There are more than a million words about Harn’s realistic (yet fantasy) medieval RPG setting. The game is 40, and Columbia Games are running a Kickstarter to bring a deluxe anniversary edition to life.
There are just over two weeks to join in, but you do so knowing that the $10,000 funding target has been exceeded by a factor of six. You can check out the details from the pitch page.
The successful Kickstarter will allow Columbia Games to produce over 250 pages of content, a 22″ by 34″ physical map and a PDF as well as the hardcover.
Where in the HarnWorld setting is being covered? The project includes HarnWorld itself, the Harndex, Kethira, Lythia and Cities and Towns.
The Harndex is a general reference sourcebook for GMs. Yes, the game’s that big that there’s a whole supplement for a well-structured index.
Columbia Games have made a digital version of the map available for free, so you can check out the production values.
There’s also Kethira covered, and that’s the name of the planet you’ll find Harn. It’s the Kethira module that’s getting the 40th-anniversary treatment, and it’s a book that gets into the details of the solar system, with planet rotation and day length. Harn is that detailed.
Due to the nature of the campaign, to make a deluxe hardcover, you can support the project without a reward, but it will be backers who can contribute $69 who’ll get the HarnWorld hardback.
That hardback has everything detailed and hundreds of backers, yet there are higher tiers. At $245, your club in the USA can get five copies.
Backers offering $249 also get the Kingdom of Kaldor, Meletyrn, Rethem and Orbaal hardcovers with PDFs.
The top tier, $499 (about £418), is for retailers, which gets them five copies of all the books mentioned but, like the club tier, is restricted to the US.
Columbia Games estimate delivery as early as June 2023.
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