Hey everyone!

I went out for a meeting this morning with us $500 below our next goal and with a pace slow enough that I expected it to at least take another day or so - and somehow, by the time I'm home, we're nearly $1000 OVER the goal. I have... no idea what led to this happening, but I'll never complain about a chance to make Despair Dilemma the best it can be!! 

So, let's get to the stretch goals!

I mentioned it in our previous update, but Little Lab Designs is currently working on their own kind of Death Game micro-TTRPG called "Rabbit's Day", featuring a world where humans have been transformed into bunnies and the criminals among them are forced to kill each other in sacrifice to the moon and animal kingdom. It's a wildly cool premise that's very high concept, and I'm deeply excited to see what they end up bringing to the table with Despair Dilemma!

We don't quite know what they have planned yet (they've been quite mysterious and coy about it actually), but we'll let you know as soon as things have been locked in!

If you've checked out the Demo Kit already, then you've already seen what "Character Arcs" are. They're an optional rule that allows you to add a little more complexity to the game by giving your characters a little more autonomy and weight in the story. Some of the examples we included there let you add a romance subplot to the game with The Lover or give someone some unique insight into the masterminds of the game with The Insider.

In the book right now, we have 12 Character Arcs that you can use in a few different ways - however, there were some concepts we wanted to include that we realized at the time we needed to cut because they represented a significant mechanical baggage. Stuff like multiple characters that share a body or victims that possess dangerous and chaotic supernatural powers.

If we hit this stretch goal, we'll dedicate a portion of the book to giving these concepts the space they deserve!

While I have you here actually, we've made up the poll for the Death Game Questions everyone submitted in the last update! We fixed up some wording and combined some comments that covered very similar questions - so if you don't see yours immediately, give things another look. It'll be there somewhere!

The top four Death Game Questions will be added to The Purgatory Express death game sheet! Sadly, we couldn't figure out a way to let you vote for multiple options at once in BackerKit's voting feature, so just pick out the one you like most. In the event of a tie for 4th place, we'll pick the one that we believe is most unique from the other winning options!