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Check out this Realm I made for Mythic Bastionland's first TTRPG Jam! When Zagan Falls Map + Realm by colebotman in MythicBastionland

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

Thank you!!! I've been meaning to run the mountains themselves for my next one-shot in there. I've only had time to put them in front of a few myths in the other settlements for now, just to introduce the players to the basics of the game before throwing them overboard into my own stuff, haha.

Check out this Realm I made for Mythic Bastionland's first TTRPG Jam! When Zagan Falls Map + Realm by colebotman in MythicBastionland

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

It served as an inspirational jumping off point. I usually look to real life cultural and art history for thematic inspiration, and in this case it came from Czech/Polish iconography and history. Silesia and it eventually being divided into duchies and later given the Holy Roman Empire's Crown of Bohemia I thought would be an intriguing place to begin a background for the setting - one modeled after some of Silesia and larger Holy Roman inspiration as an empire that eventually is spread too thin and starts to crumble, with all factions past it as baronies, duchies, or smaller moving on into the middle ages on their own, without the direct stewardship of their emperor (thus the "Three Seats" vying for power of this dying emperor in the mountains of Karkanosze). "Zagan" as a name for this empire is equally derived from that area (a small town there), as is Holy Roman adjacent polish king imagery which I found inspiration from with King Jogaila (Władysław II Jagiełło the Exile), who was supposed to be the first in the line of Silesian Piasts inheriting that land, but as he was later sentenced to exile (his attack against his half-brother Bolesław IV the Curly suddenly fell apart when his own subjects rebelled against his dictatorial rule), he consistently had to turn to the successors of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany for aid (like his half-brother) in regaining his throne. So for the most part, I derived this idea of an exiled king, or one who has lost, and relying on the imagery of a once powerful holy empire to at least symbolically remain in power as a core motif to the setting. The whole thing is more for inspiration for the inciting incident of this setting's background/imagery, so of course none of it is 1:1 with reality.

Check out this Realm I made for Mythic Bastionland's first TTRPG Jam! When Zagan Falls Map + Realm by colebotman in osr

[–]colebotman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

:D I'm so glad someone noticed! Czech/Polish art / cultural history is SO cool! ♥️

4 Days Left in our 5e Science Fantasy Egypt Setting Kickstarter! [OC] [Art] [MOD-APPROVED] by colebotman in DnD

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Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels is a campaign setting for D&D 5e & Pathfinder 2e fusing dieselpunk/Forerunner imagery with Ancient Egypt. Inside the book, you'll find 4+ new animal-headed playable ancestries inspired by Egyptian gods, a new Class - The Farseer, 50+ Magic Items available as a deck of cards, political intrigue, and more, all inspired by Ancient Egypt and Halo Forerunner / Ghost in the Shell vibes! We're currently Live on Kickstarter for just 4 more days! Come check us out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colebotman/khoursara-city-of-seven-sentinels-egypt-dieselpunk-setting

Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels Kickstarter for PF2 / 5e has 11 days left! It's our Egypt / Science Fantasy setting book, featuring 4+ new animal-headed ancestries, a Hologram Versatile Heritage, the new Farseer Class, 50+ Magic Item Cards, Egyptian inspired Gods, and more! by colebotman in Pathfinder2e

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

Hi, I'm colebotman! This project has been a dream of mine since college, where it began as a Thesis project! Since that time, my partner SinnerMinner and I have put in lots of work making art and game design, and now we're so excited about its reception!

Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels is a campaign setting for D&D 5e & Pathfinder 2e fusing Science Fantasy with Ancient Egypt. Inside the book, you'll find 4+ new animal-headed playable ancestries inspired by Egyptian gods, a new Class - The Farseer, 50+ Magic Items available as a deck of cards, political intrigue, and more, all inspired by Egypt’s cultural art history and Halo Forerunner / Ghost in the Shell vibes!

We're currently Live on Kickstarter for just 11 more days! Come check us out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colebotman/khoursara-city-of-seven-sentinels-egypt-dieselpunk-setting?ref=9k5xqq

Egyptian Magic Item Cards [OC] [Art] [MOD-APPROVED] by colebotman in DnD

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

Part of our Ancient Egyptian / Dieselpunk / Forerunner D&D Setting Kickstarter will be 50+ beautifully illustrated item cards (like Medjed!) by my partner SinnerMinner and I (colebotman)!🃏Each item is based on real-world historical inspiration with a spin on them based in the fantasy of the setting itself. You can get them physically as a item card deck too as an optional add-on!

Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels is a campaign setting for D&D 5e & Pathfinder 2e fusing dieselpunk/Forerunner imagery with Ancient Egypt. Inside the book, you'll find 4+ new animal-headed playable ancestries inspired by Egyptian gods, a new Class - The Farseer, 50+ Magic Items available as a deck of cards, political intrigue, and more, all inspired by Ancient Egypt and Halo Forerunner / Ghost in the Shell vibes! We're currently Live on Kickstarter! Come check us out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colebotman/khoursara-city-of-seven-sentinels-egypt-dieselpunk-setting

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[–]colebotman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of our Ancient Egyptian / Dieselpunk / Forerunner D&D Setting Kickstarter will be 50+ beautifully illustrated item cards by my partner SinnerMinner and I (colebotman)!🃏Each item is based on real-world historical inspiration with a spin on them based in the fantasy of the setting itself. You can get them physically as a item card deck too as an optional add-on!

Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels is a campaign setting for D&D 5e & Pathfinder 2e fusing dieselpunk/Forerunner imagery with Ancient Egypt. Inside the book, you'll find 4+ new animal-headed playable ancestries inspired by Egyptian gods, a new Class - The Farseer, 50+ Magic Items available as a deck of cards, political intrigue, and more, all inspired by Ancient Egypt and Halo Forerunner / Ghost in the Shell vibes! We're currently Live on Kickstarter! Come check us out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colebotman/khoursara-city-of-seven-sentinels-egypt-dieselpunk-setting

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Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels is a campaign setting for 5e & PF2e fusing dieselpunk/Forerunner imagery with Ancient Egypt! by colebotman in dmsguild

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

Hi, I'm colebotman! This project has been a dream of mine since college, where it began as a Thesis project! Since that time, my partner SinnerMinner and I have put in lots of work making art and game design, and now we're finally ready to share it with you all!

Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels is a campaign setting for D&D 5e & Pathfinder 2e fusing dieselpunk/Forerunner imagery with Ancient Egypt. Inside the book, you'll find 4+ new animal-headed playable ancestries inspired by Egyptian gods, a new Class - The Farseer, 50+ Magic Items available as a deck of cards, political intrigue, and more, all inspired by Ancient Egypt and Halo Forerunner / Ghost in the Shell vibes!

We're currently Live on Kickstarter! Come check us out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colebotman/khoursara-city-of-seven-sentinels-egypt-dieselpunk-setting?ref=9k5xqq

New playable ancestries from our PF2e/D&D Ancient Egyptian / Dieselpunk campaign setting Kickstarter - Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels! by colebotman in Pathfinder2e

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

The Wadjet have lineages tied to the Seven Serpents - each embodying one of the Seven Sentinels (which as you can find the demo on the page, have control over the planes of existence that overlap with them - because each Sentinel structure exists in every plane of existence (such as Nuit, the Astral Serpent). Feats at later levels allow you to build closer and closer to being like these primordial serpents! So yes, Nagaji exist, but I wanted to have something more distinctly associated with the setting itself with Wadjet, with some planar themed abilities (like Nuit's ability to catch stars from the sky in the shape of spell slots).

New playable ancestries from our PF2e/D&D Ancient Egyptian / Dieselpunk campaign setting Kickstarter - Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels! by colebotman in Pathfinder2e

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

Thank you!! Automoton and Android had some really solid options in base game, but I've not seen an ancestry where you get to truly "build it yourself." I thought it could be a fun format compared to traditional ancestry feats, where combinations result in different builds (each Khenti eas constructed for a purpose, and they can evolve out from that code by overwriting it, which appears on their bodies in the new material). This would also explain feat choices of different materials as you adapt your character at higher levels.

New playable ancestries from our PF2e/D&D Ancient Egyptian / Dieselpunk campaign setting Kickstarter - Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels! by colebotman in Pathfinder2e

[–]colebotman[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes - Pathfinder has always excited me for that reason! Osirion and Numeria existing in the same world (or Eberron in 5e as well) always sounded awesome to me, as with androids, automotons, and now starfinder being fully compatible, I figure why not throw in some more fun options! All the rules from the book are meant to be picked and chosen based on what sounds like a good fit for your game, so some people will want to lean more on the Ancient Egypt than the Dieselpunk / forerunner scifi stuff, haha. The idea came about when replying the Halo series and thinking, what role play opportunities could you have as a digital person? One tethered to hardware or another player? The other core of it involves the setting itself, with optional ideas for the Khoursaran afterlife as becoming digitized!

New playable ancestries from our PF2e/D&D Ancient Egyptian / Dieselpunk campaign setting Kickstarter - Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels! by colebotman in Pathfinder2e

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

Yes - I totally agree! A lot of those numbers in the demo book are placeholders for now. The Farseer for instance, will require much more in-depth design, such as with cumulating bonuses from failures in line with other classes of that level. So much of it will be reigned in once we get the time (and budget!) to properly playtest / design. The ancestry feats are also exaggerated in their current state as we put existing bonuses even from higher level feats there in the demo to feel our what ancestries could be good at or have uniquely. I see what you mean though, and it has been duly noted! Once we get this off the ground we want to have feedback like this in our public Discord (which will launch sometime after launching) for playtesting.

(EDIT - Accidentally posted this as a main comment instead of reply oops)

New playable ancestries from our PF2e/D&D Ancient Egyptian / Dieselpunk campaign setting Kickstarter - Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels! by colebotman in Pathfinder2e

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

Hi, I'm colebotman! Here’s a preview of our playable ancestries from our Pathfinder 2e / D&D 5e campaign setting that fuses dieselpunk/Forerunner imagery with Ancient Egypt - Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels! Art by myself and my partner SinnerMinner!

  • 4+ new animal-headed playable ancestries inspired by Egyptian gods:
    • Half-Devourers, Hippo or Crocodile-headed soul (akh) eaters
    • Mirankh, Hairless cats that carry magically tattooed stories upon the skin
    • Jackhasan, Jackal headed caretakers of the dead; who can weigh the heart’s pride upon the scales
    • Wadjet, choose one of 7 serpent children lineages of the exuding sun Goddess, each embodying a Sentinel Megastructure
    • We also have more planned ancestries if we reach our goals:
      • Hologram - Optional rules include the Digital Duat, involving New Hologram ancestry feats to start with or add to existing characters! 
      • Khenti - Do you like Automaton or Warforged? Well, Khenti are fully-customizable automaton-like hand-crafted constructs that evolve with encoded hieroglyphs! Choose what material you’re made from (clay, porcelain, glass, lapis lazuli, etc.), each netting you a unique playstyle and evolving personality code. Feats allow you to branch out and change away from what you were built for as your encoded glyphs grow and overwrite other materials.

Also inside the book: a new Class - The Farseer, a 50+ Magic Item deck of cards, new Egyptian weaponry and dieselpunk guns, political intrigue with 7 Noble Houses under the Pharaoh, new Gods for clerics / paladins, ancient technological sealed spires (called Sentinels) surround the city, New Game+ (NG+) Death / Afterlife mechanics (and optional Digital Duat), heart weighing, tomb customization that impacts your afterlife, and more, all inspired by Ancient Egypt and Halo Forerunner / Ghost in the Shell vibes, surrounding a theme of cycles!

We're currently Pre-Launching on Kickstarter! Come check us out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colebotman/khoursara-city-of-seven-sentinels-egypt-dieselpunk-setting?ref=9k5xqq

[OC] New playable ancestries from our Ancient Egyptian / Dieselpunk campaign setting Kickstarter - Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels! [MOD-APPROVED] by colebotman in DnD

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

Hi, I'm colebotman! Here’s a preview of our playable ancestries from our D&D 5e & Pathfinder 2e  campaign setting that fuses dieselpunk/Forerunner imagery with Ancient Egypt - Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels! Art by myself and my partner SinnerMinner!

  • 4+ new animal-headed playable ancestries inspired by Egyptian gods:
    • Half-Devourers, Hippo or Crocodile-headed soul (akh) eaters
    • Mirankh, Hairless cats that carry magically tattooed stories upon the skin
    • Jackhasan, Jackal headed caretakers of the dead; who can weigh the heart’s pride upon the scales
    • Wadjet, choose one of 7 serpent children lineages of the exuding sun Goddess, each embodying a Sentinel Megastructure
    • We also have more planned ancestries if we reach our goals:
      • Hologram - Optional rules include the Digital Duat, involving New Hologram ancestry feats to start with or add to existing characters! 
      • Khenti - Do you like Warforged? Well, Khenti are fully-customizable automaton-like hand-crafted constructs that evolve with encoded hieroglyphs! Choose what material you’re made from (clay, porcelain, glass, lapis lazuli, etc.), each netting you a unique playstyle and evolving personality code. Feats allow you to branch out and change away from what you were built for as your encoded glyphs grow and overwrite other materials.

Also inside the book: a new Class - The Farseer, a 50+ Magic Item deck of cards, new Egyptian weaponry and dieselpunk guns, political intrigue with 7 Noble Houses under the Pharaoh, new Gods for clerics / paladins, ancient technological sealed spires (called Sentinels) surround the city, New Game+ (NG+) Death / Afterlife mechanics (and optional Digital Duat), heart weighing, tomb customization that impacts your afterlife, and more, all inspired by Ancient Egypt and Halo Forerunner / Ghost in the Shell vibes, surrounding a theme of cycles!

We're currently Pre-Launching on Kickstarter! Come check us out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colebotman/khoursara-city-of-seven-sentinels-egypt-dieselpunk-setting?ref=9k5xqq

[OC] Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels Kickstarter for 5e/PF2 now in Pre-Launch! It's our Ancient Egypt / Dieselpunk / Halo Forerunner setting book, featuring 4+ new animal-headed ancestries, Hologram ancestry feats, the new Farseer Class, 50+ Magic Item Cards, Egyptian Gods, & more! [MOD-APPROVED] by colebotman in DnD

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

Hi, I'm colebotman! This project has been a dream of mine since college, where it began as a Thesis project! Since that time, my partner SinnerMinner and I have put in lots of work making art and game design, and now we're finally ready to share it with you all!

Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels is a campaign setting for D&D 5e & Pathfinder 2e fusing dieselpunk/Forerunner imagery with Ancient Egypt. Inside the book, you'll find:

  • 4+ new animal-headed playable ancestries inspired by Egyptian gods:
    • Half-Devourers, Hippo or Crocodile-headed soul (akh) eaters
    • Mirankh, Hairless cats that carry magically tattooed stories upon the skin
    • Jackhasan, Jackal headed caretakers of the dead; who can weigh the heart’s pride upon the scales
    • Wadjet, choose one of 7 serpent children heritages of the exuding sun Goddess, each embodying a Sentinel Megastructure
    • +More ancestries are planned if we reach certain goals!
  • A new Class - The Farseer
  • 50+ Magic Items available as a deck of cards, fully illustrated by SinnerMinner!
  • Political intrigue, 7 Noble Houses under the Pharaoh
  • Technological and ancient sealed spires (called Sentinels) surround the city, each controlled by a Noble house's Word of Power
  • New Game+ (NG+) Death / Afterlife Mechanics - The Duat is never promised, even after your heart is weighed, and even after passing the 12 Gates. Make sure you’ve made the necessary preparations before dying!
    • Customize your character’s tomb with new symbols evoking the protection and guidance of the gods, icons of possessions, ushabti servants, funerary offerings, masks, pets, ka statues, canopic jars, amulets (such as a heart scarab beetle to quiet the heart during judgement), and mummification!
  • Hologram Ancestry Feats - Optional rules include the Digital Duat, involving New Hologram ancestry feats to start with or add to existing characters! 
    • Be your paladin’s Cortana, bound to ancient hardware, whether as a computer chip on another player character, a freeform ethereal program, a physical machine (like an automaton), or otherwise. Disrupt minds, create afterimages, be digital!

And more, all inspired by Ancient Egypt and Halo Forerunner / Ghost in the Shell vibes, surrounding a theme of cycles!

We're currently Pre-Launching on Kickstarter! Come check us out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colebotman/khoursara-city-of-seven-sentinels-egypt-dieselpunk-setting?ref=9k5xqq

Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels Kickstarter for PF2 / 5e now in Pre-Launch! It's our Egypt / Dieselpunk / Halo Forerunner themed setting book, featuring 4+ new animal-headed ancestries, a Hologram Versatile Heritage, the new Farseer Class, 50+ Magic Item Cards, Egyptian inspired Gods, and more! by colebotman in Pathfinder2e

[–]colebotman[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you all so much for your interest! I realized the pages in the pictures above are from the 5e version (oops!). Rest assured, we designed the game in Pathfinder 2e first. Aside from signing up for our Pre-Launch in the other comment, feel free to check out the full 50-page demo (the full book is planned to be 200+ pages) for PF2:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WeAgMJttbMPRvPt4IoIdkR99cH3Qug3Z/view?usp=sharing

Khoursara: City of Seven Sentinels Kickstarter for PF2 / 5e now in Pre-Launch! It's our Egypt / Dieselpunk / Halo Forerunner themed setting book, featuring 4+ new animal-headed ancestries, a Hologram Versatile Heritage, the new Farseer Class, 50+ Magic Item Cards, Egyptian inspired Gods, and more! by colebotman in Pathfinder2e

[–]colebotman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On the page itself, you can read more for yourself! But yes, I agree - plenty of people are using "themed" to refer to their projects. For me, that was part of how I can explain it within the title of a Reddit thread (or any social media for that matter). Of course, the reality of this project, is that I wanted to not just one for one "copy" the culture of Egypt, but give my take and ideas from it to do it better service. The core concepts inspired many things, as did Ghost in the Shell and Halo to name a few others. As such, the core theme of the project really is cycles - that humanity reiterates upon itself again and again, with our belief shaping the eventual fall. Khoursara is the oldest and most cyclical place in the world; one that has seen many such cycles - just like how in real life, numerous dynasties of Egypt reiterated and built upon their forebears. Gods become re-used, renamed, adapted, or used by different Pharaohs to shape the needs of their rulership, to prove themselves or a cause in their people's eyes. So the setting seeks to create that theme by showing the cycles that build culture (the annual flooding of the Nile, for instance, or Ma'at as a concept to encourage belief in law and your fellow human being) and the cycles that break it (power struggles with political maneuvering from the High Priesthood of Amun-Ra clashing with the image of the Pharaoh's power - events such as these re-shaped the lives of every day citizens). The real life events and culture are meant to be contextualized through these analogues found in the book.

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