Hello, backers—

That didn’t take long! The closing week of a crowdfunding campaign always gets exciting, and this one is no exception. You’ve unlocked the expansion to Predation!

You’ve unlocked so many goals over this campaign—but we are not out of ideas! Could we unlock another book? With your help, we might! More on stretch goals in a minute, but first:

With every stretch goal we throw in a free, bonus reward as a thank you to every backer, regardless of pledge level. We’re really building up quite the collection of stickers!

You’ve really made this campaign soar—and it’s not over yet! We have several more goals we’d like to unlock, and the exciting final days of a campaign often hit multiple goals.

Your help spreading the word and keeping the buzz going is what has unlocked a string of new books and other products, as well as upgrading and expanding the initial offering. Please spread the word to keep it up!

There are thousands and thousands of gamers who haven’t yet heard of Cypher—or haven’t heard about this campaign—or don’t realize time to back is running out (we’re down to about 48 hours). Help us reach them! Post something about why you’re excited. Share a few posts other people have made. Like and comment on them, so the algorithm shows them to more gamers.

Not feeling creative? Here are some sharable images. Right-click to download them, then share with a link to mymcg.info/cypher (You can find more sharable graphics in yesterday's update.)

Another new book! Another new book? ANOTHER NEW BOOK!

Early in this campaign you expanded the Cypher Character Rulebook with more types, descriptors, foci, and other character options. It’s become quite the hefty tome: our current estimate puts it north of 300 pages!

But—and this is no surprise to anyone who knows them—Monte, Sean, and Bruce have even more ideas they’d like to bring to you and your characters. Too much to stuff into this book without making it unwieldy. So, they propose another book: Cypher Character Options.

This title will give you even more ways to bring your cool character concept to life, exploring a wide range of subgenres, character archetypes, and abilities.

As we do with all new products you unlock, we’ll add Cypher Character Options to the rewards of all backers at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level (and the PDF for backers at the ALL-IN (PDF only) level). We’ll also make it available as an add-on, but honestly, if you want this or any of the other new products we’ve unlocked through this amazing campaign, you really should just upgrade to an ALL-IN pledge level—it has become an amazing deal!

As always, the next goal will unlock not just a new book, but also a bonus reward for every backer. Which sticker should we make next?

Vote for your favorite in the poll below! And SHARE THIS CAMPAIGN if you want to unlock this goal and more!

 Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

Wow! In just a day and a half you’ve unlocked yet another stretch goal, and added another product to your rewards! We will now make the new Cypher XP Deck, and add it to the rewards for every backer at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level (in PDF for ALL-IN (PDF only) backers). It’s also now available as an add-on. 

That took a day and a half. There are four days left in this campaign, and they’re only going to get faster-paced. With your continued help, we can unlock several more stretch goals—and we still have more new products we’d like to make! Your help spreading the word will unlock these goals!

As with every goal we hit, we have a bonus reward to thank every backer for helping us unlock the Cypher XP Deck: 

Early in this campaign you unlocked The Strange, a cool dimension-hopping setting that, in its original edition, was one of the first games powered by Cypher. Through later goals, you expanded it, and we now anticipate it will be the largest campaign setting book for Cypher we’ve ever published—heftier than books such as Gods of the Fall, Gunslinger Knights, and the original Predation.

We’d like to do the same thing for the new edition of Predation. We’re bursting with ideas to further explore the Cretaceous-era world of Grevakc, giving you more dinosaurs and other creatures, and offering more character options, equipment, and cyphers.

When you unlocked Predation last week, we envisioned a book similar in scope to the original 192-page campaign setting. With this goal, it will grow substantially, making Predation, along with The Strange among the heftiest campaign settings we’ve ever published. We’ll unlock this expansion when we reach 4250 backers!

Every time we unlock a goal, we give ever backer a free bonus gift: a vinyl sticker. Which design should we add as your bonus for unlocking the Predation expansion?

Vote for your favorite in the poll below. And remember:

This campaign is soaring because backers like you keep spreading the word. Keep it up! You can find loads of great sharable posts on MCG’s social media (links below). Or share one of these images (right-click to download)—be sure to include a link to mymcg.info/cypher

Vote for your favorite sticker, and then give the campaign a quick shout-out. With your help we’ll unlock this goal quickly and move on to several more in this exciting final week!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

You've done it! You have unlocked one of our favorite campaign settings in the form of a whole new product, which is now added to the rewards for every backer at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level (in PDF for ALL-IN (PDF only) backers). It’s also available as an add-on.

What a great way to head into the final week of this campaign! If history is any guide, it’s likely to get very exciting as we close in on the end, anticipation builds, and more and more backers jump in before it’s too late—meaning more and more stretch goals as well!

If you’re new to Grevakc, the Cretaceous, and the very compelling Predation campaign setting, you can learn more in this recent update.

As we do with each stretch goal, we’re throwing in a bonus reward for every backer, no matter your pledge level:

We’ll have a new sticker with our next stretch goal, too. More on that below. But first, speaking of stretch goals:

Characters in Cypher earn XP through exploration, risk, meeting adventure goals, and pursuing their own narrative arcs. They’re also the reward for GM intrusions—when the GM throws a little wrench into the works, complicates a situation, or introduces a surprise twist to a scene or adventure. Players might rack up XP between sessions, but it’s common to receive experience points during play. And XP is useful in both the short- and long-term: spend 1 XP to reroll for yourself (or a friend), or save them up for character advancement!

Because they’re often gained and spent during play (and even passed from player to player), it’s handy to have a set of physical tokens to represent them. Cards work well—they’re easily handled and kept track of, and you can tuck them into your Cypher Character Rulebook or character portfolio between sessions. We’ve produced XP decks for the original edition of Cypher (and for several of our other games), and they work great!

This deck will consist of 30 XP cards, each with unique and compelling Cypher art. In addition, we’ll include five reference cards, each with helpful info for the players. Cypher isn’t complicated, but a little reminder of how to apply Effort, use a player intrusion, shake off wounds, recover Pool points, spend resource points, and things like that can be a boon (especially those new to the game). If you’re playing Cypher for the first time (or teaching new players), these reference cards will be handy!

We’ll add this new XP Deck to the rewards of all backers at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level (and in PDF at the ALL-IN (PDF only) level), and it’ll be available as an add-on. We’ll unlock the Cypher XP Deck at 4100 backers. And then we'll move on to who knows how many more goals in the exciting final week of the campaign?

Every crowdfunding campaign lives or dies by the enthusiasm its backers bring to it. If you’re excited about Cypher, sharing that excitement is the best way to help us reach stretch goals. In fact, it’s the only way. For this campaign to soar in this final week, we need you to reach out to gamers who aren’t aware of it or of Cypher. Be sure to include this link: mymcg.info/cypher.

We like to thank every backer each time you unlock a stretch goal. If we unlock the XP Deck, every backer will get another vinyl sticker as a bonus reward. We’ve held a poll with each goal, letting you choose the sticker designs. But just because a sticker didn’t win doesn’t mean you didn’t like it. So here are two designs that fared well, but didn’t win their polls. Which one should be our next sticker?

Vote for your favorite, then help spread the word about this campaign—and let’s unlock another book!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

Monday morning is not everyone’s favorite time of the week, but unlocking a stretch goal can lighten the vibe a bit. That’s right—over the weekend you unlocked yet another stretch goal, expanding the Manifest Cypher Deck to 100 cards!

And, as always, we’re giving every backer an extra little thank-you reward: a vinyl sticker. You helped us choose the design in a poll over the weekend:

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, an organization called SATI develops time travel. The company uses it for a variety of projects, including exploration of the late Cretaceous period—when dinosaurs ruled the earth. The visits weren’t short one-offs or individual explorers. SATI sent thousands of “commuters,” who often traveled back and forth through time, from home to work. They built permanent bases and towns to conduct their research, which spanned decades. Supplies and materials could be produced right there—in the Cretaceous—to avoid having to transport them temporally. At any give time there were thousands and thousands of people living in Grevakc, as the region that would become North America was known.

And then the time-travel stopped working.

That was decades ago. The commuters trapped in Grevakc had the resources and technology to keep themselves alive. The society has frayed, but not completely, and in at least in many areas people have held together. The descendants of SATI authorities still cling to power—and a technological advantage—where they can maintain it.

But SATI chose this particular time to colonize history because it has a failsafe against messing up the timeline. Because the geological record tells us that—maybe next year, maybe in a century—there’s an asteroid coming…

That’s the setting for Predation, a fan-favorite setting (did we mention you can have a dinosaur companion?!) and one of the first we created for Cypher. The book is dear to our hearts and just about out of print (we have perhaps a couple dozen left in our warehouse). It seems like a great setting to revisit with the new Cypher—so let’s do it!

Just as we did for The Strange early in this campaign, we’d like to bring you a completely new edition of the Predation campaign setting in a hefty hardcover format. It won’t just be an update to the existing text—it will include new adventures, new creatures, and new character options, and explore more of the world of Grevakc.

We’ll unlock the new Predation when we reach 3950 backers. (Based on the pace of the last week or so, we can do that within about four days!) It will be available as an add-on, and added to the rewards of all backers at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level (and in PDF for the ALL-IN (PDF only) level).

The pace of this campaign has been awesome, and that’s entirely due to the backers keeping the buzz going. We have two weeks left—we can unlock Predation, and probably many more stretch goals—if and only if you keep it up. Spread the word!

Here are a couple of sharable images—right-click to download them, and share them along with the link mymcg.info/cypher

You can also finds loads of sharable posts, and additional artwork and graphics, on MCG’s social media channels. It only takes a click to share one of our posts!

As we do with every stretch goal, we’ll throw in a special little extra thank-you to every backer. Which design do you like best for our next sticker? The poll is at the bottom of this update!

Vote for your favorite, then help spread the word about this campaign—and let’s unlock another book!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG