Hello 'o members of the kith horde.  I have some exciting news today.

Drumroll please........

After consulting with the scrying stones of old and seeking guidance from the Oracle of Orm, I am happy to announce the Random Acts of Violet anagram name winners. In case you may have forgotten (it has been a little while since the campaign ended), multiple names were pulled at random from those actively engaged in any of the Purple Planet Backerkit conversations, as well as those who supported multiple horde projects. For my specific Horde project, I was given two names, which I used to create anagrams for two different NPC's within my Violet Valley setting. 

Let the heralds cry out the names of the winners along, with an abbreviated sneak peak at the characters they have become inside the Violet Valley.

Winner #1 Justin Davis: 
Visadis Jaunt, aka Bag 'o Bones, the kith caster. A rather foul kith who leads a cult-like band of exiles. Some time ago, Visadis stumbled upon a unique item, giving him the casting powers of a 3rd level wizard. Always in search of ways to increase his power, feeding an oversized ego and propelling him in his quest to become the ascended master he believes himself to be. 

Winner #2 Jonathan Kurts: 
Strukan Nathoj, the proud and honorable Kith Warlord, shamed in his exile from house Cotcyst. He spends his time in self-reflection and nomadic wandering. Strukan belongs to a sect of elite warriors known as the Bonekithkuka, and spent years mastering the task of crafting a legendary bone-chaku weapon. This self-defining task has instilled him with a zen-like persona not normally found amongst the kith. 

Congratulations to both winners! I hope you are excited to have your names go down into official Purple Planet Horde lore. I'm sure that this sneak peek may have left you with some additional questions, like: What is a bone-chaku? What is this Violet Valley you speak of? Who is the Oracle of Orm? Or what is this strange thing that has given Visadis his magical powers?

All this (and more) will be answered with the upcoming digital release of Random Acts of Violet. How you contend with these characters, issues and encounters is up to you and the adventurers at your table.

Thank you again for all of your support. 

Tim Sattley
High Dive Games

Hello Everyone,

I hope (wherever you live) that you are having an enjoyable spring so far. I know it has been a little quiet since the end of the Purple Planet Horde campaign, so I wanted to send out a quick status update to let you know where things stand with production and fulfilment.

First the (not so) bad news. Unfortunately, I am only able to send out a single backer survey for each pledge level. This fact is going to postpone the fulfilment for the add-on materials, holding it up until I can get a single survey send out for the complete project. All of the add-on material is complete, so the survey results are the only thing holding up fulfilment of this content. I really wish BackerKit and Kickstarter would add a feature for multiple surveys or partial fulfilment surveys, but this is out of my control. That being said, I will commit to this: I will pick a date (approximately 2 weeks after the survey goes out) and all of my digital content will be fulfilled at that time. I will also ship the hard copy add-on product, so please return your surveys quickly once sent out.

On a positive note - Layout is complete for the main Random Acts of Violet book and I am waiting on printer proofs so that I can make any fine tune adjustments that are needed. The total page count came to 48 pages in an 8.5 x 11 format. I have also completed 90% of the layout on the bonus stretch goal content, with only a single drop-in adventure left to finish.

The entire Horde is having a big pow wow to hash out the final pieces of our group fulfilment. In case you haven't heard, all horde member projects will be fulfilled in conjunction with Goodman Games, as a single Purple Planet shipment. As a group, we believe that this will save backers money on the total shipping cost by avoiding multiple, individually shipped items, arriving at different times. We don't have all of the final details yet, but know that we are conscious of the rising costs of shipping and we are doing everything we can to minimize this for you. Also note, that for my portion of this project, group shipping is only for the Random Acts of Violet publication + all bonus/stretch content. All add-on products will be sent directly by me through DTRPG.

Things are moving fast and I am really excited about how this project has come together. A ton of cool content is coming your way soon. Game On!  

Tim Sattley, High Dive Games

And now a little exclusive sneak peek for the backers.
   

The campaign for Random Acts of Violet crushed all of my expectations, like kith champion felling a foe from the opposing house.

I would like to humbly thank each and every one of you for all of your support with this crazy collaborative campaign. The DCC/MCC/XCC community is truly made up of the best RPG fans around and it is only because of backers like you that we are able to crank out the fun content & adventures that reside in our brains. I thoroughly enjoyed creating this project along with all of the other horde members, and can't wait for the feedback & table play war stories to start rolling in.  

Once we catch our breath, from this mad dash of crowdfunding, I expect things to jump right back to a hectic pace for the next few months. Here is a quick outline of what you can expect to see happening in the weeks and months to come:

Thank you again, and you will hear from me shortly to fulfill the add-on content.  For the Horde!

Tim Sattley
High Dive Games

We have rounded turn 4 and are now charging down the homestretch, with the finish line on Tuesday. At this point we are only $457 from reaching the next stretch goal, giving everyone a free PDF adventure of their choice from the library of MCC adventures by High Dive Games.  My past crowdfunding campaigns had a big bump of new backers in the last 48 hours, so I am pretty optimistic that we will hit this stretch goal too.

One of my favorite things about the purple planet campaign is the massive amount of content under production by Goodman Games and the Horde.  With that in mind, I would highly recommend that you look into, and consider backing all of the different horde projects (if you haven't already done so).  I would hate for RPG fans to miss out on any of this gaming content, not to mention all of the awesome campaign exclusive bonus content that comes with the projects.  Every Horde publisher has pledged that their bonus content (rune lore, drop-in adventures, etc.) will only be available to backers from this campaign. Once the campaign is over and the initial print runs have been completed, none of these items will be available for purchase again.

You can check out the other projects here

Thank you for your support! I truly appreciate it.  Now for some more backer exclusive art and a sneak peak into a drop-in adventure.

Tim

All right, I know I have said this before, but I can't help but say it again.  I am SO excited about this project. As the first group project I have worked on, this has been a really cool process, and the content is turning out great. 

I have always thought that the Purple Planet was the perfect setting for an MCC/DCC mashup campaign.  In fact, when running Purple Planet funnels, I typically allow players to choose from both DCC and MCC zeros for their starting four.  It's a ton of fun and something you can do very quickly using the Purple Sorcerer zero generator.  Looking at the new content coming out, I'm also excited about working the "Die, Robot" zeros into the mix as well. For anyone unfamiliar with the Purple Sorcerer zero generator, here is a link.

https://purplesorcerer.com/create_party.php

Another week deep into the crowdfunding campaign and things are going great!  We are within striking range of the next stretch goal.  Just a few more backers and everyone will get a free PDF adventure of their choice from the High Dive Games catalog of adventures.  Speaking of cool goals, don't forget that some of the top backers will be getting an anagram of their names published in the official Purple Planet and Horde content. Make sure to back all of the projects you really like and that you are active in the comments to keep your name at the top of the leaders list.

For all of you backers, there is an exclusive sneak peak below.

Thanks for everything.

Tim

Hello Everyone!

We are on day 8 of the crowdfunding campaign and things are chugging along better then I ever expected. So far we have smashed through two more stretch goals like a Kith warlord crushing the skull of a Cyber-zombie. What does this mean - more content is coming your way!

The $3,000 funding goal unlocked a third drop-in adventure from the Random Acts of Violet campaign. This additional adventure is written by the creative mind of Jeremy "Father Goose" Shuman as a campaign exclusive and comes in two parts: 1) a two-page mushroom jungle adventure. 2) the write-up for a new playable character race upon the Purple Planet. What can I say about this adventure without giving away any spoilers? It's creative, funny, and probably one of the last things I would have expected. It is definitely a random act.

The other stretch goal we smashed was for the enhanced printing of all bonus content. I am super excited about this one. My original design was to do all of the drop-in adventures on a thick, color cardstock in a full letter sized format. I imagine a Road Crew judge using these single page adventures to run events at cons or other event like DCC days. Once I checked into printing charges, I quickly realized that more budget would be needed to cover the additional costs (thank you inflation). You all did it, stepping up the backer count and making sure that this content will be created as originally intended. 

Thanks for helping to make this project a reality! I can't wait to get the finished products out into the world. For the Horde!



Tim

We Did It! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Random Acts of Violet has fully funded in under 4 hours.  It is official - this brand new, low-level, Purple Planet setting, adventure, and hex crawling content will be going public. I hope you are as excited as I am to see this project make it's way into your hands and onto your gaming tables.  

I truly appreciate all of your support in helping me to turn these creative projects into reality. That being said, I am really excited about the additional goodies that are waiting in the wings as a part of the stretch goals, especially for the awesome cross-project content and (of course) the custom Purple Planet 3d6!  Thank you again.  For the Horde!

Tim Sattley
High Dive Games