Hello, family—

It’s our final week for this campaign, and if the past is any guide, we can expect to see the pace quicken as people realize it’s their last chance to get in on this exciting campaign—especially the cool limited-edition OGoA items you’re funding.

Good news: you’ve unlocked yet another stretch goal! The new audio files from Old Gods of Appalachia voices Cam and Steve, plus the amazing Yuri Lowenthal (voice of the Railroad Man), are now going to become a reality. Because these will be added to the existing sound files you can already download (see page 264 of the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game corebook), this goal makes the game better and more immersive for everyone!

With that goal under our belt, it’s time to talk about what’s next. But first:

The final week is often really exciting—in our past campaigns (we’ve run nearly 30 of them over the years) the final week has accounted for up to a third of all backers! Think of how many stretch goals we can unlock—how much bigger and better your rewards can become!

Campaigns really take off when the backers spread the word. If you want more lore, more background, more atmosphere and creepiness, more exclusive details from Cam and Steve, and more adventures and options for your game—in short, more stretch goals—you need to help make it happen!

Here are some posts you could share right now to help spread the word:

There are loads of other posts on our accounts—give them a scroll and share a few of them!

Come Hell or High Water features full-length adventures, along with detailed locations and sites (some written by Cam and Steve themselves!) you can use in adventures of your own making. The book, of course, will have loads of maps of these hollers, towns, mines, buildings, and other locations. Let’s do those maps justice!

We want to add a poster map to the book. It’ll be a large, double-sided poster that displays several of the key maps from the book at a larger scale—and, like the game in general, it will be beautiful to behold.

We’ll unlock this map at $650,000.

With your help, we’ll be able to unlock this quickly as we move into the fast-paced closing days of the campaign and move on to even more exciting stretch goals.

As you may know, the books funded by this campaign will include bits of color, inspiration, and atmosphere from a diverse selection of Appalachian and horror creators. In our past updates, we’ve introduced several of these contributors, including Cherie Priest, Lee Mondelo, Alder (Ash) Van Otterloo, and Jeff Mann. Today we’re introducing Tim Earley!

Tim Earley is the creator/lead writer of the tabletop roleplaying game, Holler: An Appalachian Apocalypse (Pinnacle Entertainment Group, 2023). He's the author of five collections of poetry, including Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, winner of the 2015 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. A recipient of writing fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Hawthornden Castle in Lasswade, Scotland, Tim currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where he teaches online classes in Appalachian literature, British literature, and fantasy literature for the University of Mississippi. When he's not writing or gaming, he's running in the woods, among the bears. Check out more of Tim’s fascinating life and works at his website.

Thanks again for your support!
—Team MCG

Hello, family—

Stretch goal unlocked! Thanks to your support, we are expanding Come Hell or High Water with additional content written by Cam Collins and Steve Shell (the creators of Old Gods of Appalachia) describing canon locations you know and fear from the podcast.

Speaking of Cam and Steve: the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game corebook includes not just hundreds of pages of text describing the game and the world, but also audio files you can use in your games. (You can find the link on page 264 of the corebook.) These clips add atmosphere and a sense of authenticity to your game, as Cam and Steve themselves narrate descriptions of select creatures, items, and locations one might encounter in the game.

For our next goal we’d like to expand this selection of files, giving you even more audio options to immerse everyone at the table in the unique atmosphere of Old Gods of Appalachia. Cam and Steve will record additional snippets, giving you descriptions of unsettling creatures you might encounter, unique Appalachian artifacts you might come across, and creepy locations you might find yourself in. These will be added to the files linked in the corebook, so everyone who plays the game will have access to them.

And here's a late-breaking bonus: Steve and Cam reached out to Yuri Lowenthal, who has also agreed to contribute to this audio. Expect to hear the dulcet tones of the Railroad Man among these audio files!

We’ll unlock these additional audio files at $610,000.

Like the goal you just unlocked, this is another contribution directly from the podcast creators—an exciting new addition that any Old Gods of Appalachia fan would love. Be sure to tell your friends who love the podcast! The more people we reach, the sooner we unlock this goal—and move on to even more!

You can find some sharable posts here:

On the topic of interesting contributions, we’ve been profiling some of the Appalachia and horror creators who are contributing brief bits of color, inspiration, and atmosphere to these supplements. In our past updates we’ve introduced Cherie Priest, Lee Mondelo, and Alder (Ash) Van Otterloo. Today we’re introducing Jeff Mann.

Jeff Mann has published three poetry chapbooks, six full-length books of poetry, three collections of personal essays, a volume of memoir and poetry, three novellas, six novels, and four collections of short fiction. With Julia Watts, he co-edited LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia. The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards, he teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech. You can discover more at Jeff’s website.

Thanks again for your support!
—Team MCG

While we have you. . .

We at MCG make lots of fun, engaging games beyond the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game. (If you aren’t familiar with our many other works, check out our website—we think you’ll like what you see.) And the creativity of our small staff isn’t limited to what the company publishes. Many of our team produce cool projects outside our MCG work.

If you’re a fan of mystery and sci-fi, for example, you might check out the hit Station 151 podcast—our awesome Art Director Bear Weiter, who makes the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game so creepily beautiful, is one of the creators. Their new season is about to drop—you can find a trailer, and more information, at the Station 151 website.

And if your interests go back into history just a bit, check out The Mason of New Orleans and The Angel of Ecbatana, two novels by MCG’s COO Charles Ryan. Take a trip into the 12th Century filled with intrigue, astonishing plot twists, and relatable characters you'll miss when the book ends. Charles is currently crowdfunding an upgraded edition of the first novel (including an audiobook), along with the sequel. Check it out!