Knights of Dust and Neon

Hello, backers—

Thanks to the amazing support you’ve given this campaign, we’ve unlocked Otherworldly Sites. This pack of prints, on nice hefty cardstock, will really help bring Sancara, the world of Gunslinger Knights, to life at your game table. Along with the previously unlocked Midnight Deck for High Noon at Midnight (and the zines), this item is really helping us reach our vision of providing an amazing, immersive experience to go along with the books you’ve funded.

As a reminder, the Otherworldly Sites Pack is now part of the rewards for these pledge levels:

If you’re not backing at one of these levels, consider an upgrade to get these and other cool stretch goals to come!

Speaking of cool, we’re already working on a very neat companion item for Neon Rain. But before we unveil that, let’s look at an upgrade that will be awesome for every Cypher System GM: the GM Campaign Journal.

If you backed our campaign for the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game, perhaps you already have the campaign journal we made for that game. It’s truly elegant, with a faux-leather cover, gilded page edging, a ribbon bookmark, and an overall wonderful feel. Even better: the pages within provide space and prompts to build, organize, and record an amazing campaign. It’s super useful, and beautiful to boot—as the photos above illustrate.

What if you aren’t running Old Gods of Appalachia, though? What about your superhero campaign, or your zombie apocalypse game, or your hard sci-fi adventures? What about your upcoming cyberpunk, weird west, or Gunslinger Knights game? Welp, that’s why we’re funding a new GM Campaign Journal now, made for use with any Cypher System campaign. If you’re at the Knight or All In: Embrace the Cypher System pledge level, you’re already getting it. (It’s also available as an add-on. If you run a lot of Cypher System campaigns, you might consider getting a few of them!)

Let’s make this Campaign Journal even better. The current cover is marked with a foil-stamped Cypher System bug—it’s beautiful, but it isn’t your campaign. With this stretch goal, we’ll include a number of high-quality labels for the Journal’s cover: a weird west design, a cyberpunk design, and a Gunslinger Knights design. The Journal’s cover will include a debossed space where these labels fit perfectly, so you’ll get a clean, professional look when you apply one to the cover.

And for other campaigns? We’ll include a blank label, too, for you to customize as you see fit. (The space will also accept standard-sized Avery-type labels.) And who knows—maybe there’ll be an opportunity to add additional designs, for other genres, later in this campaign?

As long as we’re upgrading the cover, let’s add gilded page edging to the Campaign Journal as well, so that it’s every bit as high-spec as the Old Gods of Appalachia and The Magnus Archives journals.

We’ll unlock this upgrade at 1,800 backers. And then we’ll take the wraps off the awesome companion item for Neon Rain!

Please keep pulling those new backers in to this campaign. We’ve seen loads of posts and comments from backers out on social media, talking about Knights of Dust and Neon. Each one of those has helped pull in new backers, and led us to the goals we’ve unlocked so far. Keep it up—who knows how many more goals we can unlock?

Thanks so much for your support!
—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

Once again, you’ve amazed us. Thanks to your help spreading the word and drawing in more backers to this campaign, overnight we unlocked the Midnight Deck. This cool in-world poker deck will be a great aid—immersive and useful—for your weird west games. The Midnight Deck is now part of your rewards if you’re backing at the Warrior, Knight, All-In: Embrace the Cypher System, or (in PDF only) Digital Knight pledge level.

It’s just one of the items we’d like to make to really elevate your experience with High Noon at Midnight.

Now we’re looking to enhance your gameplay experience with Gunslinger Knights. We’re super excited about the strange and unique world of Sancara, and keen to bring it to vivid life at our game tables and yours. So that’s what our next stretch goal is all about!

Sancara is an ancient world with an enigmatic past. It would seem that it once flourished, perhaps before the storms came. Storms that seep into Sancara from the dimensional deeps, bringing with them horrors from beyond—horrors that gunslinger knights must confront and stop.

Otherworldly Sites offers stunning imagery of the places, people, and creatures of this world, through 16 large prints on cardstock. They'll bring Sancara to life when the GM shows them to the players as they explore this new and strange land. Since Gunslinger Knights is all new—and all different from what you've seen before—these cards will be fantastic for GMs wanting to understand and portray this amazing setting.
We’ll unlock Otherworldly Sites at 1,500 backers. Like the Midnight Deck, it will automatically become part of your rewards if you back at the Warrior, Knight, All-In: Embrace the Cypher System, or (in PDF only) Digital Knight pledge levels.

Given the pace of the campaign so far, we may be able to reach that total pretty quickly—with your help. Please give this campaign, and the Cypher System, a shout-out today. (If you have friends, gaming buddies, or random people on the internet asking what’s so special about the Cypher System, a great answer is to point them to this short video.)

The more people we reach, the faster we’ll unlock this stretch goal—and move on to even more exiting additions and upgrades.

Thanks so much for your support!
—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

What a day it’s been—and continues to be! We’ve been overwhelmed with your response, here on the campaign, in the comments, in social media, and, well, everywhere. Now that the mad rush of the launch is starting to settle down, we’d like to talk a bit about stretch goals.

As we mention on the campaign page, Knights of Dust and Neon isn’t just about making a few new Cypher System supplements—as awesome as they will be. We also have ideas for some very cool support products that will greatly enhance your experience with the books. We launched with the three zines, one to go with each of the books: Cash and Chrome, Wanted, Hexed or Alive, The Mother of Storms. If you’re backing at the Warrior, Knight, Digital Knight, or All In: Embrace the Cypher System pledge levels, you’re getting these extras. (If you aren’t, do consider it—getting extras like these separates backing this campaign from, say, buying the books later on Amazon or whatever.)

But the zines aren’t all—we have some additional ideas we think you’ll really love. (We love ‘em!) The first of these supports High Noon at Midnight. It’s the Midnight Deck.
The Midnight Deck will be a deluxe poker deck straight out of the world of High Noon at Midnight. It’ll feature custom artwork with in-world imagery and references. But hold your horses, partner—this isn’t just some pretty prop. You’ll find optional rules and advice for using the custom Midnight Deck at your table in High Noon at Midnight.

We’ll unlock the Midnight Deck when we reach 1100 backers. Remember, backers at the Warrior, Knight, Digital Knight, or All In: Embrace the Cypher System pledge levels get the Midnight Deck and similar stretch goal items included with your pledge—so if you aren’t backing at those levels, consider an upgrade now!

Please keep the amazing buzz going about this campaign—we’re looking forward to unlocking this goal and hopefully many more to come. As of this posting, we’re under 300 backers away from unlocking the stretch goal. The more gamers hear about this campaign and the Cypher System, the faster we’ll make that happen!

It’s been a great day so far—and we have you to thank for it.

Thanks so much for your support!
—Team MCG

Hello, backers—

And holy holocats! Thank you so much for your incredible show of support for the Cypher System and this campaign!

We are funded—so Neon Rain, High Noon at Midnight, Gunslinger Knights, Cash and Chrome, Wanted, Hexed or Alive, The Mother of Storms, the very cool GM Campaign Journal, and the incredible new premium Cypher System dice are all going to become a reality!

The pace of this campaign has been keeping us busy this morning. We have some cool stretch goals planned—remember, this campaign isn’t just about the books; it’s about building an awesome experience with them. We’ll start rolling these goals out later today as things settle down a bit. 

In the meantime, thanks so much for the support, and please help spread the word—the stronger our launch day, the better the campaign will do, and the more of those stretch goals we can unlock.

Thanks so much for your support!
—Team MCG