Hello, backers!

After an amazing 24 hours of Overtime Mode, this campaign reached its exciting conclusion Saturday evening. You unlocked sixteen stretch goals—and crossed the $1,000,000 milestone (for which, as a thank you, we're going to give you ALL the stickers).

We are so excited to be bringing you this incredible new iteration of Cypher, plus all the other rewards you’ve unlocked. It’s not just the results of this campaign. A game is more than its books and dice—it’s a community; a network of players that bring the game to life. You’ve really shown us how that community will shine as the new edition takes shape.

We want to tell you a bit about where things go from here—and we have some very exciting news for you—but first let’s give credit where credit is due:

While this campaign was running, Monte, Bruce, and Sean were putting the finishing touches on the Cypher Character Rulebook and Cypher GM’s Guide manuscripts. Shanna’s been working on the Divination Deck, while also putting the finishing touches on Come Hell or High Water (for the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game) and Dominique has been editing other products in our pipeline like Make Your Statement (for The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game).

Bear and Javier will make our Cypher books shine! During the campaign, they designed stickers, imaged new products, and handled graphic design! With Teri, they’ve also been moving titles like All Your Gods Are Dead and The Darkest Woods into and through their production phases.

Jen, Olivia, and Kate have answered your questions (and are always available to provide support to you, our wonderful community) while prepping for Gamehole Con, which is just a few short weeks away.

Tammie has been steering the ship and keeping the logistics plates spinning. And Charles planned and ran this campaign (and is the author of this update!).

We are a small team, but we’ve worked diligently to keep all of our products coming while also running this campaign. We all thank you very much for backing this campaign. We love making mind-blowing RPGs with beautiful production values and immersive experiences, and your support makes that possible.

Now, here’s what to expect as we move forward from here. Please read it—and remember, there’s a big announcement at the bottom of this update!

Running a crowdfunding campaign is hard work, so we’re looking forward to getting a bit of rest. You may not hear from us for a little while, but don’t worry. Monte and the team have been at work on the new Cypher for some time, so things are already moving along at a great pace. We’ll post updates any time there’s news share. 

BackerKit began collecting pledges the moment the campaign closed. But it takes them a full two weeks to release those funds, along with the data on our backers.

In the meantime, we will get the pledge manager fully set up. The pledge manager gives us the information we need to fulfill your pledge and lets you manage your add-ons and make any pledge upgrades you want. We’ll notify you when we open the pledge manager, which should be in about three weeks. Please look out for, and respond to, that notification!

Once you’ve completed the pledge manager survey, we won’t need anything else from you until it’s time to start fulfilling rewards. We’ll be busy crafting the Cypher corebooks, the revised Cypher Bestiary, Cypher Character Options, The Strange, Predation, and the other items you funded, in the months to come. We’ll post regular updates, but if you don’t hear anything for a few weeks, don’t fret.

At the same time, please pay attention when you do get communications from us. Our emails and updates include critical information about your rewards.

Every time a reward is ready for you, we’ll contact you by email to begin the fulfillment process. Generally, we’ll direct you to the MCG Shop, where you’ll log in, “buy” the product (for free, because you’ve already paid for it through this campaign), and check out.

This is an important part of the process because it ensures we have accurate delivery information for every item we send out. (With thousands of backers getting rewards, it's amazing how many people will change their address over the fulfillment period.) You'll pay for shipping at that time.

Please pay attention to communications from us—don't let our updates or emails go to your spam folder, or otherwise ignore them, because if you do you could miss out on some of your rewards.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

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