There are also play tools for use in your online games:
a Character Keeper, i.e., a Google Sheet containing all the things above
a deck of virtual playing cards that you can upload to playingcards.io
I hope all this whets your appetite for the full PDF, coming to backers next month!
Shipping timeline updates
almost 3 years ago
– Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 12:20:50 AM
Hi Raccoon Backers! A lot has been happening. The text is final, and I'm firmly in the drawing-illustrations part of the project. The cards and dice are in the production pipeline, in China and Poland, respectively.
Bad news: The dice are running months behind schedule, so I can't get your physical rewards (zines, cards, dice and prints) to you until December. I wish I could afford to mail things as they come ready! But the volume means I have to send them all at once. I appreciate your patience as I learn from this process. If you want the gory details, look forward to another "Behind the Music" blog post when this all wraps up.
Good news: The finished PDF will still be ready in August, with 18 downloadable character sheets, house sheets, ship sheet, map — everything you need to play. I'll also publish a playingcards.io page with the Complications cards, which you can copy and use online.
More good news: Check out this 3D render of how the dice will look when they're done! The folks at Q Workshop in Poland do great work, and I'm very excited for the end product.
More soon!
computer render — *chef's kiss*
Getting down to it
almost 3 years ago
– Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:24:58 AM
Hi raccoon backer! It's been a minute. I've gotten invaluable feedback in playtests. Now I'm finalizing the text of the rules, along with the cards and dice. After that, I'll tackle layout and illustrations.
In addition to the six raccoons you can play, you'll have an appendix (how did I get to where a zine has an appendix??) with playbooks for six possums, two rats, two pigeons and two roaches. That's 18 trash animals all told! It's turned out to be much more work than I expected, but the result will be worth it. Be an indestructible roach! Be a daredevil pigeon! If you play a possum and you roll a 12 (which for raccoons is always "make things worse"), of course you faint (however briefly).
Here's all 54 cards and their backs. The deck has four suits, one for each of the first four Scenes of the game, as well as an X card and a brief overview of how to use the cards in the game. It's still not final, since I have to verify that it will all print okay, but it's getting there.
You'll still be able to use a regular poker deck to introduce complications (looking up the meaning of each card in the zine), but having this deck will make the game play much more smoothly! Pre-order one at https://raccoon-sky-pirates.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders. For people playing online, I'll also publish a file you can import to playingcards.io.
all 54 cards and their backs
Behind the Music, Raccoon Edition
almost 3 years ago
– Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:54:26 PM
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Playtesting and BackerKit Surveys
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 02:47:24 AM
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