It's the final day of the campaign, and your last chance to buy in on the Wasteland Degenerates Jumper Cable Edition if you haven't yet! We'll be having our campaign's final livestream tonight at 5 PM Central, lasting through the end of the campaign. I figured out the problem with the last stream... it was set to Twitch, not YouTube on the BackerKit page, so it wasn't reading properly. I'm capable of learning, so it should work this time, but if not, find me on YouTube instead.
The campaign's end doesn't mean that you're done hearing from me, though. I'll be working on the BackerKIt surveys and sending them out as soon as I am able, and I should be sending out status updates at least once a month just to keep you all in the loop. I'm hoping to get the zines out by October or November, but you know how life gets, especially for a first campaign.
Before you know it, it will be time for another campaign to fund the full core book with all the cataclysms, lore, terrifying monsters, dingy sidekicks, and, best of all, Reaver's Rhapsody, the first full length Wasteland Degenerates adventure!
Stretch Goal #5 Unlocked!
We cracked $10,000 yesterday, unlocking an additional crossover monster to the UNDONE bonus booklet from Alex HItchen and the MAD Collective, authors of CVRSED FLESH and other MÅD Borg post-apocalyptic content! Check out their Patreon; I know for sure that I'm going to be using their stuff in my Wasteland Degenerates home game. They also have their own crowdfunding project, the very innovative Fold-Å-Freak endless monster generators that still have a day to go.
All Unlocked Bonus Content!
In addition to the CVRSED bonus creature, we also have Brian Colin of Vast Grimm contributing a horror from beyond the stars to UNDONE, as well as the Job Board of the Apocalypse mission generator for all you GMs and solo players looking for endless adventure. The UNDONE booklet looks to be about 14 pages plus the front and back covers and should tide you over for monsters until we can get the core book out.
In addition, I'll be making a donation to Stuart Gorman's favorite dog shelter, which will unleash a random character generator, which will be added to the Wasteland Degenerates website. He's also expressed interest in other generators... potentially even doing a digital version of the Job Board of the Apocalypse and a straight-up random vehicle generator, separate from the cars you can start with. We'll see how it shakes out, and I'm grateful for a friend like Stuart.
Keep it Weird! One More Goal to Go!
If we get to $11,000, I'll reach out to a local T-shirt printer and get Wasteland Degenerates merch for the discerning wasteland fashionista. Here's the image:
An encounter at the edge of the Red Forest
Blood on the Bleak Road
If you missed, it, we added a bonus add-on to the campaign last week. My 16 page sequel to Enter the Dismal Armory is bigger, badder, and more gas-guzzling than the first game, detailing your intrepid scavenger's cross-country flight from the Armory to safety. It expertly builds on the rules basis of EtDA and gives even more intriguing complexity and horrible ways to die. It's $5 for a physical copy ONLY through the campaign; backers who buy the physical version will get the .pdf for free as soon as I figure out how to send codes for Itch.
Let's go for a ride.
Other Project Shout-Outs
The 'Borg community is amazingly supportive, and I just wanted to give a shout-out to some other projects that I think you'll like. Yes, I know, Señor Moneybags over here with the money to pledge for every project. Honestly, no. I hurt in my bank account, but the community has been supportive of me, so I will return the favor.
Smörk Borg - This is close to my heart because the Squid Ink guys are paying for my first non-self-funded writing job, writing a solo-friendly adventure for their core book! They're currently working on their final stretch goal with one day to go!
Leviathan - Christian Eichhorn is a purveyor of fantastic 'Borg content and I have yet to be disappointed with his work. This one is even better, an update of his superbly lethal Temple of the Kraken God with Pirate Borg-compatible content!
Guns for Sale - Just a ton of cool crunch and new classes for Cy_Borg
The 55 - 28 pages packed with random tables to create a Cy_Borg megadungeon. You could sink many sessions into this urban chaos.
HELLPOWER - Paweł Kicman's take on regular folks vs. evil superheroes. No Amazons, prime or otherwise, were hurt in the making of this RPG.
Berserkr - Norse adventure from the makers of Ronin. I do wonder where the extra "e" went at the end there, but who cares? I'm gonna be rune-magicking my way through Ragnarok.
Closing Thoughts
I'm incredibly grateful for you all who have come with me on this journey, which has been a lot of fun and far more successful than I was led to believe it would be by smart math types. It's my first crowdfunding project, and quite frankly being an outgoing marketing rep is not really my thing, something poor Janet From Marketing and I have that in common. Speaking of Janet, we're only 22 backers away from getting an Epilogue to her story. If that gets achieved I'll write up the final results in a post-campaign update.
