Coyote & Crow: Legends & Icons

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Hundreds of Coyote & Crow fans asked for it, and we're delivering! Legends & Icons is a brand new sourcebook for the Coyote & Crow™ roleplaying game, chock full of dangerous creatures, mysterious spirits, intriguing Fifth Worlders (humans), and more. Brought to you by Kenna Alexander (Cherokee Nation) and the Native writers of Coyote & Crow™, these fully illustrated entries will detail game statistics and lore for beings you can use in any of your Coyote & Crow™ adventures or as inspirations for other games.

In these pages, you'll find high-tech assassins, militant political organizations, infamous Indigenous creatures, deadly spirits, living curses, sentient machines, and so much more - 100 entries in total!

What Are Legends & Icons

The Coyote & Crow™ Roleplaying Game categorizes individual beings, or groups of beings, that players might come across in two different ways. First, we separate them between Fifth Worlder, Creature, or Spirit. Second, we use the terms Legend or Icon. Here's how we define those:

• Fifth Worlder: A being that is part of our natural world and that obeys the natural laws as we understand them. Humans and the animals and plants we all know - bears, fish, trees, wolves, eagles, plants, trees, etc., are all part of the Fifth World.
• Creatures: These are material beings that sometimes follow natural laws and can be born and die in ways similar to Fifth Worlders, but are not part of our real world biome. Beings like Lokotomig, Malo, and Moobi Motsii are examples of Creatures from our core rulebook.
• Spirits: These are beings that may or may not be corporeal Regardless, they do not live or die in ways that obey natural laws and they often have physics defying abilities. They do not originate from our world but often visit or stay in our world.
• Legends: These are groups, collections, or organizations of Fifth Worlders, Creatures, or Spirits. They might have a set of stats that exemplify a typical member but no one individual is necessarily the same as the next. They might be a secretive human cult, a group of spirits like the Doosadaag, or insects like the Okosooma as described in our core rulebook.
• Icons: These are specific individuals, with proper names and a specified list of stats. Mercenaries like Goliga or a spirit like Kinsataan from our core rulebook are good examples.

What You'll Find Inside

Legends & Icons will be a full-sized, full color, hardbacked book with 100 entries. Each entry will be a two page spread, with color art work, lore, story prompts, and game stats compatible with the Coyote & Crow™ Roleplaying Game.

A cultural note. Some of these entries are extrapolations of real world Indigenous myths. We have taken care to adapt these for the game setting in a way we believe honors the original stories and the people who told them, and still tell them today. This allows players of all backgrounds to comfortably incorporate them into their games. Conversely, many of these are created whole-cloth by our writers, diving deep into our team's collective imaginations and giving players intriguing challenges based on the alternate world of Coyote & Crow.

Rewards

These are the full descriptions of the pledge levels. You can also just contribute to the Kickstarter to help Coyote & Crow Games raise funds if you do not want a reward.

Legends & Icons Digital Edition:  $25

Please note: Kickstarter does not allow you to add physical add ons to a digital only reward. You will be able to add on other items (physical copies of L&I and other C&C items) through the AllPlay pledge manager after the campaign.

This PDF is a full digital edition of Legends & Icons. You'll receive it as soon as we're finished with it, prior to any physical shipments.

Legends & Icons Physical ONLY Edition:  $65

This physical edition ships worldwide. Add ons include additional PDF and print copies of Legends & Icons, additional membership into the Storyteller Program, and print copies of the Coyote & Crow Core Rulebook. You'll be able to add on other Coyote & Crow items during the pledge management process with AllPlay, after the campaign is over.

Legends & Icons: Physical AND Digital Edition:  $75 - A $15 Savings!

You get both versions of Legends & Icons. The digital edition will be delivered as soon as it is completed. You'll be able to add on additional copies of Legends & Icons, copies of Coyote & Crow, and memberships to the Storyteller Program.

Late to the Party:  $135 - A $25 Savings!

New to Coyote & Crow? This pledge level is the perfect place to start. You'll receive the original, award-winning, Coyote & Crow Core Rulebook along with both versions of Legends & Icons. You can add additional copies of all of these as add ons, along with memberships to the Storyteller Program. The rest of the Coyote & Crow RPG supplements, including Ahu Tiiko, will be available during AllPlay's pledge management process.

Storyteller Package: $200- A $25 savings!

You get both versions of Legends & Icons. The digital edition will be delivered as soon as it is completed. You'll also receive one membership to the Storyteller Program (see below) You'll be able to add on additional copies of Legends & Icons, copies of Coyote & Crow, and memberships to the Storyteller Program.

Our Team

Lead Writer, Designer, Art Director, Video Producer:

Kenna Alexander

Kenna Alexander is the owner and lead designer at Coyote & Crow Games. She has been in the game industry for twelve years and has worked at every level of the hobby - from retail, to marketing, to distribution, design, and publishing. Since starting Coyote & Crow Games, she's spoken at colleges, been on gaming panels, and has been interviewed by several gaming and news outlets, including CNN, sharing her love for Native representation. She has also started a Native consulting firm, helping non-Native publishers and creators connect with Native consultants, writers and other creatives. The firm has worked with a variety of clients, including Dimension 20 and Floodgate Games.

Additional Writers

For Legendes & Icons, Kenna is currently working with:

• Marcy Rockwell (Chippewa/Métis)
• Derek Pounds (Samish Indian Nation)
• Weyodi Oldbear (Numunu)
• Logan Boese (Apsáalooke)
• Will Thompson (Cherokee Nation)

All of whom are long time Coyote & Crow Games collabators and amazing creatives. Other writers may be added as well once we fund.

Art

Claudio Pozas

Claudio Pozas is a renowned Brazilian illustrator with an incredible resume throughout hobby roleplaying games. He is our cover artist and has done nine addtional pieces for the book to date, including all of the art presented in this Kickstarter. You can find Claudio's portfolio and social media at www.claudiopozas.com.

Additional Artists

The remaining art for the book will be determined by artist schedules, and our final, post-Kickstarter budget.

Other Team Members

We will begin recruiting our layout person, editor, sensitivity reader, and other roles, shortly after we fund this campaign.

About Coyote & Crow

If you weren’t familiar with Coyote & Crow™ the roleplaying game before coming here, let us catch you up on things. Coyote & Crow™ is a science-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game created by Kenna Alexander (Cherokee Nation) and a team of Native writers and artists. The game is set in an alternate timeline, one where colonization of the Americas never happened due to a climate event centuries ago that altered the future of everyone on Earth. 

The game uses a d12 dice pool mechanic and a unique system of character advancement called the Legendary System that emphasizes character growth and larger-than-life storytelling. Players create epic heroes who will eventually be the subject of stories told around campfires for generations. The game embraces numerous genres and styles of play - adventure, noir, sci-fi, magical, cyberpunk, horror and more.

Praise for Coyote & Crow

“Coyote & Crow is a thrilling alternate history, with fascinating characters and ridiculously cool techno-magic. Best of all, it has made me imagine new kinds of futures, full of thriving Indigenous cities that are mythic but also delightfully mundane, full of comedy clubs and sleazy tricksters. Come for the adventure, but stay to experience a world that’s so immersive it feels like a brilliant epic novel.”

Annalee Newitz, author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age and The Future of Another Timeline

“Joyous, robust, and clearly a labor of both love and skill, Coyote & Crow is a game that asks you not to just imagine a better world, but to become its champion. Say yes. You’ll be so glad you did.

Shanna Germain, Monte Cook Games

“[Coyote & Crow] is polished, sensitive, well thought out, and ready to play. There’s so much room in this for Natives to make their own stories, yet enough guidance so that non-Natives will not blunder into stereotypes and racism. To me, that’s the key: Direction for what’s going to be fun versus what’s going to be offensive.”

Egg Embry, EN World

“Coyote and Crow brings together respectful, hopeful representation and a smartly designed set of systems built on equal parts mechanical heft and narrative freedom. It’s been a breeze running the game out of an accessible core rulebook designed to be friendly from the font up. It’s a breath of fresh air to see Native representation in the TTRPG space – but more than that, it’s nice to see optimism and accessibility front and center in a medium that too often leans on exploring our tragedy.”

Chez Oxendine, Tribal Business News

Coyote & Crow Games, the publisher behind the Coyote & Crow The Roleplaying Game has been nominated for and won numerous awards, including a Nebula award nomination for Game Writing, winning the Diana Jones Award for Gaming Excellence, an Origins Award for best core RPG, two Tabletop Awards, one for Rising Star Publisher, and one for best RPG, a CRIT Award for best RPG, and an Origins Award nomination for best cooperative game for Wolves.

Since 2021, we've produced our core RPG, our Ahu Tiiko setting expansion, twelve playable stories, custom dice, a Story Guide screen, a novel set in Coyote & Crow, Hemlock & Sage, two standalone games - Naasii and Wolves - along with tons of merchandise.

Our core values are to present Indigenous Americans in an accurate and positive light in tabletop games, to work with Natives whenever we can, and to produce fun, engaging games with modern game mechanics and components in an ecofriendly way for worldwide audiences.

Kenna's (& Coyote & Crow Games') politics: Games are inheritly political, one way or another and I unapologectially inject my games with my politics. I embrace and celebrate diversity. I support Land Back, trans rights, LGBTQIA+ causes and people, immigration as not just beneficial, but a necessary good. I think everyone deserves housing, education, healthcare, UBI, and clean food and water. I believe Black lives matter. I believe no one is illegal on stolen land. And I champion the phrase, "Nothing About Us, Without Us."

          "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness..."                                                                                                                   Mark Twain

On our website (Click the image below), you'll find information on all of our games and products, news, a wiki, an in-game name generator, and links to all sorts of resources.

Ahu Tiiko

Ahu Tiiko is a horror and mystery setting expansion for the Coyote & Crow roleplaying game. It's releasing to retail on February 25th!  To learn more about Ahu Tiiko, visit Ahu Tiiko's page on our site, or click the image below to head right to Allplay.com to pre-order Ahu Tiiko. It comes in two versions; the Standard Edition, and the Night Edition, which has mature content and has a limited print run.

Native Excellence

Coyote & Crow Games prides itself on not only being a Native-owned company, but that we work with Natives whenever possible for art, and exclusively for our writing. It's important that all of our players - Native and non-Native - know that we respect the material we're working with. We do our best to check each other, stay in our cultural lanes, lift each other up, and hopefully make our ancestors proud.

We're not perfect here. But I firmly believe that we've truly raised the bar for Indigenous representation in board games over the last five years. I hope you'll help us continue that mission.

And we're not the only ones doing great work! These are Native-owned companies that we've worked directly with and are putting out fantastic games, art, and more and we fully endorse them. Check them out!

Our Partners

Coyote & Crow Games are partnered with some amazing companies throughout the hobby game sphere. Click on their icon to learn more.

The Coyote & Crow Storyteller Program

The Storyteller Program is a new initiative from Coyote & Crow Games to provide resources, community, and swag for Story Guides. For full details on the program, please visit our website:

https://coyoteandcrow.net/storyteller-program/

You'll get a ton of great benefits that will carry on throughout the years with Coyote & Crow Games, including:

• An exclusive t-shirt
• An exclusive enamel pin
• A digital copy of the Coyote & Crow core rules
• 9 one-shot playable stories (from Stories of the Free Lands)
• A set of Coyote & Crow content codes for Roll20 or Foundry VTT
• A listing on our website as an official Story Guide for the Coyote & Crow RPG
• Access to special videos for Story Guides
• Access to special pledge levels for future Kickstarters from Coyote & Crow
• An invitation to a Story Guide only channel on our Discord
• Options to run official paid Coyote & Crow games at conventions, game stores and other public events
• Other benefits to be announced

We also just partnered with Arcane Circle! See our campaign update or the Storyteller Program page on our website for more!

***Please see our webpage for full details on this program.

Stretch Goals

What are stretch goals? These are things we may be able to offer or create depending on the success of the Kickstarter. The more people who pledge and the more funds people contribute, the more of these goals will be become unlocked. The details for the individual goals will be expanded on in campaign updates as we pass these financial hurdles.

Unlocked Stretch Goals

Trading Cards: Unlocked

Locked Stretch Goals

Aid for Minnesota: $80,000

Foundry VTT & Roll20 Legends & Icons Updates: $100,000

The Stretch Goals below will be revealed in further detail as we unlock earlier stretch goals. And more goals will be added as we gain more funding!

Library Copy Program:  TBD

Add Ons

What are add ons? These are items you'll be able to tack on to your pledge during the check out process. You'll first pick a pledge level. After you've selected that, you'll be able to choose any of these add ons you'd like. They'll be added to your pledge and be delivered along with your other rewards.

Extra print edition of Legends & Icons: $60

Extra copy of the digital (PDF) edition of Legends & Icons: $25

Extra (giftable) membership in the Storyteller Program: $160

Shipping

We Now Have Worldwide Shipping!

Our shipping and fullfillment partners are AllPlay.com. They coordinate with distributors around the world. While shipping prices fluctuate, as do tariffs and freight, they consistently offer backers great deals on shipping. These are rates as of the time of this Kickstarter. They may differ by the time we're ready to collect your shipping. Prices are listed in US dollars.

USA: $4 shipping for the first item, all additional items ship for free
Alaska and Hawaii: $19 shipping for the first item, $2 for each additional item
CAN: $9 shipping for the first item, all additional items ship for free
EU: $9 shipping for the first item, all additional items ship for free
Non-EU Europe: $14 shipping for the first item, $1 for each additional item
Australia: $14 shipping for the first item, all additional items ship for free
New Zealand: $19 shipping for the first item, $3 for each additional item
Mexico: $21 shipping for the first item, $2 for each additional item
SE Asia + S Africa: $29 shipping for the first item, $9 for each additional item
China: $14 shipping for the first item, $3 for each additional item
Rest of the World: $79 shipping for the first item, $29 for each additional item

Retailers

We've got two options for retailers this time around.

Option 1: You're welcome to pledge for no reward and contribute just $10 to this campaign. This will act as a placeholder and deposit toward a future order of one case or more of Legends & Icons at wholesale price from AllPlay. You'll be able to purchase and sell these prior to the regular retail release date. We'll contact you, take your order, and invoice you when the books are arriving at our warehouse.

Option 2: We have a bundle that includes 6 units of all of our RPG titles and supplements for a single bulk price. This includes the following titles:

• Coyote & Crow Core Rulebook CAC001
• Coyote & Crow Story Guide Screen CAC2001
• Coyote & Crow Custom Dice Set CAC2002
• Ahu Tiiko, our brand new horror/mystery setting expansion (Standard Edition) CAC1002
• Coyote & Crow: Legends & Icons CAC1004

These items will all ship at the same time that backers received their copies of Legends & Icons. You'll be able to sell all materials once you receive them without waiting for the retail release date.

*Important: We do not sell to retailers that are primarily online retailers. Online-only sellers are prohibited from selling Coyote & Crow Games titles without explicit advance permission from us. 

Our Stance on AI

New To Kickstarter?

Is this your first Kickstarter? Has it been a while? Or maybe you've only done a couple of them and don't remember the details. Here's a quick bullet point primer on how Kickstarters work:

• Kickstarters are attempts by creators to raise money to help create new things! In our case, we're raising money for our book described here, Legends & Icons.
• When you choose to support Coyote & Crow Games through Kickstarter you're investing in our future because you believe in us and our creative endeavors. Kickstarter is not a store, you are not "buying" something.
• If you want to support this Kickstarter, you'll choose a pledge level. You'll be asked to sign in to Kickstarter if you haven't, or to create a Kickstarter account. Either way, do not use AppleID for your email. (Using AppleID will prevent you from receiving important future emails from us and Kickstarter).
• Once you've signed in, you can choose a pledge level and any Add Ons you'd like.
• You can change or add on to your pledge while the Kickstarter is still running (ours is scheduled to run 4 weeks from the day it starts). Your card is not immediately charged.
• During and after the campaign, we'll be posting updates on the Kickstarter that will appear on this campaign page and go to the email address you provided. These updates will give you information on production schedules, delivery times and more.
• If we don't hit our funding goal in the alloted time, your card will not be charged.
• If we hit our funding goal at the end of the campaign, your card will be charged for the amount you pledged.
• If we surpass our goals by a certain amount, they will unlock "Stretch Goals" which are bonus rewards that backers will receive or get access to. (see Stretch Goals above)
• When we get closer to delivery of your rewards, we'll work with our partners, AllPlay.com. They handle the management and delivery of our Kickstarter rewards. They will send a "pledge survey" to your email which will confirm things like your pledge, add ons, any changes, and your delivery address, as well as collect shipping costs. From the time we send those out, you have six months to fill them out. If we haven't recieved them by then, we'll assume your pledge was a donation and your rewards will be considered abandoned.
• When the products are ready to ship to you, you'll have a final chance to make any changes to your delivery address.
• It's your responsibility to keep up with our Kickstarter updates, to manage your pledge survey, and to ensure we have proper shipping information, if you wish to receive your rewards.

Thank You/Wado

Once again, thank you for supporting Coyote & Crow Games and helping bring Indigenous storytelling to life. We live in uncertain and tumultuous times and it is my firmly held belief that art is one of the most important things to help us get through dark times, along with community.

For Coyote & Crow Games, the degree of success for each Kickstarter determines our future. So again, thank you.