In this world of animals, the regions used to be at war with each other. Thankfully brave animals from each region united for peace and formed the Venture Society.
The Venture Society is a world wide organization dedicated to helping others and encouraging harmony with your fellow animals, and you're invited to join.
An all ages, non-violent RPG focusing on building communication, social, & emotional skills.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
We're Heads Down this Month
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 10:09:03 AM
Writing & Editing
Throughout November we finished up any writing updates or additions we felt were needed. December will be our editing month...and there is A LOT to edit. The standard rulebook, professional's guide featuring therapy and education resources, and over 25 individual adventures all need editing before we can go into final layout.
This month let's learn about Venture Village!
Each update we'll show off an excerpt from Venture Society. This month, let's learn a little more about your hometown, Venture Village.
Venture Village is positioned in the center of all the other regions, making it a melting pot of all types of animals!
Venture Village is a growing community full of homes, businesses, and residents who have moved here from all the surrounding regions. With the help of its citizens and its society members Venture Village has become a melting pot, welcoming animals from any region and allowing them the freedom to be themselves.
With this freedom comes the latest trends in clothing, art, and food. Most animals are not fond of lots of clothing but some wear things like scarfs, hats, or other accessories. Here you can find art expressing all types of thoughts and feelings that animals from all over the world experience. There are not a lot of restaurants here. While walking down any street you can smell amazing aromas coming from all different homes. Potluck dinners and community picnics are very popular.
Project Status
✍️ Venture Society Rulebook - Design complete, Final writing updates
📝 Venture Society Professional's Guide - Peer reviewed, in Editing
📝 Venture Society Adventures - Designs complete, in Editing
📝 Venture Society Adventure Prompt Deck - Contents complete, In Editing
🛑 Venture Society Boxed RPG - On hold until editing is complete
🛑 VTT modules - On hold until final RPG PDF is complete
🛑 Venture Society VTT Pack (Tokens, Map, Art) - On hold until Layout is complete
Thank you for your support!
~9th Level Games
November Update & Surveys Emailed!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 09:51:03 PM
Reward Surveys
The reward surveys are complete and will be sent from BACKERKIT to you VIA EMAIL this week to whichever email you use for Kickstarter.
Important notes:
Your survey does NOT yet include shipping cost, it will be added in 2023 closer to the ship date.
Your FREE GIFTS & stretch goal items will be listed with your rewards. If you DON'T SEE THEM, please contact us.
If you do not see the survey email from BACKERKIT within ONE WEEK, please contact us and we can send you a direct link.
Association for Play Therapy Conference
A few weeks ago, the design team for Venture Society went to St. Louis for the Association for Play Therapy conference to show off the game. The therapists LOVED it and are super excited to use the game in their sessions with children!
What is Play Therapy? Play therapy refers to a range of methods of capitalizing on children's natural urge to explore and harnessing it to meet and respond to the developmental and later also their mental health needs.
Dr. Brian Quinones, Heather O'Neill, & Tim Grant
Next Steps
Throughout November and December the team will be doing final edits and ensuring we have all the stretch goal items ready to go. We expect to be able to send files to our printer by early January at the latest. We'll get you some progress images in our next update.
Thank you,
9th Level Games
Stretch Goal Status & VTT Discussion
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 08:37:50 AM
Stretch Goal Status
We have had a great 24 hours and have unlocked more stretch goals! Still about 30 hours to go so it's quite possible to hit the remaining two.
Virtual Tabletops
Since these were a newly mentioned bonus for backers ($30+) we wanted to explain what you'll get and the reasons for using these two platforms.
What you'll get: FREE module (themed play area, tokens, character sheet, PDF of RPG guidebook)on each platform.
Alchemy RPG is a fairly new player to the virtual tabletop space. They are going to add 9th Level's polymorph as a rules system to their offerings in early 2023 so it makes sense to offer the Venture Society module on that platform.
Roll20 is the #1 virtual tabletop for roleplaying games. 9th Level Games already has a few modules on their platform and are happy to add Venture Society as an offering.
Thank you again for all your support and here's to a final push to get you the best deal we can!
~9th Level Games
Thank you!
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 08:37:28 AM
Thank you so much for supporting Venture Society! You rock!
A Strong Final Week
We are in awe of the great number of new backers that have some in just since Monday! Almost 100 new backers in the last 4 days! As a result we have unlocked all of our announced stretch goals!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
~9th Level Games & the design team Erin Gilbert, Timothy Grant, Heather O'Neill, & Dr. Brian Quinones.
Final 48 Hours & Stretch Goals Unlocked!
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 07:31:09 AM
The Venture Society campaign ends Thursday at 5:30pm Eastern Time. If you have not shared this campaign please do so to help us unlock more stretch goals! If you already did, thank you so much for your support and for sharing this campaign with your friends, colleagues, and family!
Making paper airplanes as the hands on activity during a playtest of Venture Society at the Save Against Fear therapy gaming convention last weekend.
We already unlocked one stretch goal and are very close to another! We are adding 16 additional Adventure Prompt Cards to the boxed RPG and the teacher focused mini-campaign is less than $500 away from being reached!
$22K - PDF Adventure by Michelle Nephew of Atlas Games
$23K - Fold out added to RPG & Professional book with quick reference & quick start rules
$24K - Virtual Tabletop Modules (Roll20 & Alchemy) We are SUPER EXCITED to announce that all backers over $30 will receive FREE VTT modules of Venture Society on Alchemy and Roll20!Over $100 value!!!!
REMINDERS
How can I change my pledge or choose to add-on other items?
When logged into Kickstarter choose Manage Your Pledge.
Then choose Change Your Pledge.
Here you will confirm your reward level amount.
Once your reward level is confirmed you'll see the Configure Reward page which is where you select and deselect Add-ons.
Click Continue when finished to confirm.
Still having issues? Message us. The Kickstarter Add-on feature can be tricky. The mobile app may be tougher for add-ons than a browser.
How to I sign up to receive a donated copy for my organization?
If you are looking to be added to our donation list to receive a copy for your organization please fill out this FORM.
9th Level Games will start a Venture Society donation fund. All donated copies will go into our donation fund to be sent to libraries, schools, camps, therapy offices, after-school programs, and more.
Can I add on items after this campaign ends?
Yes! We are using Backerkit as our pledge manager and will have all these same items available for add-on if you decide to add them at a later date.
