MYTHIC HERO Kickstarter

[Steve Long]

I'm just curious to know if the "printed version" will be a paperback or a hardcover.

Softcover. Making it a hardcover would send my printing bills and shipping costs even higher, and this project is gonna cost enough moolah as it is.

Maybe if it does reeeeeaaaaalllly well I'll consider a limited edition hardback release, or something like that. But first it's gotta succeed in standard form.

[Zen Archer]

Softcover.

As someone who's had better luck (condition wise) with softcovers over the years, this totally works for me. I'd have supported this anyway, but yay anyhow.

[CorPse]

My wife, who is not particularly RPGish, told me that I needed to support at the $75 level.

And, hey, you always have to listen to your wife, right?

That puts us up to the edge of 5K...

Somebody want to push us over?

[Kaze9999]

My wife, who is not particularly RPGish, told me that I needed to support at the $75 level.

And, hey, you always have to listen to your wife, right?

That puts us up to the edge of 5K...

Somebody want to push us over?

I pushed! But...not quite hard enough, sorry! I pledged at $25 so now we're at $4,990! Just. Ten. Bucks! to 5k!

[Steve Long]

Day 2 and MH has now crossed the $5,000 line! The project is 15% funded so far. That still leaves a long way to go, though, so I'd appreciate your support if you haven't pledged already.

[Lethosos]

For the record, I kicked in 1k already; I'm just mulling over my options for gods. I know I'd love him to do his interpetion of one of my Asian immortal progenitors collectively called the Eight Sages--I have four roughly shaped in my head so far.

Also, I cannot figure out for the love of myself what kind of God I am. I'm leaning towards being meta in some silly way.

[gojira]

A lot of American Indian mythologies have a trickster or folk hero god, like Coyote or Whiskey Jack.

[Steve Long]

Thanx, Lethosos!

A lot of American Indian mythologies have a trickster or folk hero god, like Coyote or Whiskey Jack.

They do indeed. Already written him up in fact.

[Steve Long]

Mythic Hero is nearly at 20%! Come on over, pledge your support, and help make this awesome book a reality!

Mythic Hero Kickstarter page

[AndyStaples]

OK, I'm in for a book. I'll worry about the $50 postage later. This is a boojk I really want to see happen, so I may increase my support later.

[Steve Long]

Thanx Andy! Any increase in support would definitely be appreciated. And please don't forget that postage.

[Steve Long]

Well, the project has crossed the 20% mark!! Now it's time to stride onward to the statistically-significant 30% line.

Thanx to everyone who's pledged support so far! Clearly you are all kind, intelligent, attractive individuals of impeccable taste who deserve to be nominated for a major world award of some sort.

[CorPse]

Well, the project has crossed the 20% mark!! Now it's time to stride onward to the statistically-significant 30% line.

Thanx to everyone who's pledged support so far! Clearly you are all kind, intelligent, attractive individuals of impeccable taste who deserve to be nominated for a major world award of some sort.

It's certainly nice to see the numbers climb. (I think it's great that there are already 92 contributors.) I also think it's a great move to add the possibility of new content in the update.

Since this appears to be your shot at Deities & Demigods HERO, have you considered including the ever-popular Cthulhu Mythos? Yes, I know, it's not a real world mythology, at least I hope it's not, but I think it would be a fun addition.

What I can never quite figure out is if Lovecraft's work is in the public domain yet. (I know this was an issue for TSR back in the day.) It just seems like there are an awful lot of Cthulhu titled items floating around.

[Steve Long]

have you considered including the ever-popular Cthulhu Mythos? Yes, I know, it's not a real world mythology, at least I hope it's not, but I think it would be a fun addition.

What I can never quite figure out is if Lovecraft's work is in the public domain yet. (I know this was an issue for TSR back in the day.) It just seems like there are an awful lot of Cthulhu titled items floating around.

Lovecraft's work is sufficiently in the public domain, or is available for me to use by cutting some sort of sublicensing deal, that I could include the Cthulhu Mythos if I wanted to. But at this point I don't. There's enough there for a whole book (remember, we did have Cthulhu Hero on the schedule for late 2012, to be written by me and Ken Hite). I'd rather stick to real-world mythologies (of which I'm already including a ridiculous number ) and save the fictional ones for some other project sometime.

[Steve Long]

Multiple PDFs update: I've had some inquires about buying multiple copies of the PDF for MH, so I added a FAQ entry to the project page describing how to do that:

Mythic Hero Kickstarter FAQ