Starlight Arcana: A 5e Astral Supplement & Campaign
Created by Constantine "Kelfecil" Christakis
Explore the stars with the monumental 500+ pages tome for DnD 5e. An unmatched amount of content for both Players and Game Masters. Now open for pre-orders!
Please note, we are waiting to charge for shipping closer to fulfillment. After shipping fees are added in, you will be notified via email before your payment is charged.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
How to finish your pledge - A step by step!
22 days ago
– Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 08:35:32 AM
Hey everyone,
It came to my attention that some people still haven't finalized their pledge and since I don't want anyone to end up not receiving their rewards just because they are not sure what they need to do, I figured I would make a quick update about it!
How to finalize your pledge
Step 1: Make sure you visit BackerKit.com and log-in using the same e-mail you used for Kickstarter.
Alternate Step 1: Look through your e-mails (inbox) for the terms "starlight arcana survey" to find your invitation to the pledge manager. Make sure you are checking the inbox of the e-mail address you used to make your pledge on Kickstarter.
Step 4: Go through the process of finalizing your pledge (most importantly putting in your address and payment details so that we can charge you for shipping & tax)
...and that's it!
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You NEED to finish the above steps if you want to receive your pledge.
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In other news, we are currently in the middle of production and our printing partner's machines are rolling!.
We have figured out all details for fulfillment as well, so all we have to do now, is wait.
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See you on the next update and till then...
May Starlight guide your way my friends!
~Kelf
Post-Project Update #26 - Commissions DONE + News!
about 2 months ago
– Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 07:25:54 AM
Hey, starseekers!
I am here to deliver some quick news on what is going on with Starlight Arcana!
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Production is underway!✅
This is still the same as it was before. We had to figure some logistics-related stuff like barcodes and being able to scan items to organize them much more easily during fulfillment, but with that out of the way, we are back on track for production.
Time required before production is finished: 2 months
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Special Commissions are all done!✅
I am in the very pleasant position to announce that all special artwork commissions have been finished! Dusky Cat delivered the files a couple of days ago and after going through them to properly check if everything is in order, we organized them and will be sending them out in the next couple of days to every backer that has a commission as part of their pledge.
Thank you to all the backers that pledged on the commission tiers and we really hope that what you receive will be to your liking as Dusky Cat put a lot of love into making all of your commission requests!
Don't forget to follow Dusky Cat by the way as she is starting to be super active again on Patreon and on her socials so there's tons of awesome artworks and other things to stare at!
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❗❗❗Incomplete Pledges!❗❗❗
If you haven't finalized your pledge yet, please make sure you do so in the next couple of days because once the factory starts working on our order, we will not be able to alter the counts for each item. We have (per our fulfillment partner's suggestion) made a few extras for the bigger fulfillment centers (US and EU hubs) so we can still accommodate a couple more orders and specifically those who did not complete their order yet.
PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE YOUR PLEDGE IN THE NEXT 5 DAYS, YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO RECEIVE YOUR PHYSICAL REWARDS AT ALL.
Please contact me as soon as you possibly can if you have any issues with your pledge.
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📫Locked Addresses? Oops...📬
Some of you have messaged me asking if fulfillment has started yet because we locked addresses. Fulfillment has not started yet and locking the addresses on the Pledge Manager was a mistake on our side.
We will soon be removing the lock so that you can freely update your address up until we start fulfillment. We apologize for that little confusion there but do not worry as it did not affect the project in any other way.
Also, once again, if you have any issues with your pledge, please feel free to reach out to me and I will help you as soon as I possibly can. I have, thankfully, personally been able to assist a dozen of you already with your pledges and I am glad to see things are working properly with the pledge manager!
We are pushing 🌊Sirensongback to 2025 so that we can fulfill our other two projects first.
We have plans to relaunch🧊Soulfrost Reliquaryin the future and backers of the 1st one will get awesome free loyalty rewards.
The new things I wanted to mention in this update are:
We are probably moving to Gamefound. We have thought about this for a long time now and we believe that Kickstarter as a platform is way too saturated, a bit messy and not as friendly to creators as we hoped it would be. Gamefound on the other hand, has a lot of perks that will allow us to engage with our community much easier, more consistently and with better visibility (and even discoverability to a certain degree). We are still considering this change, but we will soon have news about this again since we plan on putting up some of our projects there to also start putting up preview posts (another awesome thing the platform has.)
We have just about finished the writing for Sirensong. We are basically at around 95% on it and we are super happy to have started moving forward steadily with artwork produciton as well. We want to be even more ready than how we were with Soulfrost Reliquary, to the point that when the live campaign for Sirensong ends, we can immediately deliver all the digital stuff to backers and move to the pledge manager and production just a month after.
We have started planning out Souls Arcana - the next project in the Core Book series. This is still very much "top secret" and there is so much to reveal for it in future updates.
We have started working on Sailing the Stars - a supplement for Starlight Arcana. We will have more to share on that soon enough. I am super excited to show you what we have been working on to expand and support the already huge amount of stuff we have in Starlight Arcana. Yes, ships and naval combat are finally coming to a starlit galaxy near you.
That's all I have to share for today. I hope you are all having a fantastic start to your spring season and I will see you all at the next update.
May Starlight guide your way, my friends!
~Kelf
Post-Project Update #25 - Production started + Other news!
2 months ago
– Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 04:04:19 AM
Hey, starfarer captains!
Here's another quick update on Starlight Arcana's current situation!
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Production is underway!✅
We have finalized our production order for printing with our print partner and they communicated with us that they will begin production after Chinese New Year events are past! (Oh and happy Chinese New Year by the way!)
Time required before production is finished: 2 months
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Fulfillment Plan is complete!✅
We have communicated with GamesQuest, our shipping partner about what the fulfillment plan will look like exactly and we have decided to go with x4 different fulfillment hubs around the world in order to make shipping more affordable (as you saw in the Pledge Manager phase). As soon as printing is finished, we go full speed into fulfillment!
Time to load and ship to hubs via boat: 1 to 1.5 month
Time to unload and sort through things at fulfillment centers: 0.5 to 1 month
Time to start sending out stuff: 1 week
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With all of that in mind, we are basically looking at about 4 to 5 months before you start getting notifications with tracking codes to get your pledges!
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What do you need to do?
All you need to do is keep your eyes open for an e-mail stating your address in a couple of months!
This is important since, once we start fulfillment, you will have one final chance to change your address on the pledge manager and then one final chance to change it when you get an e-mail verification from the shipping company that is handling your pledge!
Do not worry though since we will always be here in case you need help with your pledge! Just reach out to us and we will do our best to help you!
We will be delaying our next project, Sirensong, because we want to be done with everything else first. We have taken your feedback very seriously and because of that we decided to launch Sirensong in Q2 of 2025.
This will allow us to:
Fully finish Starlight Arcana (everyone gets their physical pledges)
Fully finish Soulfrost Reliquary (everyone gets their physical pledges)
Have some really good pre-launch marketing for Sirensong
Finish Sirensong even before it launches and then add extras through stretch goals without incurring any extra delays
Already start working on our next project to be yet another step ahead
We do have plans to RELAUNCH Soulfrost Reliquaryat some point in the future though since we absolutely LOVE the result of our work on that project and we really think that it deserves another go on Kickstarter (it can really be a whole lot bigger as a project!)
This relaunch though will happen after a couple of our other projects and when it does go live, all of the backers of the first SFR project will get some awesome goodies for being the original dwellers of our dreadful frost dungeon!
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Other Small Projects👀
Since the beginning of 2024 we have doubled our productivity because we have some huge plans for our next big projects. Not only that, but we are also planning to create some smaller projects to get our name more "out there."
This includes some zine events on Kickstarter along with some other things that we have always wanted to be a part of but just did not have the time.
So expect to see some smaller but equally cool projects from us in 2024 and 2025 for sure!
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That's all for now.
As promised, I will continue to publish updates, even when there's not much going on (since we are in "waiting mode" now) so that you know that we are still alive and kickin'!
Post-Project Update #24 - Production started!
3 months ago
– Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:19:13 AM
Hey, star dwellers!
It's been a while since the last update, so apologies for that. The truth is, however, that there is not much to update you on. That being said though, I will try to make the updates more consistent so that you are not left in the dark for too long!
First things first, this update was supposed to go out last week, but I got sick (again) and could not do all that much. Thankfully, it's just a cold that gets me in a bit more intense manner. I've been leading a much healthier lifestyle and my body is having a hard time accepting that. So, at the end of the day, it's all good news.
In regards to Starlight Arcana, here's what's up:
All print files have been checked, rechecked, and approved. This ended up being a longer process than what we expected it to be but in the end very worth the extra time because we ended up with a much better result. Some details had to be refined in order to make sure that you all get the best possible stuff arriving at your door. One of those things, for example, was the inclusion of the Sun and Moon art prints in ALL hardcover book orders. Since the art prints are a larger size than the hardcover book, we had to figure out a few logistics-related things to make it work well.
LongPack is to start production soon. Production is planned to take about 2 months to fully complete and considering the fact that the factory will be closed until the 25th of February (for Chinese New Year), that means that we are looking at the end of April for the completion of the production.
Our fulfillment partner, GamesQuest, has been actively working with us to help us plan how fulfillment will go. This includes things such as what fulfillment centers to use, how to package and send orders to backers, and a few other details. We are very happy with our choice of fulfillment partners since GamesQuest has been absolutely lovely and extremely helpful every step of the way. I cannot stress enough how alien and unfamiliar all of this is for me since this is the first time I have ever had to go through such processes. None of what I had done before could prepare me for this (which is quite sad, considering I have a bachelor's in International Business Management :')... )
The digital PDF has also been updated and I believe you will all find the changes very much to your liking, since I have personally rewritten and improved all of the writing for the entire first part of the book (all of the Player-related parts) all the way up to (and including) the spells section.
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With all that in mind, we are in the final few steps of the project being completely finished and we honestly couldn't be happier about this. It has been a very long run for us and we have learned a lot (with new lessons detailed in each and every past update we have put out). These are all lessons that we plan on carrying forward, to our new projects, and also all of the other stuff we plan on working on.
Thank you all so much for your patience and your understanding. This is a first-time endeavor for us and your comments and your support have helped make this an absolutely one-of-a-kind experience that we will never forget.
The stars are definitely not the limit and you will find that we have so much more planned (and even things we are already working on) for the future.
Just as a teaser, here are some of the names of our upcoming projects...
(In case you didn't know, sharks are my favorite animal! :D)
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Even if there is not much to report on, I will make sure we deliver at least two updates per month from now on, with at least a few teasers (like concept art) from future projects, just to keep you all on your toes and inspired for new adventures!
Until next time my starry friends,
May Starlight guide your way!
~Kelfecil
Post-Project Update #23 - New Timeline + Dice!
4 months ago
– Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 05:06:02 PM
Hey, explorer of the Sea of Stars!
This is the last update for 2023. Today we will be sharing with you photos of the Starlight Arcana dice set and we will also talk about the new production+fulfillment timeline.
So let's get to it!
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The Starlight Dice
The proof print package arrived a few weeks ago and we were able to showcase everything that was in it in the last update but the dice set was unfortunately not in there.
LongPack, being the nice and very communicative printing partner that they are, sent us another package with the new and updated version of the dice we chose to be in the Starlight Arcana Quickstart Box!
This is how the dice looked before the change (THE OLD VERSION):
This is how the dice look after the change (THE NEW VERSION):
As you can see, the dice went from being very bland and simple to extremely pretty with a lot of depth to them. There is this mysterious and sparkly space-y vibe to them when they are hit by any kind of light while they remain dark and nebula-ish while in darker situations.
We are really, REALLY happy with how they turned out and we cannot wait to get them all delivered to you!
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New Production+Fulfillment Timeline
With all of the proof prints in our hands and all of our concerns and questions answered, we are ready to move to production. Before we do that though, we have to deliver the final and newly updated print files to our printing partner.
This is where it gets a bit tricky though. Someone even mentioned in a comment that hoping to deliver all of the physical goods before the start of summer sounds like a very ambitious endeavor. While that may be true, we still intend to try our best to deliver things as fast as possible.
Since production will not start until the start of February (because of the holidays and how they are affecting some of the dates) we have decided to take advantage of that time and further edit the whole book so that the end quality can be even higher.
A lot of the book was designed by myself (Kelf) and written by my co-writer, Arthur. Due to the limited amount of time we had to create a lot of the parts in the book and due to my condition (not being able to see well enough for at least a year), it was nearly impossible to fully edit the book and rewrite all of the parts that did not read as well as I would like them to read in English.
Arthur is a Brazilian writer and English is not his first language. Therefore, a lot of the text may require polishing and is not up to the standards that I would like it to be when it comes to the content I publish and generally put out there. Working on that, however, was always in the plans since I knew that I would fully edit and rewrite most of the book myself so that it could meet the high standards that I always set. We, just, simply could not do that before for various reasons (my condition being one of them).
For that reason, we have decided to now take advantage of the extra time we have been given in order to finalize some of the editing and rewriting parts before sending it out to be mass-produced.
This also means that there is a chance that the timeline might be pushed back a little bit. That is, of course, only in the case that the editing + rewriting takes a little bit longer than expected. So far, the process has been seamless and on track with our planning so we are quite confident that we will not have any other hiccups (just like we haven't for a while now).
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The main things to take into account right now are:
PDF and VTT versions of Starlight Arcana have been published and will be improved and updated in the months to come.
The proof prints ofall physical stuffhave all been approved and fixes/changes have been made.
Final print files are being prepared to be delivered. Specifically, the only thing left to be finished is the editing/rewriting of many parts of the book. Everything else is ready.
Fulfillment plans have been communicated with GamesQuest and will be finalized soon after we go into mass production.
Some considerations:
It is important to remember that we are a tiny team that has only a limited amount of people to work on things, even while working full-time. Dusky Cat, Ori, Arthur, and I are actually working non-stop on Starlight Arcana and are trying our best to finish things in a specific order of importance (Starlight Arcana stuff and then Soulfrost Reliquary stuff) just because we value backers (the people who believed in us and helped us create these projects). With small teams though, also come situations like someone being sick for a week and therefore making a small extra and unexpected delay.
ChineseNew Year may impact the production timeline. This could very well be an extra 1-2 months delay.
GamesQuest is busy with lots of Kickstarter projects so there is a chance that the fulfillment of our projects falls around the same time as another one they are handling so that could increase the time it takes for the pledges to reach all of our backers.
Other unexpected events that are just out of our hands (you never know, maybe another pandemic? We hope not...)
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It is important to note that with all of the above in mind, once we deliver the final print files, the project is really in the hands of our printing and fulfillment partners. We will try to monitor the process and update you every step of the way, but we really cannot do more than that.
We thank you for your patience and hope to see you all enjoy flipping through the huge tome that is Starlight Arcana sooner than later!
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Questions? Support?
If you have any questions or need any help with handling your pledge, then please reach out. This is most definitely the best time to do that because we have been locking orders and only accepting very few new ones. Our time and focus are all on going into mass production so although the Pledge Manager is still open, we will slowly stop handling new requests for address changes and other related things after a while.
The BackerKit support team is of course also there to help you with anything you might need so do not hesitate to open a ticket in case you need help with something.
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Thank you all once again for your patience and your support! We hope your upcoming holiday time will be absolutely stellar and that the new year finds you with a smile on your face and a star in the sky waiting for you to make a wish that will come true.
Remember that you are all absolutely awesome and... until next time...
