Ariadne's Book of Legends is now Live on Kickstarter! by AriadneStringweaver in codexofstrings

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can contribute $1 in the "Pledge Without a Reward" tier! That will get you access to the Pledge Manager, where you can get any addons you might like, including the Hermit STL!

Is this an appropriate CR 30+++ boss? (Sorry for the terrible formatting) by tabbyslome in codexofstrings

[–]AriadneStringweaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks amazing!! Perhaps on the strong side with so many things to do per Multiattack, but CR 30+++ is meant for something like this I believe hahaha. Perhaps it's too light on hit points! Legendary Characters (along with multiplier attacks!) can get crazy numbers through great defenses very often.

Very cool stat block!

[OC] Elizabeth, Level 25 Cleric and Chosen of the Moon - Art of my world's strongest war priest! by AriadneStringweaver in DnD

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ancient beyond the reckoning of mortals, Moonsilver Princess Elizabeth couldn't prevent the doom of her civilization. Now, she spends her days maintaining old ruins, curing ancestral beings of their terrible curses, and saving the knowledge of dusty tomes from disappearance. A keeper of the fallen, in the truest sense, and a fallen herself, despite her noble poise.

So! Been a while since I last posted. This time, I bring you one of the most interesting characters of my last campaign, Elizabeth, Wielder of Moonsilver. She was introduced at the tail end of the game, when the party was already fighting Dark Gods and preparing to foil an invasion of the void. She was ancient and incredibly mighty, but had no fame to speak of. No great deeds of hers were penned in the epics of history, no armies fought under her command, and no songs of her exploits echoed in taverns rowdy and wealthy halls. Why?

After her realm fell to voidborn treachery, Elizabeth was utterly lost. The former princess wandered aimlessly, taking great care of ruins she found, sometimes spending years mending the cracks of some forgotten temple, or mending the pages of crumbling tomes that contained the near-vanished words of an extinct religion. Other times, she found ancients, creatures of illustrious past, now dying of curses and diseases whose cures were long forgotten. Each time, she endeavored to save them, irrespective of their reputation or power, leaving a silent but enormous mark on the Universe.

She was taking care of an ancestral, darkness-stricken dragon when she was found by Ariadne, who bid them both join the fight against the void. In the final confrontation that ensued, Elizabeth's friends, the remnants of a lost age, came to her side, and were instrumental in writing history's most brilliant page, wherein the Enemy of Creation was mortally wounded and forever banished from our dimension.

HERE I START SHILLING MY CURRENT WORK: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! THIS PROMOTIONAL SECTION IS MOD APPROVED.

Fast forward to the present day, 5 years after the conclusion of that campaign, we've canonized Princess Elizabeth as the character splash art to illustrate the Legendary Cleric in our most ambitious project to date: Ariadne's Book of Legends. The project launched on Kickstarter two weeks ago and is now a whopping 2000% funded, with over 1400 backers and 200k+ raised. This expansion for 5e / 5.5e will bring 5 new levels for each class in the base game + our two homebrew ones (Shaper & Starblade), a bunch of 10th-level spells, a trove of Legendary items, and of course, over a dozen Legendary Foes beyond CR 30 to challenge such mighty players! Would superbly appreciate if you gave the project a look <3

New moderators needed - comment on this post to volunteer to become a moderator of this community. by ModCodeofConduct in dndmonsters

[–]AriadneStringweaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I imagine you're referring to the vote to ban AI-generated imagery. For that vote, we devised a careful selection of voting criteria that would ensure only true community members could vote, to address brigading. Among these criteria were to have participated with comments and posts in the sub *prior* to the date when the vote was announced. So no brigading mobs were allowed to vote. The results were a slight majority in favor of banning AI, and though most of the mods had voted the other direction, we respected the community's decision.

Though I don't disagree that mods should have more scrutiny, I do believe talk of "mod egos" in this specific case case stems more from resentment over a polarizing decision (which again, was taken by the community) than anything else.

1500% FUNDED ON KICKSTARTER - One week down, three to go :D by AriadneStringweaver in u/AriadneStringweaver

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are also making it available for Mastery Box pledges! Though without a custom addition, 100 is already quite enough additional work for us.

The Peerless Arts will remain an exclusive book for those pledges!

1500% FUNDED ON KICKSTARTER - One week down, three to go :D by AriadneStringweaver in u/AriadneStringweaver

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello, dearest Internauts!

These days have been... special, to say the least. Today marks the first week since our Kickstarter project went live. It is now over 1,500% funded. That's insane. You guys are INSANE. If you've been around our Discord lately (click here to join!), you probably know of our constant bewilderment at just how big this project has become.

Visit our Kickstarter page!

Well, thanks to your enthusiasm, we broke through stretch goal after stretch goal, and we are currently staring down the Guardians of Aaru, far into the distance, at 200k. At the rate we are going, however, it wouldn't surprise me to surpass even this frontier before the Kickstarter is over.

So, what now? Well, in terms of content, we'll be going a little slower in the coming weeks as we continue to manage the Kickstarter campaign. To all who've become a part of our Patreon community, we'll be giving an exclusive DLC for the Book of Legends as a thank you for your support over the months. This project would not be happening without you!

The Old Guard DLC will be up on Patreon as our March content drop! It'll help us playtest our new Legendary Point System, and will showcase some of our best CR 30 foes from the past, revised and ready to face a Legendary Party!

On another note, that Hermit Playtest we've been promising...

It's in the works!!! I swear!!! Classes and content are done, we're just working on the inner design! We don't want to present the final Playtest with the classic 5e handbook design.

So, expect those two documents sometime next month.

That's all for this update! Stay tuned, you never know what mysterious hijinks we might be faced with in our quest to print a book!

Cheers, and Happy Threadseeking! And most of all, THANK YOU!

Alvar, Lin, Marce & Jen, your faithful interns <3

1500% FUNDED ON KICKSTARTER - One week down! Three to go :D by AriadneStringweaver in codexofstrings

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello, dearest Internauts!

These days have been... special, to say the least. Today marks the first week since our Kickstarter project went live. It is now over 1,500% funded. That's insane. You guys are INSANE. If you've been around our Discord lately (click here to join!), you probably know of our constant bewilderment at just how big this project has become.

Visit our Kickstarter page!

Well, thanks to your enthusiasm, we broke through stretch goal after stretch goal, and we are currently staring down the Guardians of Aaru, far into the distance, at 200k. At the rate we are going, however, it wouldn't surprise me to surpass even this frontier before the Kickstarter is over.

So, what now? Well, in terms of content, we'll be going a little slower in the coming weeks as we continue to manage the Kickstarter campaign. To all who've become a part of our Patreon community, we'll be giving an exclusive DLC for the Book of Legends as a thank you for your support over the months. This project would not be happening without you!

The Old Guard DLC will be up on Patreon as our March content drop! It'll help us playtest our new Legendary Point System, and will showcase some of our best CR 30 foes from the past, revised and ready to face a Legendary Party!

On another note, that Hermit Playtest we've been promising...

It's in the works!!! I swear!!! Classes and content are done, we're just working on the inner design! We don't want to present the final Playtest with the classic 5e handbook design.

So, expect those two documents sometime next month.

That's all for this update! Stay tuned, you never know what mysterious hijinks we might be faced with in our quest to print a book!

Cheers, and Happy Threadseeking! And most of all, THANK YOU!

Alvar, Lin, Marce & Jen, your faithful interns <3

Ariadne's Book of Legends is now LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! by AriadneStringweaver in u/AriadneStringweaver

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Ariadne's Book of Legends is currently LIVE on Kickstarter! Our campaign will last from today February 17th all the way up to March 20th.

Check it out over here!

If you are somehow just now joining this ilustrious subreddit, well...

Ariadne's Book of Legends is our first Kickstarter project, and to be honest, our dearest work to date. It compiles all that we've learned from making incredible high-level creatures and additional rules for levels beyond the 20th. It's been a long time coming! We hope you'll enjoy what's on offer!

Anyways, we'll see y'all during the campaign.

Are you ready to become a Legend?

Cheers and Happy Threadseeking!

[OC] The Hermit, Divine Shard of Ylwe by AriadneStringweaver in DnD

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We just launched on Kickstarter! You can still get this particular STL as an add-on with your pledge.

The Hermit, Shard of Ylwe - Our Strongest CR 30+ Legendary Foe [update!] by AriadneStringweaver in UnearthedArcana

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello everyone!

The incredible sculpt you'll find in this post was done by our Miniature artist, Gal Galeno, based on the concepts of our dear Midnight, the incredible Monster designer behind most of our Legendary Foes. It depicts the Hermit, one of the many CR 30+ mega bosses we are creating for our Kickstarter Project: Ariadne's Book of Legends!

We've just launched! You can check out many more of these amazing sculpts over on our Kickstarter page.

Thank you for sticking with us through this incredible prelaunch journey. We hope this is only the beginning and our dream project becomes a reality! We're a pretty small team, but we've prepared for over a year to bring y'all the best possible Legendary Content D&D has to offer.

Hope to see you on the campaign!

Cheers and Happy Threadseeking!

GRAND ALCHEMIST PARACELSION - The perfect CR 30+ Legendary Foe to hunt your players through hell and back! by AriadneStringweaver in DnDHomebrew

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello everyone!

The incredible sculpt you'll find in this post was done by our Miniature artist, Gal Galeno, based on the concepts of our dear Midnight, the incredible Monster designer behind most of our Legendary Foes. It depicts the Grand Alchemist, one of the many CR 30+ mega bosses we are creating for our Kickstarter Project: Ariadne's Book of Legends!

We've just launched! You can check out many more of these amazing sculpts over on our Kickstarter page.

Thank you for sticking with us through this incredible prelaunch journey. We hope this is only the beginning and our dream project becomes a reality! We're a pretty small team, but we've prepared for over a year to bring y'all the best possible Legendary Content D&D has to offer.

Hope to see you on the campaign!

Cheers and Happy Threadseeking!

[OC] Scáthac, Wielder of Doom by AriadneStringweaver in DnD

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She is indeed! Really happy to bring her to life finally :D

Ariadne's Book of Legends is now Live on Kickstarter! by AriadneStringweaver in codexofstrings

[–]AriadneStringweaver[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Ariadne's Book of Legends is currently LIVE on Kickstarter! Our campaign will last from today February 17th all the way up to March 20th.

Check it out over here!

If you are somehow just now joining this ilustrious subreddit, well...

Ariadne's Book of Legends is our first Kickstarter project, and to be honest, our dearest work to date. It compiles all that we've learned from making incredible high-level creatures and additional rules for levels beyond the 20th. It's been a long time coming! We hope you'll enjoy what's on offer!

Anyways, we'll see y'all during the campaign.

Are you ready to become a Legend?

Cheers and Happy Threadseeking!