Update #4: HALFWAY POINT - The Only Way Out is Through!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 10:54:18 AM
Hey Degenerates,
We've already got spot gloss and debossing on the cover (it's going to look great!), and we're in such close proximity to unlocking a sweet bookmark ribbon for the book that we might have gotten it by the time I'm finished writing this... but, more important than that, we're within striking distance of a full zine written by yours truly, with edit and layout by Würmmaster Brian Colin!
STRETCH GOAL #7: Rad City Music Brawl -The music dies, rock is eternal!
Rad City used to be a sprawling metropolis, but huge swathes are now radioactive no-man's lands. Other sections got hit by meteorites. The Rad City Music Hall had been in a radioactive area, but recently some Eisenreich scouts had returned to say that the Geiger counters had mostly cooled down around the venue.
As Degenerates, it's your job to take the dangerous work nobody else wants to do... this time it's a hunt for a classic guitar for a legendary rock & roller whose past is about to catch up with her. Can you get to the axe before the dancing zombies close in on you, or will it become a battle of the bands?
Physical copy automatically included with the CATACLYSM All-In Tier.
STRETCH GOAL #8: Road Combat Grid #2: Red Forest & Spore Colony!
NEW! If we hit $35K, we'll create a new Add-On road grid for races through the most dangerous environments possible: The Red Forest, near the glowing crimson Rift, swarming with Ampulex ruby wasps, and the Spore Colony, with giant mushrooms covering the road and threatening zombification if travelers are infected by the wafting spores. Drive at your own risk!
I can't wait to complicate your degenerates' lives with the special road rules on this two-sided play mat!
Physical copy automatically included with the CATACLYSM All-In Tier.
SHOUT OUT: TC Modern Battlemaps by Tom Cartos!
I just wanted you to stop what you're doing and go check out the holy-crap-that's-awesome battle map bookthat's currently also Live in Kickstarter. I've seen the promo maps, and there's definitely some synergy with Wasteland Degenerates. Have a look!
Even better, there's extra punch-out assets to represent cars and road obstructions that I can DEFINITELY think of uses for...
How great is that? Here's the link again, so go get yourself some terrain for your Degenerates' exploration!
Last Words & Links
Anyway, that's all I've got for you this time. Remember to join the Discord and/or the Facebook group and share your wasteland adventures with the rest of the class!
See you on the highway!
Update #3: Announcing DUMPSTER DRIVERS Zine of One-Shots!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 06:47:23 PM
Over 220% funded in 1 week!
Hey, Degenerates, I'm so happy to announce that we're almost to the fourth stretch goal, to bring Phil Jensen (Trapped Within, NECROVENGE) in to work with myself, Zac Goins (Pirate Borg), and Brian Colin (Vast Grimm) on a new book of one-shot missions...
Welcome to the junkyard at the end of the Earth!
After the end, robotic waste management trucks just kept hauling a larger and larger amount of the cities' detritus to a designated landfill, which grew larger and larger until it filled the horizon and started spilling into the wasp-infested Red Forest. This is The Slough.
Now degenerates, Gas Hogs, and treasure hunters brave trips into the Slough to find all of the toys of the Before times. Be careful, Degenerate, or you might end up paste on a RADBORG's dump truck bumper or host to a wasp's egg sacs.
Find DUMPSTER DRIVERS in the Add-ons now!
New Stretch Goals!
While we haven't quite met Phil's goal, I figure we will after people check out DUMPSTER DRIVERS, so I'm looking past that. Next up:
$25,000 - COVER UPGRADE Debossing and spot gloss
$27,500 - BOOKMARK RIBBON!
$30,000 - RAD CITY MUSIC BRAWL, an Add-On mission zine written by yours truly!
I've had Rad City Music Brawl in my head for months now and I can't wait to get the opportunity to get it on out there for you!
CROSS-PROMOTION!
WRAITHBORN. I was amazed. I was petrified. I was compelled to shout out...
Paging through the Kickstarter for Wraithborn, I just felt an uneasy sense of inadequacy, for everything that Hamilton and Theatre Macabre has created here is intense, lush, detailed, and altogether TOO MUCH IN THE BEST WAY! Playing a range of cursed inhumans with their own factions, politics, and magical systems, Wraithborn is doing something different with the Mörk Borg formula we are all used to by now. Check it out! CHECK IT OUT NOW, DAMN YOU!
Anyway, Degenerates, that's all I've got for you this time. Thank you so much for sticking with me on this journey, and I'll see you out in the Wasteland!
Update #2: FIRST STRETCH GOAL!
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 08:10:29 PM
Holy Smoking Craters!
You know, for the Jumper Cable Edition, I made less money in four weeks as we collected in one day this time around.
I have all you to thank for that.
And now we've hit half that again by Day #2, and the first stretch goal.
Quite frankly, it was too fast. We didn't have time to prepare graphics. Matthew's scribbling hand is bleeding. You can see his finger bones through open stylus-shaped wounds.
But you earned it, so you're going to get it.
INTRODUCING
DUMPSTER DRIVERS
At the edge of the Wasteland before you get to the Red Forest, a junkyard spans the horizon, the receptacle of all of the Before Times' trash.
For you see, the automated RADBORG waste disposal trucks just kept following their programming as the cities ground into the dust, collecting the ruins of civilization to the designated dumping point. The Slough.
Truly the blessings of the dumpster be upon those who can enter the Slough, dodge the wasps, raiders, and malfunctioning RADBORGs and escape with a vehicle, tech relic, or some other treasure...
DUMPSTER DRIVERS will be a series of micro adventures set in the Slough, and created by guest authors depending on what stretch goal we get to, but ZAC GOINS (Tangled in Shrouds) is first on deck! Each adventure will be perfectly sized for an evening's play!
That's all for now, but stay tuned for the cover for this new zine!
Scott
Update #1: PROJECT FUNDED! What a Lovely Day!
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 04:57:46 PM
If Pedal = Metal, then Project = Funded!
Well that was quick! I'm so grateful that we met my goal of 666 pre-launch followers, and that we gunned the engine and funded the project in less than half a day!
Now is no time to ease up on the guzzoline, of course. I want to reach at least the first stretch goal at $15,000, which is an 8-page zine chalk full of one-shot adventures in the End of the World's Biggest Junkyard. It's called DUMPSTER DRIVERS and I'm lining up some great guest authors to contribute... The very first person I asked is Limithron and Snapback Games' own ZAC GOINS and I was thrilled when he said "Yes!" If we manage to hit more goals, we may even add pages and even more special contributors to this awesome add-on!
Short update for now, but I'll be rappin' at you later. I need to hop online to the first YouTube Hangout for the Kickstarter campaign! If you're free (and not watching Daredevil or whatever), why don't you stop in?
Scott
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