Land of Eem

Created by Exalted Funeral

The Lord of the Rings meets The Muppets in this lighthearted fantasy tabletop roleplaying game! Land of Eem is packed with simple rules and resources that encourage players to be creative and make GMing easy.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Post Campaign Status Report #1
over 1 year ago – Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 09:49:21 AM

Friends,

We know you are all wondering what has been happening behind the scenes since the campaign closed. The simple answer is, a lot of stuff! Here are some brief highlights.

The folks at Exalted Funeral have been working on setting up the Backerkit Pledge Manager and Pre-Order store for everyone and the good news is that it should be ready soon. They will post an update in the next week with the date you can expect to start receiving the post campaign surveys that will collect your address and give you the opportunity to purchase add-ons!

Editing is well underway on the Core Rulebook, Bestiary and Sandbox. And all the artists and writers creating the lovely stretch goals are hard at work building amazing, compelling, funny content for your table.

James, Ben, and friends have been posting actual plays of Land of Eem every week on their YouTube channel. Check ‘em out! And be sure to join the community by heading over to the Land of Eem Discord!

Thanks again for being a part of Land of Eem. We are energized by the outpouring of excitement about this project and we are counting the days until we can get this world to your gaming table. We could not have done it without you. You are the best.

See you in the next update!

--The Land of Eem Team


Post Campaign Celebration!
almost 2 years ago – Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 07:57:48 PM

Friends,

We did it! We just finished the Land of Eem Backerkit Crowdfunding Campaign and Ben and James have something they want to say:

First, we can't thank you all enough for pledging your support. It means the world to us to share Land of Eem with all of you, and the response has floored us. We managed to hit the $240K stretch goal (an adventure by Luke Gearing) right at the end, which is amazing!

We also want to thank the Exalted Funeral team for publishing the game and really expanding our reach. We definitely couldn't have done this without their support and expertise. 

We created the first stories that would become Land of Eem almost exactly 20 years ago. That started with the story of Rickety Stitch, which wouldn't get published as a graphic novel series until 2017. It's been a long journey of ups and downs for all things Land of Eem, but working on the RPG has been a constant labor of love ever since we started developing early designs in 2014. And we never imagined that we'd have the opportunity to share the game with so many people.

So again, thank you so much for your generous support! We're super excited to get the finished product into your hands. 

Now for a quick campaign update:

In the next few weeks the Backerkit Pledge Manager will open up and be sent to you via email for post campaign surveys. This is where you can tack on any of the add-ons that you have been hoping for, upgrade your pledge to a higher tier, and pay for shipping. This will remain open for 30 Days. After that, your order will be locked in, and soon after that production on the physical items will begin, if they haven’t already.

Okay, are you ready for some amazing news? 

After a lot of discussion we have decided to invest more in what we are giving you, the backers of this campaign. Even though we didn’t quite make it through all the goals, we are going to break open the locks on the last Adventure PDF by JP Coovert and the remaining Rascal meeple. That’s right, we can’t bear to think that you won’t get all this amazing content, so we are going to just give them to anyone who has supported the appropriate pledge level. This includes people who upgrade their pledge in the post campaign orders. We’ll also be making the meeple set a purchasable add-on.

The dice and screen are another story, however. We really want these to be available to everyone. Even though we didn’t make it all the way to the goals, we are going to extend those stretch goals through the Backerkit post campaign sales through the pledge manager.

More information on how that will all work to follow.

See you then!


Loyal Chum Meeple UNLOCKED! Next up at 240K is an Adventure Module by Luke Gearing!
almost 2 years ago – Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 01:56:00 PM

Surprised Skeletons! Backers! Gasping Gnomes!

Great magical burritos, that was quick! We’ve unlocked the 230k milestone, The Loyal Chum meeple! Soon they will be placed in the physical box sets and await grand adventures across the Land of Eem with their other meeple friends. 


With the loyal chum unlocked It feels like the set of meeples is nearly complete. Could that be because we only have one left? Indeed, friend. But first, we have another milestone to unlock. Is it possible that we could dive into the darkness with Luke Gearing in another adventure? Luke is a prolific master of the creepy TTRPG arts and will bring to life our very first Doom and Gloom adventure PDF for this campaign, but only if we hit the next milestone at 240k.


What spooky and evil things await your table in Luke’s adventure? Well, let me give you a hint: dastardly serpents searching for a lost relic and an order of welkin guardians who stand in their way!

I can feel an evil laugh brewing in my chest, adventurer. Before I go off to cackle about my imaginary misdeeds, we want to thank you for your pledges in these final hours of the campaign. It fills us with joy to bring you this world and we simply cannot wait until you can play this game with your friends. As we said many times in these updates, we simply could not do that without you.

Until the next update, we’re off to go have an evil chuckle about some Eem-ish mayhem.


The Bard Supreme Tier is BACK!
almost 2 years ago – Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 10:54:25 AM

BIG NEWS! We are opening up the Bard Supreme Set Tier once again in the final hours of the campaign! If you missed your chance earlier to get the Bard Supreme Set or would now like to upgrade your pledge, the floodgates are now open!

The Bard Supreme Set includes the Land of Eem Box Set, plus all 3 of our Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo graphic novels, and the first book in our brand new series Dungeoneer Adventures. Each book will come with a signed bookplate by Ben and James!


Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo 
This is the series where the Land of Eem got its start! Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo is about a walking, talking, singing skeleton bard. He’s the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea why.
 
Rickety's only clue to his former identity is a song that he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard’s tale about the Road to Epoli and the Land of Eem. His sidekick and sole friend is the Gelatinous Goo, who Rickety alone can understand. Together they set out in search of Rickety’s past, with abundant humor and danger galore!

Dungeoneer Adventures
Dungeoneer Adventures is a highly illustrated fantasy middle-grade series about a boy named Coop Cooperson. Coop lives in the Land of Eem and attends Dungeoneer Academy, a school that trains future explorers and adventurers with classes like Dungeons and Mazes, Creatures and Critters, and Swords and Sorcery.

Coop believes in the academy’s mission and the Dungeoneer’s Code, but being the only human student can make it difficult to fit in—sometimes he wonders if he really belongs. Lucky for Coop, his best friend Oggie the bugbear has his back, as do the two other members of their exploring team, Daz the boggart and Mindy the imp. They have to rely on each other more than ever as the test for their Junior Dungeoneer Badges looms closer.



There are only a few hours left, so let's unlock as many stretch goals as we can! We can't thank you enough for your support!

--The Land of Eem Team

220k Stretch Goal Adventure from Kienna Shaw ACHIEVED!! Next up The Loyal Chum Meeple #5!!
almost 2 years ago – Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 06:03:34 AM

Bashful Boggles! Backers! Shrewd Shrym!

We made it to the 220k milestone! This means we’ve unlocked the amazing derring-do adventure PDF from designer, writer, and streamer Kienna Shaw! As big fans of their work we cannot wait to see where the adventure, filled with romance and peril, takes us. I hear there might even be a dragon!




Alright, friends, we are down to the last few hours. The next milestone is a big one, at 230k we will unlock the fifth meeple, The Loyal Chum! This brave tiny Bogril has a backpack filled with dreams and they are ready to hike their way across your map of the Mucklands stalwartly beside all the rest of the meeples that will be in your physical box set.


Seriously though, we only have until tonight to push this over the mark, so share this campaign with all your friends and family so we can get even more of the stretch goals available.

Thanks for coming along with us this far.

See you in the next update!