Here's the official press release from Hank Woon:
FORMER PAIZO INTERN AND EARTHDAWN GAME DEVELOPER LAUNCHES NEW FANTASY RPG & CAMPAIGN SETTING COMBO
Game
Smiths LLC
offers Kickstarter
backers their choice of a new campaign setting or RPG system—or
both, along with a very long list of stretch goals, in conjunction
with renowned fantasy illustrator Wayne
Reynolds.
October 15th,
2012
BELLEVUE, WA—Game
Smiths LLC, a new indie tabletop RPG publisher based out of Bellevue,
WA, has launched a “mock” Kickstarter campaign on their website
nearly one month before their actual Kickstarter campaign goes live.
“Our company
vision is all about community involvement,” says Hank Woon, Game
Smiths’ Managing Member and Editor-in-Chief. “We’re putting our
Kickstarter up early to get feedback on both our tier rewards and
stretch goals so we can make the real deal as perfect as possible for
backers.”
Hank Woon, whose day
jobs include screenwriting (with two film credits currently to his
name) and working at The Pokémon Company International, has been
involved in the tabletop RPG industry for nearly a decade with
credits including the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook, Earthdawn Third
Edition, Warpath, Dungeon Magazine, and Kobold Quarterly, among
others, as well as two published fantasy novels for the Earthdawn
campaign setting. For his first efforts with Game Smiths, he is
focusing on a new game system as well as a supported campaign
setting, turning to other industry professionals to help bring the
games to life.
“Wayne Reynolds
helped us with our new core rulebook by making a beautiful, beautiful
cover (the original of which will be available as its own tier reward
in our Kickstarter!), and he’s also participating in our stretch
goals by offering to illustrate our 9 iconics for each of our core 9
classes, doing each in turn as we hit our various stretch goal
levels. And as each is opened up, the original painting of that
iconic will be immediately available as a new, unlocked tier reward
as well.
“In addition, our
original campaign setting will be available not only in our flagship
game system, but also in Pathfinder and Savage Worlds. We want to
make all versions as perfect as possible, which is why we enlisted
the help of Shane Hensley (Savage Worlds creator) by having him
attach his name to an early stretch goal and agreeing to oversee the
design the game mechanics for the Savage Worlds version once that
goal is reached.”
The Kickstarter,
which is set to run from Monday, November 12th through Friday,
December 14th, also has a few other innovations.
“Anyone who
pledges at the Adventure Lord level or higher during the first week
of our run will receive an extra hard cover copy of the N.R.G. Core
Rulebook,” says Craig Guarisco, Game Smiths Creative Director. “And
we also have our Black Friday Challenge—if backers unlock all of
Wayne Reynolds’s iconics by the end of Black Friday, which is 12
a.m. Saturday, November 24th, then every backer who has pledged $25
or more will receive one 28mm metal mini of each Wayne Reynolds’s
iconic, produced by Iron Wind Metals, and everything will come in a
beautiful traditional boxed set.”
To learn more about
Game Smiths and their Kickstarter, please visit
www.gamesmithsllc.com.
Also be sure to visit their forums at
http://forums.gamesmithsllc.com/smf/index.php?topic=3.msg7#msg7.
