Hello, family!

What a fast-paced week it’s been! We’re excited as a dog with two tails to announce that, after unlocking a stretch goal just yesterday afternoon, you’ve done it again. The Old Gods of Appalachia Prop Set is expanding, with new immersive props that will pull everyone in your game deeper (dare we say it: deeper still?) into your adventures. As promised, it will include canon props such as the Railroad Man’s business card, along with other items you can use in a variety of ways.

That’s certainly not the end of it—at this rate, we can easily unlock several more stretch goals before we draw this thing to a close. Let’s talk about that in a moment, family, but first:

BackerKit, our crowdfunding platform, has a nifty feature that allows us to livestream through the campaign page. Join us tomorrow in the closing hours of the campaign. Shanna, Cam, and Steve are liable to drop by and visit with us for a while, and perhaps we’ll see some of the other fine folk who help bring the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game to your dining-room table.

The surge of backers making these stretch goals possible is nothing short of inspiring, friends. They’ve found their way to this campaign through your efforts. Let’s keep that up! Big campaigns don’t just happen on their own—they happen when backers help spread the word.

A few short social media posts go a long way. Tell your friends and followers why you love this RPG and Deeper Still, and send them to https://mymcg.info/deeper-still-social. We’ll add a few images to the bottom of this update you can share.

Just sharing a few of our posts helps, too. You can find them here:

Cam Collins and Steve Shell are already, thanks to your support of earlier stretch goals, contributing directly to Come Hell or High Water, writing up a couple of key locations such as the Walker House. They’re busy people, but we’re eager to have even more of their input. At $740,000, we’ll expand Come Hell or High Water with new content from the Old Gods of Appalachia creators themselves!

Where will they take us? The Clutch? The Tabernacle of the Elder Choir? Maybe they’ll expand their coverage of the Walker House to include its other incarnations—Pleasant Evenings, or perhaps The Charm School? Ultimately that’s up to them, family—but wherever they take us, they’re sure to give us details and lore straight from the horse’s proverbial mouth.

Matthew Wimberley lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. His collection All the Great Territories won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems have appeared in Blackbird, Orion, Poem-A-Day, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.

Like the other horror and Appalachian creators we’ve been introducing in updates throughout this campaign, Matthew will be contributing to the color, inspiration, and atmosphere of the books you’re funding through this campaign.

In case you missed it, early today we released Special Delivery, a free product with new creatures, character options, adventure ideas, artifacts, and more. It’s all excerpted from the current drafts of Dig Your Own Grave, All Your Gods Are Dead, and Come Hell or High Water, so it’s a great way to get a taste of those books—with stuff you can use in your game right now!

Thanks again for your support!
—Team MCG

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