Wasteland Degenerates Official Update #1: Lessons Learned
8 months ago
– Tue, May 21, 2024 at 05:33:18 PM
Hey folks!
Things have been moving, and not always in favorable ways! In true 'Borg fashion, I'm discovering that adventure, and the adventure of crowdfunding in particular, isn't just free money, fame, and friendly goblins singing "All Hail the King!" Sometimes you have to eat a little humility.
The truth is, you folks have been very patient with me as I navigate these unknown waters, and I want to make sure that I'm honest with you. Most people who do projects this ambitious have multiple prior successful campaigns under their belts, and most campaigns fail, for that matter. You can't just have a good idea and automatically get backing; you need to build up trust over time... or have a really good publicity engine.
But you don't care about all that. You want to know what this means for you. Well, Wasteland Degenerates is still coming. You just might have to wait for a fancy hardcover book that will sit on the shelf next to Cy_Borg, Mork Borg, and Vast Grimm. Instead we will be doing the campaign for...
Things have been moving, and not always in favorable ways! In true 'Borg fashion, I'm discovering that adventure, and the adventure of crowdfunding in particular, isn't just free money, fame, and friendly goblins singing "All Hail the King!" Sometimes you have to eat a little humility.
The truth is, you folks have been very patient with me as I navigate these unknown waters, and I want to make sure that I'm honest with you. Most people who do projects this ambitious have multiple prior successful campaigns under their belts, and most campaigns fail, for that matter. You can't just have a good idea and automatically get backing; you need to build up trust over time... or have a really good publicity engine.
But you don't care about all that. You want to know what this means for you. Well, Wasteland Degenerates is still coming. You just might have to wait for a fancy hardcover book that will sit on the shelf next to Cy_Borg, Mork Borg, and Vast Grimm. Instead we will be doing the campaign for...
Wasteland Degenerates: Jumper Cable Edition
- ~50 page zine
- All six of the main character classes
- Hit Points & Critical Damage
- Hard-Earned Survival Skills
- Mutations
- Nuclear Prosthetics
- All of the weapons, armor, vehicles, superscience interfaces, and evil relics that will make your wasteland adventures explode like fire out of a bungie-corded lunatic's guitar
- A bad attitude
What it won't have:
Rules for combatMonstersWorld-ending cataclysmsExcessive loreAdventuresRandom mission generatorsPiles of loot tables
All that will have to wait for the full book or a "GM Guide." In the meantime I guess you'll just have to use Cy_Borg or Mork Borg or whatever 'Borg you prefer. Tragedy!
I expect the new price of the book will be USD $15, with potential add-ons for character sheet pads (~$6) and physical copies of Enter the Dismal Armory ($3), a stand-alone solo adventure I previously released on itch.io.
And yes, if the extremely improbable happens and we're very, very successful, I may be able to do the full book after the campaign. Don't get your hopes up; this is a marathon, not a deathrace.