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| ("Portal to Adventure" box art by Roland Brown) |
A new collection of Old School Renaissance-style gaming products opens the "Portal to Adventure" Kickstarter campaign October 1st that runs through October 31. The Kickstarter is organized through Emperor's Choice Games & Miniatures who team with with Matthew Tapp of Barrows & Borderlands and Griffith Morgan from The Fellowship of the Thing project dedicated to the original TTRPG fantasy campaign - Blackmoor.
The interesting hook from the project is developing a set of ideas for blending different, albeit related, games together for running a single game. The history for this is super applicable for Arduin rules from Emperor's Choice because historically the players (myself included) used Arduin as supplements to D&D.
Arduin fans will appreciate the original trilogy of Arduin Grimoires being published in the original 3-booklet format which Emperors Choice has not published for over a decade, and all the books come with premium covers and paper. From Fellowship of the Thing is a soft-cover version of an original mega-dungeon, Tonisborg, by Greg Svenson in Dave Arneson's first fantasy campaign. The final contribution of Barrows & Borderlands I hadn't heard of, but is a 4-volume new OSR game based in Od&d, Holmes Basic, 1e AD&D, and Metamorphosis Alpha.
The set also includes new dungeons for both Arduin and Barrows & Borderlands, continent maps for Arduin's Khaas, character sheets, monster and treasure cards, and more.
There are a number of unique Arduin miniatures offered as stretch goals. The fulfillment date in February 2026 seems to me will be accurate as the writing work on all these products is completed. Emperors Choice on their last Kickstarter of Arduin products also met their fulfillment goal no problem.
I encourage folks who haven't experienced the sci-fi and fantasy blend of Arduin or those who need a new copy of the original trilogy to check this out, with the dungeons and extras this is a terrific collection.
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