Hello, backers!

The Darkest Woods has been fulfilling from our warehouse for about a week now—if you haven’t redeemed your copy yet, you can do so by visiting the MCG Shop, logging in, and navigating to the Coupons Page. (If this is your first time crowdfunding with us, or if you just need a refresher, you can find a full tutorial here!)

Our warehouse team has been hard at work shipping these to you—look at this pallet full of The Darkest Woods orders!

These books are truly gorgeous—the standard edition feels special and deluxe in your hands, yet somehow the deluxe edition is even deluxier!

You funded several physical game items during this campaign—the Handout Set, Woodfolk Token Set, the Broken Tarot, and the House Premium Dice set. While we’re still working on getting these items to you (global tariffs and shipping complications haven’t been making it easy), we’ll have updates to share about them soon. You’re more than welcome to wait to redeem your copy of the book until all items have fulfilled to save on shipping costs—or, if you’re anything like us, redeem the book right away to dive into the secrets and horrors of the Woods! 

In our last update, we asked you to let us know the details of any bugs or technical issues you encounter within the early-access version of The Darkest Woods App—which has been fulfilling alongside the book—by sending an email to [email protected]. Though the app was already tested internally, we appreciate all the comments people submitted to help us make it run even better and smoother! We’re incredibly proud of it, and can’t wait to roll out the final version to the public soon, in early April.

How can unquiet ghosts and fusion radiation possibly exist in the same world—and what happens when they mingle? How does an AI cope when it finds itself abandoned on a planet where magic and spellcraft dominate? How does a lone android survive when the magical energies of a strange new world begin to alter it both physically and mentally?

Jewel in the Sky is a megadungeon adventure that explores what happens when magic and technology don’t just merge—they collide and corrupt each other. And along the way they attract demons from another plane, a shadowy cult with a mysterious agenda, a cabal of powerful figures making the eight-mile floating island of Vocurro the nexus of their schemes and plans, and more.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Hey there, backers—

Terrific news! After a bit of a delay, the book version of The Darkest Woods is in transit to our warehouse now! We’re thrilled with how gorgeous the painted edges—depicting a heavily forested tree line—are, and also how great the embossing looks on the deluxe copies. All copies of The Darkest Woods have a more robust binding, even than usual, to take the heavier weight of the paper. 

Just take a look at this first-off-the-presses copy of the deluxe edition!

 

Did we mention how absolutely hefty this book is??? And look at those beautiful (and very useful) bookmarks!

 

We’ll be fulfilling the books and the app over the next few weeks, so please check your email as we’ll let everyone know it’s being fulfilled. If you don't see the email in the next couple of weeks, check your MCG store accounts for coupons in case the emails have gone into spam. As a reminder, here's a guide for fulfilling your rewards.

 

We’ll fulfill the early-access version of the app around the same time we fulfill the physical copies of the book. It is a complete version of the product, with all the game content and all the functionality we envisioned when we planned the app. You can use it to run your games as soon as it’s installed on your system (Windows or Mac OS). We are so proud of it and are excited for you to see it.
 
The app has been well tested internally, but as more people use it, we anticipate there may be the odd bug or technical issue that pops up. We’d appreciate it if you let us know with the details of any bugs or technical issues you encounter by sending an email to [email protected]. 
 
The final version of the app will be released to the public with the standard edition of the book in early April. If there are any changes to the app between now and then, we’ll let you know how to update it. (There’s a built-in update feature, so you won’t have to reinstall it.)

 

We’ve put so much work into both the print and app versions of this game. We’re very proud of them, and we think you’re going to be amazed once they're in your hands. We’ll let everyone know by email when these are being fulfilled.

Numenera: The Amber Archive is funding the new edition of Numenera! The original Numenera launched the Cypher System, and Monte Cook Games. This campaign is not only fully funded and well into stretch goals, but thanks to your fantastic support, we passed a truly incredible threshold: $517,255. What makes this number particularly special (besides being over the gobsmacking half-a-million mark) is that it represents the funding total for the original 2012 Numenera crowdfunding campaign! 

 

Thanks again for your support, and keep an eye on your email inbox for fulfillment updates!

—Team MCG

Hey there backers,

 

Great news! The books are hitting the printers next week, and it all looks great! As soon as we have sight of when the books will be ready, we’ll let you know. We’ve also got some spreads of the book to share below.

 

Furthermore, The Darkest Woods App development is on schedule, with the app delivery still on pace to coincide with fulfilment of the book. With the book’s content finalized, we’re now putting the data into the databases, while simultaneously polishing it with minor adjustments to match the app format. We’re looking forward to showing you a preview of it in our next update!

Huge thanks to everyone who help to fund the new version of Cypher which will be released towards the end of next summer. Check out our next project as we welcome you back to the Ninth World.

Thanks again for your support!
 

Team MCG

Hey there backers,

 

This update contains news on The Darkest Woods app, gives you some insight into the design inspiration for The Darkest Woods, and provides you with a list of rewards that have been fulfilled.
 

Our techs have spent weeks in The Darkest Woods using their amazing skills creating the app. There will be more on this in later updates, including some spreads and images to show their progress, but we wanted you to know they are working diligently to bring Monte's vision to life—and to your desktop!

 

 A quick peek into the draft of The Darkest Woods hardcover reveals the following art!

 

The following rewards are available to redeem from the MCG store. Here’s a reminder of how you claim your rewards.

 

 

We’ve been posting design diaries for the new Cypher campaign so you can see the creative process and how things work. We wanted to give you similar insight into The Darkest Woods. Here’s Monte to tell you about it:
 
“While The Darkest House was inspired primarily by horror books and films, The Darkest Woods was inspired primarily by personal experience. Not that I'm trying to say that I faced some kind of paranormal terror in the forest. I haven't. But I've been in the deep, deep woods, with visibility only a dozen yards or so due to thick, twisted trees. The trees take on strange and unnerving shapes in the twilight, and the silence is broken by strange, unknown noises. And at night, it's the darkest of darks, with nothing resembling civilization for miles and the canopy above blocking the stars and moon. It's a vibe. Maybe you've experienced the same thing yourself. Sure, there are plenty of horror books and movies that added to that vibe, but every encounter in The Darkest Woods goes back to that initial feeling. It provided a sort of "vibe check," so that if an encounter matched with the feeling the dark woods gives you in your gut, and on the back of your neck, and running down your spine, I knew it was right for The Darkest Woods”.

While The Darkest Woods holds on to its mysteries for a little while longer, if you’re keen to play any campaign, any genre, with any character then dive into Cypher! There are exciting changes in progress: find out more here.

Thank you so much for your support!

Team MCG