A Victory for Roars & Howls And An Opportunity to Grow Your Own Forest
9 months ago
– Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 02:36:27 PM
Third Stretch Goal Down and Halfway Through the Kickstarter Campaign
Hail, adventurers!
We're at the midpoint of our Kickstarter journey and the progress has been incredible. In two weeks, you've unlocked:
37 more tokens!
- The Cthulhu Pack
- Sacred Guardians bonus tokens
- Roars & Howls bonus tokens (won by a narrow margin!)
Thank you for your enthusiasm and support. Let's keep this momentum going!
Our Adventure Continues with a Fourth Stretch Goal - Add Trees & Plants
Every dragon needs a hoard, every GM needs monsters, and every story needs a setting. When we hit this goal, you're getting terrain tokens—trees—seven distinct variants to build your world:
- Add a courtyard orchard to a castle
- Drop a fallen log across a forest road
- Create cover and ambush points in any battle
- Frame that tavern with an ominous forest edge
Terrain is one of your most-requested additions. Trees go everywhere and make every encounter better.
A Holiday Feast Draws Near
The holiday season is coming and we'd love to celebrate with you! Since we can't host all of you at our tables, we're bringing our favorite dishes to yours with a holiday feast token set.
As is customary, we'd like you to bring something: your best dish suggestions! Let us know what should be on the table—roasted boar, honey cakes, suspicious mystery stew—and we'll include as many as we can.
This set will also include:
- Santa
- Turkey
- Snowman
- Snowwoman
- Eldritch Snow Horror
How to Unlock This Stretch Goal, you ask?
Tag us on social media 100 times (combined across X, Facebook, and Instagram) with a link to this campaign before Thanksgiving, and we'll automatically unlock this holiday treat!
Bonus: We'll send these digitally before Christmas!
Tag @splatteredink and help us spread the word!
We love to hear from you.
You can chat with us and our vibrant and growing Discord community here. We’d all love to get to know you, so don’t hesitate to come and say hello.
If you’d prefer to communicate by email, you can reach Altair here: [email protected]
Darryl (creator) & Altair (internet cryptid)
P.S. Telepathic messages are not encouraged. Cryptids are easily startled and prone to spilling coffee.
Unlocks and More Coming + SHIFT
10 months ago
– Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 09:07:56 AM
Just over one week down: You Absolute Legends!
Hey everyone! Darryl here.
Holy Shoggoth, what a week! When we launched, you all showed up in force and things keep rolling! We're over 1600% funded! Seriously! Thank you.
Unlocked So Far!
You've already unlocked the Cthulhu Pack and we've already finished the rest of the art! You can see it below.
You've also unlocked 16 more tokens for the Tome of Beasts packs: Sacred Guardians. 4 tokens per pack that add more copies of already impressive amount of tokens in each pack. Need more Groovekeepers? You got 'em. Need another Temple Dog? You got it!
Next Stretch Goal
The next Stretch Goal is about to fall! We're less than 3k away at the time of this update. That means you only have a little more time to vote on which tokens will be added.
Which will it be? Roars & Howls or Pests & Protectors! With either, you can't go wrong as they both add 16 more tokens to the Classic Fantasy packs!
To vote: Comment on the Kickstarter's main comment tab with your choice. Voting closes when we hit $70k—so get in there!
Have Questions?
If you have any specific questions, just reach out. We have a vibrant and growing community on Discord. We would love to get to know you, so don't hesitate to jump in! 😊
You can chat with me in the following ways:
Discord: https://discord.gg/STEnbRQasw
Email our Internet Cryptid at: [email protected]
Darryl, Creator
Project We Love
Our good friends at Hit Point Press have developed an amazing new RPG! SHIFT RPG!
SHIFT RPG is an innovative new roleplaying game system that lets GMs and players collaboratively build, create, and play in any world you can imagine.
SHIFT’s innovative Trait and SHIFT Die mechanic is the building block of the whole system. Learn how to create a Trait, and you’ll be designing new content for your SHIFT games right at the table!
I've played it and loved it! Check out SHIFT RPG, you won't regret it.
THANK YOU! FUNDED - STRETCH GOALS FALLING!
10 months ago
– Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 08:41:42 AM
We are absolutely blown away!
Over 1000% funded in less than a day! Your support has exceeded our wildest expectations, and we couldn't be more grateful.
Thank you.
Thank you for believing in this project. Thank you for sharing it with your friends and gaming groups. Thank you for being part of this incredible community that makes projects like RPG Essentials 2 possible.
This collaboration between Kobold Press and Splattered Ink Games has been years in the making, and seeing this level of enthusiasm makes every late night, every revision, and every obsessive detail worth it.
What's Next?
Cthulhu Pack Unlocked!
Look at those sketches for the Cthulhu Pack! I can feel the fear building in some of my own characters! Wait till you drop them on your table!
First Backer Vote: Tome of Beasts Bonus Tokens!
Comment on the main Kickstarter Comments tab to place your vote. What will we unlock first, the Wings and Stings Pack or the Sacred Guardians Pack? Either way, unlock this stretch goal and we're adding 4 tokens to each pack, 16 total!
For now, we just wanted to pause and say thank you. You've made this campaign something truly special.
Here's to infinite adventures ahead.
Have Questions?
If you have any specific questions, just reach out. We have a vibrant and growing community on Discord. We would love to get to know you, so don't hesitate to jump in! 😊
You can chat with me in the following ways:
Discord: https://discord.gg/STEnbRQasw
Email our Internet Cryptid at: [email protected]
Darryl, Creator
