[KS] Shadows of Esteren RPG - Awesome Art

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**Manchu**

"A medieval role-playing game somewhere between Ravenloft, Game of Thrones and Call of Cthulhu."

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176616619/shadows-of-esteren-a-medieval-horror-rpg-travels

Shadows of Esteren is a French medieval/fantasy RPG for English release by Studio2. They put together a successful KS for the first book in the series about this time last year. Here's how they described it:

Shadows of Esteren is a medieval role-playing game, with an emphasis on the horrific and the Gothic. Drawing inspiration from Celtic myths, this universe has a discreetly fantastic side hidden under a bleak, realistic surface. This world is populated with humans who have to cope with tough daily lives, and face a supernatural threat lurking in the dark. With the focus of its adventures being investigation and survival, Shadows of Esteren is a game that favors an immersive mood and interactions among the Players.

The current KS is for Book 2: Travels -- which covers descriptions of places, gallery of characters, scenarios, and a bestiary. They plan to deliver by October and have designed the KS around avoiding delivery delays.

And here's a taste of the art:

**recruittons**

Got the first book from their KS and it's one of the most gorgeous books I own, let alone being the standard edition. I'll level, though. If it's funded, unless they start pumping out free extras with the $40 pledge level, I'd wait for retail. I can now get for $38 what I paid $50 in the original KS.

**Manchu**

Excellent point. I'm going to stick with this while the KS extras develop and if they're no good to me (e.g., a bunch of PDFs) I will drop out and wait for amazon. The key point here is that I want the product.

**recruittons**

Precisely. It's an incredible product, beautiful book, AWESOME game! I recommend picking this up, no question. Also, the LE version, I'm sure, will astound like it did last time.

**Sinful Hero**

It seems pretty interesting. How well did they stick to their dates with their first kickstarter?

**Manchu**

I don't know about the first one at all. Circumstantially, I think the second one was quite late. This is the third one and they seem pretty serious about keeping it on track. So I expect that means the KS bonuses will be digital or stuff that's already done.

**recruittons**

The first one was ALMOST on time. It was delivered maybe 6 weeks late? Possibly closer to on-time. It's definitely my closest to being on time project to date!

**Sinful Hero**

Well, at least they delivered. And maybe three kickstarters in they got a better handle on it. I've gotten to where my kickstarter delivery expectations are pretty loose, but it's good to know their history anyway.

**daedalus-templarius**

Art looks pretty great, might have to check this out.

**Sinful Hero**

The Varigal level is calling to me... Has anyone run a game with it? From what I gathered from the kickstarter, it seems like characters might be railroaded into acting certain ways with how their haracter building section puts emphasis on traits like stubborn or reckless. What I mean is it sounds like the game plays the character for you.

**Kroothawk**

Last 68 hours, already 115k collected.
Looks good, so I pledged for the limited edition.

**Kroothawk**

130k passed, free mp3 download of music unlocked.
8 hours to go.

**Rafael Cerrato**

For your interest, there is a new Kickstarter, for the fourth book, but you can also get the previous ones:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176616619/shadows-of-esteren-a-medieval-horror-rpg-tuath

It's the last week!