Hello, backers—

We’re headed into the final week of this amazing campaign, and we begin it with another stretch goal unlocked! The Art of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game, a digital art book, will be added to the rewards of every backer. (If you missed the last update, check it out for a look at what we have in mind for this cool new reward.)

And, of course, every time we unlock a stretch goal, we also give you a new sticker as a bonus! You chose the glow-in-the-dark eye design, so this will now be added to every backer’s rewards as well.

In the Cypher System (the game engine that powers The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game), characters earn experience points (XP) through discovery and protecting our world from encroaching horrors—and when the GM throws in a twist via a GM intrusion. XP is a sort of currency that can be used not just to advance your character, but also to power player influence over the story—to enable rerolls, for example, or trigger a player intrusion. Because XP often changes hands, it’s useful to have a set of tokens to represent XP points—and cards are particularly handy.

We’re already making an XP Deck for The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game. It’s in production right now, and should be shipping to our warehouses soon—you can get it as part of the Fabulous Bundle of Great Game Aids add-on. This deck features great art from the game on each card.

But is it fearful enough?

Javier, our graphic designer who (among many other awesome things) designed the Leitner Bookplates (also available as an add-on), suggested a set of XP cards specifically designed around the Fears and using elements of the bookplates. We think it’s a great idea, and we want to make them!

This will be a mini-deck of fourteen XP cards, each themed to a specific Fear from The Magnus Archives. It’ll be fully compatible with the regular XP Deck; you can just mix the cards in. You can even use these cards on their own, without the regular XP Deck (though, with just fourteen cards, you’ll probably run short at times).

Whereas the normal XP Deck will be widely available, this will be a limited-edition item made just for backers of this campaign. We’ll include it in the rewards of all backers at the EVERYTHING INCLUDING AMAZING EXCLUSIVES! (PRINT AND PDF) pledge level.

(And we’ll make it available as an add-on, too—though if you’re interested in things like this, you should really consider upgrading to the EVERYTHING level. It includes all the stretch goals and is a fantastic deal!)

We’ll unlock this limited-edition set of XP cards when we get to 4850 backers.

As we do with every stretch goal, if we unlock this we’ll also give every backer a free bonus sticker!

Early in the campaign you voted for a Breekon & Hope van sticker (see the laptop above), choosing it by just one vote out of more than 800! That means you chose not to make this statement sticker—but again, it was really close.

It’s a shame not to make this design, which we—and so many backers—really loved. So we’ll unlock it as your bonus with this stretch goal.

The buzz you’ve been generating for this campaign has really made it soar. If you keep it up through the final week we can unlock this goal and probably several more!

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Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG