Arcanis: Cradle of Empires KickStarter is now LIVE!

Why the very limited number of $125+ pledge levels? Tonight was my wife’s birthday so this is the first chance I have to look and every single special cert pledge level is already gone. That’s not a good way to encourage people to pledge enough to reach the stretch goals. I very likely would have gone for a val’Sosi (or possibly Agamassi Ss’sressen) but have no interest in a Tultipetan Dwarf (and don’t know anything about val’Vasik).

I would suggest adding more of each of the $125+ and possibly other cert pledge levels.

They obviously based the rewards on how they did the Witchhunter KS. (5 of 5, 4 of 4, etc)….those rewards drew great interest, but (iirc) they took a week or so to sell out and some kept opening and closing as people changed their pledges. I don’t thing PCI ever expected these to go as fast as they did.

I hope they add more options, both of special characters and current character rewards. But, I hope they do not just add more of what is currently there. Having a limited number of something is what makes it special and I think this response to the KS has shown that people certainly want the unique and special in Arcanis. Let them keep it to 4 Ss’ressen Val’Sosi…but add in something like 5 Kio Skyknights with a Griffon mount or something like that. or Blessed Lands specific characters…like a “pacified” Voei Former Slave…

They obviously based the rewards on how they did the Witchhunter KS. (5 of 5, 4 of 4, etc)….those rewards drew great interest, but (iirc) they took a week or so to sell out and some kept opening and closing as people changed their pledges. I don’t thing PCI ever expected these to go as fast as they did.

I hope they add more options, both of special characters and current character rewards. But, I hope they do not just add more of what is currently there. Having a limited number of something is what makes it special and I think this response to the KS has shown that people certainly want the unique and special in Arcanis. Let them keep it to 4 Ss’ressen Val’Sosi…but add in something like 5 Kio Skyknights with a Griffon mount or something like that. or Blessed Lands specific characters…like a “pacified” Voei Former Slave…

I’d like to see them add more of all the options that are already there plus other new options. Considering how fast these sold out, I’d suggest adding 2-3x as many as there were already. I’d be surprised if anyone is overly concerned with actually being (near) unique – they just want some of the options that haven’t previously been available in the campaign. It would be interesting to see (to me anyway) if anyone that pledged for a special cert would drop their pledge if PCI made them an unlimited Kickstarter exclusive.

My sympathies to people who didn’t find out in time. There was very very little lead time. I also had no idea it was going live and by chance came on about 20 minutes after it started. Already many options had sold out. Luckily for me the business option was still open … which is what I wanted most anyway out of the options (though the thought of playing one of Calcestus’ “little girls” would certainly be interested. Do you play that PC with the biggest snarkiest chip on your shoulder that you can imagine? Or are you trying to escape from your heritage?).

I hope that PCI will be both pleased and surprised by the outpouring. Though given that Arcanis is their “flagship world” perhaps we should expect a really big response.

I suspect PCI will look at the response and try to add more options for people.

I’m in for a business. The seat at the table would have been nice, but more than I can afford. May add a val’Vasik. Is there information in any of the books on them? Might be nice to put out some at least basic information on the bloodline here on the forums as an enticement for people to add it.

With a sweep of his…

Hat

The original Val’Vasik write up are in Legacy of Damnation.

Just a note. This Kickstarter is determining the surviving val’Vasik population.

So for the people that missed the initial offering, what would please you the most to see getting offered in a (possible) next round of offerings?

and in the mean time have you all put in for one of the lower tiers? the centurion or the general?

Really cheap option for getting a copy of Legacy of Damnation…

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In case Henry or Eric or whomever is looking for ideas, here’s a couple things that jumped in my mind that could be Pledge or Add-On options:

– a ‘free’ Heirloom item

– permission to play a Gar character

– character that used to be from Ymandragore (not named Sampson, of course)

– a cert for “a favor owed” from an NPC of some significance or influence, that a character can benefit from one time, 1/adventure, etc. (could be numerous of these, from numerous places/groups)

– a cert for some benefit for character, but then they also owe a debt to an NPC/group as a one-time or “as appropriate”.

I would love to see a group of survivors from General Calmemnon’s expedition to Dhar Zhan Vor.

or a very limited reintroduction of the Altherian Articifer or elements from it.

I’d like to second the idea of Paul Hat’s idea of an “advanced placement” cert give a significant nod to the previous crusade story arc.