Welcome + a heartfelt thanks to our earliest backers! <3
about 2 years ago
– Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 02:32:19 AM
As I'm writing this update, it's a bright warm day here in Minneapolis—where I’ll be through the end of the week—visiting family and friends. It feels strange not to be at home in Boston on the project’s first day … but life is strange! I'm halfway through my daily pot of coffee, and reflecting on the journey that has brought us all here.
After I first read “Black God’s Kiss,” in Peter Bebergal’s incredible fiction anthology, Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons, I found myself haunted for months by the weird images. Eventually I approached Peter with the idea for licensing it to use in an RPG setting. Really, I just wanted to get the Black God’s star-lit realm out of my head and onto a gaming table as a way of exorcising its hold on me. But as the months rolled on after obtaining the license from C.L. Moore’s estate, and our team started to form, this more beautiful and phenomenal project started to take shape… and here we are!
I know many of you backed my previous project, Ekphrastic Beasts, and some of you have also been supporting the work to create new creatures every month over on the Blazing Worlds Patreon. I want to extend a special thanks to you—who have encouraged and inspired me to keep developing high premium, artist-driven gaming materials to share with others!
Also, as a special thank you to everyone who is backing this project in its first 24 hours at the Deluxe and Black God’s Bundle pledge tiers, we are giving away a free battle map of the Black God’s Temple. It will be provided as a folding physical map—scaled for use with 32mm miniatures—and as a VTT map compatible for online gaming.
In case you couldn’t guess, things are a bit chaotic in the first days of a new Kickstarter project, so we won’t be able to attend to everything immediately. But between myself and our project manager, Andrew, we will do our best to answer questions, update Stretch Goals, build out the FAQ section, and explain the rewards.
For now, I’ll just say that we have plenty more planned for this campaign:
- Stretch Goals galore
- Creator spotlights and guest posts
- Informative and thorough updates about all our add-ons and pledge tiers, gameplay, components, and maps
- Other projects we love on Kickstarter
Ok back to that pot of coffee… More to come very very soon!
xo — Janaka (and Jog, Matt, Max, Meredith, Peter, Sam, & Saprophial)