When we started the campaign, it was speculated that I might not make the $750 necessary to print the zines, much less pay for the remaining spreads' art, and I even delayed the launch a month to get more ground work in before going live.  Thanks to you, we proved the metrics wrong and my first project as a real game designer pulled in $10,547!

Oh, sorry for the delay in getting this update to you; I needed a couple days just to re-tool my brain to no longer be checking the funding level every half hour, and enjoy not having to be "on" in self-promotion mode at all times.  It's hard on the street for an introvert.

I have started to look at the surveys, and will be getting those out to you when I am able.  I also see that I have given incorrect information and we WILL be able to do late pledges OR a preorder store.  

As mentioned, you'll be getting surveys soonish. I need to get with the printer to get some revised estimates on add-ons like Blood on the Bleak Road that popped up later in the campaign, as well as some updated quantities, volumes, shipping data, and other boring stuff.

Most of the .pdfs will come out just prior to shipping, but I'm going to see about getting Blood on the Bleak Road to physical buyers through my Itch page (by the way: cheers to the person who paid $6.66 for Enter the Dismal Armory last night; you have been witnessed, sir!).  This is all pretty new to me, so give me a bit to get it sorted.

We just barely squeaked in with exactly 460 backers in the final minutes of the campaign!  I don't know what your parents, friends, children, and strangers you met on the street and forced to pledge at gunpoint are going to do with my zines, but I'm happy to give it to them, anyway! I don't want to Bust a Deal and Face the Wheel, so it looks like you're getting an epilogue to Janet From Marketing's story in the Backer section of this update.

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!

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

Just three days left to get the Wasteland Degenerates Jumper Cable Edition, and, boy howdy, I wasn't expecting you all to blow through the 350 backer achievement in one day, ya frothing loonies!  I had friends in town for the 4th of July, so I couldn't get into the thick of it again until now.  Probably good that I waited, though, since last night we hit Stretch Goal #4 to unlock the Job Board of the Apocalypse mission generator!

The next stretch goal, at $10,000, is for the mad lads of the MAD Network (their Fold-Å-Freak is my direct crowdfunding competitor and I don't even mind, check it out!)  to contribute a new monster in the UNDONE bonus booklet.  Crossing my fingers to get this one, because it's a collaboration I've been wanting to sneak in here!  After that, I'm looking into a potential T-shirt add-on at $11,000.  Who knows?  We've beaten the odds before...

I have another crowdfunding competitor that you should check out before their campaign ends: Smörk Borg from Squid Ink Games.  These folks have one of the most imaginative takes on Mörk Borg that I've seen, and I look forward to collaborating with them.

I noticed that some folks have bought the digital-only tier but have also bought the physical version of Enter the Dismal Armory (and maybe Blood on the Bleak Road, too).  This may be my mistake for not removing physical add-ons to the digital tier, but I wanted to let you know that you can get a digital version of Dismal Armory for FREE on my Itch site and Blood on the Bleak Road will also be available at a lower price for digital-only download there as well as soon as Matthew is done formatting and illustrating it. 

I don't want you to have to pay shipping to get these items unless you actually want the physical copies.  I will NOT take it negatively if you adjust your pledge to remove physical items from the digital tier.

My last livestream before the Unstable Cataclysm will be today, July 7th, at 1 PM Central US time.

Unstable Cataclysm: The campaign ends at 6 PM Central US time on July 10th.  I've enabled overtime mode, though, so each time someone pledges from 5:50 PM on, we're live for 10 more minutes just in case late pledges come in.  I'll keep streaming through the inevitable end time.

I'll tell you what, if we hit 460 backers by the end of the campaign, I'll write the Epilogue for Tales from the Lore Dumpster to usher Janet From Marketing to her final reward.

Thanks to all of you, we ANNIHILATED the second stretch goal!  Which means that we're getting a monster supplement, including one by Brian Colin of Vast Grimm!

Next up is $8000 for the third stretch goal: the random character generator for the website!  Stuart Gorman is pretty keen on getting that rolling if we can support the dog shelter.

And after that it's looking like the fourth goal at $9000 will be including the Mission Generator; I may need to donate more money to Stuart's dogs to get an automated version on the website as well.

Fear not, intrepid Guest Creator Monster fans, your status as 2nd place in the survey means that I'm going to have that as the $10,000 stretch goal #5, but give me a bit to find a creator that I can chain to a desk until a monster is created.

I... really would be surprised if anyone had completed the final room of my Dark Fort-alike, Enter the Dismal Armory, yet (feel free to crow about it in the comments if you have), but even if you haven't, you can still enjoy Blood on the Bleak Road, 12+ page a cross-country vehicle combat extravaganza into which you can bring any surviving Dismal Armory character or a freshly created one using six new History results and a host of new vehicle combat options.  Blood on the Bleak Road requires Enter the Dismal Armory to play, but, fortunately, you can download it for free on Itch.io or get the physical version as an add-on to this campaign (if you haven't already)!  It will also be available for download on Itch once the layout and art are done.

Let's shoot for a 7:7 timeslot; July 7th, that is, at 1 PM Central US time.  

That didn't take long... let's make it a little more challenging, just for the sake of my carpel tunnel.  350 sounds like a good number!  Anyway, enjoy Lore Dumpster #4 in the Backers-only section!

Hey Degenerates, looks like we hit that 280 backer goal, so I'm including Lore Dumpster #3 in the Backer-only content section for this update!

Brian Colin of Vast Grimm creates a cosmic horror for a monster add-on at $7000.  Just under $600 to go there!

Stuart Gorman creates an online character generator at $8000.

And... a third stretch goal that we still have a few days to determine (but Mission Generator appears to be in the lead) at $9000!

Oh yes, and keep your eyes on the road: The sequel to my solo game set in the Wasteland Degenerates universe, Enter the Dismal Armory, is just around the corner.  Watch for Blood on the Bleak Road, an epic cross-country highway murder-venture, on my Itch page!

Next installment at... let's say 305 backers, so tell your friends!  And... go!