Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. The Woods at Blight's Hollow is a folk horror tabletop roleplaying game of mystery and imagination illustrated by Corey Brickley (Penguin, Disney, Harper Collins) and written by Oli Jeffery (Quietus, Extreme Meatpunks Forever, Trophy). It concerns the children of Blight’s Hollow, an isolated village surrounded by a trackless forest in a time before electricity and radio, a world of hearthside tales and nights to be feared. Inspired by the works of Guillermo Del Toro, Angela Carter, The Brothers Grimm, Kirsty Logan and Mary Shelley amongst others, this is a tabletop roleplaying game of the darkest fairy tales and the queerest folk-horror. For more devilish information, see our Kickstarter Page at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sinisterbeard/the-woods-at-blights-hollow-folk-horror-and-fairy-tales-rpg
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It's the last few days of the Blight's Hollow campaign and we're hoping for a barnstorming finish! We've just unlocked our second stretch goal but there's two more to go so keep spreading the word and we'll keep making the book prettier!
Talking of pretty, here's some wonderful new art from Corey: the Bog Sirens. I think you'll agree that these are fabulous, and terrifying. More of this to come in the full book!
We're delighted to announce that we've unlocked our first stretch goal - acclaimed author and fairy tale expert Kirsty Logan will be writing a foreword for the book on the crossover of horror and fairy tales.
The next few stretch goals are aimed at making the book ever more beautiful, with printed endpapers, UV spotting and sprayed edges for the full premium effect. Once we unlock those, more devious secrets will be announced!
If you have your eye on one of the exclusive Mother's Jewellery Box pledge levels, which comes with the limited edition alternate cover book and a host of other goodies in a beautiful custom wooden box, you'd better hurry - there's only one left!
Love, the Blight's Hollow team.
Well that was a hell of a first 24 hours. We've blasted past our funding goal and currently sit at over 200% funded, which is wild. The limited edition alternate covers have already sold out, and there's only 3 of Mother's Jewellery Boxes left. Thank you all so much from Corey and Oli.
We'd love it if you came to chat over on our discord server at https://discord.gg/pwNNPZQp, and remember to share the page and tell all your friends about the rot at the heart of the hollow, it's out the box now and we all need to work very hard to get it back in there. (Plus there's a bunch of awesome stretch goals to come, including an intro by author and fairy tale expert Kirsty Logan and a bunch of book upgrades, plus more yet to be announced). We're less than £4,000 from unlocking the first goal!
Until then, thanks so much from everyone who's working on this, and remember to watch out for Toothless Molly when you're roaming the forests at night.