⚓ OK, one week flew by and we're almost ready to set sail! ⚓
We're still missing a few crew members to make this zine a reality, so if you're on the verge of backing, what can I do to make you sign the ship's articles?! :D Ask and don´t be surprised if I deliver! :D
But let's look at whats changed, where we are, and what we've achieved so far:
🎯 We Already Unlocked Stretch Goals Before Funding!
Seriously.
These are Community Stretch Goals, and you lot have been absolutely goddamn awesome. We smashed through them before the campaign was even funded!
✅ Community Engagement Goal Unlocked
Comments, likes, pledges, votes... it all counts.
And you blasted through this goal like a cannonball through a merchant hull!
In fact, you smashed it so hard that I didn't even have time to update the page before it was gone. I have four of these engagement goals planned, and today I'll already be unlocking the second one in the series.
That means:
2×5 original illustrations for Ship Relic cards unlocked!
And honestly? I'm not worried about the remaining two goals for that missing Relic art. At the rate you're going, they'll be sunk soon enough as well and all 20 of Relics will have original art. :)
✅ New Ship Pet Unlocked
I asked for ship pet suggestions and hoped for maybe 8 entries.
You gave me 13.
After a week of voting, The Stealing Seagull (suggested by Piskomil) won the crew vote! (damn, my favorite was "Beaver, the Bane of Peglegs" :D )
So expect this little bastard to land on your ship and immediately start looking for unattended food, shiny objects, and a lot of trouble.
And don't worry if your favorite didn't win. I hope we'll unlock another community-voted pet, so you'll get another chance to unleash your own pest upon the Dark Caribbean.
Funny enough, Piskomil is also illustrating the Ship Pet cards, so she is going to bring the winning critter to life as well. :)
And here's some of the artwork she created:
Pretty damn impressive, right?
💰 Why should you back now?
I will be reworking, by the end of week, a bit the campaign page to make it a little clearer what you're actually getting.
Why? Because I think it was not clear immediately.
For just 7 EUR / 8 USD, you're not only getting the PDF version of the module.
You're also getting these digital rewards:
Three pamphlet adventures
A map
40+ reference cards
Access to all artwork
That's a whole pile of pirate loot for the price of a couple of beers.
Not a bad deal, right?
So loosen up that coin purse a little and help us get this thing printed. ⚓☠️🏴☠️
You can also get it in print, so check out our Pledge Levels!
🧭 What's Next?
I will be adding more Community Achievements and adjusting some of the funding Achievements.
If we reach 200 backers, we'll unlock a naval encounter spread by the fantastic creator behind Ravaged by Storms, Way of the Worm, and many other great projects.
But that's not all!
Since Alexander is only one half of Golem Productions, it only feels right to bring the other half aboard as well.
If this Stretch Goal is unlocked, Sabrina_Nina will create original artwork for Alexander's spread.
So this has become a double upgrade. Great writing deserves great art, right? ;-)
⚔️ Share the Page / Follow me: The sharing Achievements (discord, bluesky, facebook) will be seriously lowered. I have been told by my friend, thats its not the best UI when you click it, so I will set the values at 10 for each, instead of the 40.
🏝️ New Achievements
A couple of these won't cost me much to produce, so let's move them closer to the funding goal and give us more things to unlock along the way. Its fun and I wanna make the best possible product I can.
⚓ Naval Travel Minigame
3200 EUR
A spread written by myself.
These rules add a small sailing minigame with activities the crew can perform during long voyages for various benefits.
It's loosely inspired by the historical watch system used aboard 17th-century ships.
⚓ Dockside NPCs
3400 EUR
One spreads filled with NPCs you can meet in port or recruit into your crew, complete with art, stats, goals, and mannerisms.
⚓ Community Engagement Goal
As I mentioned, I've already unlocked the second engagement goal.
But let's aim higher and take out the third!
If we reach Engagement 3500 (we are at 2500 right now), we'll unlock another 5 more original illustrations for Ship Relic cards.
⚓ Ship Henchman Suggestions
I want your ideas!
Give me your Ship Henchman suggestions in the comments below or wait for me until I start the achievement and comment there. I will check both places and combine the comments, so don´t worry if you comment somewhere else, that it will not be counted. ;-)
If we get at least 6 suggestions, we will then host a vote, just like we did with Ship Pets. And the winner of the vote will join the zine.
Need inspiration?
Check out the Specialty Crew in the Pirate Borg rulebook on page 76 or the six examples already included in the preview of my zine. Here it is just for good measure:
Let's see what kind of weird, dangerous, and barely employable sailors you can come up with. :)
I´ll upgrade the graphics and post the achievements in couple days.
🦜Trivia!
We've got an ongoing pirate trivia event running on BackerKit, and we have already learned some cool stuff.
Did you know:
What is woolding?
How did Captain Morgan escaped Maracaibo?
What Blackbeard demanded for releasing Charlestown?
Which pirate captain stole the most?
No? So go check it out there!
And there is much more coming. ;-)
Rewards for trivia
The most active, funniest, and most knowledgeable pirates will also receive a personalized reward from me as a Thank You for being part of it. And as a nice reminder to them about this campaign. :)
Originally, I wanted to award custom engraved challenge coins. Unfortunately, they're expensive and the campaign isn't performing quite well enough for me to justify spending money on them without going into red numbers.
So for now, I'm downgrading the reward to a personalized fridge magnet using the same design.
But hey... if we catch enough wind later in the campaign, I still dream of upgrading them back to challenge coins. So keep our fingers crossed.
Each magnet will feature the patch design along with a custom title such as:
Smartest Pirate in the Caribbean
Legendary Bard
Known in every tavern
And I'll also include a personalized message in a bottle, that you can use as an in-game prop. :)
It will look like this, but with personalized text:
Need to test print it to see how it looks like. :) First on my old Prusa, then I will put it somewhere more profesional.
📣 Special Mentions
I want to give a quick shoutout to two pirates in particular:
🏴☠️ Picaroon Lagoon
This pirate has been writing an original shanty under every single trivia question.
How cool is that?
Definitely check them out. They're creative as hell and they managed to sneak real historical tidbits into each song.
🏴☠️ FeBommel
For paying attention and knowing their history.
They pointed out that I had accidentally marked a wrong answer as correct. (how many pirates there were in Caribbean)
Thanks for catching that, and sorry for the mistake!
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