Orders Up! Digitals Out & A New Beast On The Horizon
Hello Everyone!
Everyone who has filled out the pledge manager has had their order moved over to our shopify store! Your orders will go out starting tomorrow! We should be done with all orders by Friday (except our Devil's Bargin orders which ship next month).
Digital files were sent out yesterday via backerkit and if you have a physical order via the plus one store. Due to an upload issue we resent Hellwhalers PDF today also. If the issue persists we will email out instructions on download from the Plus One store instead.
If you missed the project and just want to pick up the game head over to PlusOneExp.com to pick up a copy!
But we also have our next project(s) on the horizon!
If you love eldritch and cryptid encounters have we got a pairing of projects for you!
The Black Cryptid Crossover features BlackFlies by Jordan Dube of Goosepoop Games & The Cryptid Show by Anica Cihla of Atticus Haus Games! Both filled with creepy cryptids, both funding right here on backerkit, both with the support of Plus One Exp!
Blackflies: A role playing horror game where players are cultists trying to seek their fortune under the powers of the fly cryptid, Zzrtrzz. Convert followers, collect tokens of darkness, resolve omens, and evaporate into clouds of flies.
The Cryptid Show: A storytelling roleplaying game about call in shows and cryptid woes for 2+ players. One party takes on the role of call in show and the other takes on the role(s) of the callers to construct and deconstruct tales of cryptid encounters live on air!
Both of these games are almost done, easy to play and take 60 minutes or less to complete! We are thrilled to work with Jordan, Anica & both of these amazing teams! Back both projects to unlock crossover content, in The Black Cryptid Crossover!
Finalize Your Survey! Philly Local Pick Up. Late Pledges
Hey Folks!
We are champing at the bit to get these books out to you. We are currently sitting at 88% complete on pledge manager. We plan on locking pledges and charging cards on Thursday night so we can start shipping over the weekend.
We will have local pickup this weekend at Unity Java on Umbria St in Philadelphia from 12-7p if you would like. If you want local pickup but can't make it this weekend send me a message and we will set up a time.
Some of you saw the game at GenCon and were thrilled by the updates and the expansion. I can't wait for the rest of you to see it.
For late pledges we failed to toggle that switch. We will have BoL up on the site this week and the Deluxe package with all the goodies is up on the site right now!
We are about to send out the smoke test for fulfillment. This will be sent to approximately 5% of you. Please fill it out as quickly as possible so we can open up fulfillment to everyone!
We will also have a short late pledge window. If you missed the game and want to pick it up at the same rates as the campaign, now is the time.
Once we lock addresses, all late pledges will move over to PlusOneExp.com.
Everything is in hand and ready to ship out as soon as we have all pledges in.
Digital content should be available for download now, but will also send with physical pledges.
"And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions."
From the Plus One & Brewist teams, thank you.
If you backed, shared, supported, or otherwise gawked at Hellwhalers: Book of Leviathan we appreciate you. If you are reading this email and missed your chance to back, the pledge manager will be up for a week or so.
Things are already on their way to the printer and we should have the Book of Leviathan shipping the week of GenCon and available for pick up at the event or in Philly or shipping across the globe.
After a week or so of downtime you should hear the rest of the details from us and we will get digitals out ASAP.
AMBERGRANT SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! & Let's print this Leviathan!
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
As many of you know, our big focus for this campaign is to help create more excitement and support around Hellwhalers & the Book of Leviathan. The Brewist & Plus One teams have been cranking on getting the goodies also set and read, but that's just the start.
The AMBERGRANT is $666+ dollars of funding set up for the community to be able to create expansions, actual plays, playbooks, reflections, microfiction, or other works connected to or inspired by Hellwhalers.
"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty."
Today, we are doing final proof passes on non-stretch goal printables. This includes the updated core game (just a bit of layout and small typo fixes), the Book of Leviathan, playmats, and all patches along with a few other items.
We are printing plenty of extra, but we want to be able to deliver BoL as soon as possible and allow for sales and pick up at GenCon.
It's such a thrill to be in a position where we can get the game to you as rapidly as possible.
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
At Plus One we place a high value on folks knowing how to play the game and knowing about the game as they begin playing it. If you missed it, our own Zine Fiend Wes Franks worked with Moss to host a 3 part actual play over the last few weeks. You can find it on our Twitch Channel
Jess the Human is saying some nice things over on YouTube with an exclusive flip through of the book!
Also Sam Leigh aka Goblin Mixtape did a great walkthrough of the core book over on TikTok!
If you haven't backed yet we still have about 5 days to go and 2 more big stretch goals to unlock, but our team is thrilled with the support so far!
The Book of Leviathan is funded! IT'S TIME TO REAVE THE DEPTHS (and maybe... Defy the Gods?)
It's been a crazy couple of days, but on behalf of myself and the Plus One team and the creators of HELLWHALERS, Brewist Games, thank you to all of you who have already backed HELLWHALERS: Book of Leviathan.
The core HELLWHALERS game has been one of our best selling titles at conventions for the last 18 months. Anyone who picks up a copy is typically sold on the premise within 15 seconds. It's a captivating theme, beautiful design & dynamic play state just hits.
Book of Leviathan is doubling down on what makes HELLWHALERS great. It's almost done, and we will send it to print as soon as the final art pieces are in our possession.
HELLWHALERS funded fast! Keep an eye out for cool updates.
If you haven't backed yet we have plenty of campaign in front of us, including some amazing community content goals that I chat about more HERE. Even if you can't afford to back, sharing this post is a great way to spread the word!
Speaking of spreading the word, there is another game we would love your help funding. It's not one of our publications, but Defy the Gods is a beautiful game by Chrys Sellers that's funding over on Kickstarter right now.
Chrys is a dynamic queer creator who we have become close friends with over the last few years. Defy the Gods is one of the best Powered by the Apocalypse games I have read in the last few years.
We had a tremendous time playing it on stream last month, and transparently, we are helping with fulfillment, but even if we were not, we would be shouting out the epic sword and sorcery game.
Got my physical copy the other day and just wanna say thank you! Beautiful work was put into this and it was a comparatively shorter wait than other kickstarters and backerkits I’ve hopped onto. I can’t wait to run this game.
This was one smooth crowdfunding campaign. Got my physical stuff yesterday and it looks amazing. I wish all my crowdfunding stuff was as easy as this one. Great job to all involved!
I've received access to the Hellwhalers pdf (the original book, not the expansion), but I've encountered a problem after downloading. There seems to be overlap between the pages, which makes for messy reading and seems unintentional to me. Here is a screenshot of one of the spreads: https://ibb.co/WWghY7CT Can something be done about this? I'm keen to start reading!
Everyone who has filled out the pledge manager has had their order moved over to our shopify store! Your orders will go out starting tomorrow! We should be done with all orders by Friday (except our Devil's Bargin orders which ship next month).
Digital files were sent out yesterday via backerkit and if you have a physical order via the plus one store. Due to an upload issue we resent Hellwhalers PDF today also. If the issue persists we will email out instructions on download from the Plus One store instead.
If you missed the project and just want to pick up the game head over to PlusOneExp.com to pick up a copy!
But we also have our next project(s) on the horizon!
If you love eldritch and cryptid encounters have we got a pairing of projects for you!
The Black Cryptid Crossover features BlackFlies by Jordan Dube of Goosepoop Games & The Cryptid Show by Anica Cihla of Atticus Haus Games! Both filled with creepy cryptids, both funding right here on backerkit, both with the support of Plus One Exp!
Blackflies: A role playing horror game where players are cultists trying to seek their fortune under the powers of the fly cryptid, Zzrtrzz. Convert followers, collect tokens of darkness, resolve omens, and evaporate into clouds of flies.
The Cryptid Show: A storytelling roleplaying game about call in shows and cryptid woes for 2+ players. One party takes on the role of call in show and the other takes on the role(s) of the callers to construct and deconstruct tales of cryptid encounters live on air!
Both of these games are almost done, easy to play and take 60 minutes or less to complete! We are thrilled to work with Jordan, Anica & both of these amazing teams! Back both projects to unlock crossover content, in The Black Cryptid Crossover!
We are champing at the bit to get these books out to you. We are currently sitting at 88% complete on pledge manager. We plan on locking pledges and charging cards on Thursday night so we can start shipping over the weekend.
We will have local pickup this weekend at Unity Java on Umbria St in Philadelphia from 12-7p if you would like. If you want local pickup but can't make it this weekend send me a message and we will set up a time.
Some of you saw the game at GenCon and were thrilled by the updates and the expansion. I can't wait for the rest of you to see it.
For late pledges we failed to toggle that switch. We will have BoL up on the site this week and the Deluxe package with all the goodies is up on the site right now!
