Day 22 Progress | 11 More Backers to Hit Achievement | Update #11
about 1 month ago
– Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 04:50:35 PM
TL;DR
- 82% to goal with 10 days left.
- 11 more backers to hit the 500 backer achievement to get more things to do in a city you choose by poll.
- And the winner is... the serpentine Mirrar!
- Vote on the last bracket #1 matchup. The Hahens Vs. the Jernang.
Day 22 Progress
82% is just over $10k needed to fund. We have 10 days left to get there.
500 Backer Achievement Update
We need 11 more backers to hit this achievement! Once we hit it, we will release a poll so you can choose the next location to get the 10 Things To Do treatment.
Lineage Knockout Tournament: Bracket #1 Match up 8
And the winner is... the Mirrar!
Lineage Spotlight : Hahen
Though similar to Mortals’ body shape, the Hahen's major joints are not connected physically; instead, they use an unusual form of covalent bonding. This leaves gaps between their primary body and their limbs, which float a little away from the body. Similarly, most Hahen have either one large cavity or several smaller ones within their torso. It seems that, when their natural forms are translated to solid mass, the majority of Hahen do not have enough base material to fill these cavities.
Almost all Hahen have naturally growing crowns made up of horns that follow the curve of their head before rising up into points. These features may play a role in the reproductive process of Hahen within Ajurea, as those with more prominent crowns tend to produce more offspring via an energy-based osmotic process.
Lineage Spotlight: Jernang
Jernang are birthed in the water, where they spend their first few years as shark-like pups, growing their small legs until they can walk on land. Their tall frames feature two pairs of shoulder-mounted arms that come in during pubescence. The secondary arms allow Jernang to wield their massive weapons.
While they can live on land, and often do, they never stray too far from water; their smooth seal-like skin always has a wet sheen to it as a result. Their tall rabbit-like ears give them acute hearing, and their all-black eyes have great sight at long distances. Their bodies already appear strong, but their muscles and digits are all incredibly dense, giving them even greater strength than expected.
Their long tails let them navigate waters with complete fluidity, and their plated chests and lower legs offer them more aquadynamic movement. They have prominent whiskers on their face. Unlike any whiskers I have seen on Earth, their whiskers detect changes in the weather and allow them to get to safety when needed.
Day 20 Progress | New Achievement at 500 Backers | Update #10
about 1 month ago
– Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 09:43:22 AM
TL;DR
- A little more than $10k needed to fund.
- At 500 backers, PDF level and higher will get 10 Things To Do in a city chosen by poll.
- And the winner is... the centauroid Umbrans!
- Vote on your favorite between the cloned Chell and the serpentine Mirrar.
Day 20 Progress
Just over $10k needed to fund in 12 days!
New Achievement: 10 Things To Do in ??? at 500 Backers 
The largest city in the region, Motley Coast City has a 10 Things To Do section in the Atlas. When we reach 500 backers we will add another 10 Things To Do section for another city/location of your choosing through a poll! Want more places or events to visit for your campaign in the Gravity Isles or the pirate city of Delrun? Help us reach our goal and all backers at PDF pledge level or higher will receive this extra material.
Lineage Knockout Tournament: Bracket #1 Match up 7
And the winner is...
Umbrans!
Lineage Spotlight: Chell
The cloned Chell look similar to Ell’el with fewer variations: short legs, long arms, and pale yellow chitinous skin. They were bioengineered by the Limitless AI to perform upkeep for the AI and their homes. For example, their short legs allow them to remain stationary for long periods and bend down with ease. The Chell will have some slight anatomical differences depending on their assigned duty, but they share many characteristics. Two flexible pieces of chitin on top of their heads that can split to allow access to their brains for direct connection to their exosuits and other Chell tech.
Lineage Spotlight: Mirrar
The Mirrar have a serpentine lower body with a humanoid torso. Six tentacles grow from their primary shoulders, descending in size to the smallest terminal tentacles. Mirrar have minor elements of an exoskeleton in the form of rib plates across their torso which possess a central hinge to allow for expansion during breathing. Their mouths are bifurcated both vertically and horizontally beneath nasal slits. Mirrar have a pair of nimble sensitive tongues which provide environmental information to a Vomeronasal cavity on the roof of their mouth. This provides the Mirrar with a sharp sense of smell.
Mirrar are a fungal people diverse in appearance, boasting a wide range of colors. They possess mantles, a fringe which grows from the head and neck and may manifest as fine gills floral in appearance, in full fungal caps or with harder scales that may resemble metal, glass or opal plates.
Day 18 Progress | The Catalog of Lists Deep Dive | Update #9
about 1 month ago
– Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 11:28:33 AM
TL;DR
- 80% funded!
- The Catalog of Lists is a comprehensive reference for many things that you may need to look at for your character throughout your sessions,
- And the winner of the last match up is... the Bande Dhaben!
- Vote on your favorite between the Fellkin and the Umbran.
Day 18 Progress
80% funded with 14 days left! Don't forget to share our campaign to help us get funded.
Deep Dive: The Catalog of Lists
The Catalog of Lists is, simply put, a bunch of lists. This text is both a mechanical reference text and mix of indexes. Here you can find the mechanics for your Facets and Specialties: major parts of your character which serve as a big part of who they are, their skills and abilities, and more. It contains our Callings which are a lot like occupations, hobbies, and even affiliations. Moreover, it indexes Themes, Area Traits, and Focuses! It is a comprehensive reference for many things that you may need to look at for your character throughout your sessions.
Lineage Knockout Tournament: Bracket #1 Match up 6
And the winner is...
Bande Dhaben!
Lineage Spotlight: Fellkin
Fellkin and Goblins are closely related. They are both quite short in stature, but the Fellkin have soft short fur and weasel-like faces that distinguish them from their Goblin cousins. They have three eyes arranged in a triangle. Their ears are medium-sized, but the large openings allow them to hear even soft noises up to fifty feet away. The Fellkin’s fur usually ranges from beige to a darker orange-brown with dark brown or black markings, but there are some really rare colorings like gray and jet black.
Lineage Spotlight: Umbran
Umbran are a centauroid species possessing six arms, four of which serve as legs but possess four-fingered hands. They have prominent bony protrusions on their fingertips and chest, and a naturally occurring bony plate called a mask that serves as a face. Masks rest on exposed condyles near the lower jaw and act as the upper jaw. Masks can be removed without physical damage; they are essentially connected by a ball and socket joint.
Umbrans require a mask to chew and see, however this doesn’t need to be their original mask as long as it has been appropriately tempered.
Umbran bodies are composed of epithelial, muscle, and bone tissues serving as an envelope around a central cavity that enjoins their two torsos. What appears to be flame in their central cavity at first glance is not the result of a chemical reaction, but several decentralized photonuclear ones that produce energy.
Vote for your favorite in the poll below!
Day 14 Progress | Calibration Deep Dive | Update #8
about 1 month ago
– Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:56:24 AM
TL;DR
- Just shy of 80%!
- Calibration is our step-by-step guide to session zero.
- The team had a great time teaching people how to make compelling ephemera at Big Bad Con.
- As usual Keyassa has been wandering...
- And the winner is... the bat-like Unlelo!
- Vote in the new poll! The Bande Dhaben Vs. the Mortals.
Day 14 Progress
We are chugging along and close to 80% funded with 18 days left.
Deep Dive: The Calibration
The Calibration is our step-by-step guide to session zero and is more than just character creation. It helps a table of an SL and their players put together Themes for the campaign, decide which Area to start in, establish bonds between the player characters, between NPCs, and design characters according to what kind of story they want to play. It also takes time to carefully go over table safety, trying to make sure everyone is on the same page when it comes to their boundaries and aspirations for the game.
The Calibration is divided into sections and you can go page-by-page, but you can also turn to sections as you need them. It reads conversational and you can read it together as a table as you’re figuring things out.
Making Compelling Ephemera Workshop at Big Bad Con
The Confluence team ran a workshop at Big Bad Con this past weekend. Our Atlas includes tons of ephemera and they wanted to show people how to make compelling ephemera for their own games. Check out these photos from the workshop.
Keyassa Report
Lineage Knockout Tournament: Bracket #1 Match up 5
And the winner is... the bat-like Unlelo!
Lineage Spotlight: Bande DhabenThe Bande come from Engine 3 Sehe Gandia, a completely separate world from this one. Any animal found on Earth and even some mythological creatures may have a Bande analog, meaning there is incredible diversity amongst Bande. They are mostly bipedal, typically having two arms and two legs even when their antecedent species had more. Arthropod-derived Bande seem to be the most common outlier in this regard, but within Bande from the same species, there can be variation even among siblings. Differences in size are also reduced, as the smallest Bande are about three to four feet tall while the largest are about eight feet tall.
Lineage Spotlight: Mortals
Mortals are almost exactly like humans: they have the same bipedalism, as well as variation in skin, body, and hair. The largest difference is that they were once immortal. But that hasn’t been true for thousands of years at this point. Though immortality would be a living memory for the Servitors, it is ancient history to the Mortals today.
Day 11 Progress | Alleyman Touched Bundle | Update #7
about 2 months ago
– Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 10:49:23 AM
TL;DR
- We have hit 40k!
- For lore nerds that like secrets, the limited Alleyman Touched Bundle is for you! Grab it quick.
- Rowan, Rook & Decard are Kickstarting a tarot-based TTRPG Royal Blood.
- Vote on your favorite lineage, Ell'el Vs. Unlelo.
Day 11 Progress
With 21 days left we have hit $40k. Only $15k more to go to hit goal.
The Alleyman Touched Lore Bundle
For the lore nerds who want something special, this very limited bundle includes the two settings books of the game and will be "touched" by our very own head goblin, Seven! As the holder of all the lore of all the Publishing Goblin canons Seven will be making connections in these books to the Alley tarot deck that no other person can make. You may also find some random (not just Alley) touched tarot cards in between the pages!
Royal Blood Spotlight
Rowan, Rook & Decard are
Kickstarting a tarot-based TTRPG and a beautiful deck of cards to go with it. The cards are illustrated by artist Silvia De Stefanis, and they're a powerfully striking collection.
Backers can get the cards on their own, or invest in the game to go with them. If Rowan, Rook & Decard hit some stretch goals, they'll expand the already full 78 card deck with additional court cards to match those found in variant tarot decks.
The game itself is steeped in tarot, too.
Royal Blood, players portray Royals - descendants of sorcerer-kings and witch-queens with magic in their veins; the court cards of the tarot. They're noble and powerful, but they aspire to more: they covet the power of the major arcana, and with wits and a little luck, the Royals will seize their domains for themselves.
Royal Blood is played fully with tarot cards, to create characters, generate the story, and determine the outcome of risky choices. And if you
do want to use the cards for gameplay, you can also pick up a second set for reading.
Ephemera Review: Aaron Voigt
Check out this
video by Aaron Voigt breaking down the ephemera canon of the The Atlas. Aaron does a fantastic job explaining the differences between the base text and the ephemera and how they can be used to get the details and secrets about the world.
Confluence at Big Bad Con 2024
More than half the squad is currently at Big Bad Con in San Francisco! Find one of them, take a selfie, and post and tag us on Bluesky
@confluencerpg.bsky.social or Twitter @PubGobGames and we will send you a discount code for Confluence funding right now on Backerkit. Don't forget to ask to sign or doodle in the beta atlases floating around.
Lineage Knockout Tournament: Bracket #1 Match up 4
Lineage Spotlight: Ell’el
The Ell’el remind me of insects from Earth, but with more humanoid appendages. When they are born, the Ell’el have fairly proportionate arms and legs compared to the lanky arms and short legs of the Chell. Their chitinous skin often comes in shades of yellow, green, orange, red, and brown. As they grow up, many will choose to add mechanical augmentations to their bodies like metal limbs and plates to perform certain tasks or provide better protection when traveling. Many Ell’el are now modding with Living Metal (metal that grows similar to other flora) and other materials found in Ajurea.
They can be found anywhere across Ajurea. In Motley Coast you can find them in all major cities.
Lineage Spotlight: Unlelo
Unlelo have diverse features that are most comparable to bats. They are long-limbed relative to the length of the core body, with a wide variety of specialized noses and ears. The different suborders of Unlelo vary greatly in size. Unlelo wingspans typically range 1.3 times their height. Their wings and related structures appear delicate at a glance, but the wing bones possess unusual tensile strength by weight and are linked by incredibly elastic ligaments allowing for effective absorption of impact.
They can be found all over Ajurea, and are most populous in the underground and cave communities.
Vote for your favorite in the poll below!
