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The Book of Taverns: Volume One

Contains two fully-detailed and highly-unusual taverns for you to drop easily into any setting.

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The Book of Taverns: Volume One

The Book of Taverns: Volume One

The Book of Taverns: Volume One

The Book of Taverns: Volume One

The Book of Taverns: Volume One

Contains two fully-detailed and highly-unusual taverns for you to drop easily into any setting.

Contains two fully-detailed and highly-unusual taverns for you to drop easily into any setting.

Contains two fully-detailed and highly-unusual taverns for you to drop easily into any setting.

Contains two fully-detailed and highly-unusual taverns for you to drop easily into any setting.

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Stay The Night!

Book of Taverns One: The Trireme and Vain Robert's Gibbet

Your heroes are going to be stopping at a tavern sometime, right? All adventurers need a drink some time, and with this book it's not hard to turn a pint of the local ale into a memorable gaming experience! Book of Taverns One  gives you a choice of two exciting places to stay the night, find adventure, and (let's face it) probably burn the place down. That's why we include two of them - one's a burn-down, and the other one is for hiding from the city watch. Both of these taverns offer NPCs for the characters to interact with (or slay), a diverting history, and convenient descriptions, as well as adventure hooks that will be so irresistible to the greedy characters that the clerics and paladins will have no choice in the matter.

 

The Trireme (11 pages, color cover, color interior) by Chris Jones presents a quiet tavern just outside of town, dedicated to philosophical debates, epicurean delights, and a private drinking room. Local philosophers are welcomed here as long as they can pay their tab, and visitors to the tavern can expect to be embroiled in some lively debate as to the nature of the world and the soul. Try the pecan cakes, but save some money for the extensive wine list. Or burn the place down - it's always an option.

 

Vain Robert's Gibbet (11 pages, color cover, color interior) by Chris Jones is a scurvy dive bar on the docks. Those passing by usually speed their steps, for only the lowest class of sailors stop in for a drink here. The tavern keeper doesn't mind at all, since Vain Robert's Gibbet is only the front for a coven of elite seafarers who battle a growing evil out in the depths of the sea. Note: this one would be more dangerous to burn down.

The Project 

Necromancer Games is continuing the use of this INDIEGOGO with The Book of Taverns: Volume One. Necromancer Games projects on Indiegogo are simple, focused, and short, designed for easy, flexible use at the game table.

Thus, INDIEGOGO projects by Necromancer Games will-

  • Be short in duration
  • Be limited to a single title
  • Have options priced between $5-$30
  • Designed so that all stretch goals and project bonuses affect the principle reward ONLY (usually both the PDF and the softcover).
  • Be the only guaranteed method to get the premium* print copy (NOTE: the softcover versions  in this printing will not be sold on our website: see FAQ for explanation).
  • Have simple fulfillment process that does not use Backerkit

*Premium means heavyweight glossy interior pages enhancing the art and color elements. The  thick, glossy cardstock brings out the vibrant color in the cover illustrations. These are the nicest softcover books we have ever sold and we only print a title this way once.

Any reprint would use print on demand service that, although nice, do not approach the quality of our INDIEGOGO funded books.

 

Why the Tiny Print Run?

Since 2012, our crowdfunding approach has been extravagant in every way. Ambitious, with massive page counts, numerous add-on options, and plentiful stretch goals. Many of these supported primary titles with as many as 990 pages.

This has resulted in Kickstarters with memorable pledge rewards that include top-quality hardcover books, often with dozens of stretch goal bonuses and add-on extras. These are awesome, BUT ... they are expensive to buy for customers like you because they are very expensive to make for publishers like us.

Why not use Kickstarter?

We still use Kickstarter for our large-scale projects. Smaller projects like this one are happening in response to feedback we've gotten from fans like you. We hear the request for less-expensive options for our projects and products all the time. Another thing people have asked for at conventions, on social media and in email, is for a larger selection of smaller, faster-paced adventures that can be completed in 2-3 sessions and not require long time commitments.

Additionally, Necromancer Games has grown in both sales and brand awareness.  This opportunity will give us the additional resources to invest in the very best books in all of our formats. 

Product enhancements tied to project success 

During the 14 day primary project period for The Book of Taverns: Volume One and after the $1000 goal is met we will  improve the delivered product. There are no special tiered collectors editions or add-on purchase extras. Thus, as total project funding increases the better the final product will be for everybody.

Examples of improvements or additional content increased funding would bring to The Book of Taverns: Volume One -

  • Additional commissions for interior color art specific to the adventure. 
  • The previous Indiegogo project added 2 interior art pieces and 3 extra creature illustrations for its appendix.
  • Printed Player map(s)/Insert. This is one we would love to do but it would require a substantial increase in overall project funding.
  • Downloadable Options designed for popular virtual table-top software (The rewards for both How Orcus Stole Christmas! and In Vino Gigantus included the new creature/NPC tokens and player maps). 
  • High-resolution files of illustrations to share with players at the table.

 

Project Delivery

PDF Perks

We will email the instructions to all eligible supporters with instructions on accessing PDF items. The PDF files are distributed using Constant Contact service and our web store. You will need to have a customer account on the Necromancer (Frog God) Games website to get your PDF; it's how we keep track of everything and grants unlimited access by you to your reward.

The Indiegogo perk PDF files are 'purchased' at zero cost by supporters (as they are paid for during the Indiegogo promotion) at the Necromancer Games web store using a coupon code. That code we will be sent via Constant Contact to the address provided by Indiegogo. Please contact us with any questions/requests about this.

Softcover Perks

Softcover perks will be mailed to the address provided by us via Indiegogo. 

 

Overseas Shipping

NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL BACKERS: Shipping international has become very expensive. We understand this. Likewise, some countries charge VAT tax or other fees to our customers on receipt. We cannot fraudulently lie about the value of materials we mail out. We are happy to ship you anything regardless of where you live, but we have to stay in business at the same time thus even our lightest books are affected. In the near future we expect to have a print on demand system in place for everyone overseas, It is not ideal, as the final book is not printed at the highest-quality when compared to the ones we fulfill in Indiegogo.

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Your heroes are going to be stopping at a tavern sometime, make it an interesting experience. With Book of Taverns One, you have a choice of two exciting places to stay the night and find adventure. Both offer NPCs to interact with, history and descriptions to add verisimilitude to your world, as well as hooks for adventure.
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5e and S&W in one book! Your heroes are going to be stopping at a tavern sometime, make it an interesting experience. With Book of Taverns One, you have a choice of two exciting places to stay the night and find adventure. Both offer NPCs, history and descriptions to add verisimilitude to your world, as well as hooks for adventure.
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