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Arcanist Press: Making Meaningful Game Experiences
Kickstarters
We design, write, develop, edit, and layout tabletop content, commission professional art, and publish our games. To cover expenses, we often bring our projects to Kickstarter first. Check out our latest project, Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e: over 2500% funded with 917 backers!
Publishing Content on DM's Guild and DriveThruRPG
We have a number of products in development for D&D 5e, Savage Worlds, Cypher System, and more. The next few on deck are:
- Volo's Guide to Ancestries & Cultures: Bringing the acclaimed ancestry & culture system to the DMs Guild, this title provides ancestries and cultures for every playable race published for fifth edition in the Forgotten Realms. It also includes several dozen original ancestries and cultures, either based on popular monsters like mind-flayers and myconids, or on races from older editions. Featuring a moving and powerful preface by Ed Greenwood, the creator of the Forgotten Realms himself!
- Ancestries & Cultures of Eberron: Bringing the acclaimed ancestry & culture system to the Eberron setting, this title provides ancestries and cultures for Eberron-specific 'races', both from fifth edition and earlier.
- Ancestries & Cultures of Ravenloft: Like its partner titles, this book brings ancestries and cultures to the races and peoples of Ravenloft. It covers both the fifth edition peoples as well as many from earlier editions. This title is also written in consultation with a sensitivity reader, particularly around the Vistani.
- Arctic Ancestries & Cultures: A collection of ancestries, cultures, magic items, and creates to suit your arctic themed and set games. We plan to release this title on DriveThruRPG to correspond with WotC's release of Rime of the Frostmaiden.
- Excelsior: Coming this fall to Kickstarter, Excelsior is a modern superhero game that uses the 5e OGL rules to create a new and easy to play game of superheoric adventure! Play as a street level super, like Jessica Jones; or a city level hero, like Spider-man; or part of a global superteam like the X-Men; or even an epic, cosmic hero like the Fantastic Four, and more!
About Us
Arcanist Press began as a way for Eugene and Amy Marshall - avid gamers and published authors - to share their passion for creating games with others. The Doctors Marshall have big plans to design, write, and produce tabletop roleplaying game content for a variety of systems, especially the fifth edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game.
With multiple titles in progress and destined for DriveThruRPG, the DM's Guild, and Kickstarter, Arcanist Press has big plans for your games!