Madness At The Megalomart is a modern/horror adventure for characters starting levels 1-3 for four to five players.
In a world where retail is already a nightmare, the Megalomart takes customer service to hellish new heights.
When an irate woman returns a dusty Betamax player, all hell breaks loose—literally.
The break room's old TV plays a cursed tape, summoning malevolent forces and turning cranky customers into monstrous 'Karens' with an insatiable thirst for blood.
Trapped inside the now-locked Megalomart, a group of unlikely heroes, cashiers, stockers, and ex-athletes must band together to survive the demonic onslaught.
From navigating haunted aisles of possessed toys to battling twisted former co-workers, they'll face horrors beyond their worst clearance-sale nightmares.
Can they escape the store's malevolent grip and find the source of the curse, or will the Megalomart become their final resting place?
This adventure ALSO includes a bunch of improvised weapons and armor.
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Threshold & Madness
5 months ago
– Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 01:33:41 PM
HEY EVERYONE
TODAY releases THRESHOLD
A DUAL RELEASE--A NARRATIVE ART BOOK AND A TABLETOP RPG
The narrative art book offers lore and characters, as an alien attempts to chronicle humanity’s past, documenting the rise of a galaxy-wide cosmic threat in a story encompassing 3000 years of space exploration and colonization.
The RPG presents rules for players to enjoy the setting presented in the art book.
After thousands of years of exploration, colonization, and conquest, humanity nears extinction. Abandoned outposts. Derelict starships.
As the crew of a salvage vessel, your only purpose is to recover artifacts and remnants of your past and survive whatever
THRESHOLD is a cosmic horror role-playing game employing 5th Edition Rules.
Characters crew spacecraft tasked with recovering old relics from the distant past, with not all being human in origin, with the hope of surviving the epidemic of mass extinctions spreading through the galaxy.
This book includes...
New rules regarding spacecraft, including travel and combat
New origins and backgrounds
Craft thousands of different weapons
Customizable new armor, including spacesuits
Over 30 spacecraft
Modular decks plans to build your own spacecraft “dungeon”
A planetary guide with over 60 worlds
Over 50 monsters
You can see a video I made touring through both books here:
Many of you will have received an email promoting it. There is also an included coupon you can employ. If you have not received said coupon, PM me here.
Yes, we have ANOTHER reward coming. Madness at the Megalomart is being released NEXT WEEK!
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THE BIG SEPTEMBER UPDATE
5 months ago
– Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:27:33 AM
HEY EVERYONE!
I promised myself the next update would be when the books arrived at distribution. And they have. I don’t know how long it will take for distribution to start, but hopefully not long. Backers are invited to reach out with pics of their books.
For many of you, you’ll have your final rewards, and thank you SO much for your patience.
TRANSPARENCY
One of the biggest hurdles this last year was a personal promise that we would not start another Kickstarter with hopes of employing excess funds to finish the last ones. We know how companies collapse when they fall down that very slippery slope. So, despite a few projects waiting in the wings, we won’t be turning to Kickstarter anytime soon.
Truth be told, it’s been a really rough two years as we struggled to close the books on our one major failure, one that kept refusing to pull a profit despite numerous attempts to clean the slate.
This was our board game Naramata, a project that was funded during COVID-19, suffered every single setback associated with the production, distribution, and the general global economy. Earlier this year, we finally managed to get our remaining copies into warehouses. I’ll stress that I am very, very proud of the game, but I believe it was just financed and produced at the worst possible time, and we’ve spent the intervening years trying to get it off the books so I can return to focusing on what I love, writing fiction and tabletop role-playing games.
But the costs were impossible to avoid, which forced me to even get into another business, selling fantasy-themed gluten-free crackers if you can believe it. The last year developing Tavern Snaps has been a refreshing success, and it allowed us to get our other debts in order.
I knew it would be a controversial decision to combine the print runs of Amethyst and Ultramodern5, but we couldn’t think of another solution that didn’t force us into tapping into credit cards. However, combining the print runs also allowed me to spend more time developing Amethyst Revelations and its associated novel, which is why both books ended up being way larger than previously expected, and I am very proud of the results.
WHAT'S NEXT
For 2023’s Ultramodern5 campaign, two publications are being released this month. The first, Threshold, has exploded into a much larger project than previously planned, and I cannot wait to show everyone what we’ve created. The second is Madness at the Megalomart Adventure, written by William Miller. I decided that each of Miller’s adventures would also focus on a new independent artist. Echoes of Noah 94 emphasized the talents of Memphis Wong, who had previously worked on Affinity. Megalomart will introduce backers to Lohan Cruz. I’m going to extend this to the other two adventures still upcoming as well.
As we’re currently only waiting on art for these two books (actually three; Threshold is presented as two), I opted to develop a side project to keep my time…
Oktober’s Arcane Almanac is a compilation, a greatest hits publication that combines the five spellcasting systems I have created thus far into a single book. If you have followed DEM from its early days and picked up each of our books, nothing in OAA will be unfamiliar. We put the smoke system from Torus, the cryption system from Paradise, the metron system from Conestoga, the dark system from Ultramodern5, and the sprout system from Amethyst Revelations into a single gestalt book of arcane rules. If you’ve purchased any of these, there will be a coupon going out if you wish to pick up the OAA.
This should keep us occupied as distribution ramps up through the fall.
THE BAD NEWS
Yes, there is bad news, something that almost caused an ulcer. As many of you know, both Amethyst and Ultramodern5 campaigns are being distributed by a new company, Studio2Publishing. This came as a result of our previous distribution company creating…complications. I won’t go into details as I kind of want that part of our past to remain there, but closing that relationship was ANOTHER reason why we had to combine the print runs and push the distribution of Amethyst back to now. However, I discovered when we did an inventory of stock that had arrived at the new warehouse some products were missing.
To compound that, a miscommunication with China resulted in one product not arriving in this shipment.
It was at this point that I slammed my head into the desk.
Thankfully, all the big rewards are here—all the Ultramodern5 books, the Amethyst books, and the GM screens.
But there is no Affinity. At least not yet.
Thankfully, this only affects a few backers.
From my perspective, there are a couple options.
1: While we lack standard Affinity, we do still have a few leather-wrapped clamshell affinity sets. These were limited to only a hundred units, and only a few remain. I’d offer a deal to upgrade your basic edition to a leather edition, but this would be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
2: We can forward your credit to upgrade or increase other rewards, like the Amethyst leather sets, Ultramodern5 leather edition, additional books, adventures, etc.
3: We can hold your credit until Affinity standard editions are printed and shipped.
I am going to try and reach out to affected backers this week, but those wishing to jump into the que of limited rewards are welcome to reach out.
FINAL WORDS
Like I said, It’s been a rough few years. I won’t ask for absolution or sympathy. This is my company and my word on the line. We’re a company of one with a handful of freelancers. My health took a hit this summer, and my marriage almost failed last year, but I’ll dig out of this for the sake of a wonderful bunch of backers and supporters that have been more than patient.
CHRIS
AUGUST
7 months ago
– Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 06:07:40 PM
HEY EVERYONE
SURPRISE UPDATE!
Yes, we got a surprise update. A surprise for you as well as me. I received a package that I was only warned was en route the previous week while also being left in the dark about its contents…
So yeah, I was expecting to not receive my books until everyone had received theirs. Now, I believe these are damaged, which is why they were set aside and ultimately shipped to me, but it’s cool to finally see these games in person.
LEATHER PRINT REVEALED + SHIPPING
7 months ago
– Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 09:03:51 PM
HEY EVERYONE!
August update comes a few days early.
I’m happy to report that the games should be on a boat heading to the United States this week. In order to save money and a lot of time, I forwent shipping the prototypes and had my Chinese contact send me videos on her end. Apologies for the quality; I tried upconverting them the best I could.
But I don’t think you need picture-perfect 4K to see how amazing these books look. And you’ll get them before me because, like I said no prototypes, and I won’t order my own copies until distribution begins.
As mentioned, the leather prints are only limited to 100 units, with half already spoken for. Anyone wishing to upgrade the order needs to reach out to me.
Here are some photos of all the cool books we got coming to backers this summer/early fall.
