Let's Start Walking Our Shots
The Planet Mercenary RPG funded at $45k this morning. Thank you!
Now let's begin walking our shots toward the stretch goals...
The project's backers have already received two desktop wallpapers by way of thanks for getting us to this point. If you're a backer, check out the "Updates" section to collect your goodies.
Funding inside of 24 hours is a happy harbinger of good things to come. I'm confident we'll reach some of these stretch goals, though that high prize, Commodore Karl Tagon's personal, annotated copy of The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, is far enough out to be a real stretch. If we're going to reach it, we need 2,000 people to back the project at the $75 "Company Commander" level. That's just under four times as many backers as we have as of this writing.
If you're on the fence about an RPG book, I totally understand. That's why Alan and I are creating this book with about 25 pages of rules, and 183 pages of illustrated Schlock Mercenary universe narrative. If you enjoy the footnotes I periodically include under the strips, this book is going to let you luxuriate in all-new material, complete with pictures designed to immerse you in the setting.
Honestly, once this is complete I expect it to become a critical reference book for me as I write my way toward the climactic finish of the ongoing Schlock Mercenary over-arching mega-story. At the very least I'll get more consistent in the way I draw weapons.
And speaking of drawing, I need to get back to that. It's proving challenging for me to update the comic daily while pounding out thousands of words of RPG text and staying on top of this project. I'd really hate to break a 15-year perfect streak of updates because I got distracted...