Tabletop Games

Charles Ryan

CREATOR

7 days ago

THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYONE!

What an exciting end of an exciting campaign!

PROJECT UPDATE

Charles Ryan

CREATOR

7 days ago

Project Update: $2,000,000! Upgrades and Audio Statements Unlocked!

Thank you, backers!

You’ve done it: in the final hours of this campaign you sent our total soaring past the $2 million mark! In so doing, you also unlocked the final stretch goal. Jonny Sims will read the statements for the investigations included in the corebook, and you’ll be able to download those files for use in your game. How cool is that?

And because this is such a milestone, the stretch goal goes further: you’ve also unlocked upgrades to the deluxe edition of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game and an expansion of the very cool GM’s Campaign Journal.

There’s not much time left in this campaign. It will continue to grow through its remaining hour or so, but there isn’t really time to pursue another stretch goal. We couldn’t be happier with those you’ve unlocked over the course of this campaign, though. We’re going to make a very cool game, and a lot of really great products to go with it!

Please spread the word one more time, so other gamers have an opportunity to get in on this campaign before it reaches its end. And look for some important news from us as the campaign closes.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Brambletrek - A GM-Less RPG Adventure Gamebook

PROJECT UPDATE

Crossed Paths Press

CREATOR

about 13 hours ago

Project Update: Wow! What a Conclusion to this Amazing Campaign!

Thank you again!

Because of your support, along with that of over 2,100 other backers, this campaign has soared to an amazing result. Clearly you love Brambletrek as much as I do—and I am really thrilled that you’ve unlocked so much to make this game, and the fun stuff I am looking forward to making alongside it, as awesome as it can possibly be. We really appreciate your support and your faith in me.

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ the next couple of sections. We have some other info to share after that, but what follows here is critical.

The Immediate Future

Running a big crowdfunding campaign is hard work. We’re going to take a little time off. You may not hear from us for a little while, but don’t worry. We’ll be working diligently on your rewards in the weeks and months to come.

The Next Few Weeks

BackerKit began collecting pledges the moment the campaign closed. But it takes them a full two weeks to release those funds, along with the data on our backers.

In the meantime, we will get the pledge manager fully set up. The pledge manager gives us information we need to fulfill your pledge and lets you manage your add-ons and make any pledge upgrades you want. We’ll notify you when we open the pledge manager, which should be in two or three weeks.

HERE’S SOME SUPER IMPORTANT STUFF:

The pledge manager is vital to getting your rewards. We CANNOT FULFILL your rewards if you don’t respond to the pledge manager!
In the pledge manager, we’re going to ask for your email address. YOU MUST provide an address you can use later. DO NOT use an email proxy (like Apple Hide My Email), or an address you won’t have access to (like a school-issued address)—or you won’t be able to claim your rewards!
Later, when your rewards are available, we’ll give you instructions on how to claim them. This process ensures, among other benefits, that we collect your accurate shipping address at the time of fulfillment. DON’T IGNORE OUR COMMUNICATIONS, or you won’t get your rewards!
You will also be charged for shipping during the Pledge Manager & survey part of this post-campaign!

The Next Few Months

Once you’ve completed the pledge manager survey, we won’t need anything else from you until it’s time to start fulfilling rewards. We’ll be busy crafting your products and rewards in the months to come. We’ll post regular updates, but if you don’t hear anything for a few weeks, don’t fret.

At the same time, please pay attention when you do get communications from us. Our emails and updates include critical information about your rewards.

When Your Rewards Ship

Every time a reward is ready for you, we’ll contact you by email to begin the fulfilment process. You will be able to tweak addresses and other things at this time.

This is an important part of the process because it ensures we have accurate delivery information for every item we send out. (With thousands of backers getting rewards, it's amazing how many people will change their address over the fulfilment period.)

Make sure to pay attention to communications from us—don't let our updates or emails go to your spam folder, or otherwise ignore them, because if you do you could miss out on some of your rewards.

If you missed out

Due to some issues with the website not loading in time, we are opening a pre-order store for a very limited time. You can make your late pledges here and ensure you still receive all the benefits of the campaign including the backer-exclusive pricing!

Click here to late pledge

OK, Enough Business—Now Some Fun Stuff

First, some thanks:

All of us at Crossed Paths want to extend our thanks to all of you who made this an incredibly successful—and fun—campaign. Your support brings our imagination to life and to thousands of game tables.

We have also unlocked a special 6th Legacy - The Summoner. Brought to us by our twitch viewers we will be adding this into the book as a special thank you!

Thanks again for such a fantastic campaign!
—Crossed Paths Team

Daybreak

PROJECT UPDATE

Alex Hague

CREATOR

3 days ago

Project Update: 🚢 Toot toot

Hi friends,

So sorry for the wait—we've been working hard to get Daybreak fulfillment done and copies in your hands as soon as humanly possible.

We ran into a couple final complicated and tedious logistics issues that delayed us again. Turns out making and shipping things with no plastics adds…complexity 😬

BUT the good news is that the cargo ships are BOOKED and copies will be headed your way soon! Here's the delivery timeline:

US backers - Boat (YM TROPHY V.009E) sails 10/6, arrives in port 10/20, arrives at warehouse 10/27-10/30, fulfilled 10/28-11/3, arrive to backers 11/1-11/8

Canada backers - Picked up yesterday, still working on boat details (will post in comments), should be around the same time as US

Asia backer - Truck picked up from factory yesterday, should be around the same time as US

UK/EU/Rest of World backers - Boat (working on ID, will post in comments) sails 10/2, should be around the same time as US, maybe a tiny bit later because it takes longer to sail

AU/NZ backers - Boat (EVER URBAN 0175S) sails 10/2, arrives in port 10/18, should be around the same time as US

tldr: November delivery, basically for everyone.

And if you need to change your shipping address or anything like that, just email us at [email protected]

Apologies again for the delay, but that time was definitely worth it to make sure you're getting the best product possible!

More soon, but in the meantime, check out the photo of the final box:

We're so proud of the final result and CANNOT WAIT to get copies to you!!!!

Alex and the Daybreak team

PROJECT UPDATE

Charles Ryan

CREATOR

7 days ago

Project Update: The Prop Set Is Unlocked! Let’s Do Even More!

Hello, backers. Wow, what an exciting week you’ve given us so far! This campaign is on fire—we just blew through yet another stretch goal, and the Prop Set is now unlocked. It’s available as an add-on, and backers at the Entity pledge level are now getting it as part of their rewards.

Believe it or not, there’s still time to unlock at least one more stretch goal—a campaign of this size, blazing as brightly as you have it blazing, can do amazing things in the final 24 hours! This one would take us to an astonishing $2,000,000, making it one of only about ten RPG crowdfunding campaigns to hit this level. To celebrate, let’s make our most special rewards even more special.

At $2,000,000 we’ll unlock a suite of upgrades:

We’ll add additional satin bookmarks to the deluxe version, increasing both its beauty and utility.
We’ll increase the page count of the GM’s Campaign Journal, again making this elegant tool that much more useful.

And most exciting of all:

Jonny Sims, in the voice of the Archivist, will read the statements for the adventures in the corebook. As with the audio assets we unlocked earlier this week, there will be a link in the book to download this audio.

You already unlocked a stretch goal, earlier in this campaign, to increase the number of adventures (called investigations in The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game) in the book, so this new goal builds upon improvements you’ve already unlocked.

Each of these items would normally be individual stretch goals, but this is such a momentous milestone that we want to really celebrate!

We’re Down to the Final Hours…

It’s been an amazing final week—and it’s not over yet. Help keep the buzz going, and share this campaign. There are still thousands of gamers out there who don’t even know about it! Help us reach them, and take this campaign to amazing places in this final day!

Thanks for your support!
—The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game team

(Oh, one more thing: we have a bit of new art to show you:)

Gloomhaven Grand Festival

Happy R. Panda

about 4 hours ago

Can we please have word from Cephalofair that they are aware of the credit card problem?

I like many others are having issues with their credit card not being allowed to be updated. Just to alleviate any fears that we won't miss out on any content can we please have anyone from Cephalofair post a small update about this to let us know that they're aware of the issue?

The Story Engine: Lore Master's Deck

PROJECT UPDATE

Peter Chiykowski

CREATOR

1 day ago

Project Update: The pledge manager smoke test is live!

Hello backers!

We're excited to announce that the pledge manager smoke test went live today!

The smoke test a trial period where we send reward surveys to roughly 5% of backers to make sure our configurations are all correct. This lets us triple-check for errors, inconsistencies, issues, and points of confusion in the survey before sending out mass invitations.

Assuming the test goes well, we will follow up by sending all reward surveys within 48 hours. Until then, you can check your email to confirm if you're one of the lucky 5%!

After the pledge surveys are out and everything looks like it's running smoothly, we'll work on delivering PDFs for our pre-existing products (The Story Engine Deck, Deck of Worlds, and their expansions and boosters).

Here are some common questions we get during the pledge manager release.

How do I upgrade my pledge level?

Follow these instructions.

When will my early bird bonus/returning backer incentive show up in my rewards?

Allocating the early bird bonus (the Promo card Pack) and returning backer bonus (Story Engine Mini-Pin) to each backer's profile is a manual process we will complete after surveys are locked in 2024. They currently will not show up in your rewards.

When will you charge my credit card for any balance owing?

We plan to charge credit cards in BackerKit for any add-ons in early 2024 when final PDFs are delivered. We will post an update before we do so you can double-check any charges.

Are shipping/tax charges final?

We refined shipping estimates further and the shipping costs provided in the pledge manager are now close to final. If any regional shipping costs go significantly down in the coming months, we will decrease charges accordingly, but otherwise, assume the figures in BackerKit are final.

Can I update my reward survey after I complete it?

Yes! We will not be locking surveys until we deliver PDFs in early 2024. Until then, you can always edit and update your reward survey via the survey link you were original sent.

Does X pledge level or add-on include Y reward? Are PDFs included?

See our project FAQ for details.

I have another question!

If you have any questions about your reward survey, check out the BackerKit FAQ and the project FAQ. On the right side of the project FAQ you can also find links to contact BackerKit (if you need support with the platform) or The Story Engine team (if you have questions about the project). Both teams are here to support you and answer questions throughout the survey process and beyond!

Thanks so much, and as always, feel free to reach out to us with any questions you may have!

PROJECT UPDATE

Charles Ryan

CREATOR

7 days ago

Project Update: Wow! What a Fantastic Conclusion to this Amazing Campaign!

Thank you again, backers!

Because of your support, along with that of nearly 12,000 other backers, this campaign has soared to an amazing result. Would you be surprised to learn we ended up just making it in as the 10th largest RPG crowdfunding campaign ever? Clearly you love The Magnus Archives as much as we do—and we’re really thrilled that you’ve unlocked so much to make this game, and the fun stuff we’re looking forward to making alongside it, as awesome as it can possibly be. We really appreciate your support and your faith in us.

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ the next couple of sections. We have some other info to share after that, but what follows here is critical.

The Immediate Future

Running a big crowdfunding campaign is hard work. We’re going to take a little time off. You may not hear from us for a little while, but don’t worry. We’ve delivered on over two dozen large crowdfunding campaigns over the past ten+ years, and we’ll be working diligently on your rewards in the weeks and months to come.

The Next Few Weeks

BackerKit began collecting pledges the moment the campaign closed. But it takes them a full two weeks to release those funds, along with the data on our backers.

HERE’S SOME SUPER IMPORTANT STUFF:

The pledge manager is vital to getting your rewards. We CANNOT FULFILL your rewards if you don’t respond to the pledge manager!
In the pledge manager, we’re going to ask for your email address. YOU MUST provide an address you can use later at the MCG Shop. DO NOT use an email proxy (like Apple Hide My Email), or an address you won’t have access to (like a school-issued address)—or you won’t be able to claim your rewards!
Later, when your rewards are available, we’ll give you instructions on how to claim them. This process ensures, among other benefits, that we collect your accurate shipping address at the time of fulfillment. DON’T IGNORE OUR COMMUNICATIONS, or you won’t get your rewards!

The Next Few Months

At the same time, please pay attention when you do get communications from us. Our emails and updates include critical information about your rewards.

When Your Rewards Ship

Every time a reward is ready for you, we’ll contact you by email to begin the fulfillment process. Generally, we’ll direct you to the MCG Shop, where you’ll log in, “buy” the product (for free, because you’ve already paid for it through this campaign), and check out.

Make sure to pay attention to communications from us—don't let our updates or emails go to your spam folder, or otherwise ignore them, because if you do you could miss out on some of your rewards.

OK, Enough Business—Now Some Fun Stuff

First, some thanks:

While this campaign rolled along, the design team (Monte, Sean, Bruce, Shanna, and Dominique) has been working on The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game, while also keeping our other projects, such as It’s Only Magic and the Cypher System Bestiary, on track.

Bear, supported by Javier (and the many great illustrators they work with), coordinated the artwork and handled the graphic design of this campaign, while they were also busy getting titles like The Weird and The Glimmering Valley off to press.

Teri and Tammie wrangled words and logistics of this campaign, and Jen, Olivia, and Kate provided answers and support to you, our wonderful community, here and everywhere gamers congregate online. The man behind the curtain of these updates is Charles, who has planned and run this campaign.

All of us at MCG want to extend our thanks to all of you who made this an incredibly successful—and fun—campaign. Your support brings our imagination to life and to thousands of game tables.

And now for something completely different…

If you loved the Prop Set stretch goal we unlocked this morning, you’ll really love Invisible Sun. It’s the ultimate “boxed set” RPG, filled with wondrous contents. And the setting is unlike anything ever before published—a surreal and colorful world (of which our own is a grey shadow) in which magic is truly magical.

The legendary Invisible Sun Black Cube is one of the most sought-after RPG products ever—and now it’s coming back into print. Sign up to be notified of the reprint campaign’s launch.

Thanks again for such a fantastic campaign!
—Team MCG

Kiara

7 days ago

I GET TO LIVEEEEEEE

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NO HAUNTINGS FOR ANY OF YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ We did it guys