Second Stretch Goal Achieved
about 7 years ago – Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:51:58 AM

Today we hit our second Stretch goal securing special kickstarter only editions of the BEAS2017 Adventure modules. We will enhance all 12 modules and produce an edition that contains original authors maps (where available) and an encounter encyclopedia section in each of the modules. These enhanced adventure modules will be a limited collectors edition series available only through our kickstarters. The standard commercial versions will not contain original author maps nor will they contain as many full-color pages.

We are $1700 away from our 8k stretch goal where we create a special kickstarter only supplement detailed Bio-Chips, Brain Chips, and other Advanced Technology. This booklet will be 16+ pages and will be exclusive to this kickstarter. Author James M. Ward.

BEAS2017 Adventure 2 of 12

Q&A, The APP, and News
about 7 years ago – Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:51:48 AM

Good Afternoon,

We continue to progress toward the next stretch goal. So I thought I would answer some questions on the game products, introduce you to our forthcoming app, and share some news.

77 Worlds RPG Books

The Above Image shows AS1 Core Rules, AS2 Lunar Resort, and AS3 Blasted Earth in that order. 

What does each book contain? Many RPG games have a rule book, an encounter book, and sometimes a gamemaster guide. 77 Worlds produced the 2014 core rule book and the AS2 Lunar Resort Adventure book. These formed most of the content in the basic boxed set. This year we will update the core rule book to a 2017 version which will contain the basic rules and some expanded rules content. It will not contain information on the Lunar Resort those few sections in the 2014 version will move into the new AS2 Lunar Resort Book. The core rules also do not contain details on the Blasted Earth Campaign setting. "AS3 Earth Prime: The Blasted Earth" which this kickstarter is funding will contain details of the Earth 300 years after the apocalypse along with the rules and character types needed to run games on the Ultimate Apocalyptic Planet. If you get only the 2017 core rules that will enable you to run games but will not contain campaign setting details for either the Lunar Resort or the Blasted Earth. So by way of example, AS3 can be used standalone to run games on the Blasted Earth. However, if you want more detailed rules for skills or the character types from Luna you will want to add the 2017 core rules book.

Game Apps

Next, I wanted to introduce many of you to our CrossWorlds Character Creator project which the 77 Worlds card system and character rules have been incorporated into. This app when released will allow creation and tracking of characters for different game systems. It will provide the ability to do card deck management during game play on some phones, Kindle Fire, most android devices, and many Samsung TV's.

 

 This should be released in the fall of 2017.

James M. Ward

Finally, I wanted to share some news. All of the writing for The Blasted Earth (AS3) had been completed by James M. Ward. James is currently in the hospital and we hope he will be better very soon and able to join us at Gary Con. I share this so you will know this hardwork of writing this book on the Ultimate Apocalyptic Planet is done and we now await art work and cartography also I wanted to encourage you to send James your best wishes while he goes through this personal tribulation.

We have also approved work to proceed on our Booklet for the $8k stretch goal and we will likely, funding permitting, add this into the loot boxes regardless of the final goals we achieve.  This will help our co-author. Thank you again for your support.

What's next?

The next core book with either be "Apocalyptic Mars" or the "Shipyards of Jupiter". The one we move forward with will appear this winter. In the meantime, we have 14 Blasted Earth adventures on the slate as well as several new Lunar Resort adventures. We will be publishing an Encounter Encyclopedia this year as well. Also in early design are several books including Technology and Transports, Alien Races, Mutation and Bio-Weapons, Cyborg Systems, Artificial Constructs (Robots and A.I.s), and an Advanced Space Craft guide.

Fun new additions to AS3 Earth Prime the Ultimate Apocalyptic Planet
about 7 years ago – Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 07:53:18 AM

 Fun New Additions

I could spend dozens of pages talking about all the exciting and yes bizarre things you might encounter in Apocalyptic Space must less those unique encounters on the Ultimate Apocalyptic Planet. Soon you will have this tome in hand and can introduce your fellow gamers to a new vision of the future gone sideways for humanity.

I have commissioned the next expansion for the new book. It will add unique encounters, devices, and well you will have to see it to believe it. These strange Apocalyptic devices/entities/equipment linger on the Earth long after their creators have gone to dust (or plant food). Some were created before the war. Others created by survivors (both sane and otherwise) during the first years of chaos amidst alien Xeno forming machines.  Yet others were created by things neither human nor alien.

The coming year will expand on the Blasted Earth campaign setting. We will continue to produce new modules and free PDFs for the Lunar resort. As the year progresses, we will also expand the game into the Sol System. Next year, we will begin working on the 76 colony worlds and other odd yet interesting places among the stars. Support in the form of canned adventures, short stories, and Gamemaster PDF's will continue to be released for each campaign setting and to support the overarching plot of the Lost 77 Worlds RPG in the Apocalyptic Space (TM) setting.

 New Card decks are being designed which have dual uses, You can use them as standard playing card for the WCS combat systems and random number generator and (depending on the deck) random encounter's, treasures, and 'Events' in the game.

Greetings from the Apocalypse
about 7 years ago – Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 07:47:53 AM

Greetings from the Apocalypse as our friends over at Podcast at Ground Zero would say.

FINAL DAYS

That sounds like a good title for an epic adventure on the Blasted Earth. We are in the final two days of the Kickstarter so I am sending out the last commentary before we fund. We have hit two stretch goals and over the last day or so have made good progress toward the third. Thank you for your support. I can not say that enough.

On a personal note, I wanted to let you know James M. Ward has come through his first surgery and was going well this morning. So everyone (all two of us) at FireSideCreations (FSC) are very happy for him and wish him a quick recovery.

The 77 Worlds card decks arrived this morning while I was sorting through thousands of emails trying to find the order. Fate is a funny beast sometimes this day we all came up aces. :) We will naturally send out updates once or twice a month after funding to keep everyone in the loop. The direction of the plan right now will be to combine the booklets into the AS3 book for the Kickstarter edition of the Ultimate Apocalyptic Planet. We have exceeded the promised page count by ~50 pages but we still have plenty of room to make an all-in-one book given the current funding level. We will figure all of this out during the first part of April.

We expect to start making some shipments in Late May or Early June but most of you will not see your boxes until August due the time for the artwork the final bits of writing for those of you who get to name A.I.'s and major NPC's, etc.. The BEAS2017 adventures release one per month so those with a full subscription will have an option to get the loot box and up to two additional adventure shipments or to get everything at once just before Christmas.

I expect the lay and most of the art back in May this may slip a little give the nature of obtaining illustrations that match the text and then fitting those into the book layout in interesting ways. There is also a few sections I want to add to the core book James wrote to address some of the feedback over the last two months. Shipments will begin as soon as the book is complete to those who have paid their shipping. Details on shipping will come with your survey in April/May.

Thank you again for your support and check with us at http://77worlds.com from time to time to see new products, download free PDFs we release during the year, and to give us feedback on things you would love to see in the game. We are always looking for artist and authors (for adventures and fiction) so come discuss the game, apocalyptic games/book/and movies, and keep up to date on everything that comes out. We are a small company so things tend to appear two and three at a time in a slower schedule than we would all like. We will implement a voting system to rank new projects this year and of the four projects we tend to work in parallel, we will include one or two of the top three ranked projects so we can push the global James M. Ward story line while producing some specific additions you and your gaming group want to see.

If you are at GaryCon this year (in 12 days) drop by booth 144 and say hello. We would love to meet each and every one of you.

Here is a peek at the card deck. Note the 77 Worlds card deck with illustrations on each card face along with some other custom limited edition decks are still in artistic layout and should go to press by May and appear on the website and in loot boxes in June.