So we reached Stretch goal 1 on Sunday Morning, courtesy of the UK contingent who were up when I challenged them to drive us over the line, so there will be More Fiends in the monster chapter as well as Cultural Overviews, in the form of  Questions and Answers to a local culture figure, for all eight of the cultures that the player characters can come from. If you are familiar with the old “What My Father Told me” sections from RQ2/RQ3 you’ll know what you are getting here.

Now we move swiftly on to Stretch 2 Haunted Lands Weirdlands Crawl, and at time of writing we are currently at 47% towards it (idly I think can we get there by the end of today 😉 )

Could you be the one who pushes the Crypts and Things Remastered Kickstarter over the first Stretch Goal and scores us all More Fiends in the main rulebook? At time of writing we are but “£23” away from more David M.Wright illustrated goodness.

Added bonus if we cross that line today I’ll add 16 new pages of content, not already down for the stretch goals or in included in the basic goal 😉  Its something I started enthusiastically doing last week by accident, before stopping because realized its not 100% core rule book material. Not essential but nice to have. If we get to £4500 today, I’ll definitely put it in the main book. You’ll also get a preview of it 🙂

UPDATE: They did it, so More Fiends + 16 new pages of content added 🙂

We’ve done it!

Crypts and Things Remastered is FUNDED 🙂

In the coming days I let you know about the new stretch goals I have in mind, but for now there’s the More Fiends goal at £4500.

Maximum thanks to all the backers for making this happen.

So I was having a bit of a tidy up on the Crypts and Things Kickstarter, it suddenly stuck me that my stretch goals where not big chunks of work (as I’ve done a fair bit on them any way) and they’d be better off folded into the Basic Goal to give those people who want the Remastered version to have more expanded/new content.

So all this will now be included in the Basic Goal (as well as the streamlined/new rules).

Expanded Life paths. C&T currently has a small twenty entry table that you roll on three times to give your character’s previous experience. Both fans of the current game and play testers of the current Beta say this is not enough, so I’m expanding this idea.

More Spells & Magic Items. I’ll be to revisit the Spell lists and Magic Items chapters and add some more twisted and dark magic into the mix.

The Great Others and their Cultists. I hinted at the presence of these terrifying demons/gods but never detailed them in the 1st edition. I’ll detail them in all their gory glory and David will illustrate them.

Zarth Revealed : Fragments of Fear. The current setting chapter,The Continent of Terror, will go into the Players’ section and I write a new world guide for the Crypt Keeper’s section, called Fragments of Fear. This will focus on the secrets and provide more adventure ideas for each location, as well as encounter tables.

This leaves only More Fiends as a current stretch goal, but I’ve now lowered the goal to £4500, because we’ve had such a positive take up of the Patrons of the Art backer level.

To replace the stretch goals I’ve now folded into the Basic Goal I’ve got a couple of ideas, but I’m going to keep them under my hat until I’ve thought them out properly.

I’ve also added a Add-On for extra copies at low cost, and if you are a Retailer or know a retailer who’d be interested in stocking C&T I’ve added free copies of Blood of the Dragon adventure to the Retail reward level.

Please let others know about this, especially those who’ve looked at the campaign before.

Had a nice one this morning when I woke up, the Crypts and Things Kickstarter is now 50% funded 🙂

Also the draft pdf of the game is available to backers and I’ve had some nice words of support from :

Eric Tenkar at Tenkar’s Tavern

Chuck Thorin of They Might be Gazebos fame

Eric from Swords and Stitchery