We managed to hit our first stretch goal last night and now The Discern Realities Annual will be included in the…

We managed to hit our first stretch goal last night and now The Discern Realities Annual will be included in the Codex Volume 1 Hardcover book! But we’re not slowing down!

We have two new stretch goals to announce…

At $14,000, we will be able to upgrade the hardcover book so the quality level is through the roof. If we can get there, we will 1) add a matte laminate cover with a spot UV finish; 2) increase the weight of the pages to 150 gsm; and 3) add a ribbon marker. The quality of the hardcover book is a major goal for us. We have always said that Codex and its readers deserve this thing to look and feel amazing. In fact, it’s why we came to Kickstarter instead of DriveThruRPG print-on-demand (as a point of comparison, DriveThru print-on-demand uses 108 gsm paper—12 less than what this project started with, and 42 less than what it will be if we hit the stretch goal).

At $15,000, we will unlock our first Digital Stretch Goal: Becky Annison’s “Let Sleeping Bones Lie.” Becky is the award-winning designer of When the Dark is Gone and Lovecraftesque (the latter with Joshua Fox) and when she isn’t knitting or gaming she is writing Bite Me!, a game of werewolf pack dynamics. You can find Becky’s work at the Black Armada website: https://blackarmada.com

“Let Sleeping Bones Lie” is a scenario for Lovecraftesque. Here’s a description: “By 1815, the small British seaside town of Lyme Regis was the centre of a boom in fossil hunting. Only 4 years earlier, the Anning children had found the first, complete Ichthyosaurus by the cliffs, and ammonites virtually littered the beach. Enthusiastic amateurs have descended in droves, but in a world before Darwin’s theories have taken root, it is impossible to tell dinosaur from older and more eldritch horrors.”

For everyone who has pledged and/or signal boosted this project, THANK YOU! There is so much more to come! Please stop by the KS page and take a look if you haven’t yet had the chance!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/codex-rpg-zine-volume-1-hardcover/description