Derivation: Witchcraft RPG supplement on Kickstarter by Xacur

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Illustration: Example of double page of the book (in development, not final) by Xacur. I downloaded it from the Kickstarter campaign and pasted on top the mockup of the PDF cover and a Kickstarter logo. All of that to get a quick "single-picture-presentation" of the project.
(CC-By Xacur, with illustration of D.Revoy; note: logo of Kickstarter is certainly 'all right protected...')

While I was in holidays, I received notifications about a new Kickstarter project using the open illustrations and sources material of my webcomic Pepper&Carrot in a campaign named: Witchcraft: Magic of Hereva, a 5e Supplement. Usual disclaimer: I'm not involved into this Kickstarter (only the illustration and world of my webcomic are reused as open material) and I'm not earning any cents about it.

The author of the Kickstarter and recipient of the benefits, Xacur, is not (as far as I know) someone known among the 50 ocasonial contributors of Pepper&Carrot. The project poped a bit out of the blue suddently this summer. Anyway, I did a review of the page this morning and it is a nice one and has at a first glance the appearance of a work of passion, with a lot of care about the licenses and a respect for the source material of the world of Pepper&Carrot. I can really feel the dedication of Xacur to make a good result for this PDF supplement for the 5th Edition of the most popular Role Playing Game in the world. So, if you want to play a witch in Hereva on a RPG, supporting the author and get the PDF of this project sounds like the best option right now. Also, I'm really happy to read this: "New art and new rules created for this supplement will be released under CC by 4.0 and Open-Gaming License respectively". Something that could probably make this work something I could backport to the official Wiki of Pepper&Carrot? I don't know yet, I have to study that but it sounds like it could be possible and if it is that could be something good for the tiny ecosystem of Pepper&Carrot. (If you know more about it, please let me know in the comments).

All in all, I wish good luck to Xacur into this project and I send them here an invitation to not hesitate to enter into contact with the Pepper&Carrot community. I'm really interested to know if this future work crowdfunded can be backported into the official project (and I'm sure audience of the webcomic too). If any help is needed to get more details about the universe, the timeline, the background of characters: Cmaloney (maintainer of the Wiki), Nartance (Writer of many detailed texts on the world of Hereva) or me are often around our bridged discussions channels (URLs of this channels on top here) and we can help to brainstorm ideas around the universe. Waiting for that, I'll follow this derivation for sure.

Here is the full adress to access to the campaign:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/xacur/witchcraft-magic-of-hereva-a-5e-supplement