The Story War kickstarter just hit it’s $40k stretch goal, which unlocks a 5 pack of campaigns! What are campaigns? They’re a single sheet of rule variations that you can print out and read from top to bottom as you play the game. Here’s some examples of what a campaign could contain:

Like for example:

• A choose-your-own adventure style storyline, that uses cards from the player’s hands to fill in unknown variables, where the story’s path changes depending on the outcome of the battle!
• A list of 20 numbered alternate victory conditions for battle (“Woo the princess!” “Win an election!” “Defeat the opponent without drawing blood!” “Win a go-kart race!”) that you could use with a 20-sided die!
• A one-time-use storyline that plays out like an elaborate shaggy dog story with a big twist at the end!

The best thing about campaigns? We’ll be releasing some that we make ourselves, but players are free to create their own and share them with other players! We’ll even come up with a convenient way for players to share their campaigns with one another.

How’s that for re-playability?

Keep spreading the word about Story War to help us reach more stretch goals, including our ultimate stretch goal: $100k to build an online multiplayer client!

Hey, do you like cool things? Do you like friends? Do you like when people who make cool things are friends? This is happening! If you back Story War on Kickstarter and ALSO back The Machine of Death game on Kickstarter you’ll get an EXCLUSIVE CARD in both versions of the game, as well as rules that combine the two games into an insane fairytale-assassination hybrid!

Check out these rare cards you can only get if you back both games:

The Machine of Death card in Story War can be used to predict your opponent’s death with just a single drop of blood; the Story War card in Machine of Death can be used to redeem something from a fairy tale. Both cards stand alone as usable items in both games, but they become even cooler when you combine the two games!

Can a vampire die of cancer? What if it’s sunlight from the Cancer constellation? Using the Machine of Death’s cause-of-death predictions on fantasy characters adds a whole new level of creative challenge to the gameplay of both games! We’ll post more about the crossover rules later on in the campaign!

(PS: We also hit $35k today! That means the Story War expansion deck now has at least 70 cards!)

If you think this cross promotion is a cool idea, reblog this post! If this thing goes over well, we might be able to do more cross promotions throughout our campaigns!

40 prototype copies of Story War came in today! It’s so heavy!

These are all going to reviewers! (Except for 6 of them, which will be mailed to our contest winners tomorrow.) Right now, the tentative launch date for the Kickstarter is February 5th.

Our followers will be the first to know when the Kickstarter goes live! Additionally, anyone who posted fan art in the Story War tag will be sent a Secret Code that they can use to get a discount on the game!