Encyclopedia: Lore Book & Toolbox for your 5E Campaign
Created by Studio Agate
Welcome on the Late Pledge for Encyclopedia! Level-up your 5th Edition campaign with this 360-page tome featuring dozens of ready-to-use cities, locations, NPCs and magic items.
đŹđ§ đ«đ· This project is available in French and English.
đ Choose your Ă la carte options on this page. Discover the Fateforge series and secure the accessories offered during the Kickstarter campaign, most of which will soon be unavailable.
đ Enjoy the Fateforge 5E Tetralogy Collection including all the Stretch Goals from the KS campaign and receive your PDFs as soon as your preorder is processed.
đŠ Delivery September 2021 at the same time as all backers. Tracked parcels. Delivery all over the world. US and EU-friendly. Physical rewards will be sent from the USA (USPS) and France (Colissimo for France, DHL for Europe). Backers from these countries will not pay import taxes.
đ Thank you SO MUCH because your support allows our RPG creation studio to exist :)
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Last Days for the Pledge Manager
almost 3 years ago
â Mon, May 10, 2021 at 01:38:50 AM
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Hi everyone!
You are 75% to have filled your Pledge manager, that is to say more than 6000 people...! Thank you very much! We need to close the pledge manager quickly in order to tell our manufacturers the final quantities for production. If you haven't already done so, please take 5 minutes to complete yours. We will close it soon now. You will be able to access it via the invitation email sent or via this link.
If you have any issue or need help, please do not hesitate to write to us. Well, we receive a lot of messages and we are a small team... we try to answer everyone but it may take a little time, so please be patient :) If you don't hear from us after a week, please contact us again.Â
We take this opportunity to promote a Facebook group dedicated to Fateforge and animated by the community. It's over here.
Also, we have just launched a late pledge dedicated to Shadows of Esteren, our atmospheric, dark romantic RPG. If you couldn't get your hands on it during the Encyclopedia pledge manager, go and have a look. Beware, it is only open for 10 days!Â
Please note that for this late pledge, different items are offered. While you get acces to very limited items during the Encyclopedia pledge manager, here it is more about the new and upcoming releases. For technical reasons, this Esterenlate pledge order will be processed separatelyfrom your Encyclopedia Pledge manager addons and you will have to pay dedicated shipping costs for it. Sorry for this, but it is impossible to do otherwise as it would be too tricky to merge your Encyclopedia reward and a Esteren Late pledge order.Â
All that being said, you might be interested in this and that's why we're informing you about this spring preoder event ^^
All the Pledge Manager Invites are Sent
about 3 years ago
â Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:08:02 AM
Good evening everyone!
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Just a quick update to let you know that we finished sending out all the pledge manager invitations tonight as planned. Apparently, the smoke test only revealed minor bugs. Thanks to everyone who contacted us! Don't forget, if you have any problem or question, open a ticket here. You are a lot, it may take several days to answer you ^^
We remind you that some references are limited in number. If you don't see it on the page anymore, it's simply because it's out of stock. By the way, we have just learned from our manufacturers that the cost of raw materials has soared. It was already the case of the cargo transport costs... multiplied by 4 these last months! But don't worry, the success of this campaign allows us to remain confident on the budget side. We would have preferred to spend this extra money to create more ! Anyway, don't hesitate to take some extra options to support the project ^^ A big thank you to all of you!
Another important reminder: the pledge manager will be closed at the end of the month. You will not be able to update your reward, add or remove options and so on after the deadline. You wil be charged at the beginning of June of your shipping fees and options.
To finish this update, we would like to share an indie project from Sweden, brought by enthusiasts like us: Wayfarers of the Farwood: A 5E Campaign Setting. We are ourselves a French independent studio. Your huge support allows us to exist. We know where we come from and we don't forget it. Go and have a look at their project, it's promising!
Wayfarers of the Farwood is a fifth edition compatible book, including the World of Lor'Zun Campaign Setting, a Player's Guide, and The Iron Thieves Campaign for characters level 1 - 10.
Wayfarers of the Farwood is a fifth edition compatible book, including the World of Lor'Zun Campaign Setting, a Player's Guide, and The Iron Thieves Campaign for characters level 1 - 10.
The Pledge Manager is Launched Today
about 3 years ago
â Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 04:50:16 AM
Hi everyone!
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The pledge manager is ready! Backerkit has validated everything and we will launch a smoke test tonight. About 5% of the backers will receive an invitation. If you find any bug, please report it here. Thank you <3
Early next week, we will launch the other invitations. By Wednesday, May 5th, everyone should have received their invitation. You will have until the end of May to fill out your Backerkit account, enter your address, add your options, choose your language and cover and so on. Shipping costs and additional options will be charged early June. You will receive an update before then.
If this is your first time backing a Kickstarter, here is some basic information. A pledge manager is an online tool (called Backerkit) that allows us to better organize deliveries, allow you to add options or update your address and retrieve your PDFs, among other things. When you receive the invitation, simply follow the steps. Your account was created automatically and Backerkit is pretty intuitive. But if you need a hand, feel free to write to us.
If you are a retailer, we will create a dedicated mailing list to facilitate communication with you. We will send you a copy of this update via this mailing list. We know you get a lot of emails and we hope this will make it easier for you!
Now we will go into detail in this news, on the program :
Discover Shadows of Esteren
Shipping costs
Possibility to upgrade your reward tier
How to choose your add-ons
Production and delivery schedule
Three bonuses
Your PDFs
Let's go !
Discover Shadows of Esteren
This pledge manage is the opportunity to discover our gothic universe which is also the most awarded French role playing game. You can discover it here. https://portal.esteren.org/
The pledge manager proposes you many Esteren items very limited in quantities because many books are close to be sold out. When a reference is out of stock, it disappears from the page. You also have some copies of a big bundle with a 40% discount. Take advantage of this because ordering Esteren books does not add any extra shipping costs. Everything will be delivered at the same time as your Encyclopedia rewardss. All this is only available in English.
Shadows of Esteren is a medieval world with horrific and gothic overtones in a dark, low fantasy setting. Drawing inspiration from Celtic myths, this universe has a subtle fantastic side hidden under a bleak, realistic surface. With the focus of its adventures being investigation and survival, Shadows of Esteren favors immersion and interaction among the players.
Shipping costs
The shipping costs will be a bit higher than expected due to the unlocked bonuses but also due to the increase of the shipping fees everywhere. We will take care of most of these increases, but they will still be reflected in your participation for a few dollars depending on your reward tier. However, the good news is that there are no additional shipping costs if you take additional options, we cover them completely. The UK and Switzerland are considered European countries. And we maintain free shipping for retailers. For Creature backers, the shipping credit is automatically assigned to your Backerkit account depending on your country.
Possibility to upgrade your reward tier
We confirm that you can upgrade your reward tier. This will be explained directly in the steps of your pledge manager. If you are in Access to the Pledge Manager ($10) and you change to another reward tier, you will get the physical stretch goals, so enjoy! Otherwise, you can stay in this tier and choose a la carte but you won't get the physical bonuses, only the digital ones.
Choose your add-ons
The "pledge manager" allows you to complete your participation with options. Take advantage of it because it doesn't add any extra shipping costs :)
In the pledge manager add-ons page, you will have many choices. Depending on your reward tier, some items are already in your list: beware of duplicates... unless you want to receive several copies! A little tip: when you arrive on the add-ons page, you can see the total content of your pledge on the right:
If you took add-ons during the Kickstarter campaign, they are already in your reward list, look carefully ^^ You will be able to choose the language and cover of your add-ons just after this page dedicated to the options.
Production and delivery schedule
During this month of April, production has progressed well. All digital files have been validated. Here is the schedule announced by our two manufacturers (Europe for the books, China for the accessories):
May: sample before mass production launch for accessories. We will post pictures!
June: Mass production and assembly
July: Shipping
August: Delivery in our warehouses at the beginning of August if all goes well. It's a bit later than expected, so we'll wait until early September to make the deliveries and avoid the summer period.
September: Delivery of your rewards
It's a little later than we hoped but we know that our manufacturers are doing their best in a complex period. In any case, we apologize for this delay and we hope that the PDFs will allow you to wait :)
Three bonuses
Tothank you and celebrate the launch of the Pledge manager, you will find three bonuses on your accounts. Older members of our community may already have them... in your digital rewards, we've added Fateforge coloring pages, a set of wallpapers and a full set of digital character sheets, which are very handy! You'll be able to download all of these once you've completed all the steps in the pledge manager.
Your PDFs
As soon as you've finished filling out your pledge manager, you'll also have access to all your PDFs :) If you lose them, you will be able to find them at any time on your account through this address: https://encyclopedia-complete-lore-book-for-5e.backerkit.com Keep this address in your favorites!
That's it for tonight! See you soon for the next step :)
Get your Encyclopedia PDF + Production Update + Vermine 2047
about 3 years ago
â Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 01:28:53 AM
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
about 3 years ago
â Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 12:09:14 AM
The campaign has just ended! What an epic adventure!
$711.432, 8323 backers, this campaign is by far our biggest success. After years of working on these books, this is a magical ending. Thank you all for your enthusiasm. We are extremely grateful for the trust you have placed in us. Thanks to you, we will be able to continue writing, creating, illustrating!
A second Encyclopedia is planned. It will deal with the underground world, its civilizations, its dangers, and the horrible entity hiding there: the Canker. We hope you'll enjoy our treatment of this classic theme! Encyclopedia: Netherworld is scheduled for release in 2022.
But for now, we have a lot of work to do until this summer to keep up with the production and delivery of your rewards. All the books are ready, as well as all the accessories presented in this campaign. The production phase has started since the end of last year and we have received the first samples. This is a large-scale production !
Here are the next steps:
 Pledge manager. during the month of April and for two weeks only, the pledge manager will be open. You will be able to complete your order, tell us your address. You will also be able to download all your PDFs. Depending on available stocks, we may allow you to change your reward tier. The payment of your options but also the shipping costs will be done at the beginning of May.
 Mass production. Once this pledge manager stage is over, we will have the final quantities for mass production. It is also at this time that we should receive the last samples to be validated before the launch of this mass production. The production is scheduled for May and should last the whole month.
 Shipping. The shipping phase of your rewards from the printers and the two shipping hubs (in France and in the USA) will take place during the month of June.
 Delivery of your rewards. July.
Of course, there could be logistical problems, manufacturing problems, customs blockage that add delays to this schedule. We will keep you informed if this is the case. In any case, the project is very advanced and we hope to deliver it as soon as possible!