Hello, backers!

After an amazing 24 hours of Overtime Mode, this campaign reached its exciting conclusion Saturday evening. You unlocked sixteen stretch goals—and crossed the $1,000,000 milestone (for which, as a thank you, we're going to give you ALL the stickers).

We are so excited to be bringing you this incredible new iteration of Cypher, plus all the other rewards you’ve unlocked. It’s not just the results of this campaign. A game is more than its books and dice—it’s a community; a network of players that bring the game to life. You’ve really shown us how that community will shine as the new edition takes shape.

We want to tell you a bit about where things go from here—and we have some very exciting news for you—but first let’s give credit where credit is due:

While this campaign was running, Monte, Bruce, and Sean were putting the finishing touches on the Cypher Character Rulebook and Cypher GM’s Guide manuscripts. Shanna’s been working on the Divination Deck, while also putting the finishing touches on Come Hell or High Water (for the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game) and Dominique has been editing other products in our pipeline like Make Your Statement (for The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game).

Bear and Javier will make our Cypher books shine! During the campaign, they designed stickers, imaged new products, and handled graphic design! With Teri, they’ve also been moving titles like All Your Gods Are Dead and The Darkest Woods into and through their production phases.

Jen, Olivia, and Kate have answered your questions (and are always available to provide support to you, our wonderful community) while prepping for Gamehole Con, which is just a few short weeks away.

Tammie has been steering the ship and keeping the logistics plates spinning. And Charles planned and ran this campaign (and is the author of this update!).

We are a small team, but we’ve worked diligently to keep all of our products coming while also running this campaign. We all thank you very much for backing this campaign. We love making mind-blowing RPGs with beautiful production values and immersive experiences, and your support makes that possible.

Now, here’s what to expect as we move forward from here. Please read it—and remember, there’s a big announcement at the bottom of this update!

Running a crowdfunding campaign is hard work, so we’re looking forward to getting a bit of rest. You may not hear from us for a little while, but don’t worry. Monte and the team have been at work on the new Cypher for some time, so things are already moving along at a great pace. We’ll post updates any time there’s news share. 

BackerKit began collecting pledges the moment the campaign closed. But it takes them a full two weeks to release those funds, along with the data on our backers.

In the meantime, we will get the pledge manager fully set up. The pledge manager gives us the information we need to fulfill your pledge and lets you manage your add-ons and make any pledge upgrades you want. We’ll notify you when we open the pledge manager, which should be in about three weeks. Please look out for, and respond to, that notification!

Once you’ve completed the pledge manager survey, we won’t need anything else from you until it’s time to start fulfilling rewards. We’ll be busy crafting the Cypher corebooks, the revised Cypher Bestiary, Cypher Character Options, The Strange, Predation, and the other items you funded, in the months to come. We’ll post regular updates, but if you don’t hear anything for a few weeks, don’t fret.

At the same time, please pay attention when you do get communications from us. Our emails and updates include critical information about your rewards.

Every time a reward is ready for you, we’ll contact you by email to begin the fulfillment process. Generally, we’ll direct you to the MCG Shop, where you’ll log in, “buy” the product (for free, because you’ve already paid for it through this campaign), and check out.

This is an important part of the process because it ensures we have accurate delivery information for every item we send out. (With thousands of backers getting rewards, it's amazing how many people will change their address over the fulfillment period.) You'll pay for shipping at that time.

Please pay attention to communications from us—don't let our updates or emails go to your spam folder, or otherwise ignore them, because if you do you could miss out on some of your rewards.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Follow for more info, and to be the among the first to get news, access Monte’s design diary, and receive a very cool exclusive reward!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, backers!

Cypher: Faster. Easier. And Even Better! has now passed the $1MM mark.

What an amazing honor you’ve bestowed on Cypher! Only a handful of RPG crowdfunding campaigns not based on popular licenses or 5E have ever broken $1,000,000 in a crowdfunding campaign. We are excited and humbled to see Cypher enter those ranks.

As a small token of our thanks, we will now give every backer all of the stickers you’ve seen throughout this campaign—not just those that won their polls, but also the designs, which collectively received thousands of votes, that didn’t. It’s a total of about two dozen stickers.

We’d like to especially thank the community on the Cypher Unlimited discord, which cheered on the success of the campaign and helped keep Overtime Mode going through the night. If you aren’t a member of this fantastic, welcoming community, you should join.

Overtime Mode continues, and new pledges are still rolling it. More gamers are discovering Cypher. Please keep spreading the word!

And again, thanks for your help making this campaign—and Cypher—such a success!

—Team MCG

Holy cats, backers!

Fifteen hours after the scheduled end time, the Cypher: Faster. Easier. And Even Better! campaign is still going strong. A continuous stream of new backers overnight has kept the campaign going in Overtime Mode!

(Overtime Mode is a BackerKit crowdfunding feature: the campaign doesn’t end until there’s a gap of 10 minutes between new pledges. So as long as those pledges trickle in at least once every 10 minutes, the campaign remains alive.)

That’s the rallying cry of some backers online. They’re cheering on the campaign and helping spread the word in hopes of pushing Cypher over the $1,000,000 mark. We’ve promised that, as a special gift to all backers if we cross that amazing milestone, we’ll give you all of the stickers you’ve voted on over the course of the campaign—not just the winners, but the versions that lost their polls as well. That’s roughly two dozen stickers, including the cult favorite Admiral Snack Bar.

At this point we’re less than $9,000 from the mark. If you have a little free time this Saturday, can you give the campaign a little love online, and help push it over the top?

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

Overtime Mode pays off! Backers are still spreading the word, and new backers are finding the campaign. We’ve unlocked another stretch goal, and now all the books funded by this campaign are getting the premium treatment!

And of course that unlocks another sticker. This is the one you voted for:

We are flirtatiously close to $1,000,000! With the campaign well past the scheduled closing time, we aren’t going to announce any new stretch goals. But in an update earlier today, we mentioned that if we crossed the million dollar mark, as a special Thank You we’d give you ALL the stickers. Can we get there? We’re sooooo close!

You can right-click to download this image (or check our past couple of updates for more options), and help spread the word.

You can also find loads of sharable posts and images on MCG’s social media accounts:

Thanks so much for taking us over the top on this goal, and for your support of Cypher!
—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

We’ve reached the scheduled closing time for this campaign—but it’s not over yet!

BackerKit has a feature called Overtime Mode: as long as new pledges keep rolling in, the campaign remains open. It ends only when we hit a 10-minute stretch with no new pledges.

We’re barrelling toward the current stretch goal—you’ve taken us two-thirds of the way there in just a few hours. As long as we’re in Overtime Mode, we can still unlock this goal!

How long will Overtime Mode last? Sometimes it’s just ten or fifteen minutes, but often it’s several hours—or even well into the night. It depends on whether pledges keep rolling in—and that depends on you. So please go out there, share this campaign, and help spread the word, and we can still unlock this goal!

Here are TWO NEW images you can right-click to download, then share. Be sure to include the link mymcg.info/cypher.

You can also find loads of sharable posts and images on MCG’s social media accounts:

Thanks for this one last push, and for a great campaign!
—Team MCG