A mobile and magical 5E supplement that can be brought to life in any campaign world. Beautifully illustrated by over 25 acclaimed fantasy artists, the Walking Marketplace provides an immersive commerce experience with fantastical locations, a cast and crew of quirky characters, and plot hooks for every party.
This tome includes a plethora of new options for players and GMs alike including four new playable races, four sub-classes, a new system of gold for XP, an extensive framework for customizing gear as you grow, over 200 new magic items, and a Build-A-Familiar shop for crafting your ultimate Bobbler companion!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
We live and we are working hard!
over 2 years ago
– Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 04:56:17 PM
Hello you wonderful people!
First of all, apologies that it has been a couple of weeks since our last update. As you can imagine, since the end of the Kickstarter, the hard work has really begun and Dave and I have been getting our heads down and really getting to work! But do not fear, we have not forgotten you!
Both of us have really missed interacting with you all and it had been our biggest priority to get back to updating, and communicating with you frequently! So from today, we will be continuing to post an update every 2 weeks, so you know exactly what is happening, every step of the way. (Of course, if something big comes up, we will post as soon as we hear it!)
Now, I am sure you are all eager to know what has been happening, so lets dive in!
Physical Prototypes Are Here!
So with a product design, there is a long process of design, testing and quality control, and Cyran's Magnificent Walking Marketplace is no different! We have already begun working with our printing team to create our prototypes, making sure that the items you all receive is the best they can be. As such, I am excited to share that our first batch has arrived:
Apologies for the lower quality photos, these were just taken as we were unpacking and getting excited, we are doing a photo shoot this weekend to get you guys an even better look! Obviously at the moment there is still content missing from the book, but we are excited to be ahead of schedule in having something physical to show you! Talking of content...
We have also been hard at work with our wonderful team of artists, filling the pages of Cyran's Magnificent Walking Marketplace with beautiful pieces for you to enjoy! This includes more work from the amazing team you know, as well as new members of the team. As a little tease, here are a couple of concepts we got through just yesterday:
Come hang out with us as we play some games, answer some questions on the project, the UR team and anything you'd like! We will again be returning to streaming like this once or twice a week, however we are still developing a new schedule so please bare with us while we find how to bring back content such as our Artist Showcase and Ongoing Live Play Streams on a sustainable basis!
Thats all the news I have for now, it is really good to be back sharing things with you all and I am really excited for whats to come!
Love Mat from Unlimited Realms
THANK YOU!
over 2 years ago
– Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:10:12 PM
Wow.
Dave here: when Mat and I founded Unlimited Realms Ltd, we set out to design tools that would make tabletop roleplaying easier, more fun, and more entertaining than ever. With Cyran’s Magnificent Walking Marketplace, we have turned a page and can see our future as a company looking brighter than ever!
For the first time, we have raised over £100,000 - and we cannot describe how elated and happy we are!
A HUGE THANK YOU, TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!
And now the work begins…
You’ve done your part; now we’ll do ours.
Your Pledge: Over the next week, Kickstarter will collect your pledges - if your payment initially fails, Kickstarter shall send email reminders to fix your payment information every 48 hours for one week.
Late Pledges: If you missed out on the Kickstarter, or wish to add more items to your pledge, you will have the opportunity to when we launch our Backerkit in a few weeks' time.
The Roadmap: Over the next two weeks, Mat and I shall be making some big decisions that will affect the roadmap ahead. We now know where our backers are situated, how many of each item we’ll be producing, and other logistical details that will determine the manufacturing process.
What Now?
Whilst Mat and I are working on your rewards; we still want to involve our awesome community throughout this journey!
We shall also be doing more twitch streams over time, so stay tuned!
We would also love to have your ideas on the beta-builds of the items! Get your input on all the tools and trinkets in the book by heading over to facebook.com/groups/unlimitedrealmwalkers and signing up to join the playtesting!
Onwards!
Thank you all once again for your support throughout our third project! We are extremely excited to share more with you!
Take care!
Dave
UNLOCKED - Build-A-Familiar!
over 2 years ago
– Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 05:28:37 AM
Wow! You are amazing! The last 24 hours or so have left us utterly speechless, watching you guys take us from our Dojo stretch goal and SMASHING through our 90k stretch goal of the Build-A-Familiar! Thank you SO MUCH! The Build-A-Familiar is officially unlocked and your adventurers can now look forward to having a Bobbler of their own, as well as finding more out about these strange creatures and their origins!
We had originally envisioned the Build-A-Familiar as our final stretch goal, but after seeing your enthusiasm and excitement we wanted to reward you with one last piece of content for you to unlock (Just in case our hot tub stream isn't enough to get you reaching for 100k!) So allow me to introduce Cyran's Marvelous Menagerie!
Cyran is a being that has traveled across countless planes, visited strange and distant places. When you roam as much as he does, you tend to pick up a few things and those things, can often bite! Cyran's Marvelous Menagerie was actually an idea we had early on in the book, however we decided we wanted to prioritize other stores in the book first. It is Cyran's own personal collection of creatures he has gathered from across the planes, from super intelligent oozes, to demented undead goblins!
Artwork by the incredible Sophie Clarke
The menagerie will give an interesting insight into Cyran, exploring his strange love of misfits and lost things, as well as acting as a monsters section for the book, giving you a selection of new creatures to drop into your game, either as random encounters, or perhaps Cyran's very own form of enforcement when guests get a little too rowdy in the marketplace! The book will contain stat blocks for all these creatures, as well as insights from Cyran from his studies, with sketches made by the man himself!
Cyran has encountered some truly troubling beasts!
Final NPC Stream
In addition to unlocking this final stretch goal, we are doing our final stream, designing the community built NPC, tonight at 8pm GMT/ 4pm EST on our twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/unlimitedrealms
Come join us as we put the final touches to this special character and unveil the winning options! In addition, this Saturday we have our final playtest live play for our mini campaign, Tales of the Gilded, so come join us and see the content from the book in action! 8pm GMT/ 4pm EST!
We are keeping this one short, with time running down! Thank you again for all your support, it honestly means everything to us! See you all on the other side!
Love
Mat from Unlimited Realms
The Final Countdown! (Dodododo 🎶)
over 2 years ago
– Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 03:56:51 AM
Hey everyone!
Here we are, entering the last few days of the campaign! With time running out, we wanted to let you know about the special Social Media-only stretch goal we just launched, an update on our upcoming stream, and some info on our final stretch goals!
Social Media Stretch Goal
We are running a special social media stretch goal on Twitter and Instagram! Here is the lowdown:
“What’s an adventure without a side quest or two?
Your quest, should you choose to accept it, is to help us unlock a FREE STICKER PACK! You might be thinking “Well, how do I do that??“. To that, we’d say “Great question!“. All you need to do is share one or both of the posts below. Once we hit 100 public shares or Retweets, our quest will be achieved and loot will drop!”
That's right, if we reach 100 shares or retweets, everyone ordering a physical reward will get a free set of stickers, showing off the wonderful artwork from the campaign! So head on over to our social media pages to share now:
With the campaign on the last stretch, we wanted to let you know about the final stretch goal we have planned, after the Dojo (Please check out our previous update with more information on that!)
At 90k, we can announce that we will be unlocking our final, additional store! The Build-A-Familiar shop! Overseen by Cyran himself, this unique little store will allow your players to craft their very own sidekick to follow them around and help on their adventures!
Sworn to carry your burdens?
Build a Bobbler to help your party fight, carry loot, or just to make great meals for everyone to enjoy! The Build-A-Familiar will use a modular system where you can customize the parts on your own Bobbler familiar to fit any need! The more your party spends on the Bobbler, the more it will be capable of. Enhance its speed by adding roller skates to its feet or give it a real mighty punch with pressurized pistons in its fists! What's more, your party can come back over time and add more and more to the Bobbler, until it becomes their ultimate questing companion!
Special Bonus Stream at 100k!
Ok, so this one is a little silly. For those that have been watching our streams, this will be no surprise. After I made an off-handed joke that I would do a special Hot Tub stream as Cyran, if the Kickstarter was successful, I was called out by the wonderful Elaine Ryan and Deven Rue with a challenge.
Well, hold onto your hats people, because we are making it official. If we hit 100k, I will be doing a Hot Tub stream, bald and fully in character as Cyran. You asked for it, I am simply a servant to your whims! (Honestly, I am looking forward to the excuse to sit in a hot tub for a couple of hours!)
Community NPC's Bond and Flaw
With the campaign coming to an end and our last NPC stream coming soon (more on that in a moment) we wanted to give you two final options for the Community built NPC. Again, focusing on their personality, we want you to help us pick a Bond and Flaw that helps define them. As always, we encourage you to develop your own and share them, but here are a few suggestions for each:
Bond
I owe Cyran my life, I would overlook any wrongdoing to follow him.
The outside world rejected me, now I refuse to step outside the Walking Marketplace
My customers are the only tie I have to the outside world, I would give anything for them
I have a debt long overdue. I must continue to gather all the wealth I can to break this burden.
Flaw
I trust too easily. No matter how often I am hurt, I will always open my heart again.
I keep the world at arm's length, it is easier to hide my true self from people.
I have sworn an oath to only use my skills to help others, even if someone threatens my life.
The spa has brought me such wealth, now I must continue to gather gold no matter the cost.
Let us know your decisions in the comments!
Final NPC and Playtest Streams
With the Kickstarter campaign wrapping up, we are also going to have a few special streams coming up! First of all, on Thursday at 8 pm GMT/4 pm EST We are doing our final NPC design stream! This will be with our wonderful Elaine Ryan as we put the final touches to the community-built NPC. In addition, we will be announcing the winners of the final NPC polls, including the ones announced today!
Then on Saturday at 8 pm GMT/4 pm EST, We will be doing the last session of our Playtest campaign, showcasing the rules and options, presented in this book! Tune in to follow the final chapter for The Gilded as they face the Kaarguard military and try to close the unstable portal they have created!
To watch, head over to our twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/unlimitedrealms
Doing these streams has been such an amazing way to interact with you all directly and we will be continuing to do streams after the Kickstarter, with behind-the-scenes updates on the books development and more live play sessions. More info on these will come next week!
Here we go, people! Let's smash these last few days!
Lots of Love,
Mat from Unlimited Realms
UNLOCKED - New Shop: Daycare Centre! 🧸
over 2 years ago
– Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 12:47:48 PM
Wow, what a few days we have had. Thank you all so much for your continued and ever-growing support! We have now Smashed through £70k! An incredible effort by everyone and opening us up for some VERY exciting stretch goals for our FINAL WEEK! First off...
Stretch Goal 6: SMASHED!
That's right! You guys have smashed our second additional content drop for Cyran'sMagnificentWalkingMarketplace! We will now be including a segment all about the Marketplace's very own Daycare Centre! Designed as a fun place you can leave all those NPCs and companions that only bog down a shopping spree!
Let your honor-bound house guard put their feet up and relax with a fun little puppet show, or treat your faithful familiar to a nice grooming session to help them feel beautiful! The segment will include special rules to help buff your companions and even let them discover quests, make new allies, and gain intel for you while away! Each of these additional shops are adding more and more content to the book, so the more we raise, the bigger and better the book will be! But more on new segments shortly! First...
Daycare, now under construction!
Building our Community NPC's Personality!
You have all been incredible in responding to our community NPC! Thanks to you, we have slowly built a look and style that will really bring some flare to the Marketplace. Now it's time to get to know our Yokai, Bard/Druid, Harp/Scythe-wielding Spa Owner! Over the course of this final week, we are going to build their personality traits to help you role-play them in your games! First off, we start with the character's Ideal. I will provide some suggestions here but please feel free to add your own and vote for those suggestions!
Empathy. I want to see others happy. I will do whatever it takes to wash away their woes!
Honesty. I am here to help others, even if it takes hard truths to set them right.
Home. I want to protect the Marketplace above all others. Even at the cost of our guests.
Loyalty. Cyran took me in. Now I will do everything I can to make their dreams reality.
We are also going to keep our previous poll open to give you more time to choose our NPC's personal style! If you haven't already, head over to our previous update to give us your thoughts!
Dont forget to pick our NPC's style!
Stretch Goal 8: Enter the Dojo!
That's right. Now that you have unlocked the Daycare Centre for your companions, it is time to build something fun for the players! The next unlockable store is our very own nirvana of fitness! Part training Dojo, part Gym. This is the place to go if your character wants to WORK IT! Turn your Paladin into a powerhouse, or maybe let your Wizard learn a whole new martial art!
The Dojo will include a number of NPC trainers and helpers who will provide your characters withquests and goals to help improve their abilities! New optional rules will look at teaching your players new feats and bonuses through hard work and dedication! The Dojo will also be designed to work with the Gold for EXP system, giving your players a place to trade all that loot in for training!
Competition Winner
Lastly, we wanted to announce the Winner of our competition to win an exclusive preview pack! You guys sent in some amazing stories and we loved every single one! However, our chosen winner is Dan, who told a very relatable story about a simple reward spiraling into a complex session that really drew the players in... then was completely forgotten instantly:
"Not super crazy or too much of a mishap by any means but fresh in my mind - after a recent victory against a cloud Giant assault they were offered an abandoned Guild Hall to use as a base of operations at a very low rate in the town they had just saved. A nice reward, I thought. Little did I know they were about to call in a favour from the merchant’s guild and have them source discounted furniture for their newly purchased safehouse. We spent most of the rest of our four hour session sort of playing Animal Crossing sort of LARPing an episode of DIY SOS as they painstakingly designed a map of the interior of the base, divvied up rooms and had a graphic designer make them a coat of arms. A major favour and a huge amount of their hard earned gold down they had a luxurious home to relax at the end of their adventures. They haven’t been back since. It was a really fun session though, completely different to anything we’ve done so far."
I have to say, as someone who has just rewarded my players with their very own mansion, and am now being bombarded with requests, architectural questions, and staffing suggestions, I felt this one real hard!
Dan, please drop us an email at [email protected] so we can arrange for this package to get sent out to you!
Congratulations Dan!
Until next time, look after each other and yourselves,
