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Anime 5E – Fifth Edition Fantasy Role-Playing Reimagined

Created by Dyskami Publishing

Unleash your anime and manga fantasy adventures with a balanced, point-based approach to the world's most popular Fifth Edition RPG!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Anime 5E SRD $600,000 Stretch Goal Unlocked!
over 3 years ago – Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 02:28:44 AM

We are speechless.

You collectively pulled together to do something we didn’t think was possible.

You unlocked the final $600K stretch goal!

Thanks to you, we will now create an Anime 5E System Reference Document (or SRD) that compiles all the open gaming content from the book. The SRD will be freely available to gamers and publishers who may be interested in creating additional Fifth Edition content using materials from Anime 5E.

All Time Top RPG List

Your support has rocketed the Anime 5E campaign into #22 spot on Kickstarter’s all-time list of top funded role-playing game/expansion campaigns – ahead of #23 Iron Kingdoms: Requiem at $594,199 and behind #21 Root RPG. Even more impressive, Anime 5E has claimed the #14 spot on the all-time list of most number backers for role-playing game/expansion campaigns – ahead of #15 the Creatures monster compendium at 7,587 and behind #13 Twilight 2000 at 8,073.

Absolutely astounding!

But Wait! There’s More!

There’s still two hours left in the campaign, so we’ll set one final (for reals!), modest stretch goal. If campaign funding reaches $602,023 to bump the Root RPG down one spot to place Anime 5E in position #21 on the all-time funding list, we will spend some additional time to enhance the page reference linking in the Anime 5E core game PDF throughout the book. It’s a long and tedious project, but will result in a more useful digital publication for you.


Can you help us reach this final, final stretch goal?

WOW! $575K Unlocked! Just One More To Go!
over 3 years ago – Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:29:28 AM

This is a short update to express our heartfelt thanks for pushing the campaign through the $575K stretch goal so rapidly! ☺️ Now every backer who pledges $13+ will receive our conversion PDF of an additional five monster variants from the Fifth Edition MM to Anime 5E stat blocks.

9 Hours For the Final $600K Stretch Goal!

There’s just nine hours remaining in the Kickstarter (ending at today 9pm EDT or GMT-4) and you only have one final stretch goal to unlock at $600K. Need a reminder what it is from Update #43?

If campaign funding reaches $600K, we will extract all the open gaming content from the Anime 5E core rules (designated under the Open Gaming License v1.0a) and compile it into an Anime 5E System Reference Document (or SRD). We will then make this Anime 5E SRD freely available to gamers in convenient RTF and PDF formats, as well as to game publishers who may be interested in creating additional Fifth Edition content using materials from Anime 5E.

We would plan to release the Anime 5E SRD to coincide with the fulfilment of the print edition in Q4 2021. Should campaign funding not reach the $600K milestone, we will investigate options to release an Anime 5E SRD sometime in the future.


Don’t forget to share the Kickstarter link, or http://Anime5E.com. You’ll hear from us again soon!

Anime 5E Kickstarter Timeline
over 3 years ago – Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:28:49 AM

This is an important update, so please read it thoroughly so you’ll understand the timelines for the campaign from today until fulfilment.

22 April @ 9pm EDT

Kickstarter will charge your credit card tonight for the total amount that you pledged through the system. Please take a few minutes (➡️ right now is best ⬅️) and confirm that the correct credit card is uploaded to your Kickstarter profile. If you need to update your card or expiration date, there’s no better time than the present. Also, please ensure that the card on file is working, and that there is sufficient credit remaining to cover your pledge.

29 April

If for some reason your pledge payment is declined, you have one full week to resolve your payment issue before Kickstarter drops you from the campaign. Until your pledge has been successfully collected, Kickstarter will send you an email every 48 hours with a direct link to the correct the issue. During the seven-day timeframe, you can also log in to your Kickstarter account and click the “Fix payment” button in the banner at the top of your screen. On the next page, click the “Retry your payment” button to retry or update your pledge with a different card. Kickstarter will automatically retry to charge declined cards once on April 29th, unless you’ve already fixed the problem. For Kickstarter support, visit https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005126434-Common-Pledge-Problems.

Early May

We will import all the Kickstarter pledge data into our BackerKit system. Backers dropped by Kickstarter for non-payment will not be imported. During the first week or so of May, we will post an update letting you know when we are sending the BackerKit survey to complete your pledge. With the survey, you can:

  • Confirm or change your pledge tier
  • Top up your pledge funds to select one or more add-on products
  • Remit shipping fees for any physical rewards in your pledge
  • Provide your mailing address for shipping physical rewards
  • Update your email address for delivery of PDFs through your DriveThruRPG account

If you have any questions about your pledge, please contact Dyskami Publishing at [email protected]. This is better than posting in the Kickstarter comments section or Kickstarter message button – email us directly, please.

Mid May

We will give everyone approximately ONE WEEK to complete the survey before BackerKit charges backer credit cards for shipping fees and add-ons done through the survey. Shortly thereafter, we will email DriveThruRPG digital download links where you can get your digital rewards that align with your pledged funds. The links will be sent to the email address you provided us through BackerKit, so please ensure that the email entered either aligns with your DriveThruRPG account (current, or one that you will open to receive your rewards), or that you can access these links in your DTRPG account from your provided email address.

Important: if you do not complete the BackerKit survey within the one-week period, delivery of your digital rewards will be delayed! Every week or two-week period moving forward from mid-May, we will compile all the late surveys received and process the digital pledge rewards at that time. We will only send out download PDF codes to late backers in these weekly or bi-weekly waves, not daily as they come in. In other words, if you want your digital pledge rewards as soon as possible, please don’t delay completing the survey please.

Note about stretch goals: We do not have specific timelines yet for digital stretch goal delivery. Our target is to have everything ready for download by fall 2021, but it may be sooner or later. We do not guarantee that the digital stretch goals will arrive at the same time as the pledge product PDFs. We will deliver the stretch goals when they are ready, and we will post a campaign update so everyone will know when they are delivered.

Early June

After you receive your digital rewards, we would love to hear from you regarding any typos, missing content, layout errors, or other miscellaneous flaws. Though the timeline is tight to avoid unnecessary delays of your physical pledges, we have set aside two to three weeks to correct any oversights in the product manuscripts. We aren’t looking to make huge changes to the books at this point, though we do want to make them as error-free as possible. Please reach out to us at [email protected] with any errata we should consider before sending the books to press.

Mid June

We will send all products to press!

August

If necessary, you can make changes to your mailing address through BackerKit until August (if you move between now and August, for example). We will post an update when the exact cut-off date will be so we can prepare our freight appropriately.

Fall 2021

We don’t have an exact timeline concerning shipping of physical rewards, since there are still many unknowns in a world gripped by a still-raging global pandemic. We hope for September, though this may not be accurate. We will provide further updates once we have them, of course.


Thanks for all your hard work! Seven hours to go before the end and the campaign is approximately $16K away from unlocking the final stretch goal! 😱

Add-Ons and Kickstarter Funds Allocation Through BackerKit
over 3 years ago – Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 07:14:58 PM

Happy Thursday! Some backers had questions about add-on options coming in BackerKit, since they were interested in topping up their funds now to help qualify for stretch goals. Here’s a brief rundown.

How BackerKit Works

Any funds you pledge in Kickstarter are transferred to BackerKit for allocation after the campaign. So if you select the Adventurer tier ($100) and then top up your pledge to $280 total (+$180 extra), all $280 will be transferred to BackerKit for you to allocate in the survey. Here’s the sorts of things you can “spend” this $280 Kickstarter credit on:

  • The Adventurer tier ($100)
  • Adding On Anime 5E products (like the $100 Deluxe Limited Edition)
  • Shipping fees (like $15 for the Adventurer tier + $5 for the DLE add-on)
  • Physical product add-ons (like $35 for the Dice Tower and $15 for Dice)
  • Bonus add-ons (like $10 for another Anime 5E poster)
  • Upgrading the standard Anime 5E to Deluxe Limited Edition (a $50 upgrade)
  • PDF-only add-ons

So if you wanted the Adventure pledge plus Deluxe Edition plus Dice plus Dice Tower plus extra poster, the total funds required for this pledge total would be $100 + $100 + $15 + $35 + $10 + $20 shipping = $280 total. The entire cost has been covered by your Kickstarter funds that were credited into BackerKit

If you had only submitted the original $100 tier funding to your Kickstarter pledge, you can still get all those extra products, of course. To reach the $280 total cost, BackerKit will charge your credit card the outstanding $180.

Here are most (if not all) the things you could fund now through Kickstarter by topping up your pledge that you could allocate towards in BackerKit:

Shipping Charges

The campaign page includes details in a table about the shipping charges due for each pledge tier, as well as for specific add-ons. Simply total the correct individual amounts from the table (depending on your mailing address country).

Anime 5E Add-Ons

(includes print + PDF editions, when available; any extra shipping fee increases are included)

  • +$55 for Anime 5E standard edition
  • +$105 for Anime 5E Deluxe Limited Edition
  • +$30 for Anime 5E Pocket Edition
  • +$25 for Anime 5E Game Screen and Adventure
  • +$10 for Anime 5E Character Folio
  • +$50 to upgrade your tier’s Anime 5E standard edition to Deluxe Limited Edition
  • +$15 for Anime 5E Dice set (+free d20) – FOR $50+ TIERS ONLY
  • +$35 for Anime 5E Dice Tower and Trays kit (+free tray) – FOR $50+ TIERS ONLY

Bonus Anime 5E Add-Ons

(any extra shipping fee increases are included)

  • +$10 for a folded Anime 5E poster
  • +$10 to upgrade shipping each Anime 5E poster from folded to rolled in a tube
  • +$10 for a download link for the Anime 5E fantasy soundtrack score
  • +$10 for extra Anime 5E dice tray

Anime 5E PDF Add-Ons

  • +$25 for Anime 5E standard edition PDF
  • +$13 for Anime 5E Pocket Edition PDF
  • +$8 for Anime 5E Game Screen and Adventure
  • +$5 for Anime 5E Character Folio

Anime 5E Digital Only Stretch Goals

  • +$5 for the Low-Tier PDF bundle (extra races, classes, and organisations), which is included automatically as stretch goals with all $25+ pledges
  • +$10 for the High-Tier PDF bundle (two short adventure scenarios plus paper minis), which is included automatically as stretch goals with all $100+ pledges

BESM Fourth Edition Anime RPG Add-Ons

(see http://BESM4.life for details; includes print + PDF editions, when available; any extra shipping fee increases are included)

  • +$70 for BESM Fourth Edition core RPG
  • +$110 for BESM signed and numbered Deluxe Limited Edition RPG
  • +$40 for BESM Extras optional rules hardcover
  • + $75 for BESM Essentials package of BESM Game Screen and Adventure, BESM Character Folio, and BESM Dramatis Personae
  • + $150 for BESM Accessories package of BESM Naked RPG, BESM 2D-Animinis, BESM Dice Tower and Trays, BESM Adventures Volume 1, BESM Tokyo Sidekick, and BESM Dice set

Hope this helps! We’ll check in again soon.

Adventure Unlocked and Final Two Stretch Goals Revealed
over 3 years ago – Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 01:22:16 AM

Thank you for advancing the campaign through the next stretch goal threshold so quickly! Because you helped funding reach $550K, every backer who pledges $100+ will now receive a short adventure scenario PDF for 4th-level characters.

Next Up at $575K: Creature Variant Stats

Vanilla fantasy monsters are great, but rare variants are so much more interesting! If campaign funding reaches $575K, we will create conversions of an additional five monster variants from the Fifth Edition MM to Anime 5E stat blocks, and we’ll make this work available as a free bonus PDF to all backers pledging $13+. These extra five creature variants are in addition to the 14 monsters that we detail in the Anime 5E core book, and the five extra MM conversations unlocked at the $45K stretch goal.

FINAL BIG STRETCH to $600K – Anime 5E SRD

The final stretch goal for the Kickstarter may not be easy to reach with 24 hours remaining, but we hope you’re up for the challenge! If campaign funding reaches $600K, we will extract all the open gaming content from the Anime 5E core rules (designated under the Open Gaming License v1.0a) and compile it into an Anime 5E System Reference Document (or SRD). We will then make this Anime 5E SRD freely available to gamers in convenient RTF and PDF formats, as well as to game publishers who may be interested in creating additional Fifth Edition content using materials from Anime 5E.

You have given tremendous support to Dyskami throughout this Kickstarter, and this is our way to return some of that support back to both role-players across the globe and to the gaming industry as a whole.

We would plan to release the Anime 5E SRD to coincide with the fulfilment of the print edition in Q4 2021. Should campaign funding not reach the $600K milestone, we will investigate options to release an Anime 5E SRD sometime in the future.


We’ll check in a couple more times before the campaign ends at 9 pm EDT (GMT-4) on Thursday, April 22nd. Don’t forget to share the Kickstarter link, or http://Anime5E.com.

Thank you for your dedication to anime fantasy role-playing awesomeness!