Looking through the list of things that I've backed on Kickstarter, it seems that a whole lot of them are scheduled to arrive round about now, this has the bonus of me getting loads of things all at the same time, and the negative of causing the family to wonder just how much I've backed on kickstarter.
Pleas of "But I backed this three years ago" are unlikely to be listened to...
Cheerfully, here's one that I backed that I didn't have to wait for, and what a win it's been...
This is Lone Wolf...
First thoughts, production values, well above and beyond, particularly for the price point that they've put this out at (my pledge came in at £26 including £6 shipping), solid box with inlay for use with the system (and when I say solid, I mean solid...)
Everything full colour and well illustrated.
Sample characters easily and clearly laid out...
with tons of information on them
Maps...
Plural...
If the pregens weren't enough, blank character sheets....
And thick card counters...
This is what companies should be doing to get people into games, good product, plenty of it, delivered at a price people can afford and that gives them all they need to play not just the first game but onwards from there. There'll be some saying that it was a few months late, and to them I say the physical copy was late, but the PDF copy that everyone could use to get playing was there bang on time, and I'll forgive a lot when the finished product is this good...
Brief review on the system and book contents, the book of Kai Training is the character generation book, it covers everything you need to make a character and get adventuring. System is D10 base and modifiers apply, there aren't many of these and even those who've not played any game before will have no trouble picking this up.
The Book of Kai Wisdom is the world and adventuring book, details on advancing characters, increasing skills, and what sort of thing the adventurers will find out there are in here. Easily comparable with other starter sets for long established games such as Pathfinder or D&D (and I appreciate that Lone Wolf as a world is also long established), with enough content to start and carry through to completion a characters adventuring life.
And speaking of a characters adventuring life, the Book of Kai Legends is an adventure module with two prebuilt adventures and a lot of content. It also contains basic guidelines on how to make your own adventures and stories.
In all, brilliant, this is what the industry needs to do more of, easily accessible games with plenty of content that are useful to beginners and old hands alike...
Well recommended.