A 5E supplement to bring your character concept to life. Brand new summoning class, spells, feats, gear, convergent magic, and more...
Thank you all for taking the time to vote. It was so incredibly close!
We'd love to hear what you think of the final version and if there's anything you want to share with the very talented Noman who brought this masterpiece to life!
We did not have a clear winner from the previous voting, so please let us know which illustration you'd like for us to complete!
There are still a few openings available for the one-shot play-tests. If you're interested in participating, please submit your interest/availability: Play-Testing One Shot Session Sign Ups We also have some awesome community members who will be hosting their own sessions and will pull from this list for invitations. Thank you very much to those we've already tested with! Keep the feedback coming!
Hey Everyone!
We've been chugging along on multiple fronts and wanted to provide a quick overview, get your feedback on the Feature and Roadmap Board, and get your votes on which fight scene to move forward with.
There was a ton of interest in a community driven content tool for staying in the loop on our development, proposing ideas, and voting on ideas. We pulled a few of the survey responses together and started compiling the results and would love to get your feedback. We'll be doing a test with this round of illustration votes to provide a public forum where you can leave feedback, vote for your favorites, and everyone can easily stay in the loop including our team. If people like it, we'll continue to pull the survey results out and compile them on the board and use it moving forward.
I've added the 4 fight scene options inspired by people's suggestions into the in progress swim lane on the roadmap:
If you click on one of the ideas you can zoom in on the picture.
Upvote your favorites, downvote your least preferred, and write comments to let the artist know what you love, what you'd change, and ideas you have for the future!
As mentioned previously these are all in our feedback board. Here's an overview of the options!
Please let us know how you felt about the board and whether we should put more effort into migrating over the existing feedback, continue to use that to keep everyone in the loop on progress, etc.
If you have any questions or ideas feel free to shoot me an email: [email protected]!
Hey Everyone,
Brendan here with some more details on extra backer content, play-testing updates, and the evolutionist illustration!
We had 4 backers join me for 1-1 design work with their Master Summoner and Game Designer pledges. We are finally ready to unveil the initial details about the additional 3 subclasses and magic item you'll all get as part of Creed's Codex: Arcane Secrets of the Summoners thanks to these awesome folks! We had also hit that final stretch goal and unlocked the base class summoner themed subclass which you all voted on. Warlock blew the other classes out of the water, so Warlock it is!
The archon area of study has diverged from their neighboring disciplines. Rather than looking for ways to augment their summons, they look for ways to use their summons to augment their martial prowess. Archons improve upon their physical training and continue to increase their lethality upon the battlefield through direct confrontation aided by their summoned abilities.
My personal favorite ability is their Summon Titan Fist which let's you summon forth an enormous fist that punches enemies with tremendous force.
Summoners who pursue the shadow area of study have found a kinship with their shadow that has enabled them to draw on power from the plane of shadows. Where others fear the darkness, they find solace in their knowledge of the impenetrable shadow that follows all creatures.
Shadow summoners are incredibly mobile with their connection to the plane of shadows and get stronger in darkness.
Fear is a route to power. Harnessing this powerful motivator and forcibly triggering perceived threats to manipulate and control others is where the horrifier shines. Summoners who have chosen to confront their own personal fears and achieve dominance over them often end up pursuing this area of study, being naturally drawn to what they understand.
The ultimate form of the Horrifier brings out the fear and deals damage directly to the psyche to any who witness the ultimate terror.
The dagger may seem like just a magical dagger, but wait until you wield it against a spellcaster and turn their magic against them!
Reaching out beyond the veil, you have communed with the spirit realm and found a patron of immense power. It has secrets to share that are found beyond the grasp of mortal men. The spirit’s needs and desires are unknown at present, but the power is immeasurable.
Beings of this type can include great ancestral spirits, primal spirits, or exceptionally strong-willed individuals who have fought death’s call.
Through their use of totems, summoning a portion of their patron's power directly, and access to additional summoning spells, the Spirit Warlock is ready for adventure.
We'll be rolling out the play-testing material over the next few weeks, so if you pledged a tier that includes access to the play-testing, please fill out the following survey to let us know what content you're interested in testing. We'll also be sending out invitations to the play testing sessions run by the Knight Vision Creative team and looking for any volunteers who may be interested in running some sessions as well.
If you didn't get a chance to fill out the previous surveys, we'd love to hear from you and what you're looking to see. If you suggest something awesome, and we can fit it in this book or add it as an add-on to BackerKit, we'll do it! If we can't squeeze it in this time around, that just means it will have to make it into one of our future projects!
Here are all the surveys we ran during the campaign if you didn't get a chance to fill one out yet:
Don't forgot to take the survey if you pledged for a play-test access tier!
Here's the latest version of the first stretch goal, part 1.
Here's a survey if you have anything you'd like to share with the illustrator, any details you want to provide on the upcoming fight scene, and feedback on our future roadmap.
If you didn't get a chance to fill out the previous surveys, we'd love to hear from you and what you're looking to see. If you suggest something awesome, and we can fit it in this book or add it as an add-on to BackerKit, we'll do it! If we can't squeeze it in this time around, that just means it will have to make it into one of our future projects!
Here are all the surveys we ran during the campaign if you didn't get a chance to fill one out yet: