Iadace, backers—

We’re headed into our second week of this campaign, and what a campaign it’s been so far. Over the weekend you unlocked yet another stretch goal and added yet another product to the lineup. The new Cypher Deck is funded, adding 100 brand-new cyphers to those already in the Amber Archive Deck. It’s now an available add-on, and included with backer rewards at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level. The deck is included digitally, on the Datasphere Deck Tool, for backers at the ALL-IN (PDF only) pledge level.

Your copy of Numenera will stand out from the book future gamers find in stores or order online. As a backer of this campaign, you’re helping us breathe new life into Numenera, so we’re adding special features to your book. You get an upgraded exclusive edition that won’t be widely available to anyone else!

The first upgrade will be an exclusive deluxe foil finish to the book cover. This premium cover treatment will give the book a lustrous glow. It’s going to look great on your bookshelf and your game table (and if you backed the Cypher: Faster. Easier. And Even Better! campaign, it’ll be a great match for the premium versions of the Cypher corebooks you funded). We’ll unlock this deluxe upgrade when we reach 2600 backers.

As with every time you unlock a stretch goal, we’re throwing in a liltte bonus reward: a vinyl sticker. You voted for this design to go along with the Cypher Deck goal:

What sticker shall we make for the next goal? You choose!

Tell us your favorite, and the design that gets the most votes will go along with the Numenera book upgrade.

As we move into its middle phase, this is shaping up to be a big campaign! The next couple of weeks are traditionally a bit more sedate than the opening and closing periods, but they’re critical for reaching the thousands of gamers who haven’t yet heard about Numenera.

We need your help. No matter how hard creators work, campaigns only soar when backers keep spreading the word. If you like unlocking stretch goals, please take a moment and post or share something about this campaign. If you don’t know what to say, you can find lots of graphics and sharable posts on our social media accounts.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Iadace, backers—

Thank you so much for continuing to spread the word and keeping this campaign going at such an incredible pace—you unlocked the Calaval’s Eyes! Deck updgrade so quickly! We’re very excited about how this new deck will affect and improve your gameplay, and super pleased to give it a premium format.

Along the way you voted for this sticker as your free bonus reward. Every backer, at every pledge level, gets these stickers! So even if we’re unlocking a goal for a reward that isn’t part of your pledge level, you get something fun anyway.

Usually single-use and frequently cobbled together in ways completely unrelated to their original intent, cyphers are bits of prior-world technology—numenera—that can serve as weapons, wearable devices, quick heals, and more. As PCs explore the Ninth World, they’ll discover—and use—cyphers.

Because they’re discovered and used frequently, having cyphers on cards is really handy. It’s easy for the GM to simply draw a card, rather than having to pull out the book and roll on a table. And for the player, getting a cypher in card format sure beats jotting down the cypher information on a character sheet, just to erase it an hour later when it’s used.

So let’s expand the cypher section of the Resource Deck—in fact, let’s expand it with so much additional content that we make a whole new deck!

The new Cypher Deck will be chock full of 100 brand-new cyphers perfect for inspiring a player, spicing up an encounter, or solving a difficult puzzle. These cyphers expand on those in the Amber Archive Deck—you’ll get 100 additional cyphers.

This Cypher Deck will be available as an add-on, and included in the rewards of every backer at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level. Backers at the ALL-IN (PDF only) pledge level will get it digitally on the Datasphere Deck Tool. We'll unlock this all-new Cypher Deck when we reach 2500 backers.

Every stretch goal comes with a bonus vinyl sticker, which you help us choose. Here are two designs derived from the cover art of the current edition of Numenera corebooks. Which would you most like to see on your laptop, water bottle, or wherever you put stickers?

Vote! Your collective choice will decide which sticker you get alongside the new Cypher Deck.

We’re working hard to spread the word about Numenera to gamers everywhere—but our reach pales beside the collective voice of the 2300+ backers of this campaign. Big campaigns only happen when their backers drive the enthusiasm.

Check out our various social media channels, where you’ll find posts to share, graphics to grab, and ideas about what to say. If you can take just a couple of minutes to spread the word, we’ll hit this goal—and the many others we hope to unlock, that much sooner!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

 

Iadace, backers—

It’s only day two, but you’ve unlocked yet another stretch goal! We’re expanding the content of the Explorer’s Pack; it now gets additional items such as another patch, a couple more pencils with new pithy Ninth World messages, more stickers for your passport, more props, and another travel notebook.

(By the way, if you’re new to Numenera, maybe you’re not familiar with the greeting “iadace.” Pronounced yay-da-see, it’s a shibboleth that tells the person you’re greeting, “I am one who understands, and I recognize that you are also one who understands.” It’s used by Aeon Priests, and sometimes by travelers when they come upon a village, encounter a stranger on the road, or otherwise want to identify themselves as trustworthy, enlightened individuals to persons they suspect are of like mind.)

In addition to the Explorer’s Pack upgrade, you also voted for this sticker as your free bonus reward. Every backer, at every pledge level, gets these stickers!

Speaking of Ninth World terminology, Calaval’s eyes! is an exclamation of surprise—or a curse uttered in astonishment or anger—commonly used across much of the Steadfast and the Beyond. Calaval, of course, was the founder of the Aeon Priests, and the first Amber Pope—and the one who first unlocked the Amber Archive.

Our Calaval’s Eyes! Deck is a great game aid that prompts inspiration and helps conjure Numenera’s unique vibe. Draw a card and discover something new to add to the story, potently influencing the direction of events in large and small ways. Use it to generate ideas during game prep and at the table. (And like the Amber Archive and Calaval himself, there may be more to it than you at first imagine—other secrets may be waiting for future stretch goals to draw them forth!) You may well find this deck to be one of your favorite elements of your Numenera game!

It already has a unique presentation, with large, square cards. So let’s make it even more beautiful. With this stretch goal, we’ll upgrade the Calaval’s Eyes! Deck with premium features such as foil stamping on the card backs, upgraded paper and finish, and a deluxe box. We think the Calaval’s Eyes! Deck will be a central feature on the game table of any GM who loves a bit of inspiration on the fly, and we want to do it justice. We’ll unlock this upgrade to the Calaval’s Eyes Deck when we reach 2350 backers.

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we throw in a bonus vinyl sticker for every backer, no matter what your pledge level. Even better, you help us choose which the sticker design. Here are our next two contenders—vote for your favorite!

The sticker you choose will be the bonus reward that goes along with the upgrade to the Calaval’s Eyes! Deck.

This campaign has been amazing so far. We can keep up the pace, and unlock this and many more stretch goals—but only with your help. We unlock goals by bringing new backers to the campaign, and that happens when existing backers help spread the word. (We’re working hard on that, too, but we can only reach a fraction of the gamers you, our backers, can reach.)

Please take a second to post something about this campaign on your social media. If it helps, feel free to right-click to download one of these images, or simply share one of the posts from our social media accounts.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

 

Greetings, backers—

Overnight you unlocked our second stretch goal, adding a brand new book, Tales from the Amber Archive. This title is now available as an add-on—but even better, it's also now an additional reward for all backers at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level, and in PDF for backers at the ALL-IN (PDF only) level.

What else can we unlock in the next four weeks or so? Keep the momentum up, and we’re sure to find out!

In the Ninth World, savvy explorers know it's wise to carry a pack for essential items—and interesting discoveries they've made along the way. Our Ninth World Explorer's Pack comes with everything you need to survive and thrive, whether at the table or in the Steadfast and Beyond. Let’s upgrade it, and add even more items to this campaign-exclusive collectable! 

 

Through this stretch goal, we’ll add a suite of additional items such as a couple more pencils with new pithy Ninth World messages, more stickers for your passport, another patch, more props, and another travel notebook.

 

Sling this awesome pack over your shoulder on your way to your game—or to the far reaches of the Ninth World—and go explore!

 

(Psst.. you can add the Explorer’s Pack to your rewards as an add-on. Or, get it at a truly amazing value through the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level, which includes everything we’re making in this campaign!)

The results are in from our first poll! You’ve chosen…

It was quite a tight race—the alternate design was also very popular. Perhaps we’ll see it reemerge later in the campaign. For now, we have two brand new stickers, to go with this stretch goal, for you to choose between!

Vote for your choice—the winner will be a free bonus reward for every backer when we unlock the Explorer’s Pack upgrade!

How quickly can we hit this goal, and start unlocking the next one, and the next? That’s up to you! We’re working hard to spread the word, but over our many years of crowdfunding, we’ve learned this truth: only you, the backers, can really drive a campaign. A few minutes of your time will help this campaign reach people we can’t—and help us keep unlocking new goals!

Here are some links to our social media channels. You can easily share any of our posts you find there, or grab graphics or messages for your own posts. Just a few minutes of your time can really help the campaign!

Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

It’s still the first day of this campaign, and already you’ve blasted through our first stretch goal! The expansion to Numenera is unlocked, and the book is getting bigger and better with more creatures, locations, and numenera items, all of which will be brand new! Who knows what else we’ll dig up in the archives through this campaign??

If you’ve backed one of our recent campaigns (Cypher, for example, or The Magnus Archives: Tangled in the Web), you might recall that sometimes we add a fun extra bonus reward to every stretch goal. We’re excited to be doing that with this campaign, too!

So, as a thank-you for unlocking this first goal, in addition to expanding Numenera we’re also giving every backer this vinyl sticker:

It’ll look great on your laptop, water bottle, car, or whatever you like to decorate. And it’s yours, free, as a bonus reward, no matter what pledge level you’ve chosen to back!

And it gets better: we’ll add another sticker, chosen by you, the backers, as a special thank-you every time you unlock a stretch goal. More on that below.

The Amber Archive isn’t a single place in a single location, but rather a vast, connected network of knowledge and technology centers spread throughout the Ninth World, accessible only to those who learn how to gain access to its secrets. Over the aeons, the connections between the locations have become worn and broken, much like the archives themselves, and getting from one to the other is difficult and dangerous…

Introducing Tales from the Amber Archive, a collection of standalone adventures that send the characters to the far reaches of the Amber Archive.

In each of these adventures, characters are invited to explore one of the archive locations, perhaps to steal something priceless, to conduct repairs, to rescue someone who went in before them, or to clear the way of dangers in advance of the arrival of others. The adventures will be in our innovative “instant adventure” format, which requires very little GM prep and lets you jump into play quickly.

You can integrate the adventures into your own campaign, run them as one-shots, or even make Tales from the Amber Archivesinto a longer campaign, as characters who visit all the locations have the opportunity to repair the network and bring the archive back to its full glory once again!

This is an entirely new book. It will be available as an add-on, and added automatically, in print and PDF, to the rewards of backers at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level, and in PDF only for the ALL-IN (PDF only) pledge level. We’ll unlock this brand new instant-adventure book when we reach 1800 backers.

Let’s have another bonus reward to go with this stretch goal. Which sticker should we unlock?

Vote for your choice, and we’ll make it a free bonus reward for every backer when we unlock the upgrade!

Remember, this campaign’s goals are based on the number of backers who discover and pledge to this campaign. And a crowdfunding campaign soars when—and only when—its backers help spread the word. That means you! You can right-click to copy these graphics to share them and help spread the word about Numenera and this campaign:

Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG