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Emberjack & DEBT MERC: Two Mechapunk TTRPGs

Emberjack & DEBT MERC: Two Mechapunk TTRPGs

Pilot a brain-swapping battle mech through the stars in DEBT MERC or stomp through eldritch horrors in a soul-fueled war machine in Emberjack: two awesome mecha TTRPGs, one rules system, one book!

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Two side of the same coin (or, um...book). 
  • DEBT MERC: science fiction, body-hopping posthuman mecha. Ghost In The Shell meets Armored Core. 
  • Emberjack: gothic horror steampunk fantasy mecha. Dark Souls meets Escaflowne. 
  • Both: powered by RELICT | TECH, a mecha-focused spinoff of the open source Relict RPG system. 


PRE-LAUNCH SPECIAL OFFER - Reserve for $1, Save $10! 


Step 1: hit "count me in" at the top!
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In DEBT MERC, players take on the role of post-human mercenaries tackling the most dangerous gigs in the star system for the sake of chits, glory, and crushing financial necessity.

Every component that gets blown off your vehicle — or your body — has a price tag, and failure to make your payments can open up a world of hurt.

Carve through Cyclopea as a straight-laced merc balanced on the edge, or throw the biggest warship you can find on a stolen credit chit and high-tail it to pirate country before the repo man catches on: the choice is yours, but there's always a bill coming due.









In Emberjack, players take on the role of Hollows, mortals corrupted by dark magic in order to pilot the fallen Godkings' ultimate war machines: the Emberjacks.

Hollows must constantly acquire the souls of others to power their mecha and sustain their own life force — a terrible price that some are willing to pay in order to combat the legions of eldritch monstrosities and slumbering nightmares unleashed when the Godkings fell.

Players must navigate a gothic, grim-dark fantasy world filled with peril, plots, and dangerous forces vying for control of a rebuilding world; all of whom have their own plans to harness, direct, or destroy the Hollows.








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Storytellers Forge Studios
11 days ago
TRAILERS LIVE! The Countdown Begins
Hello fellow humans!

Did you catch that we slipped the trailers for DEBT MERC and Emberjack onto the page last week? No? Well, here they are:






Excited? Me too!

Now for the hard part. All crowdfunding lives and dies with you, the audience. The initial response to DEBT MERC and Emberjack has been amazing; I truly believe we're hitting a niche here that hasn't been well served by much else out there. In order to make this project the most it can be, I'm going to need your help.

First, the project will be going live at the end of October.

Second, if you're excited and want to help push us across the finish line, here are the most important things you can do to help, in ascending order:

  1. Share the project with your friends! Sharable link: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/storytellers-forge-studios/debt-merc-emberjack-two-mechapunk-ttrpgs?ref=updt

  2. If you plan to back it, follow the project if you haven't already. This not only gives us better metrics to plan around for ad spending and logistics, but it increases the number of new people who will see the project while browsing.

  3. If you are a physical book person, do that $1 "reserve" pledge to get $10 off at launch! These are SUPER valuable to the project. We're sitting at 50 reservations at time of writing; if that number was around 200 we would know stone cold that this thing is going to hit its cost targets before we ever press go. These also MASSIVELY help that discoverability reach. It's a major snowball -> avalanche effect.

  4. When we hit launch (cough cough schmocktober 27), back it on day 1! Projects that rack up a high percentage of their funding within the first 24 hours get a turbo boost across the main feed, socials, aggregators, influencers, and more. Pledges are NOT collected until the end. You won't be charged day 1!!

Thank you all for your interest so far, and I can't wait to share more as the project unfolds. See you soon! 
-CD 
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