The Serpent campaign kickstarter live

[Endie]

Another Traveller kickstarter launched, today: The Serpent. It's written by Kevin Hassall and is being being published under the Traveller Compatible 3rd party license: hopefully we see more of these.

• A dramatic coup upfolds at a corrupt despot's court.
• Warlords rally supporters and hunt down dissenters.
• An ancient biotech facility holds the secret to victory, or destruction.
• Two intertwined campaign arcs lead to a single dramatic conclusion, where the system's factions collide to battle for control of an ancient secret.
• Classic sci-fi dramas mix with unique story arcs, in a rich, evocative setting, inspired by classic Persian literature.

I quite fancy the unusual cultural choice of basing the campaign in Persian and Arabic history, literature and culture: that'll give my players a change from the normal and make it seem more exotic (so sue me, Edward Said). I am hoping to find a way to work it into one of my Traveller Campaigns in a less documented subsector that suits the planets involved (somewhere in the Coreward Trojan Reach, maybe, or in the Beyond.


P.S. I have nothing to do with this beyond having backed it myself and wanting to see it produced, and I'm quite happy for this post to get deleted if the author posts a more polished thread, himself.

Edit: for instance with a link to the kickstarter (see next post).

 

[Limpin Legin]

P.S. I have nothing to do with this beyond having backed it myself and wanting to see it produced

I thought a link to the live kickstarter page might be conveniently helpful to others: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yosano/the-serpent-sci-fi-rpg-campaign-and-setting/creator

 

[Endie]

I thought a link to the live kickstarter page might be conveniently helpful to others: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yosano/the-serpent-sci-fi-rpg-campaign-and-setting/creator

This is why I don't do marketing.

 

[Anstett]

I was following along on the Reddit threads about this. I backed it to see how I can integrate this into a new space in my campaign.

 

[kevinhassall]

P.S. I have nothing to do with this beyond having backed it myself and wanting to see it produced, and I'm quite happy for this post to get deleted if the author posts a more polished thread, himself.

Speaking as the author himself... polished is over-rated ;-)

Thanks for letting everyone know about this!

 

[mavikfelna]

Was going to post this same thing after I backed it. Glad you beat me to it!

 

[Jame Rowe]

I've backed it!

 

[Jarac Rassen]

As a fan of Coriolis and Traveller, you've got my backing.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Coriolis was very good...

backed.

You need an alternative to the now all gone VIP tier, I would have backed at that tier but they have all gone.

 

[Endie]

And that's it fully backed to the original target, too.

 

[DeepSpaceAdventures]

Sounds cool, I've backed it.

 

[Alasdair090]

Back it also

 

[gjohngjohn]

Backed - looks really well thought out. I also play Coriolis so it's two for one.

 

[kevinhassall]

Backed - looks really well thought out. I also play Coriolis so it's two for one.

Not completely two for one ;-)

The Kickstarter is very much Traveller Compatible, under license from Mongoose.

Now, I will publish conversion notes to make it easy for Coriolis GMs to adapt it (Caph system, here we come...), but the main book itself is Traveller. (If anyone wants to convert it to SWN or somesuch then I'm afraifd that they're on their own - it would be possible, but I don't know the system well enough to help with that.)

So maybe 1.5 for 1? ;-)

Thank you for your support, though - it's great that the campaign had such a great initial response, and we're really looking forward to getting it into layout

 

[gjohngjohn]

Not completely two for one ;-)

The Kickstarter is very much Traveller Compatible, under license from Mongoose.

Now, I will publish conversion notes to make it easy for Coriolis GMs to adapt it (Caph system, here we come...), but the main book itself is Traveller. (If anyone wants to convert it to SWN or somesuch then I'm afraifd that they're on their own - it would be possible, but I don't know the system well enough to help with that.)

So maybe 1.5 for 1? ;-)

Thank you for your support, though - it's great that the campaign had such a great initial response, and we're really looking forward to getting it into layout

Haha, no problem. Your previous publications have been great, so I'm looking forward to this one.

 

[kevinhassall]

As an update:

* Having hit our goal in about 22 hours, we're now just over 200% funded.
* That means we'll be including a PCs' briefing/map PDF handout ("what you know about the star system") for all backers.
* And it means we've hit our second stretch goal - which is twenty NPC portraits for use as handouts, on VTTs, etc.

So, all going well so far - and many thanks to everyone who has backed us!

We've done sci-fi PDFs on DTRPG and a medieval Kickstarter, but this is first time Kickstarting a sci-fi setting/campaign, so it's great to have your support!

Kevin