BOOK OF THE EMPRESS Kickstarter

[Steve Long]

Howdy Herophiles!

Hero Games is proud to announce the launch of its first Kickstarter project: The Book Of The Empress!

You can go to Kickstarter and pledge your support here: Book Of The Empress Kickstarter.

Our goal is to raise $10,000 in pledges by January 29 to produce the book. We'd appreciate any support you can offer!


For those of you who are unfamiliar with Kickstarter, here's how it works. Kickstarter is a form of "crowdfunding," in which people such as yourselves offer their financial support for a creative project to see it completed. You can pledge as much as you want, from $1 up to any amount. At certain pledge levels (such as $10, $25, and $50), there are special "rewards" you get for backing the project. For example, for the BotE Kickstarter, pledging $25 gets you a PDF of the book and thanks in the credits, while pledging $50 gets you all that and a copy of the hardcopy printed book.

When you pledge to back a Kickstarter project, no money is taken from you unless the project reaches its full funding level. If it fails to reach its goal (in the case of BotE, $10,000), then no money is taken from anyone and the project doesn't see the light of day.

But naturally, we hope that doesn't happen! Here at Hero we're looking at Kickstarter as an intriguing new way to continue to publish HERO System books the fans want. If this one funds successfully, then we'll plan and launch Kickstarters for other books. Please join us in leading Hero into a new and exciting era!

[Steve Long]

We've only got about two days to go, and it looks like we're coming down to the wire on our secondary goal of $14,000. There's less than $900 to go to unlock five new characters and other goodies that will be provided to everyone who backs the Kickstarter and won't be available any other way.

If you've already made a pledge, thank you for your support! If you haven't yet, Hero would sure appreciate your support -- and so will your fellow backers. We still have two of our $150 "help Steve design a character" rewards and one of our superb $1,000 pledge rewards available -- get 'em while you can!!

Book Of The Empress Kickstarter

[Steve Long]

I'm unsticking this thread so that future discussion will end up on the Company Questions thread of the same name. But before I do, I just wanted to say, on behalf of Hero Games, THANX! We deeply appreciate the support that our fans have shown to this project. We're looking forward both to finishing BotE and getting it out to everyone, and to doing more Kickstarter projects in the future.