Spellmonger FRP Adaptation/Atlas Kickstarter is now LIVE!

Battlefield Press and I would like to announce the Spellmonger game Kickstarter program, right here!  If you are a FRP gamer or superfan, I encourage you to consider participating.

Why a Kickstarter campaign?  It’s actually not really about the money.  It’s just the best marketing choice for this project.  I like the Kickstarter route for this project because it helps satisfy several requirements at once. 

Firstly, it’s about y’all: the audience.  The Kickstarter platform ensures a built-in audience and guarantees a certain level of sales, distribution and market enthusiasm, right from the outset.  You are actually participating in the creative process, something I’ve always valued.  When you’re writing a continuing series of epic fantasy, hearing what your audience likes and giving them more of that is precious.  This project is in response to literally hundreds of pleas to adapt the Spellmonger universe into a Fantasy Role Playing (FRP) game.  I’ve always intended to do this, as D&D was a prime inspiration for the series.  This is the fulfillment of those requests, and I’d like to see it succeed with your help.

Secondly, this is an opportunity for me to push out a lot of new content about Callidore that otherwise might not reach you.  What does the Narasi calendar look like, for instance?  What do the tonsures of the various religious orders look like?  What do the various types of magical coral do?  This project will allow me to share the information I’ve developed in support of the series with you.  That’s important to me, because I worked hard on it and I hate working hard on something and then not sharing it.  The game (and Atlas) will give me a chance to take a big ol’ information dump. 

Thirdly, this gives me a chance to do a completely new, exclusive short story to promote the game.  I will be writing a 20-30k word short story about Min’s early years in the army on the Farisian campaign, where you will see a few of my characters in earlier incarnations.  In addition, the Atlas will contain yet another exclusive short story featuring Lanse of Bune, among others.  And there might be other goodies I’m keeping as a surprise.  What are they?  If I told you, they wouldn’t be a surprise.

There are other reasons, too, but I’ll stop at three, today.  I’ve already submitted the first tranche of information for the adaptation and will be churning out plenty more in the coming months.  I promise, the FRP will be loaded with the kind of detailed tidbits you enjoy, and will get in-depth in ways you can’t even suspect.  And it’s, like, TOTES canon. 

I’m excited about this, in case you can’t tell.

I’m also excited about getting the script for Shadowmage to Podium for the audiobook, and seeing the new cover for Court Wizard:

I don’t yet have a release date for the Court Wizard audiobook, but when I get it y’all will be the first to know.

Also, reviews and sales of both Sky Rider and The Road To Vanador have been excellent.  If you've read one or both of them, I encourage you to leave a review, if you haven't already.  It really does help.

Thanks for all of your support!  I've been busy as crap, and haven't been able to respond to all of my fan mail, yet, but I do read each and every piece and try to respond, if I have time.  Please know that.

Best,

Terry