Update 2 - 4 More Goals Down! Free Dice! Legends of Avantris!
about 2 months ago
– Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 02:22:41 PM
What in the actual glazed lotus eater roots! $1.5 MILLION!? Are y’all crazy? Y’all are crazy…
We’re gonna recap the stretch goals we hit, talk about Legends of Avantris (errmahgerd they did a live play of Wild Hearth!), and talk about the free Alchemist Trove dice!
Stretch Goals Galore!
Since the last update we have hit 4 more stretch goals!
Here’s what y’all are getting:
- $800k - TWICE as many maps. They’re getting printed double sided and the reverse will have a variant in a totally different theme!
- Pie in the Sky #1 - $1m - Original Soundtrack! Artisan, who did the intro anime video music track, will be leading the charge on a bunch more tracks to provide the backing to exploration, city shopping, boss battles and more. This is one of the big goals I’ve been excited about for a while and is being given to everyone who gets either the RfH or BfA PDF for FREE!
- $1.25m - Even More Monster Meals (& Cards!) If you watch Legends of Avantris, you’ll know that you can make meals from any monsters. But some monsters have special recipes to create Monster Meals with special effects. We’ll be making 10 more of those to go in A Recipe for Heroes, which means 10 more cards in the card pack too!
- $1.5m - Acrylic Standees. With all this GORGEOUS monster art I thought it would be cool to make double-sided standees so y’all can play on your home tables. That’s enough standees to have one for every monster in every adventure in A Blueprint for Adventure. It’s available as an add-on and is included in the Deluxe+ tiers.
Next Goal
Our next ‘normal’ goal is a new town origin: Eerie Estates. Think the gothic architecture of Bloodborne meets the goth aesthetics of the Addams Family!
Questions for you all: What do you think of the town origins? Are you excited for town building? We’ll do a deeper dive on it down the line.
Pie in the Sky #2 - Fishing! Okay this was something we ideated putting in the book for a long time but ultimately decided we could only achieve if the campaign did really well, as it’s a lot more writing. If we can get to $2 million — which would be INSANE — I’ll write a mini-game/skill challenge for fishing and a selection of fish unique to each biome, each with unique magical effects when added to monster meals. Did being pescatarian just become cool? It did. I live by the sea.
Legends of Avantris
Did you see?? LoA did a playthrough of a cooking trial adventure! First off—don’t worry about spoilers. While the Lotus Eater will appear in the book, this adventure was written exclusively for the Avantris team, you can definitely watch it without fear of ruining your own fun. My favourite part was the extreme authenticity with which their french rivals, The Pierres, were depicted. Check it out:
Cooking Trial
This playthrough is an example of one of the cooking trial adventures you’ll find in A Blueprint for Adventure. You are pitted against a rival team (like Gary from Pokemon or, in LoA’s case, the Pierres) in front of a live studio audience. Normal trials will involve researching the judge yourself, but for the play through, the party had already hired a private investigator to do some digging.
Phases. The trial has three phases: preparation, elaboration, and presentation. Preparation is a monster hunt: you’re teleported to *near* the monster and must find and slay it within time. Then it's all about making that perfect slice of the monster before its magic dissipates!
In the elaboration phase, you cook the dish. The players narrate their actions from which the GM might decrease/increase the DC based on the roleplay elements. Then the party performs series of ability checks that earn you different numbers of points based on result of the check.
In the presentation phase, you give your dish to the judge, accompanying it with the story (or interpretive dance) of how it was made, gaining or losing points depending on the judge’s predilections (and the quality of your research!).
Free Alchemist Trove Dice
We’ve had a lot of questions about this! During the live play it was mentioned many times that the free dice were available to anyone who backed in the first 72 hours! Given that the VoD just got released today, we’re extending that deadline to allow Avantris’ fans who might not have seen the video yet to get the freebies. The new deadline is 23:59 PST Sunday 20th September.
Here are the steps for getting the free dice:
- (1) Back before 23:59 Sunday 20th September.
- (2) Have at least ONE physical item in your basket when the campaign ends on Monday 19th of October.
- (3) ~2 weeks after the campaign ends (~November 2rd), when completing your questionnaire on Backerkit, select “Yes I want to receive the free Alchemist Trove dice”.
Note: You do not need to add these to your Kickstarter basket and there is no indication on Kickstarter itself whether you are fulfilling these criteria. It’s something we have to manually add later. If you don’t see them in your Backerkit basket in November, then reach out to us on Loot Tavern’s Discord server or [email protected].
Questions? Suggestions? Cooking Recipes?
For ALL your Wild Hearth needs, Loot Tavern has a Discord server and, if and when you have issues that need greater support, you can submit support requests within the Discord server. For other support routes, you can submit comments in the comment section, email us at [email protected] or messages direct to the Pointy Hat kickstarter account. But for real, for quickest responses, use Discord!
Thanks,
Pointy Hat, his human familiar, and the Loot Tavern team
