Beyond Dread Portals

A project in Greater Manchester, UK by Newt Newport
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A tabletop roleplaying game of multidimensional world-travelling fantasy
Backers: 151
Average Pledge Per Backer: £24

Funded: £3,639 of £2,000
Dates: Oct 23rd -> Nov 19th (28 days)
Project By: Newt Newport
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Latest News

The End Days are Coming!

November 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers. The campaign is about to enter its last 48 hours of funding. If you want to up your pledge or add add-ons, now is the time to do so. This will help the rising tide of funding and achieve those... (Read More)

Beyond Dread Portals Setting Matters

November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, Running Fort on the Edgelands last weekend brought home how much the setting comes to life in play and influences the player’s choices. Four setting elements come to mind. Guilds. Every... (Read More)

Five Retainers are Yours!

November 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, We've achieved the latest community goal thanks to our new backers over the last few days. So, I’ll write a quick article about five types of non-player character retainers for your player’s... (Read More)

Fort on the Edgelands Funded!

November 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, We are now in the last week of the campaign, and there are a couple of things to tell you. Thanks to the backers who jumped on the campaign over the weekend, hello, and an especially generous... (Read More)

A look a the Game System behind Beyond Dread Portals

November 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, In this update, I look at the D20 system that powers Beyond Dread Portals, which I call Portal D20. Why D20? This is the question that many of the people who know me better for publishing and... (Read More)

Community Goal achived Sardonicus’ List of Geomagical Features

November 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, Good news we've hit 120 backers so the next Community Goal has been achieved. Sardonicus’ List of Geomagical Features This is a short article that outlines a quick set of structures and landscape... (Read More)

Onwards to the Fort on the Edgelands

November 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, As I take stock this morning, we are well on our way to achieving our second stretch goal is a full-blown adventure/adventure location, the Fort on Edgelands. Player’s Introduction Here's the... (Read More)

Community Goal 2: Revell's Annoying Rooster Achived

November 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Good afternoon, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, Congratulations, we’ve just received our 110th backer, which means our 2nd Community Stretch goal has been achieved. This time, it’s a new creature, the description of which is as follows.... (Read More)

The Tourist Guide to Ys is Yours!

November 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers A big thank you to all of you who have upgraded to the Sage backer level in response to it going from being a POD book to a properly printed book (see update #8). This, with some new backers, hello and thank you, has... (Read More)

Signed and Sent Version now a Properly Printed Book

October 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Good Afternoon, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, I've just received word from my printers here in the UK that the Signed and Sent version of the book now has enough backers to make it economically viable to be a properly printed book with sewn... (Read More)

Is Beyond Dread Portals a Horror Game?

October 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Happy Halloween, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, On this day of dread and spookiness, I ponder is Beyond Dread Portals a horror or even Dark Fantasy game? The setting has elements that go in those directions. The decadent and decaying city of... (Read More)

Role VTT Support as an Add-on

October 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, Role Virtual Tabletop has in a very short space of time become my online virtual tabletop of choice.  Check out Role at playrole.com It is simple to use and to set up and has excellent... (Read More)

First Community Goal Achived, the Poly Drones are coming!

October 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, We hit 101 backers last night, so every backer gets a copy of The Traveller's Guide to Polydrones, a small mini-supplement in PDF form. Let's hear what a wizard from the Arcane Guild has to say... (Read More)

So What Does a Beyond Dread Portals Character Look Like?

October 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, The character generation system is one of the reasons  I'm in love with Beyond Dread Portals and publishing it. It elegantly refines the familiar hard numbers of D20 and then adds some meaningful... (Read More)

Day 2 Community Goals

October 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning Glorious Backers, Day two, and we have comfortably funded the basic goal yesterday and are heading towards the campaign's first stretch, The Tourist Guide of the City of Ys. The Early Bird has closed, but I’ve made the Character Roster... (Read More)

Stretch Goals Unleashed

October 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Evening, Glorious Backers and Curious Onlookers, Now we've funded, I am proud to announce a number of stretch goals. I've listed them on the campaign page, but I'll go into a bit more detail. Tourist Guide 1  The City of Ys (£2500) A... (Read More)

And Funded!

October 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Good Morning, Glorious  Backers Why, you wonderful set of Winners! Just after breakfast, within a day of opening, this Kickstarter has been funded! WOOO HOOO! You lot are true heroes. I recognise many of you from previous Kickstarters and regular... (Read More)

Beyond Dread Portals Kickstarter Opens on Monday 23rd October!

October 24th - via: d101games.com
Back the game in within the first two days, and you’ll get an Early Bird gift, of the League of Explorers Character Roster. This PDF supplement will contain at least 20 pre-made characters for use as PCs or NPCs. (Read More)

Fun Facts about Beyond Dread Portals

Beyond Dread Portals is coming to Kickstarter next week. If someone puts you on the spot and asks about the game, Roll D20 and consult this table! (Read More)

Why I Wrote Beyond Dread Portals

A guest post from Paul Mitchener (Liminal, Age of Arthur, Hunters of Alexandria, Tombs of the Necromancer to name a few author credits) explaining why he wrote our multi-dimensional Fantasy Adventure game, Beyond Dread Portals (Read More)

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