Thank you, backers!

Shanna, Kenna, Bear, and Javier have been deeply immersed in the Meridian for the past few months, springing the world of Rebecca Roanhorse’s novels from their pages and into the words, art, and game design you’ll see in the game—and can glimpse on the crowdfunding campaign. It’s so gratifying and exciting to see your reaction—thank you so much! Between Earth & Sky: the Roleplaying Game is funded!

Although we’ve been working on this for some time, we still stand at what is really just the beginning of this story. We have many ideas to expand and upgrade the corebook and other items we’re making through this campaign—and even new items to add. And the campaign has weeks yet to bring them into being. We can’t wait to start unlocking stretch goals—so let’s get started!

Prophecy, divination, and the will of the unknowable gods are so important to the people of the Meridian—and to gameplay in Between Earth & Sky. In fact, these topics appear frequently in fantasy fiction but are rarely replicated well in TTRPGs. Between Earth & Sky: the Roleplaying Game introduces innovative mechanics that reflect the role of prophecy in the game in a way that contributes to great stories and character arcs.

You don’t need to the Story Counter to use these mechanics, but this component makes them easier and more convenient—and, sitting at the center of your game table, puts them at the heart of your game in a very literal sense. It’s part of what makes BeaS feel so special.

We’d like to reflect that in the product itself. With this stretch goal, we’ll enlarge the Story Counter and add deluxe elements such as foil stamping.

The Story Counter is such a beautiful and central part of the experience we want to bring you. Let’s make it all it can be! We’ll unlock this upgrade to the Story Counter when we get to 400 backers.

And that’s not it. We have a little something extra—read on! But first:

Between Earth & Sky: the Roleplaying Game is really special. It’s more than another cool property we get to work with—it’s a chance to help bring vision and ideas to the game table that don’t easily find their way into fantasy gaming. And to do it with love, respect, and authenticity.

The average gamer may see the imagery of this game and, without malice or even deliberate thought, just assume it’s not for them. So it’s not enough for us to just “get the word out” about BEaS. We need to advocate for it, and particularly to show fantasy gamers of all stripes how much they’ll love this game—once they get past their expectations of what fantasy has to be.

Please help spread the word. And please help news about Between Earth & Sky reach audiences that might not otherwise hear about it.

If you need a bit of inspiration, or message to share, you can find MCG’s social media accounts here. Share or like our posts, or tell the world in your own words why gamers should look at this campaign (feel free to borrow art, or crib text, from our posts).

If you’ve backed recent MCG campaigns, you may know that we often give a free bonus reward with every stretch goal hit—that way, every backer benefits from every stretch goal, even if it adds or upgrades rewards they aren’t backing for.

Let’s do that for this campaign, too! We’re going to make a set of vinyl stickers. Which design should be our first? We’ve opened a poll—vote and tell us your favorite!

Every backer will get the winning sticker added to their rewards automagically when we unlock the Story Counter upgrade.

Thanks for your support—we can’t wait to see where this campaign takes us!

—Team MCG