Spectaculars is 74% Off All Summer

We’re hoping you’re going to have a spectacular summer, so we’ve deeply discounted the Spectaculars box set for the Spectaculars Summer Sale! Marked down to just $19.99, there has never been a better time to try out the Spectaculars RPG, creating your own comic book universe as you play through the four included campaigns, over 50 sessions worth of stories! Visit the Scratchpad Publishing store to grab a copy before the sale ends!

100AC System Discord Dice Bot Updated

The 100AC System Dice Bot for use in Discord has been updated with some improved readibility and a more colorful interface. If you’ve already added the dice bot to your server, you will get these changes automatically. If you’re looking to play one of the 100AC System games online, but haven’t yet added the bot to your Discord server, you can add the 100AC System Dice bot to your server and start playing online right away!

100AC System Dice Bot for Discord

Online play is more important than ever for tabletop roleplaying games, and while Scratchpad Publishing will always be excited to create games that support quick, off-the-shelf play around a table, we also know that many of you have been looking for more tools to help you play Dusk City Outlaws and Spectaculars online. You can now add a 100AC System Dice bot to your Discord server, which uses a series a simple commands to let you roll the percentile dice, advantage dice, and challenge dice used by these two systems.

“Just a quick heads-up: I coded this dice bot myself, and it’s my first Discord bot (and first time scripting in Python, for that matter). There’s a high likelihood that you’ll run into some bugs when using it. Sorry about that! If you do, you can visit the Contact section of this site and send me a message and I’ll try to correct the bugs as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience!”

— Rodney Thompson, Owner

The commands for this dice bot are simple. With the !roll command, you can roll basic percentile dice. By adding certain arguments to your chat message, you can further modify the roll:

• adding -t ## (where ## is your chance of success on the roll) will automatically determine success or failure

• adding a, aa, aaa, or aaaa to the message adds that many advantage dice to the roll; you can also use #a, where # is replaced by the number of advantage dice you wish to roll

• adding c, cc, ccc, or cccc to the message adds that many challenge dice to the roll; you can also use #c, where # is replaced by the number of challenge dice you wish to roll

• adding -p will remove the percentile die roll, instead only rolling any advantage or challenge dice you included

• You can add any of the above arguments in any combination to make a roll include exactly the dice you need

An example of the 100AC System Dice Bot in Action

If you ever need to see these commands in Discord, the !help command will cause the bot to print the basics of these commands for you.

You will need server manager permissions to add the 100AC System Dice Bot to your Discord server. If you don’t have your own Discord server, but want to see how it works, you can join the Scratchpad Publishing Discord server and experiment with the bot there.

Click here to add the 100AC-Dice bot to your server now!

Print-on-Demand Spectaculars Setting Books

Now available in print through DriveThruRPG’s Print on Demand service: additional Spectaculars setting books! If you’ve been wanting to create another setting or run multiple campaigns in different settings, this book contains all of the content of the Setting Book included in the Spectaculars core game, formatted to standard Letter paper size and printed on paper that is easy to write on. Grab one, two, or a few today!

Form-Fillable PDFs for Spectaculars

With many people making the shift to online play, form-fillable PDFs make the transition much easier. Several of the Spectaculars PDFs have been updated with form-fillable versions, including the Setting Book from the core game, the free Teams & Heroes pack, the free Villains & Minions pack, and the free Hero Progress sheet! Download these updated PDF packs today from DriveThruRPG to get the new form-fillable sheets!

Warehouse Move

Over the next few weeks, Scratchpad Publishing products will be unavailable for sale through our website as our warehousing company moves our stock to a new warehouse. In the meantime, you may place orders through Indie Press Revolution for both the Dusk City Outlaws and Spectaculars core game box sets, and through Campaign Coins for the Dusk City Outlaws metal tokens and Spectaculars metal tokens.

Dusk City Outlaws & Spectaculars on Tabletop Simulator

Now available on Tabletop Simulator for free through Steam Workshop: official conversions for both Dusk City Outlaws and Spectaculars. If you have been looking for a way to play the Scratchpad Publishing games online, these TTS modules represent the first steps toward providing official online environments for play. If you own Tabletop Simulator on Steam, you can subscribe to these workshop modules to gain access to custom game setups that include high resolution components derived directly from the printer files for each game. A copy of either game (either physically, or in PDF format) is still required to play.

Spectaculars Now Available for Sale

I am very pleased to announce that fulfillment of the Spectaculars Kickstarter is complete, and physical copies of the core game box set are now available for general sale. You can purchase a copy of Spectaculars directly through this website, or through your local game store if they are an Indie Press Revolution customer. Now, get out there and start making your own comic book universe!

Spectaculars Digital Creator Pack Now Available

Now available for free on DriveThruRPG, the Digital Creator Pack for Spectaculars gives you everything you need to produce new material using the graphic design and iconography of the actual game. Packed with icons, backgrounds, and publishing templates, the Digital Creator Pack includes a free license to produce and distribute material in digital format for free.

Got an idea for a Spectaculars series that you want to put out there for other people to play? Want to create your own hero, villain, and minion archetypes? Add new powers, identities, or team roles? Create a deck of complications tailored for your specific campaign? This package gives you access to digital files used in the creation of the Spectaculars game, making it easier to produce new material that looks just like the contents of the boxed set.

The digital creator pack includes:

• Digital files for all artwork and icons used in the game

• Digital files for all page backgrounds in the game

• Adobe InDesign templates for the game rulebook (in both square and Web Supplement letter format), setting book, power cards, identity cards, complication cards, team role cards, initiative cards, series pads, and hero progress sheets.

• License to create and distribute for free Spectaculars content of your own creation

This package is perfect for anyone looking to create materials that look like they came from the base game, for use at your gaming table, or for sharing with other member of the Spectaculars player community.

Spectaculars Core Game PDFs Now Available

Scratchpad Publishing is pleased to announce that the PDFs for the Spectaculars Core Game are now available for sale from DriveThruRPG! Including PDF copies of all printed components that will be included in the box set, the release of these PDFs represents a major milestone in the Spectaculars production process. All Kickstarter backers and people who preordered through PledgeManager should have already received e-mails from DrivethruRPG containing links to redeem for their copies of the PDFs. If you did not, please use the contact form on this page to get in touch.

Spectaculars PledgeManager Now Live

The Spectaculars PledgeManager is now live! If you backed the game on Kickstarter, check your e-mail for an invitation to log in. If you missed the Kickstarter and are looking to pre-order the game at the discounted pre-order price), you can visit the PledgeManager and place your order now!

What if I don't see the email yet?

Check your spam folder. If you use Gmail, sometimes your invite will go to your "Promotions" tab. If you still can't find it, search your inbox for "PledgeManager"

If that doesn't work:

1. Click - https://scratchpad-publishing.pledgemanager.com/projects/spectaculars/

2. Click "Request New Invite"

3. Enter your email address (the one you pledged with)

4. Wait at least 10 minutes - then go to your email, open the invite, and click the giant button to confirm all your goodies

And if that doesn't work, check the FAQ page @ https://scratchpad-publishing.pledgemanager.com/projects/spectaculars/ and submit a support request.

There's something wrong with my pledge!

That's not impossible. If you notice something is awry, you can submit a support request at https://scratchpad-publishing.pledgemanager.com/projects/spectaculars/ or send us a message directly to contact@scratchpadpublishing.com and we'll look at it for you.

What if I need to change my address?

As long as your items have not been shipped, you can always change your address. Just simply log back in to PledgeManager and make the appropriate change. However, if you change your country, additional shipping costs may apply.

If I have a friend who missed the project, can they still join?

You can share this link to your friends and they can pre-order too: https://scratchpad-publishing.pledgemanager.com/projects/spectaculars/participate/?ref=backer

Spectaculars Kickstarter Ends

Thanks to the generous support of over a thousand Kickstarter backers, Spectaculars not only reached its funding goal, but also raised enough money to unlock every stretch goal along the way! The game now enters the production and manufacturing process in an effort to achieve the target ship date of August 2019. A Pledge Manage for Spectaculars will go up soon, allowing backers to modify their pledges and provide shipping addresses. If you missed the Kickstarter, the Pledge Manager will also allow you to preorder the game at the discounted Kickstarter price.

Spectaculars Has Funded!

As of this posting, Spectaculars has surpassed its funding goal on Kickstarter, which means that the game will be produced! A sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the game so far. But it’s not over yet! There are still three days left to support the campaign, and a whole batch of new stretch goals are ready and waiting to tear through during the last hours of the Kickstarter.

$70,000 — Digital Creator Pack! For the first stretch goal, I will release for free to all backers the digital creator pack for the game. This stretch goal will give backers access to digital files used in the  creation of the Spectaculars game, making it easier to produce new material that looks just like the contents of the boxed set.

The digital creator pack includes:

• Digital files for all artwork used in the game 

• Adobe InDesign templates for all cards, the rulebook, the setting book, and series

• Any digital templates and artwork produced for stretch goals 

• License to create and distribute for free Spectaculars content

I want you to take this game and make it your own, make your own  content for it, share it with others in the community, hack it, and get  as much out of it as you can. This pack should help you do so, and help  make the material you create look as close to the original game as possible.

$75,000 — 12 Extra Initiative Cards! This stretch goal adds 12 cards to the initiative cards already included in the box set, giving you more flexibility when putting together the initiative deck, and more flexibility when designing your own scenarios, allowing you to add more minions, hazards, and events to the initiative track.

The extra initiative cards included will be:

• More color options for minions, hazards and events

• Unique “Critical Complication” initiative card

$80,000 — 25 Extra Identities! This stretch goal adds 25 identities to the existing pool of identities, spread across both the Common and the series-specific identity groups. These cards will draw inspiration from heroes in the major comic book imprints, allowing you to more easily recreate certain iconic heroes within the game.

The extra powers included will be:

• 5 more Common identities

• 5 more identities for each of the four series included in the game

$85,000 — 25 Extra Powers! This stretch goal adds 25 powers to the existing pool of powers, spread across both the Common and series-specific powers. These powers will expand the breadth of options you'll see when making characters, increasing the chances that all heroes and villains in a session will be completely unique in terms of their power sets.

The extra powers included will be:

• 5 more Common powers

• 5 more powers for each of the four series included in the game

$90,000 — Rulebook +16 Pages! This stretch goal adds 16 pages of material to the game's rulebook. This space will be used to focus on topics that, while not essential to gameplay, will help players and Narrators get the most out of the game.

Some examples of the extra content that will be included in these extra pages includes:

• Expanded guidance for Narrators, making it easier to personalize the game for your group

• Expanded guidance for creating your own issues and series

• More Story Rewards for heroes

• Expanded hero origins suggestions

• Expanded optional rules

$95,000 — Deck of Complications! This stretch goal adds an entirely new deck to the game: The Deck of Complications! Each card in this 40-card deck includes one or more suggestions for a complication that the Narrator can add to a conflict scene. During play, when the heroes roll drawbacks on challenge dice, the Narrator can draw cards from the Deck of Complications, choose one, and introduce that complication immediately. This will make it easier to improvise interesting scenes with escalating tension, and will include complications that range from putting innocent bystanders in danger, to forcing the heroes to deal with collateral damage to nearby buildings, to introducing minor villains in the middle of the conflict ("You didn't think I would come alone, did you?"). This deck is a tool the Narrator can use to make each conflict more dynamic without having to do any prep work in advance.

$100,000 — 4 GameTrayz Hero Trays! This stretch goal adds four hero trays, designed by Noah Adelman from GameTrayz, to every copy of the game! As you can see from the images below, these trays are incredibly well designed, and hold all of your components tightly in place during play, making it so that your cards don't slide around during play. Each tray also includes a storage slot for your percentile dice, and a trough to hold your hero points and time tokens, keeping the table clear of loose components during play. These things look amazing, and anyone who has a copy of Dusk City Outlaws knows just how great Noah's tray designs are. 

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Spectaculars Livestreams: Help Make the Setting!

On Monday and Tuesday of next week (10/29 and 10/30), I will be running livestreamed games of Spectaculars on the LoadingReadyRun Twitch channel (Monday, at 6:00 PM Pacific time) and on the Saving Throw Show (Tuesday, 8:00 PM Pacific). I’m very excited (despite spending a couple of days doing too much air travel!) , partly because running for those folks is a lot of fun, but also partly because YOU are going to help me make the setting in which those games will be run.

That’s right, for each of the Kickstarter livestreams, we’ll be playing in the same comic book universe. Now, normally, I’d let my players create the world, but since I’ll be running for several different groups I decided to invite you to step into the role of my players and help me create the setting, as well as the villains that the heroes are going to face in the first two streams. Take the survey in the link below, and cast your votes, helping to shape the comic book universe these livestreams will showcase.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TWPBDJ9

Spectaculars Kickstarter is Live!

Spectaculars, the new tabletop roleplaying game of comic book heroes and villains, is now live on Kickstarter! Seeking funding for a print run to be delivered in August 2019, the Kickstarter campaign is live now, through November 20th. As with Dusk City Outlaws, backers of the Kickstarter can receive the physical game for a $65 pledge, $10 less than the MSRP. Back the game now to help make Spectaculars a reality!

Announcing Spectaculars!

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Scratchpad Publishing is proud to announce Spectaculars, a tabletop roleplaying game of comic book heroes and villains! Like Dusk City Outlaws, Spectaculars will ship as a box set, including everything you need to play the game right in the box. More than that, Spectaculars is focused on campaign play and worldbuilding, and is meant to help you run a campaign without needing to do any prep work between sessions. Spectaculars has no default setting of its own; instead, the game guides you through creating your own setting, helping you craft and introduce important elements to the setting as they become necessary.

More information on Spectaculars is forthcoming, and soon. In the very near future, Scratchpad Publishing will once again be returning to Kickstarter to help fund the production of the game, so stay vigilant for the campaign to go live! You can also sign up for our mailing list to be alerted as soon as the Kickstarter goes up!

Get ready. It’s your world, so defend it.

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