Entering the Last 48 Hours, and one Last Surprise!
over 1 year ago – Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 03:56:33 AM

Hello all,

We are absolutely speechless. Thanks to your love, support and faith in us, we have went far beyond our wildest dreams with Empires of the Silk Road. We are truly humbled, and we will make sure that you will receive the absolute best version of the game - in all regards, material quality, music, art, and content.

As we push to the end of our campaign, we wanted to give you guys one last surprise! 

All the Hardcover bundles and Collector's box sets will come with map sets printed on high quality poster paper! We will even throw in some of our character arts that would look good in a gaming room's wall! 

We are more than excited to get to work on the Empires of the Silk Road! Let's push hard for that final stretch goal (our team's favorite!) and make these sourcebooks one of the best 5e has to offer!

A huge thank you from the depths of our hearts,

Metis Creative

Exciting News: Free "The City of Crescent" Module on Alchemy!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 06:30:39 AM

Hello everyone,

We are back with exciting news! We reached out to our good friends at Alchemy to bring you our previous adventure The City of Crescent for this campaign too!

All backers that pledge for the Hardcover bundle and Collector's Box Set will receive The City of Crescent on Alchemy, FOR FREE! 

To check out City of Crescent's page on Alchemy, click here!

150K Reached: A NEW STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED! Next Tier of Stretch Goals Are On The Way!
over 1 year ago – Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 03:26:07 AM

Hello everyone, 

Thank you all for the love and support! With your help, we broke past 150K and unlocked a brand new storyline for the campaign. 

New Storyline

Here is a sneak peak of the Merv Storyline:

Nestled within the first victim of the Mongol Conquest Samarkand, and the last bulwark of the Seljuk defense rests the desert city of Merv. Controlled by the defending soldiers of the forlorn Seljuks a debate rages on whether the smart move is to take advantage of the Kurultai and go on offense, or use a newly "bought" artifact to ensure the city is, unreachable. However, the city of Merv is not only on the warpath of the Mongolian Khanate, but of an unseen avenger, slowly gathering his forces. 

2 New Stretch Goals Unlocked:

• Full Digital Token Suite for VTTs: All NPCs, monsters and maps will be formatted to be ready-to-play with any VTT, and placed in a separate file with all the other digital downloads.

• Character Story Builder for Silk Road: With this strech goal, we will prepare a wide selection of interconnected rolling tables to generate a player characters' backstory for Silk Road, so you can generate very interesting characters on the fly! 

A Shout Out to Our Good Friends At Alchemy:

You guys know that we are using Alchemy as our go-to Virtual Play platform for all Historica Arcanum titles. But they are doing far more than just creating and running an amazing platform - they are also the creators of the Lore of Aetherra sourcebooks. And just like us, they are live on Kickstarter for the sequel to their series. 

Dark Symmetry takes place in setting where magic and sci-fi are blended in. The artwork and the production quality are all phenomenal! They even offer a vinyl for their soundtrack album (super jealous)! 

Check out Dark Symmetry, here!

Speaking of Alchemy, we will soon have a nice surprise, coming for all our backers! 

First Production Diary Video Coming Up Very Soon & A Shout-Out to REACH!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 12:11:43 PM

While we are busy with the production of Empires of the Silk Road, we wanted to give you an in depth introduction to our work. That's why, we will start a production diary video series. 

We decided that the best place start out our tour is one of the most important elements of the Historica Arcanum series, historical authenticity. While we are almost done with the shooting of the first video, if you have any questions about this topic, feel free to post them here, or in our Discord's Q&A section!

A Shout-Out to USC: Reach

Now that we have your attention, we also want to recommend a board game campaign by our good friends and neighbours, Arvis Games. 

With our offices being so near, we had the chance to try out Reach for ourselves - and oh boy was it SUPER fun! 

If creating and commanding your own ship crew and challenging your friends in a competitive space exploration game sounds like your cup of tea, you should check out USC: Reach, link here!

Another Stretch Goal Unlocked and Add-On Prices Released!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 01:37:52 PM

Hello everyone,

Thank you all for your support, we are extremely grateful for having you with us in this journey.

Video Guide

We just passed $125k and unlocked a really exciting stretch goal!

With this stretch goal, we wanted to help out all of our backers who might not be big on a huge prep reading or want quick videos to sum up how to DM sections as a reminder before their sessions. We will prepare a series of video guides on both the adventure and the setting of Empires of the Silk Road for DMs!

Add-On Pricing

Another great news! We finally released the Add-On prices. You can refer to the add-ons section in our Kickstarter page to find out about the pricing add-ons that you can add in addition to your tier rewards.