Hello friends and gamers!

We're heading into the second week of the crowdfunding campaign, and I just wanted to say thank you again for helping us reach our funding goal so early. This is the fourth crowdfunding campaign I've run for my games, and I have to tell you it is a significantly less stressful experience being fully funded so quickly. I have been able to turn my attention to stretch goals, work with the manufacturer early to get the process started, and generally have benefitted from much lower levels of contingency planning. For that, I thank you!

I have a few updates today that I wanted to share with you.

We've already unlocked one stretch goal and are halfway to our next one! As is typical for crowdfunding campaigns, new pledges have slowed down, but I'm pleased to say that I'm seeing a nice, continual train of support each day, and I think we are on track to unlock the second bonus scenario for all three games this week. While the first two stretch goals were for new content, I'll tease the $25,000 stretch goal a bit by saying that it's not another scenario, but rather a tool that will be useful to players of all three games, and is especially aimed at people playing online, at conventions, or wherever dice are hard to come by.

I wanted to call everyone's attention to several community achievements that are already a part of the campaign. They're listed at the bottom of this post, but essentially we have achievement goals for sharing the campaign on Facebook and X, joining the Scratchpad Publishing Discord server, following Scratchpad Publishing on Bluesky, and one for total backers. I've lowered the threshold for a few of these (I think some of the defaults were for much bigger campaigns) so they are more viable. These aren't just for fun; each completed achievement comes with a reward for all backers, including adding new cards to the foil-stamped promo deck! Check them out, and take a few seconds to click, share, and join to help make everyone's rewards better.

Just one quick final note: by request, I've added the ability to add on extra copies of Spectaculars and Dusk City Outlaws (which you could already do for Neon City Outlaws). This is a great way to grab a copy for a friend or to have as a gift for the gamer in your life who would enjoy these games. If you want more than one copy, go ahead and update your pledge to include the Add-Ons.