2 Kickstarters and 1 cat's birthday
Plasmodics + Hypermall Kickstarters, Frog World + Liminal Horror Updates, Physical World offerings, and my cat.
Welcome to the last financial quarter of the year, or as I like to call it: Lastquartember. I have some stuff to discuss. Some calls for action. I'm full of tea and ready to roll. But first, please wish my adorable cat Edie a happy 1st birthday.
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Zach, what was that you were saying about Kickstarters?
Plasmodics Kickstarter // Character Creator Stretch Goal
Currently there are 2 separate kickstarters running for TTRPGs that use my Royalty Free Spot Art Pack to fill their games with art. On both campaigns there is also a stretch goal for additional art for me. For Plasmodics--a very strange and unique game from Will Jobst and Seb Pines of Good Luck Press--if the KS funds to 200%...I will be making a digital character creator for players to use to make characters for their sessions/campaigns! This is incredibly exciting for me, so I need you all to make this happen! Currently the campaign is at 175% funded with a few days left to go, so it's imminent and will hopefully happen, but not without your support.
Here's a brief synopsis to whet your whistle:
Plasmodics is the tabletop roleplaying game of post-apocalyptic, gonzo sci-fi, where (sorta) humans, (kinda) animals, (mostly) robots, and (definitely) aliens join hand-in-mutated-hand.
You play the Plasmodics. The world and its debris are yours to play in. Uncover odd artifacts, wrestle with opposing factions and your cryptic alliances, and see what this weird world has to offer.
Plasmodics is a new school game inspired by Into the Odd by Chris McDowell and Cybermetal 2012 by Adam Vass, a demake of the first edition classic post-apocalyptic RPG Gamma World.
Make sure to back it before it's too late by clicking here.
HyperMall Kickstarter
I know I said Plasmodics was strange and unique, but HyperMall: Ultimate Violence is beyond original. Aiming to be the Cruelty Squad of TTRPG systems, HyperMall is probably beyond my simple copywriting abilities to put into proper words what kind of game it is; so I'll share the pitch from the KS page itself:
HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE is a mission-based corpo murder TTRPG about assassinating the rich and famous. Enter the consumerist hellscape of THE HYPERMALL where death is cheap and life is cheaper. HM:UV is an unhinged gonzo meatpunk sci-fi dystopia buzzword game for financial geniuses.
You're a CONTRACTOR for SLAUGHTR™ - The Assassination App - and your job is to Murder Your Target Without Dying. You're already in debt. You can't afford unnecessary Resurrections when rent is due, and you absolutely do not have health insurance. GET TO WORK.
Become a mutated killing machine, a psychic murderer, or a cold blooded cyber criminal. Try your best to make ends meet. Die a lot. Kill cops. Get paid.
As of this writing, it's currently nearly funded, with 8 days to go. My stretch goal for more art is a long way off still on this one, but if I can get a lot more people to back it, I can jam way more cool art in there.
Go back it now by clicking here.
Frog World Progress
I'm still working on Frog World (my Mork Borg setting). Hopefully I will have it completed by the end of the year, in time to be released Q2 of 2025 at the latest (if I get things done in time). I just sent off the full final manuscript for editing, but in the mean time, I wanted to share that I completed a draft of the introduction last month, including a little comic (words by Micah Anderson) to kick things off that I'm sharing here exclusively! Nowhere else to read this right now:
If you want to see all of the introduction and get early access to the content of Frog World, you can check it out on my patreon.
Otherwise, just watch this space for more nuggets as I continue to make progress.
Physical World
Every month I send a 4"x6" postcard and 2-4 stickers to $10+ patreon subscribers on the Physical World tier. This month I repurposed some assets from the work on I did on Frog World over the last month for August's rewards. As a result, I also sent 6 stickers this time! Isn't that nice?
Here's what I sent to patrons for August:
To get a print and stickers in the mail every month, sign up on my patreon page at the Physical World tier here.
Liminal Horror Art Director Role
As of the end of August, I've been bestowed the honorable role of Art Director for all things Liminal Horror going forward! It was a capacity I've been working in on the Deluxe Edition (work is still well underway on that), and since I've been working on Liminal Horror since the beginning, it was a natural step. Still, it couldn't have come at a better time and I'm more excited than ever for all the amazing things we have coming for you in Liminal Horror world. Expect to see even more Liminal Horror updates in my newsletter than you already do.
Not much else to add to Liminal Horror news this month...except that we decided to capture liminalhorrorrpg.com so everyone can easily find out anything they would want to know about LH in one place. Our SEO is already pretty good, so just searching "Liminal Horror" will get you to us as well, but now you can cut out the middle man of searching and trying to remember any of our various links and pages.
That's it! You can go now. Class is dismissed. I'll see you next time, and don't forget to back those Kickstarters!