Apocalyptic Adventure! #1 - The Eye of God

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a nice weekend and that you got some table time with your favorite games. I'd love to hear about what you're playing, so please drop me a comment and tell me about it. I played a 10 hour game of Twilight Imperium (4th Edition, with both expansions) and I'm still recovering. It was a lot of fun. Last Bastion is a hard faction to play, especiually early game, but I represented well. (No, I didn't win. The Deepwrought Scholarate player ran away with the points.)

I'll be at Origins next week/weekend, so look for me and say hi. I'll (probably) be the (only) guy in the Explore Dungeons t-shirt (and no, I won't be playing Twilight Imperium for at leasst another year).

For those of you that backed the Explore Dungeons Zine #4 (plus more) campaign, we still have a few outstanding surveys. So please check and make sure you complete yours so we can send you your stuff!



We're one week in, with 3 more to go. We had a great few days, not only funding, but also unlocking three of the stretch gials. Scott is going to be super busy finishing those up.

Howerver, as expected, things have tapered off a bit. The backer train seems to be stuck in a desolate stretch, and we could really use some help getting it going again.  This is normal, but I figure I'd as for some help. I really want to hit that 4th stretch goal, because the Shuttlecraft adventure is going to be great fun and an awesome way to tie into the next adventure.

I'd also like to take a moment and share some of my plans for this Apocalyptic Adventure!  product line...

This module, The Eye of God, is not only designed to help transition your DCC players to MCC, it's also the introduction to a whole new setting for Mutant Crawl Classics aka MCC RPG:  Lalande 21185C (of course, the locals have another name for it...)

You can call it whatever you like, use it with Terra AD, or your own world, but there's going to be a whole new planet to explore as we continue to publish adventures under this banner. I've got pitches for 7 (SEVEN!!) more books in my inbox right now, and my plan is to develop and publish ALL of them over the next 18 months, including an MCC MegaDungeon by Julian (Bernick) and a Patron AI and Wetware source book from Bob (Brinkman). I've also got a pitch from Scott for the sequel to The Eye of God.

All that to say, we have a bunch of amazing stuff planned, and we're hoping you're all going to come along for the ride. And don't worry, we have more stuff planned for the Heroic Adventure! line as well. Speaking of...


Bob (Brinkman) is finishing up the next book in this series, Veins of the Fallen. We've already sent out some art requests, and let me tell you... it's gonna be a banger. I'm excited, Bob's excited... and well, I hope you're excited too. More on that one soon.

Our current HA! book, The Carnivorous Cauldron, is in the Pledge Manager phase. The book is done, the art is done, and the minis are in house. So once the surverys are completed, I just have to send it all to print and then wait. It's a good day to be me. Julian (Bernick) and Scott (Moore) did an amazing job on the DCC and 5e books, respectively, with Brett (Hess) & Raven (Evermoor) handling cartography duties, and Dan (Smith) and Raven handling the cover and interior art.  If you missed out on that campaign, it's available in the add-ons section for this project along with the other adventures in the series. I highly encourage you to check them out, because they're great!

If you like what we're doing and want to see more, please tell your friends to back this awesome project so we can keep making more and more of them! 

Thanks for reading all this! We really appreciate all of your support. We couldn't do any of this without you.

Talk to you soon.
Chris

Hi Everyone,

I want to take a moment and clarify a few things about PDFs.

So, why can't you buy just a PDF for one of our add-ons?

You can, on DriveThru RPG. If we sell it to you here and then fulfill it from DriveThru, we don't get credit for the sale there (in our total sales numbers*). We sell them for the same price in both places (although sometimes there are sales there) so we decided to shift to that for this project and see how it goes.

*As an example, we've sold over a thousand copies of KINLESS in PDF, but only 75 actual sales on DTRPG count for sales numbers. If fulfillment counted, KINLESS would be a Platinum Seller, rather than Copper. It's a small thing, but Platinum Selelrs tend to attract way more eyeballs than Copper, so we're trying to get a more accurate representation of what we're selling.

But don't you want to raise as much money as possible?
For the project we're funding, yes. But for the previous products we need to weigh the benefits. DriveThruRPG takes a cut on sales, but so does BackerKit, so that's not a big factor as much as generating the recurring sales where we sell the majority of our digital stuff.

I hope that helps clear things up.
Chris

Hi everyone!

I usually wait until we're a little further past the mile marker before announcing that you unlocked another stretch goal, just in case, but... I also updated the main crowdfunding page and wanted to mention it.

I've added a couple more images of the maps, and a shot of the inside of the Deluxe hardback edition, for those that are curious.

Stretch Goal #3 abd #4 are both things I'm pretty excited about. Scott is a great creator and being able to add more content to the book at no extra charge is always nice, We talked about these a bit before making them stretch gials and I feel like they really add a lot. They are both for use AFTER the main adventure is over, as a way to help transition things to the next adventure... kinda like an after credits scene in a movie. Not essential, but fun and relevant.

Also, if you're on the fence, early birds only have a little bit of time left to get the incentive for free. After that, it will be available as an Add-On for purchase.

See you soon...
Chris

P.S. We're still waiting on surveys for Explore Dungeons Zine #4 (plus more) and The Carnivorous Cauldron, so if you haven't completed yours yet, please do so soon. I can't ship the stuff you paid for if you don't tell me where to ship it!!

Hi Everyone!

Thank you for all the support. You guys are awesome. We just broke through the first stretch goal, which means Scott will be writing a special MCC rules insert for the "irradiated" dice.

On to Stretch Goal #2, the new Master AI Patron...

See you soon,
Chris