them into a year omnibus we will offer in print and PDF!
This will be paid work (we pay $0.10 per word to our writers), and you'll work alongside Alan Bahr to prep these products for release (we'll pay for art, layout, graphic design, editing, and more)!
The community has embraced this little game, and we want to give you a chance to leave your mark and writing on it!
We'll price these low and aggressively, and provide the first PDF for free to all backers!
Hey folks!
Late notice, but in 5 minutes, Alan will be in the #rpgnet IRC chat doing a Q&A about Tiny Dungeon 2e!
To join: http://tinyurl.com/rpgnetchat
Afterwards, the log to be posted at: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com!
Thanks!
We promised you more art! Here's a sneak peek of some of it.
We've unlocked our $25,000 stretch goal, which is ongoing PDF supplements for Tiny Dungeon 2e, written by those chosen from an open submission process!
We're pretty excited about this change to involve the larger community in our game, and to see the sort of submissions we get. When we get closer to opening it up, we'll update you!
So, let's talk about that $30,000 stretch goal:
At $30,000 we will create a deck of play aid cards featuring monster art on one side, and monster statistics on the other! The PDF will be given for free to all backers, or you can order sets for $10 each (shipping will be sorted out in the BackerKit).
There will be roughly 50 cards in the deck, each with an unique illustration!
One of the guiding goals of the TinyD6 line is portability, and this play aid will help to make the game even more portable than it already is!
We will be including specific monsters from the Destiny of Tides setting in the deck too!
We're getting a mock-up made to show you what we envision! We will also be including rules to turn the deck into a random encounter deck you can use during the game!
We're moving along steadily towards our $30,000 Stretch Goal! We can only make it there with your help, so be sure to tell your friends or pass this Kickstarter along to your game groups!
One of the most common questions we've gotten is what are the differences between Tiny Dungeon and Tiny Dungeon 2e.
Well! We're going to answer that question now! Obviously there's a wide spread, so this is going to be a large update. We're also not going to preview mechanics in full, but we'll do those over several updates throughout the Kickstarter.
Let's go!
One of the big adjustments we made was in clarity of communication. The previous edition had some textual inconsistencies.By putting the game through repeated edits, rephrasing of troublesome rules text, and professional layout, the game will communicate easier with readers.
We've also included a swath of optional rules designed to allow you to "dial" in on the experience you want Tiny Dungeon 2e to be. These optional rules are designated as such and called out throughout the book. They make the game less minimalist, but they're options that were frequently requested by the community or we felt helped to improve various aspects of the game.
Some of the optional rules in the game are:
All of the above are minimalist in their take. They slot in very nicely with Tiny Dungeon 2e, but they're also options that aren't necessarily required (and the game doesn't always rely on them).
So, Combat Zones. In the original Tiny Dungeon 2e, Heavy Weapons have a 10 foot reach. It was a mechanical aspect that felt out of place (other than guiding theatre of the mind play) as the game doesn't push using a grid or miniatures. Hard numbers for distance only come up briefly (around movement distance and heavy weapons).
In Tiny Dungeon 2e, we introduce the idea of Combat Zones. Combat Zones represent the distance between combatants in a minimalist, focused way that allows for theatre of the mind play (no grid map required) but makes the game more accessible for those who like visualization. Zones are an abstraction meant to make narrative play a bit easier.
There are 3 Combat Zones. The three zones are: Close, Near and Far. Each Zone has rules that tell you which Weapons can be used there. To start, you place the enemies in the Close Zone. All combat revolves around the players perspective to the enemies.
The goal of the Zones is to keep a fast, simple, abstraction of distance in combat so it's easier to tell the store, but the rule is totally optional. If you don't want to use the Combat Zones, they strip right out of the game.
In Tiny Dungeon 2e, we also introduce new traits to the core of the game. Some of these new traits are:
The goal of the new traits is to open new character archetypes into play (such as martial artists, barbarians, and artisans).
We've also added a Random Adventure / Plot Generation series of charts to aid the GM (written by the talented Greg Israel).
There are also three new Heritages (Races in the old game), and we've tweaked and modified the older ones! The new Heritages are:
We've also tweaked some of the older races to make them feel a little more balanced. We'll go into details around that in a later update.
In the original edition of Tiny Dungeon, the page count came out to around 18 pages. With the expansions and changes we've made, we're looking at 40 pages (of which 15 are optional rules).
Obviously with layout, the amount of art we're putting in, and the bestiary, mount rules, and ship rules, the rules section will grow a bit more. However, the core player rules are still only 20 pages, and are unlikely to grow more than that!
The goal is to provide options. At it's core, Tiny Dungeon 2e is just a refinement of the stylish, minimalist take on fantasy dungeon crawls that Tiny Dungeon was. We've just added some extra accouterments you can use to adjust the "volume" if you want!