Bringing Boss Battles to 5e. Defeat the Invaders, Solve the Mystery, and Close the Rifts
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Welcome back, friends!
It's the new year. Presents have been unwrapped, fireworks sizzled out, and we're starting the year high-energy and certainly excited to dive into the 2023 rift alongside you all.
Now, let's get into the thicket of things!
Riftborne has two parallel game modes: 'normal' adventure boss fights and Arena Mode.
Arena Mode is set to pit champions from different multiverses against one another. It features a unique audience interaction mechanic where your performance can gather a resource from the audience to acquire random bonuses and boons. An overexcited wizard from the audience may very well cast fireball at an unsuspecting enemy. It'll be key to appeal to the audience plenty and gather resources. After a battle concludes, your performance will reward you battle points useable at a Mysterious Vendor for Arena-specific perks and (magic) items.
Arena gameplay is still very much in the works, so things can still change! In addition to that, we're looking at how we'll structure the tournament to be interesting and not just a bracket. Once more information becomes available for Arena Mode in the coming months, we'll be sure to share it.
The Cataclysm Mechanic comes into play to help you add Riftborne to any of your campaigns seamlessly. This supports adventure mode. Rifts have been opening up, connecting various planes across the multiverse. A rift above Alwayssummer might connect to the sea in another Material Plane, causing a 10000-foot waterfall to destroy the harbor. At a minimum, this could be a collection of ideas for rending your home world. Fire and brimstone, but more imaginative. At most, it could involve adventure hooks and potential changeable outcomes if clever players manage to solve the problems.
The Cataclysm Mechanic is pretty darn important, and we've taken our time to find someone perfect to help us realize it further. It's something that'll progress once their schedule opens up a bit in the near future.
Art for some of your favorite bosses is steadily being drawn. In fact, we need your help picking the ideal composition for some of them in the upcoming months. We'll provide in-progress work for some of them, and you'll have a say in helping us pick directions.
We're also making minor adjustments to the designs of some of the bosses so they'll be stronger and more durable as a mini. These changes won't impact the visual design much, if anything, for the majority.
The bosses are also further being tested. Once they reach a state where we're happy enough with them to share them with the community for further testing, we'll be sure to inform you.
It's a lot of everything this month, with Item Cards also one of the things we're working on. We're adding some amazing artwork to our roster that we can't wait to share. The team's been busy! All-in-all, we'll have plenty to share in the near future.
Until the next rift,
The Eightfold Paper Team
Hi, friends!
We want to make sure to everyone's up to date and in the know with Riftborne!
Before anything, make sure you fill in your Backerkit survey before late January. If you somehow didn't receive an email with a Backerkit survey, having either lost the survey email or having never received one, you might want to head to the survey recovery page! You can enter your email address to receive another survey link.
If even after this you still haven't received one in due time, check your spam/promotions folder on your mail applications or reach out to us so we can figure out a solution together.
Most our efforts have been put into setting up Backerkit, resolving back-end issues with payments and tier selections, talking to our manufacturers and team to finalize plans for Riftborne productions, and running the numbers three times over to make sure we didn't miss a single thing. However, we're also diving into Riftborne itself, testing bosses behind the scenes and writing out new content.
As we test more and more of our efforts, it becomes increasingly important that each boss, subclass, and race receives proper feedback. Although we've received some feedback, we want to take this moment here to really ask for your thoughts. With more feedback we can better refine and establish each facet of the Riftborne book.
Beneath is a list of all publically shared content so far. If you haven't already, we could really use your help! To find the demo feedback form for the file, check the first page of the PDF.
We've received few images of backers/followers who tried and tested the STL print of Naja, and painted the thing for fun too. Amazing work from Aaron T (left) and Rachel W (right)! And thanks for sharing. If you have used Riftborne in any way or form and would love to share, feel free to reach out. We love seeing it!
It's really fun to see it come to life. Are these the colors you would've picked as well?
Until the next rift,
The Eightfold Paper Team
Hello, all!
The Backerkit Survey is sent out to everyone.
It is here where you can change tiers, add additional add-ons, and fill in your address and email (if applicable). If you run into any issues, feel free to reach out so we can assist you where necessary!
It should be reaching your inboxes soon. If you don't see it, please check your spam/promotions tab, as it may be hidden there.
Next update?
Unless something suddenly needs to be shared, expect the next update in December. We'll be sure to include some nice teasers in there. ;)
Until the next rift,
The Eightfold Paper Team