A high-fantasy city sourcebook for Lazy GMs, usable with D&D, 5e, and other fantasy RPGs.
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Thanks to you and 4,370 other awesome backers, the City of Arches is a fantastic success! We’re so excited to bring this book into your hands so you and your players can step through the streets of this ancient city and discover the adventures lying within.
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It takes about three weeks for us to receive the funding from Kickstarter and for all of your pledge information to make its way into BackerKit.
Once we’ve received funding and the pledge information is in BackerKit, we’ll send digital rewards to all digital-reward backers for every book except the City of Arches PDF (which we’re still making). You’ll receive links through BackerKit to download your digital book packages for both DriveThruRPG and a direct download.
During this time, we’ll be setting up the BackerKit pledge manager so you can add other items to your pledge.
Any orders for physical books will be shipped together along with the City of Arches hardcover early to mid 2025.
The City of Arches sourcebook has been through editing and initial layout. We commissioned more art after we received the layout but have approximately 75% of the art already in hand. We have some extra room in the book so we’ve started writing and editing new material to add into the book – great table-usable material that will make this book valuable for years to come.
We cannot give a firm date on the City of Arches PDF release but hopefully late 2024 or early 2025. We’ll release the PDF and let everyone have a good look at it before we send it to the printer for our hardcover print run.
When we have the PDF complete, we’ll send it over to Shard for development on the Shard VTT. When that conversion is complete, we’ll send you your 50% off coupon for the Shard version of the City of Arches.
Thank you again for such a wonderful campaign. It means the world to us that you support the work we do. We can't wait to get this book into your hands.
Mike & Michelle
Hi friends!
We’re closing in on the middle of the campaign and I want to thank all of you for your outstanding support! If you’re excited about this book, please tell your friends! Send them an email, talk about it on your favorite social media platform, share your excitement and help bring this awesome book to more people!
Thanks to Hal over at Shard, the City of Arches will be on Shard Tabletop! We’re planning to sell it for $20 on Shard but every backer of the City of Arches sourcebook – either digital or physical – will get a $10 off coupon so you can pick it up on Shard for half price!
If you haven’t checked out Shard, it’s an awesome web-based virtual tabletop that includes tools for both desktop and mobile play. They support several RPGs including 2014 5e and Tales of the Valiant by Kobold Press.
The City of Arches in Shard will have the adventures and maps all loaded for your use along with all the material in the book available in the Shard compendium.
Shard Tabletop is free to play and you can even GM a campaign for free. If you want to upgrade to a subscription version, Shard is including a 50% discount on Gamemaster or Gamemaster Pro subscriptions for the first year to all backers.
We’re really excited to bring the City of Arches to Shard!
Porting material to other virtual tabletops is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor so right now we don’t have plans for other VTTs. If we can figure out a good cost-effective way to do so, we’ll certainly try. I don’t expect to have further news on this during the Kickstarter.
However, all of the maps in the City of Arches are designed to be easily dropped into your favorite virtual tabletop of choice whether it’s Roll20, Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, Owlbear Rodeo, or another VTT. Anyone purchasing the City of Arches will get this VTT map pack included for free!
Thank you again for your outstanding support for the City of Arches! Again, if you’re excited about this campaign, please spread the word!