Tremendous news, everyone: we’ve funded! In 43 minutes, no less! So you’ll get your book, now, with luck and a following wind and several months of work for multiple people and at least one (1) massive boat sailing across the Atlantic.
Thank you all for your support - this is our first time doing a crowdfunding campaign on Backerkit, and we’ve had to get used to a new platform and all the challenges that brings, so we’re really glad to see that you’ve followed us over from Kickstarter.
(That said, if you want to tell your friends about it - your richest friends, preferably - you should definitely do that. You’d most likely appear as a trendsetter - some sort of maven no doubt - and they’d thank you for it. Maybe with some of those aforementioned riches!)
Double thanks to those of you who joined us on the launch party. We’ve never done one of those before; usually we just vibrate nervously in tight circles until the project funds and then lie down in a dark room. It was great to be able to share our excitement with you, and to finally give the Heart community the enormous, doomed, gruesome adventure it deserves.
We’ve also hit some of our stretch goals!
Somehow, in less than 24 hours, we've also managed to blast through some stretch goals, happy days! Here's what's good:
£40,000: The GM screen now comes with a booklet, and we have plans for that booklet. We want to offer a fully modular GM screen that you can stick together yourself, and that only has the bits you need to run this session. So you’ll be able to pick out sections for - say - Tier 3 encounters, and aelfir names, and Technology and Occult delve inspiration, and tack them to your board ready to run that overpriced Vermissian ramble for gullible up-Spire high elf tourists that your players cooked up at the end of the last session.
Broadly: we wanted to give every Heart GM the chance to make their own lunatic murderboard, stitched together with hope and good intentions (and probably some blue-tack), and we reckon that this might be the best way to do it.
We're also hosting a discussion thread on the Backerkit to see what sorts of tables and references Heart GMs would like included in the booklet. Join in here and we might just make your most twisted dreams come true.
£55,000: Sar’s doing more art for us. They’ve already done loads but we’re paying them to do some more - incidental stuff mainly, to round out our collection and make sure every spread is as beautiful as it can possibly be.
Next up: more stretch goals! We’ll say more about that sort of thing in the future, so stay tuned to the campaign and let's see how deep this Delve will go.
