The end is nigh, neighbors! The Absurdia crowdfunding campaign will come to a close this Friday, October 17th at midnight Eastern.
As of this writing we are less than $2,800 away from our second stretch goal of having some incredible guest writers create a strange and surreal assemblage of ready to play one shot scenarios to the game. It's an imminently achievable goal - so go back if you haven't yet and go tell your friends (& rivals) if you have!
A couple more updates as we head into the home stretch.
Two More Campaigns to Check Out
In the lead up to this campaign I reached out to quite a few folks in the TTRPG industry on how best to prepare for my first crowdfunding campaign. Few were more helpful or supportive than the team at Plus One Experience. This campaign wouldn’t be where it is now without their help.
As luck and good timing would have it, I have a chance to return the favor. Plus One EXP is partnering with two indie designers on a pair of very rad, very Absurdia-adjacent games that just launched on Backerkit. I’ve backed them both and I highly recommend checking them out!
Black Flies is a hidden objective roleplaying game where you play as the villains in your own horror story. It's a GM-less, rules-lite game where you can join a cult, gather followers, and - most importantly - go full Kafka and turn townsfolk into flies.
The CryptID Show is a storytelling game of call-in shows and cryptids woes. Host and Caller sculpt bite-sized stories of the bizarrely sweet, the hauntingly esoteric, and the just plain weird, all in the form of a live call-in show.
The Quinn Majeski Playbook
The timing didn't quite work out to announce it here, but over on Bluesky I promised that if we reached 400 backers, I would release the joke playbook I made a while back about playing me, Quinn Majeski, trapped inside my own game.
Well, we did it gamers. Over the weekend we passed 400 backers. So I’m - not proud exactly, but something pride adjacent - to present: The Quinn Majeski playbook.
Meta! Self Indulgent! Absurd!
Is it ridiculous and borderline unplayable? Yes. Does anyone actually want to play it? Unclear. Does it allow you to Jumanji into the game wearing a metaphorical Quinn skin suit? Absolutely.
