‘At the Shrine of Othrys’ Update #2: About Skirmisher Publishing

Thanks to everyone who has thus far backed Skirmisher Publishing’s Kickstarter campaign for our “At the Shrine of Othrys” fantasy RPG and fiction project! Only six days in we have more than 100 terrific backers who have funded this project 86% and brought us to the threshold of not just being able to complete it but also to unlocking its exciting and colorful stretch goals.

In this update we wanted to tell you about us as a company and the things we have accomplished in the 20 years since we started publishing. It is important to us that backers understand that we know how to see a project through from beginning to end and that there are no particular risks or undue challenges associated with this one.

Skirmisher Publishing is a publisher of games, supplements, and sourcebooks that has been doing business since 2001 and which has its headquarters in the Texas Hill Country. Over the past two decades we have released more than 400 system-free sourcebooks, writer's guides, RPG supplements, campaign settings, wargames, tabletop miniatures games, sets of cardstock figures, sets of tokens and avatars for virtual tabletops, fantasy fiction, historical reprints, graphic novels, comics, a horror LARP, and more.

Skirmisher is also a proud member of the Kickstarter community that has backed 68 projects by other creators and achieved the site’s prestigious Superbacker status and which in 2019 ran a highly-successful, 1,122%-funded campaign for its City Builder: A Guide to Designing Communities. This is, however, only the third time we decided it was necessary to run a crowdfunding campaign for one of our projects.

“We take the responsibility of running a Kickstarter campaign very seriously,” said publisher Michael O. Varhola. “As a matter of routine, over the two years since we ran our last campaign we have released one new publication a week on average, ranging in size from mini-comics to complete novels and RPG supplements, and were not tempted to kickstart any of them. It is only when we have something really special that we want to take to the next level — like “At the Shrine of Othrys” — that we decide a Kickstarter campaign is warranted as a step in creating a beautiful, useful, fully-supported publication.”

Thanks again to those of you who have already supported this project! Please help spread the word about it so that no one who might be interested in it will miss out. And if you have not yet backed “At the Shrine of Othrys” please check it out and consider coming on board with this beautiful and ambitious collaboration by our top game developers, writers, and artists!