The Ravens Nest

The New RPG by Elf Lair Games Plots A Successful Hyperspeed Course

Seeking only $1,500 for the new softcover game, Thirteen Parsecs, Elf Lair Games celebrated quite a victory.

It was funded in under four hours, which unlocked the raffle previously announced.

It’s halfway to it’s first stretch goal as of the time of this writing. If it reaches $9k by 6:15am EDT on Friday, May the 10th, 2024, another raffle gets unlocked and all softcovers become hardcovers.

Read up on the details here.

The thing about Elf Lair Games is that their O.G.R.E.S. system is straight up, simple, customizeable and, like Gentoo Linux, fits your table perfectly. No two tables will ever play Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age or Night Shift: Veterans of The Supernatural Wars exactly the same. That doesn’t just speak to differing Game Mastering Styles, it speaks directly to the rules system itself. You can also read up on how O.G.R.E.S. works right there on the BackerKit page.

Also, last night was the interview with Jason Vey about the successful funding of the game. If you missed that, head back to my last post, YouTube or Rumble channels and have a watch.

After yesterday’s events, Jason sent this out to backers:

Wow, what a first day! We funded in less than four hours, and then rocketed past. We’re now over 200% funded and less than $1,000 from our first stretch goal, that bonus Solar Frontier mini-setting. Even better, we’re almost halfway to our target of $9,000 by Friday, which is stellar! We can do this! Remember, if we get there, everyone who backs by 6:15 AM on Friday the 10th will be entered into the drawings, PLUS we will be adding FIVE additional books to the drawing for the SIEGE Engine version of Amazing Adventures!

To get in on it if you haven’t backed yet, however, we need to get to $9,000 by Friday. If we don’t get there, only those who pledged in the first 24 hours will be eligible (and I’ve already downloaded that list of backers!) Also remember that to be eligible you must be a backer and stay a backer through the end of the campaign.

$9K is just the beginning, however! We have so much to unlock, including print GM screens, pledge levels for leatherbound books, additional artwork, even full color printing! So let’s make this the best crowdfunding campaign Elf Lair Games has seen yet.

If you already are a backer, thank you from the bottom of my heart! You can still help, though: share the link to this campaign everywhere, every day! Get your gamer friends to back it! Help us make it go viral and show what a small company can do with fan support.

Thanks again. Now, back to the grind. Let’s make this happen!

I have a challenge for you, my TTRPG crowd. Let’s blow the doors off the stretch goals. If you can’t back today or tomorrow, share it with your friends. Have them share it out. Let’s get the word out far and wide.

Right now, in this first 48 hours, you can get all three games for $150. That’s three games. Not three books. All. Three. Games. That’s Wasted Lands, Night Shift and Thirteen Parsecs. Wizards of The Coast, in comparison, wants to give you only one game and they’ll charge you nearly $200 and, for the digital versions of their books, they’ll want you locked into their ecosystem with no escape. With Elf Lair Games, The books, digital and print are yours and the entire game is yours.

Time to put our money where our mouths are. If we want things to change and get better, let’s fund the fu-huuuuuuuuuck out of those doing the games we love. Get back up to that link. You know what to do!