Plus One runs a crowdfunding campaign almost every month. It's a lot of work, but helping creators launch the best version of their game is a true honor. Both of these games are gorgeous pieces of writing and objects of art; without fans and backers, it wouldn't matter. We make these games for folks to play. I can't wait for you to play them. 

The gratitude isn't mine alone; let's hear from our two creators:

After taking this week to breathe (at least part of it), there are 2 major next steps: Layout & stretch goals.

Layout: The next 2.5 weeks are all about finalizing the layout for review. Johnny, Robbi, Andrew, Yanni & Anna are going to be deep in drafting the final versions of the games for review and refinement. After that, the whole team gives feedback on finalizing the texts. That takes another 2-3 weeks. If things go smoothly, that means we should have digitals out towards the beginning of December. In the short term, we will get a plaintext version of each game out for backer input and community review.

Stretch Goal Writing: Plus One has moved to a digital focus on stretch goals to prevent the release process from getting drawn out. All stretch goals will be worked on alongside layout and hopefully released around the same time, or shortly afterward. 

Because of the anticipated rapid turnaround on these games, we will not be offering late pledges, but we will open preorders on the Plus One site once the digital release is ready. We will update followers when that is ready. 

Thank you all again.

We have just a few hours left to see how far we can go!
Will we save the world or end it?
Will ancient kingdoms overtake us?
Or is something else in the cards for us?

We have a few stretch goals left to go but it's been a great campaign! I can't wait to see where the day ends. We are truly thankful to Brian, Evan & both creative teams for going on this trip with us to help bring their games to life!

For folks who haven't pledged yet, it's the perfect time to hop in!
If you want to help spread the word you can shout on Bluesky or Facebook by sharing these posts.

Thank you so much!

Last night we had a great conversation with some other amazing designers on to talk about their card based games. It was a great time, and I'd love folks to check it out! You can also hear J Strautman's 1st Ritual Deck song as our intro music! It was a great conversation that I think backers might enjoy!

See you on the other side!

Thank you everyone who gave input into the poll for helping us prioritize our stretch goals! We have an updated list of achievements, pulling all of our extra mysteries and writing content to the front so we can give you what you want! 

We just passed 200 backers & we are about halfway to our 1st goal!

Wes Franks will hop in to design Mirror Match for Ritual Deck!
Brian will reveal the Children of God for The 7th Order!

We are in the last few days of the campaign, but have a couple more fun things we are up to including a major roundtable interview about creating RPGs with (or about) cards this Thursday night where Evan will join the team from The House Edge, Firmament, Ambition & The Beconing Dream! We also have another announcement or two!

If you've been waiting to hop in on either of both game, now is the time! 

See you at the end of it all!

The moment happened to be when I was rolling down a runway headed to GameHole Con where I (Tony) will be for the next few days.

We are ready to start working towards stretch goals! Hopefully tomorrow we will get an updated list out for the rest of the campaign. Based on your feedback, we will prioritize more Mysteries for both games. 

Thank you to all current backers & if you are following, now is a great time to hop in!

We are 97% funded! Just a hair's breadth, a few backers, away from hitting that goal and starting to unlock our stretch goals. Each of these two games also pull on the idea of a moment. 

Watching the heavens part. 
Pulling a card from the deck. 
Held breath while you wait for the revelation. 

I can't wait for it! Over the last week we got to dive deep into each of these games in some great ways! 

Brian dropped a great article about the themes of the mysteries in The 7th Order over on Rascal's announcements & we got play not a 2 Shot Adventure over on stream with Brian, Quinn & Evan. It was a great chance to showcase the strength of the game and it's voice.

I (Tony) fell in love with The 7th Order because I grew up where it takes place, surrounded by the themes of eschatological mythos due to the popularity of mega-churches and the Left Behind Series. Watching that get de & reconstructed is always fascinating to me. But I am sure you don't have any religious trauma... right?

In addition to joining us for AP, Evan was on stream Thursday walking through how dueling works with me in our Procedures at Play stream. We made a couple characters, built some decks, and did two battles walking through some different outcomes for each.

Then we dove into to talking about the Wounds mechanic for Ritual Deck.
Evan is saying they are going to take over the channel now, but I think that's a joke. 

We will also be dropping another article this week from Evan talking about the Mysteries in Ritual Deck!

This week is all about getting to dive into Ritual Deck & The 7th Order in more detail! Tomorrow, Evan & Tony are diving into the Dueling and Wound Mechanics live on stream in Procedures at Play, Fri & Sat Brian, Tony, Evan & Quinn Blackwell are taking us into the world of The 7th Order in a 2 part actual play. In the meantime, a bunch of folks have asked about content of the cards, what is included, and a bit about how they "function" in the play. So let's talk a bit about both the Ritual Deck Cards & The Knight Move Cards.

In the setting, Ritual Deck is an incredibly popular game that's played to resolve all sorts  conflicts, and Rituals like these are the cards at the center of it.

In your story, you'll make up unique Rituals or pull from pre-written ones. Each gets a Rarity Level that establishes its mechanical challenge and some additional elements inspire the narrative challenge for the players' Duelists. Those pieces include its name & Aspect, along with some art &  flavor text, just like you'd find on any dueling game's cards.

The other item that matters when dueling are Power Words. The Names, Aspects, art & flavor text might all inspire the Power Words your player selects for their characters "Deck."

If you want to see how all of these weave together, join us tomorrow night for Procedures at Play, or catch the recording afterward.

In the world of The 7th Order you play as mundane security guards on a mission to stop the apocalypse. So we modeled the cards in this deck like bizarre prayer cards that someone might superstitiously tuck on a mirror or in a car's sun visor. 

The Knight Moves Cards represent the special moves your characters take in play. These could be a special way of seeing the word, a rare relic you found, or persona you are connected to. For most the these cards, the name & a short narrative text are on one side, and the text of the rules are on the other. For a handful of moves that are longer, key text or check boxes are included along with a page reference.

This helps create a really lean player experience at the table and helps remind them what their character is all about. All the text you get on these cards is in the book, so just like Ritual Deck, they are completely optional.

Wanna see us dive into the world of The 7th Order? Join us Fri & Sat for our AP on Youtube.

We have a bunch of great achievments we had planned for the campaign. Since we probably won't hit all of them, we want to know which ones you think we should prioritize! Check out the poll we just launched (attached below!) to help shape the final form of Kingdoms Carved. 

There are some other tremendously cool games funding right now in the TTRPG space by some of our friends! I wanted to take a second to shout out two of them.

If you love the cards, and you love the art you are seeing in these games check out Raccoon Sky Pirates & Hope Dies Last

The illustrator from The 7th Order, Robbi, is also do the card art and some other work for one of our favorite collaborator's games. Chrys Sellers is one of our favorite people who designs amazing games. Their original breakout success Raccoon Sky Pirates is funding an expanded  "Back In Black" version right now on Kickstarter.

If you love the look of Ritual Deck, check out the work that the art director Andrew along with their whole team & Mike Underwood are doing on Hope Dies Last. A set of 3 frames for Daggerheart. I don't know that I have ever wanted to get Daggerheart to the table more than when looking at these frames!