Jamie Bernstein
CREATOR
Backed 5 projects in 💥 Zinetopia 2026
20 days ago
Project Update: Vralkast #1 - Art Polls, Pledges, & Partners
(Or should this be a Downdate? I digress.)
I have no words to explain how I felt watching Vralkast reach its funding goal in 3 hours yesterday, or how I felt waking up to see we'd already passed the first Stretch Goal. It's the mixture of awe, fear, and manic flailing around I imagine a fish feels when it sees a scuba diver.
Aquatic analogies aside, I'm astonished, and have nothing but thanks for everyone who has bought into my mad vision of a city built on harpy song and squidmeat. With my gobs suitably smacked, check out the Art Poll below to have your say for our first Stretch Goal!
Aquatic analogies aside, I'm astonished, and have nothing but thanks for everyone who has bought into my mad vision of a city built on harpy song and squidmeat. With my gobs suitably smacked, check out the Art Poll below to have your say for our first Stretch Goal!
1. Stretch Goal - ART POLL!
The first Stretch Goal for Vralkast is to ask the wonderful Michael Fiore to produce 3 pieces of spot art for the featured district NPCs. To decide which, I've created a poll - attached to this update - for y'all to choose whoever strikes your fancy. On Sunday (or Startide for the Vralkasters here), I'll be taking the three most popular choices and creating reference sheets for Michael. This poll is ongoing - even if your first choice doesn't get chosen, should we meet the other NPC Art Stretch Goal, they can still get chosen then!
2. Early Bird Free Reward
As a reminder, anyone backing for the rest of today will still receive the Early Bird reward - an additional 'Ecology Guide' to the Sea of Sorrow and its many weird and wonderful creatures, including the draconic Great Olms. If you know anyone who might be interested in Vralkast, letting them know now will get them the reward and help the project get off to the strongest possible start!
3. Projects To Watch!
There are some awesome projects this Zinetopia, and I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of them.
- Blightfall by Matthew Ayers is a dark fantasy TTRPG for a GM and 3-5 players. Doomed villagers infected with darkness sacrifice shreds of their humanity for the power to protect their home. The unique system is part collaborative worldbuilding to create your shared civilization and threats, part narrative and combat engine to play inside your creation. But no matter what you do, your characters will eventually become abominations. Without Matthew's help, this project would never have existed, and I both owe him massively and REALLY want to play Blightfall.
- Scuttle! by Moon Beast Games is an occult swashbuckling adventure for Pathfinder and D&D; we're cross-collaborating over a shared love of occult seas and leviathans of the deep, and backing both will get you additional rewards - and if you back both at physical, you get an entire free custom-sculpted miniature of a Great Olm!
- Von Hynd Manor is a delightfully decadent adventure of bloodshed and diablerie by Stella Condrey. With stats for a variety of systems, the Von Hynd Manor is a dark tale of predatory nobility that I'm looking forward to holding in my soft aristocratic fingers over a glass of 'house red'.
A massive thanks again, and more updates to follow!
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