Well it looks like New Arcadia will be next. This doesn't mean I won't do the Hastur ransom, it just means it will be a while before I do it.
The next question is: What do you want to see in the New Arcadia project? My initial idea is to do a PDF along the lines of the New World project describing the setting, major NPCs and factions and a few adventure seeds but also offer stretch goals if we go past certain marks. The initial goal will be fairly low (lower than what we've raised in the past of course) but these stretch goals let me see how passionate the fanbase is towards various goals.
Stretch goal 1: Stats for major NPCs in Wild Talents
Stretch Goal 2: Stats for major NPCs in Mutants & Masterminds
Stretch Goal 3: Additional art for the book, including depictions of campaign highlights like the fight at Big Wheel. Desktop wallpapers will be available.
Stretch Goal 4: Short story and podcast reading of "The untended garden", the origin of Paragon and the syndicate.
Stretch Goal 5: Map of Big Wheel, the particle accelerator and hidden Ideal Base and Omega One, an abandoned lair of
supervillain Omega (brand new location never used in the campaign) - with stats and descriptions of important locations.
Stretch Goal 6: Base Raiders, a standalone comic book set in the New Arcadia universe featuring characters from the campaign!
Base Raiders is about a group of superhumans that find, break into and raid abandoned supervillain and hero bases for profit i.e. dungeon crawling in a superhero world. I have an outline for a standalone 20-24 page comic based on raiding Omega One, the abandoned base mentioned in stretch goal 5. I haven't picked a final lineup for the raiders but I'm leaning towards:
Possible New Arcadia spoilers
[spoiler]Wayfarer
Peter Silvertail
Knight Errant
Iconoclast
Bloodhound
Raoul
Yog
Beatrice
Peracles[/spoiler]
I'll pick 4 of them for the comic. This will be an actual printed comic that I will mail to people if we get to this stretch goal (I can add new rewards if we get to this stretch goal so you can upgrade your reward later if we get to this). It will take place between the second and third campaign tiers but will be written so that you don't need to know the campaign to enjoy it. None of the player characters will be involved (except possible cameos/mentions) because I want Base Raiders to be a standalone title and the heroes of New Arcadia already have their own story, based on their choices.
I don't know how much it would cost exactly to do a comic but if there's a strong showing of support, then I will make it happen.
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