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Stargazer's Guide to Aroria

Created by Ink and Lyre

Stargazer's Guide to Aroria is a campaign setting for 5E that brings a robust Zodiac character creation system, new races, subclasses, & grand world to explore. If you missed out on the Kickstarter, for a limited time, you can preorder any of the items featured on our Kickstarter page!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Limited Edition Cover Design
over 2 years ago – Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 01:06:08 AM

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Wisterius (Taurus) and Pyrium (Leo) Manifestation Art!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 02:00:45 PM

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Kickstarter Update #10 - Art and Cities!
over 2 years ago – Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 05:39:27 PM

Hi all!

We have a few exciting updates to give you and a word about the backerkit survey.

Mayhem Under the Stars continues testing!

The adventure Mayhem Under the Stars has finished its first round of playtests and we hope to release portions of it to you all soon for some of your own testing! Thanks all for hitting the stretch goal to expand this adventure to levels 1-3. Jake is crafting some adventures that get you out into the streets of La Cambria and away from dusty books.


Backerkit and Surveys


As we stated before Ink and Lyre has partnered with Backerkit to facilitate the fulfilment of SGtA. You will be issued a Backerkit survey where many options will be available to you. For those who have heard that we are finishing Backerkit this week, please know that we’ve met with Backerkit and will be in the process of reviewing the Kit next week. This will start the process of sending the survey to you all and help you select which options you want for all of the amazing merch. We are making sure to try and mitigate any challenges that emerge given that many of our items have 12 options to them (one for each zodiac sign)


Zodiac Art & Cities


We have zodiac art for some of the other zodiac signs. We can’t wait to show it to you but are going to wait a moment prior to showing it off to make sure that it is to the quality we want it to be. Needless to say, it is going to look great and bring more nuances to how the people of Aroria view the Zodiac signs.

We are also putting art and cities together at this point, which will offer some incredible vistas of the locations you will be able to visit in Aroria. We hope to show you this art as soon as we get it. Look forward to upcoming updates where we get to show you this artwork!

This work is fun, wild, and full of surprises.


Join us tonight at twitch.tv/inkandlyre for Birthday Jackbox Games with Dani and crew!


Thanks!


Team Ink & Lyre

Noses to Grindstones & Upcoming Surveys!
over 2 years ago – Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:24:33 PM

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Zodiac Twitch Stream Tonight and Campaign Completion!
over 2 years ago – Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 01:59:32 AM

All 1,932 of you have contributed $102,890 to bring Aroria to life and we here at Ink and Lyre are thankful, humbled, and motivated by your show of support. We can’t wait for all of you to adventure in Aroria and we’re extremely excited to share those experiences with you.

We’re on the road from funding to delivery now, but so much happened in the last 48hrs of the campaign that I need to update you all and address a few questions. Before we do that though, I want to share something exciting with you!

Tonight, 8/20 at 9:00 PM CST, Ink and Lyre will be live on Twitch applying the Zodiac Character creation system to our characters from Fate’s End. Fate’s End is an actual play of Stargazer’s Guide to Aroria and the flagship program of our Twitch channel. You can see us every Monday at 730 CST and catch up on previous episodes on our Youtube. We will be revealing our Zodiac Signs, rolling for our Rulerships, and finding out what benefits and detriments our characters have uncovered so come hang out, chat with the cast and creators of SGtA and see exactly how this system works.


Stretch Goal Complete

Mayhem Under the Stars has expanded! The One-Shot has grown to a full fledged 1-3 level adventure module. The adventure will now go beyond the walls of Niveau Maximum, introduce your characters to the Zodiac system, and prepare your party for Adventures in Aroria. Thank you to everyone who has made this production possible.


Backerkit and Surveys

Ink and Lyre has partnered with Backerkit to facilitate the fulfilment of SGtA. You will be issued a Backerkit survey where many options will be available to you. We don’t have the full details, but here are a few things you’ll be able to accomplish with the survey. This list is not all inclusive and we may find additional uses for the survey. More on this in the coming weeks.


  • Email and Shipping Address updates
  • Purchase of Add Ons for all backers, including Quest Givers or Digital Only
  • Selection of Sign engraving for Nine Realms Dice Vaults and Trays as well as Poster selection and other add on specific requests
  • Name changes for Credits in the book
  • Refund requests and other general administrative tasks

What to Expect Moving Forward

We’ll be sharing art pieces, story snippets, and production updates here on Kickstarter every Friday from now until delivery is complete. Some of these may be very simple, with nothing more than a “we are proceeding as expected”, while others may showcase our hiccups or successes we have along the way. We encourage all of you to follow along and raise any questions you may have regarding the delivery process.


Our hearts are full. Aroria is real. Thank you.


Team Ink and Lyre