Seriously thank you very much for backing Netcrawl RPG. I am honored to have you on the team.

I had a bunch of fun with Joey Royale as we slapped together a little crowdfunding show on Goodman Games Official Twitch. Thanks to Goodman Games for the use of the channel. And thanks to Alana Thompson for engineering the show.

We didn't end up playing through the conclusion of the adventure, but I promise to turn it into a little digital solo zine or something along those lines so you can finish it on your own.

So close to breaking the stretch goal for the GM screen, but I am in no way disappointed. We put it all out there! It has been an amazing campaign and exceeded my expectations. I'll certainly be providing some PDFs of player handouts, reference booklet of important tables, and the screen for you to print at home.

There's been several new people on the Discord and Patreon. Come on over and join us. A new mechanic of Access Control dropped on the Patreon a few days ago. I'm be talking about why and how to use it later this month in the Developer Diary. I'll be posting the Update Patch from the Patreon here every month (usually published on the 20th). 

I'm going to get some rest. Thank you all again. 
<3 
James

That's right! As mentioned yesterday, it's time to get the pixels into place. 

Some of you will be getting notifications to finalize your pledges. Please help us out by responding right away. Be sure to reach out if there are any issues or if something is confusing. 

This is my first time using Pledge Manager so bear with me as I learn something new.

Cheers,
James

Update Patches are published in my Patreon and available publicly.

The past month has not been a super month, but things are progressing!

The pads of character sheets arrived from the printer and they look great. I mean look those! I rolled up a bunch of 2nd levels using both pen and pencil. They are fantastic and ready to go.

Covers
Great things have happened. First Stefan Poag's cover for Brendan LaSalle's A Study in Ashdawn:

A sketch arrived from Peter Mullen this week! Do you want to see it? Of course you do! Here's Peter's sketch for Julian Bernick's Battle at the End of Time:

Speaking of the 4th level adventure. Maps are in process. The adventure layout is finished. Art spots have been identified and the usual gang is making art magic.

A Study in Ashdawn
Brendan LaSalle's adventure is in progress. If you're interested in joining us in the Netcrawl Discord server at noon Eastern time on Saturday Feb 22nd, you can play test it with the author and designer.

In Space No One Can Hear the Robopocalypse
Davin Kluttz has taken on the task of the final map for the adventure. (Remember to download it. It was this month's content available to all free and supporting members of the patreon.)

Netcrawl: Arcologies
I've been chipping away on the tables for awhile now. Julian Bernick had some great ideas for random hex crawl for his adventure, but I thought they would make great additions to the WorldNet Rumors, News and Events tables. Basically there will be a table of ideas to help jump start your adventures. One for every zone of the WorldNet map. Donn Stroud is working on drug tables called abends and zaps.

Netcrawl core rulebook
It's basically finished. I'm currently sharing it with close confidants for feedback. I will share the plain doc format of the rulebook to everyone soon.

Time to Collect Surveys
Yeah I think it is. I have covers (finished or sketches) for everything. We need to get moving on the Create a Virus add-ons and I need information back from everyone. Watch those in boxes. The Pledge manager is currently under review with Backerkit.

Julian Bernick has completed his play test of The Battle at the End of Time and is finalizing the manuscript. Julian has been a great help to the overall development of Netcrawl and I'm extremely fortunate to have him along for the ride. Shane Kablooey Madgett also ran Netcrawl in Calgary back on Dec 5th. Other play test groups are popping up here and there. Want to run some at your table? Talk to me on the Discord.

The first adventure, In Space No One Can Hear the Robopocalypse, is nearly finished! I'm waiting on some art and we'll be ready to share it out to all Patreon supporting and free members. You could start playing the 0-level adventure at home after the new year, just sign up at the Patreon.

Finishing touches are being put on the main manuscript. The main rule book is pushing towards 200 pages! Which might strain the budget. There might be an appendix in the PDF that adds in some repeated content (most likely programs from Enchiridion that are core to the game). Donn Stroud and Julian Bernick are starting on some ideation tables for Netcrawl: Arcologies.

Jeff Scifert finished primary pass through the main rule book and should have The Battle at the End of Time to work on very soon. Craig Langrall has been a great help editing all the programs that have been developed for Netcrawl and a handful of "core" programs in Enchiridion have also been edited for Netcrawl style.

A month ago I promised pictures of swag and stretch goals, here they are:

Exciting news! The Netcrawl + Eye Wizard boxes arrived from France this month! Check them out!!! These custom, hand-cut stencils, and hand-painted boxes will be going out to only 20 lucky backers. I've reserved a very small number for future charity type situations.

Updated Netcrawl character sheet is available. Lots of good feedback from the play test tables helped flesh it out. Try it out! Now room for storage (I guess that mechanic needs to be published sometime soon), credits, places to document RAM for daemons, skills are their own panel, etc. I'll probably work up some class specific layouts for Functions and Notes sections, but this version is going to go to print for the pad of character sheets.

Brian and I are play testing the mini adventures for Token Collect. There's also some images to look at. First the cover by Łukasz Kowalczuk! Our combined corporate name is SMEGCO.

And the tokens for Cross Collab Achievement stretch goal are in the house, too!

Sweet token collection! Everyone who backed both campaigns will get these 35 tokens to use with the adventure.

That is quite a info dump. I hope you are as excited as we are. Happy Holidays and see you in the New Year!