The Book of Funnels was created in response to so many fan stories over the years about funnel adventures. It seemed like every DCC RPG player has one - or many - great tales from their 0-level adventures. 3000+ backers later, it seems even more true! You will have a lot of fun with the adventures in this book.
The countdown-and-overtime show as a lot of fun. Our "overtime bonus item" is the Bag of Nightsoil - a dice bag made of burlap, or as close to that as we can get. Thanks Kablooey for this fun idea!
Just to close out the show, here are some of the "iconic" photos we shared, now reserved for posterity in this post!
Harley in his hat at Dungeon Con
A closeup of Harley's hat. How does he destroy them so thoroughly? No one knows. But we may try to get some new hats made in time for an upcoming con, because Harley needs a new hat!
Mike and the Big Duck. He's not angry, he's just staring into the sun. Yes, it is a big duck. But most interesting here is the condition of his hat. See Harley, Mike knows how to keep a hat clean!
Not quite Mothman, but there is a goblin in that tree. See it?
And yes, this really is the legendary nun chuk video from the year we took custom nun chuks to Gen Con. I think we all agreed it is time to bring back the nun chuks for Gen Con 2027!
Thanks everyone - and now we're going to get started on layout for Book of Funnels!
Final day! Last chance to save 30% on scratchoff character sheets and grab the backer edition of Book of Funnels!
It's the final day for The Book of Funnels!
We've cleared yet another stretch goal - another bumper sticker at the $260k mark! Vote for your favorite in the poll below.
Our countdown show is later today, at 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern on our YouTube channel. Hopefully we'll sail into OT mode. We have some great ideas for bonus swag in OT mode, starting with the "Bag Of Nightsoil" idea suggested by one of our backers!
If you'd like to help us clear some more stretch goals - please consider adding some scratch-off zero-level character sheets! Save 30% when you buy packs of 10. You can never have too many, especially with the backer edition of this Book of Funnels. 20 funnels stitched in... that's gonna require a lot of character sheets! You can see all the add-ons here.
Thanks everyone for the support so far! Looking forward to a strong finish!
There was such an enthusiastic response to our design diaries on how to write adventure funnels that we're making it official:
You're getting a free chapter called "How to Write Adventure Funnels!"
The Book of Funnels crowdfunding edition will also include those essays, stitched into the book, in addition to the eight bonus adventures.
If there was ever a reason to pledge now rather than wait until later, well, I think this is it. Print backers get the stitched-in bonus chapter, and PDF backers will get the digital pages appended to the PDF version. (And of course, print backers also get the free PDF as usual.)
Countdown Show Friday!
The project ends on Friday. Starting an hour before the end, at 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern, we will air the countdown show live on YouTube. Join Joseph, Mike and Matt for this fun time. Somebody remind us to talk about the tornado at Gen Con... a lot of good "funnel" jokes came out of that!
If we go into Overtime Mode (fingers crossed), a number of the writers and artists on this project are lined up to join us. Doug Kovacs, Harley Stroh, Stefan Poag, Julian Bernick, Stefan Surratt, Tim Snider, and maybe even a surprise guest or two may stop by as the evening winds on. If you backers keep the OT mode going, we'll keep the camera going!
And who knows, maybe there will be bonus swag for OT mode. Like a branded "bag of nightsoil" (love that idea, whichever backer came up with it!) and maybe some bonus swag to put in it!!
See you on the countdown show!
During the tornado warning at Gen Con. Many thousands of people crowded into a few packed hallways. Now we all know why they have those signs saying "Shelter in place" with a FUNNEL cloud in the hallways!
Voting continues on the bumper sticker stretch goals. Backers get several of these for free so make your vote count! Some are clear favorites... get in your votes now!
Remember your scratch-off zero-level character sheets!
We have several fun items for today's update. Let's start with the updated "Dead" stamp art. Based on popular demand, we have revised the image to feature judge initials and cause of death:
Didn't that turn out great? Thanks for the suggestions, folks. We've requested another prototype from the stamp vendor, which we'll share when we get it.
More Stretch Goals Cleared! We Need New Ones - AGAIN!
Yes, we have once more maxed out the stretch goals. Wow. So we're adding new ones.
As a reminder, backers already get a book that's substantially larger than the retail edition. Retail backers get 12 adventures. Crowdfunding backers get 20 adventures - the starting 12 plus 8 bonus ones. Plus sewn-in satin ribbon bookmarks and a passel of bumper stickers.
We'd like to fulfill this project quickly, so that is one of our overriding goals as we think about stretch goals. Since we have already made the book huge, we're focusing additional stretch goals on things like more swag. The bumper stickers proved very popular, so we're adding even more bumper stickers up to $300k. We can quickly manufacture bumper stickers without adding more lead time to the main book, and adding more lead time is something we are trying to avoid doing.
When we hit $300k, we'll do something even cooler. Not sure what, yet!
In the meantime, vote in the bumper sticker contest, below. There are three clear winners so far, plus a couple others bouncing around in that next tier. When it comes time to select the bumper stickers we will choose from these top contenders.
If there are three things you can count on in life, they are death, taxes and... funny animal stories from a Dungeon Crawl Classics funnel!
"Send in the chicken to check for traps!" It's almost a staple of the funnel genre. Maybe it's a hog or a sheep, but the principle remains: at least one of those peasants probably has a farm animal, and pretty soon it becomes an important part of the funnel strategy.
We certainly didn't plan for this to be part of the funnel experience. But it just keeps happening. And players love it. So we accept it now!
With that in mind - what is YOUR favorite animal store from a 0-level funnel? I am sure there are some great stories out there. Tell us in the comments!!
Sometimes the animals are the star of the show!!
Hear From the Authors!
For those who missed it - here is the latest video where the authors describe their funnels. Lou Hoefer, Stefan Surratt and Tim Snider all contributed to the Book of Funnels. You can hear their thoughts about the adventures they designed in this video!
