EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self

Hello, and welcome to the Patreon page for EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self, a new tabletop RPG designed by Luke Varner and Molly Rhinebeck! EIDOLON is a PbtA game that's all about turning your deepest, most sacred personal truths into majestic and powerful avatars known as Eidolons. An Eidolon is your very soul given form, and posseses powers that completely shatter the boundaries of the possible. With it, you'll adventure into the unknown with your friends, and explore the shadowy corners of the world where the lines between real and imaginary are hopelessly blurred. In EIDOLON,&nbsp;your character will&nbsp;assert the beauty of their own personhood, forge unbreakable bonds with their friends, and last but not least, get into absurd and kickass fights inspired by Jojo's Bizarre Adventure&nbsp;and the Persona&nbsp;video game series.&nbsp; We've been working on EIDOLON for over a year now, and things have been progressing smoothly. The game is currently "done," but it's barely been playtested at all. That's where the EIDOLON Playtest Podcast comes in! Luke has set up two different EIDOLON&nbsp;campaigns to put the game through its paces, and we're turning both of them into actual-play podcasts for your entertainment! The shows are called Eidolon POP and Eidolon ROCK. Eidolon POP is a campaign about a group of college students and their professor contending with a mysterious shadow world, and features Fabby Garza Marroquin, Tyberius Wilson, Mike Painter, Crystal Zaslavchik, and Zoe Tunnell as players. Eidolon ROCK is about a gang of Las Vegas criminals trying to make a big score while fighting their way through rival gangs with the power of their Eidolons, and features Lexi Waltner, Dustin Christianson, Max Knightley, and EIDOLON&nbsp;co-designer Molly Rhinebeck as players. The stories of the two campaigns are unrelated, but both of them release on the same feed on alternating weeks. In addition to playtesting our game, we're also setting up this Patreon in the hopes that we can raise some money to put some professional finishing touches on the thing. Right now, EIDOLON exists as a very dull-looking Google Doc. We're hoping that with your help, we can raise the money to get some nice illustration and layout work done, to turn the game into something more professional. By subscribing at the $1/month tier, you'll get access to episodes of the EIDOLON Playtest Podcast early; you'll get episodes of both Eidolon POP and Eidolon ROCK as soon as they're finished. By subscribing at $3/month, you'll get access to Luke's GM notes for both campaigns, along with a monthly bonus podcast where Luke and Molly discuss the design of the game and work through revisions they make as a result of the playtesting. At $5/month, you'll get instant access to the current version of EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self, as well as updated versions every time we make significant changes to the game. We'd really love it if you subscribed at this tier, took our game out for a test-spin, and gave us your feedback on it! Even if you can only spare a dollar a month though, we'd be extremely grateful for your support.

Free

Every little bit counts! We really appreciate any contribution you can make, even a dollar per month. At this tier, you'll have access to early episodes of both Eidolon POP and Eidolon ROCK!

Early Episodes!

At $3 per month, you'll get access to the same early episodes as the Supporter Tier, in addition to a monthly bonus podcast where Luke and Molly discuss the design of the game and changes they're making to it in response to the playtests. You'll also get access to Luke's GM notes from every episode that's already posted!

Bonus Behind-the-Scenes Content!

At $5 per month, you'll receive immediate access to the current draft of EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self, as well as updated drafts every time we make major revisions! The game won't be published for a little while yet, while we playtest it and make it more visually appealing, but by subscribing at this level you can get it right away! Please keep in mind that it's still a work in progress, and that the game could very well still have some big design flaws. In fact, we'd love to hear any feedback you have about it! When you subscribe to this tier, we'll provide you with an email address you can sent any criticisms or suggestions to! As an additional bonus, we'll also read out the names of $5 backers at the end of each episode of the podcast!

Early Access to the Game!

For ten dollars a month, you get access to THE GRAB BAG. Each month, we'll upload some kind of bonus content exclusive to this tier. This will usually take the form of bonus podcasts or video content, but it will vary over time! Sometimes, you may get more than a single monthly release on this tier; very rarely, a month may go by without any new release at all. More than anything, this tier represents a tip jar, a way to give us a little extra support if you're enjoying the show. Most Grab Bag bonus content won't be directly related to the main show, and will instead be ways for us to share and explore interests tangential to Eidolon. Sometimes it'll just be a platform for us to experiment with some weird or silly ideas. The soundtracks for season 1, 2, and the first interlude are available at the $5, but all other soundtracks are available as part of The Grab Bag.

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