Anansi's Tapestry of Lives: 110 NPCs, 40 items, 20 side quests, 70 locations & more
Created by NeverEnding, Inc
Don't miss your golden opportunity to experience tabletop gaming like never before! Anansi's Tapestry of Lives is packed with unparalleled tools and resources that will take your Dungeons & Dragons 5E (or other TTRPG) gaming sessions to the next level. Backed by over 1,300 players, DMs, and GMs, our Kickstarter campaign was a smashing success. Now, it's your chance to reap the benefits at a remarkable discount!
Anansi's Tapestry of Lives: Immerse yourself and your players in a universe brimming with 110 unique and indispensable NPCs to enliven your world. That's not all, it also features a treasure trove of magical items, side quests and more. While compatible with 5E, this resource is a remarkable addition to any tabletop roleplaying game.
Anansi's Journal of Common Places: Step into 70 meticulously detailed locations, each harboring their own concealed secrets waiting to be discovered. These are the overlooked places your regular adventure books don't cover. Whether your players stumble into the castle kitchen or want to know what the inside of their rented carriage look like, these location description help you easily add another level of immersion.
VoxStoria Web App: So much of an NPCs mood and personality is communicated by voice. With our app, you don't just read about the NPC's, you listen to them too! Featuring professionally voice acted introductory monologues, these loveable misfits help bring your world to life.
Choose from a plethora of bundles to find the one that fits your gaming needs and your budget. Act swiftly as the pre-order store won't be open for long. Grab this opportunity and prepare yourself for an unforgettable gaming experience at a great discount. Once these limited-time bundles vanish, they're gone for good! Happy gaming!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Progress Report: Anansi's Tapestry of Lives
almost 2 years ago
– Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 12:00:53 PM
Hi, everyone! I'm Alive! Per my earlier update, I was down with a really bad flu bug from Jan 7th/8th until Jan 28. It was... a lot. But, I’m finally catching up on things, and wanted to share some progress!
86% of backers have completed the Backerkit survey. There are still 182 people who haven’t completed it. We’ll continue sending reminders, but if you haven't completed your survey, please do so. It's important for us to be able to get a finalized print quote for everything.
We’ve sent out the NPC Collaboration forms for backers at the “Thief of The Sky” and “Avatar of The Sky God’s Revenge” tiers. If you received one, please complete it, so we can get cracking on making your custom NPC entry for the book!
NPC s and Early Release
As NPC are moving through editing, we’re back to laying out the early release PDF. We’re pushing to co complete it soon, and I apologize for the delay. Here are some of the new NPCs you’ll see in that copy.
MK, the doctor. Edgar, the puppeteer. Rineri, the tax collector. Krix, the Stablehand. Wart, the farmer, with Pig, the cow.
Who's your favorite?
Microsettings
Check out these updated location images from Anansi’s Journal of Common Places!
Quiet Hamlet, Fine Tavern, Apothecary, Bakery
Some beautiful locations to make your game world come to life! Not every place in the adventure is detailed, so this supplement is there to make your life easier. Each location has a description that can be read aloud, other immersive details, and searchable secrets (stuff that's noticeable, hidden, or secret should player search the area).
What do you think of the art?
Vox Storia
In about 2 weeks, we’ll be ready to launch the Beta for Vox Storia. This is our web app feature that allows you to review NPC details and listen to their monologues on your computer, phone, or tablet. You’ll also be able to create and share your own NPCs, locations, and items (with or without voice over). You'll be able to organize them into collections based on your game, and other useful features!
Eventually, we plan on adding collaboration features, so you can get help with art, writing, editing, and voice over -- and get paid if you're doing that kind of work.
Once we’ve gone through thorough Beta testing, we’ll allow select creators to begin selling their own content on the app!
Next Update
We’ll have a big update on about 2 weeks. Stay tuned!
Best,
Jamie
Out with the Flu and OGL stuff
about 2 years ago
– Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 08:51:07 AM
Hey, everyone. I apologize that we are now behind schedule for the PDF. I've been sick with the flu since January 7/8. I'm feeling better (still pretty congested in the chest) and back to editing. I'll do my best to make up the time.
For those who've been reading the news, you probably saw the proposed Open Game License (OGL) changes Wizards of The Coast was proposing. Those changes have been delayed. We did not expect those changes to significantly impact Anansi's Tapestry of Lives. We are relying on the SRD for stat blocks, but the majority of content in the books is system neutral.
That said, it does potentially impact our future plans to develop more content in an round Anansi's - as well as some of what we wanted to accomplish with the app "VoxStoria" (fka NPC Voices - link is to the demo).
In addition to providing you easy access to all of the PCs, paired with professionally voice acted intro monologues, we've developed it so that you can create and share your own NPCs. The plan had been to turn it into a full market place, where you could also access voiced/animated locations, item, and any other description that would help enhance your tabletop gaming experience for you and your players.
We're still developing all of those marketplace tools, because this is going to be a really useful resource for DMs and players. But it's causing a bit of anxiety and stress for us. It's difficult to operate in uncertainty - especially as we've heard many players saying their plan is to move away form D&D5E. However, this app will allow you to create and share content for any system.
One thing that would help, is if we could get some signal boosts for the pre-order store. I'd be grateful if you post the following link to your socials.
We're committed to delivering a amazing set of products, but we'd love for this to be more than a "one-off." Seeing more pre-orders come in helps our team to know there's continued support and interest. That is Very motivating during these uncertain times.
Anyway - like I mentioned, I'm not 100% better yet and can use any get well messages you want to send my way.
Thank you!
- Jamie
Happy New Year! Content Update + Backerkit Reminder
about 2 years ago
– Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 12:16:40 PM
In addition to a quick update, I wanted to wish you a Very Happy New Year. The last couple of years have been really difficult for a lot of people. If you've been having a rough time - I'm rooting for you, and believing that 2023 will be better for you and the people you care for than 2022 was.
Content Update
We've been hard at work editing pages so they can get over to layout and wrangling writers, so we have enough content to make the early release worthwhile for you. To that end, check out this quick video that scrolls through some of the pages!
You'll see some blank white pages with an NPC name and the word placeholder. Those are, as you'd suspect, placeholders for pages we're waiting to get back from layout. Once we get those, we'll be ready to share the early (and incomplete) version of the book book through Backerkit along with a number of VTT tokens (if you your pledge or pledge + add-ons is at the $68 level or higher). As a thank you for investing in Anansi's, you'll be able to start using some of these fantastic NPCs in your games sooner.
Forgive the sub par video quality. I just wanted to get something out to you quickly.
We'll also be happy for any feedback on the NPCs. We'll listen to all the feedback and make adjustments to improve the book at every opportunity. We also recognize that some people might like what others dislike, so we'll make the best decisions we can around potential content changes/edits.
Custom NPCs
We'll be reaching out to Backers at the Thief of the Sky and Sky God's Revenge reward tiers next week, to begin coordinating the creation of their custom NPCs.
Backerkit Surveys
About 80% of our backers have completed the survey. If you can't find your survey link, please email me at [email protected] so I can resend it to you. (also check your spam :P)
Pre-order Store
Our pre-order store is live on Backerkit. If you're willing to share the link online and give us a shout out, thank you! We want to get Anansi's in even more hands, and any help from you is appreciated.
Thank you again for your support. And stay tuned for more great content coming your way!
- Jamie
Backer surveys went out!
about 2 years ago
– Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 04:17:50 PM
You should have received our backer survey! Message me if you did not or email [email protected] (just be sure to check your spam first).
Also, if you saw that you should have the PDF for Anansi's Journal of Common Places in your pledge, and it wasn't there - that should be fixed now. We just had a minor SKU mix up. Thank you to the couple of folks who pointed it out!
Let us know if you have questions or if I can help in any way!
- Jamie
Backer survey smoke test sent, and what should we name the app?
about 2 years ago
– Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 03:32:04 AM
Just sent surveys to 5% of backers from each pledge level.
This allows us to test out the surveys and pledge manager and ensure everything is clear and working smoothly! If you get the survey form Backerkit, please reply ASAP. We need a certain number of responses before we send out all of the survey.
We're trying out different names for the NPC Voices App
So it isn't Quite so generic (and in case we decide to add, i don't know... locations and magic items with VO descriptions?)
Here are some names we're toying around with:
VoxStoria
StoryVita
FabulaStoria
It would be great to get your opinion! Comment below or head over to the Twitter poll.
So, if you have friends, family, enemies who missed the original campaign, let them know they now have another chance to back it! We'll have the pledge levels listed as purchasable items until February 28. Then we'll likely remove those. This will give us time to finalize numbers with the printers.
After February 28, new backers will still be able to purchase individual items at the add-on price, but the huge discounts of a backer pledge level will be gone for good!
