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:
Let’s Crush This Final Week!
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!
But that only happens with your help.
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!
Now, How About a Poster Map?
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.
Meet Tim Earley!
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.
