Hello, backers—

We’re heading into an exciting and busy period here at MCG. Gen Con is coming up (see this update for info on our Rust and Redemption-related Gen Con events). We’re preparing to tackle one of the most ambitious RPG crowdfunding fulfillments ever, the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game. And, in preparation for that, we’re moving into a whole new warehouse, giving us loads more room for new games and for sending out your crowdfunding rewards and MCG Shop orders.

(And speaking of the MCG Shop and the new warehouse, we’re currently holding a massive warehouse sale to draw down inventory before the move. If there are any Cypher System titles you’d like to get your hands on, now’s a great time! But hurry—it won’t last long.)

We have an update on the deluxe edition of the Cypher System Rulebook, but first, here’s a quick update on our designers’ work on other titles you funded through this campaign:

Dominique is putting the final touches on Rust and Redemption. We could not be more excited about how this book is shaping up! It’s moving into development soon, and then heads to editing.

Sean contributed a chunk of Rust and Redemption, but has now moved on to the Cypher System Starter Set.

Bruce has been hard at work on the Cypher System Bestiary. We’ll start showing off some of the cool features of this book in future updates, because, as we promised during the campaign, it’s going to be pretty extraordinary.

In the meantime, we recently unveiled the Cypher System Creature Index. (This isn’t a reward for this campaign—it’s just something really cool and useful we’ve been working on.) It’s a great resource for finding just the right creature for your next encounter—and because everything in the Cypher System is compatible, it includes creatures from sources like The Strange and Numenera, as well as every MCG Cypher System title. There are around 750 creatures currently included from about fifteen products, and we’re rapidly adding more—in fact, we just added a couple of books yesterday! It will ultimately include every creature published by MCG.

That’s the good news, but we have some less-good news. We had been shooting to get the deluxe edition of the Cypher System Rulebook to you in June, but in this era of supply-chain disruption, we’ve suffered a bit of a GM intrusion. Our printer tells us they won’t be able to deliver the book until late July. It will hit our warehouse right around the time we’re away at Gen Con, so we probably won’t be able to fulfill it until we get back in early August.

As always, we’ll continue to work closely with our printer to shave time off this schedule if possible. And we’ll keep you informed as we get closer to fulfillment.

Thanks again for your support!
—Team MCG