Thank you, backers, for unlocking the set of four reference bookmarks for the print version of The Darkest Woods (standard and expanded editions)! We think this addition will make the books even easier to use at the game table! Now that the Darkest Woods has been brought into our world, it’s doing what such things always strive to do: grow. Like a thorny vine, the Woods spreads its tendrils outward, seeking nourishment. It’s probably unwise for us to encourage it—to help it further sink its roots into our world—but that is, nonetheless, what we’re going to do.
Let’s help the Woods grow.
At $165,000 we’ll expand The Darkest Woods by several areas. The Darkest Road (the region of the Woods that’s exclusive to the expanded edition) will also get bigger, adding at least one additional area. This will make the standard edition at least as big as The Darkest House (which, in book form, comes in at a whopping 296 pages!), with the expanded edition being significantly bigger. Because the content is the same whether you use the app or the book, this expansion affects both.
This will not be the end. The Woods will likely grow again—it’s what woods do, when not checked by human hubris. It will add new features. It will become even more frightening. It will gain new ways to challenge those who find themselves lost within—and, for those who emerge, ways to strengthen their bonds, backstories, ideals, loves, and enmities.
All of this with your help, of course. Please spread the word on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, reddit, EN World, RPG.net—anywhere you and other gamers discuss RPGs. Let’s unlock these new areas, watch the Woods grow, and move on to even more stretch goals to make your reward bigger and better!
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