Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Board Game
Created by Chaosium Inc.
A push your luck, set collection card game from the creators of Call of Cthulhu and board game design legend Reiner Knizia
Latest Updates from Our Project:
The Semester is Over: You All Passed with Flying Colors!
almost 8 years ago
– Wed, May 09, 2018 at 05:17:36 PM
Dear MU Scholars,
Our Kickstarter has come to a successful end, and you've all graduated Summa Cum Laude—with the highest praise!
The Chaosium team would like to thank you for your support over the past 21 days. We're delighted to be back making Lovecraftian board games again!
Now we must put our efforts into the next phase of this Kickstarter - delivering all of the rewards as quickly and efficiently as we can. The main sequence of next steps will be as follows:
Kickstarter is going to start processing backer payments by officially charging you via the payment method you set up when you pledged. It will take about 5-10 days to complete all backer payments.
After payments have all been processed we will email you a survey from Kickstarter, asking you a few simple questions. It will mainly be centered around you providing us with your mailing address.
In due course we'll then be sending each backer an email invitation to BackerKit, our chosen fulfillment partner. For those of you not familiar with BackerKit, it will help us with tracking and shipping you your rewards.
Once you have been set up there we will send out the PDF reward items (diplomas, grad student forms, the MU short story) via Backerkit download. There will also be an opportunity to purchase add-ons, including extra copies of the game, and copies of Khan of Khans, our previous Reiner Knizia game.
We will also start sending out the Framed Diplomas, Name Plaques etc to the backers that have them in their rewards package.
You'll receive your "Field Trip" discount coupon for Chaosium.com at this time too.
In the next week or so we'll be setting up a Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection forum at BRP Central. While we will always provide updates via Kickstarter first, if you have any questions you are welcome to ask them in this new forum, along with exchanging game-play strategies, forbidden wisdom from the library, and anything else related to the game. We at Chaosium will post there frequently.
In due course we will add more MU items to our Chaosium merchandise store at Redbubble, for t-shirts, wall art, mugs, stickers and the like.
We have already started working with the game manufacturer. When we have production updates we will post them via Kickstarter updates.
We will stay in regular communication with you! We delivered our previous board game Kickstarter on time and intend to do the same here.
More soon! We wanted to get this update out sooner rather than later.
As always, thank you for supporting this project.
We made to 100K, if we make to 4000 backers we'll up the "Field Trip" discount to 15%
almost 8 years ago
– Tue, May 08, 2018 at 06:53:27 PM
Dear MU Scholars,
We passed $100K earlier today, so all 20 Stretch Goals have been achieved - top marks!
With just over five hours remaining, can we get to 4000 backers? If we do, we'll make the Field Trip Reward treat even better: instead of 10%, it will be a 15% discount for all backers on your next visit to Chaosium.com!
Tell your friends it's still not too late to enrol at MU and graduate with honors - but they have to hurry: the Kickstarter ends at 2.05PM Eastern US time TODAY!
As always thank you for supporting our Kickstarter.
Final Stretch Goals for the Last Day of the Semester
almost 8 years ago
– Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:38:13 PM
Dear MU Scholars,
With just over a day remaining in the semester, here are the final Stretch Goals!
$95K - Diploma Mill III: Terminal Degree!
We'll award all backers at Professor ($25) and above the highly prestigious and coveted Doctorate of Medieval Metaphysics from Miskatonic University.
[NB you may have seen we originally had this, our final Diploma Mill Stretch Goal, set at $100K. But we've moved it forward because at MU "we give credit for life experience". Besides, we don't want you to end up in the accursed academic limbo that is ABD - "all but dissertation"]
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$100K - Stationery Upgrade VI - Deluxe Box with hinged lid and magnetic seal!
We'll upgrade the game box to a Deluxe single-piece version that opens with a hinged lid. When closed, the horrific secrets of the Restricted Collection will stay firmly enclosed by the box's magnetic seal.
How the Deluxe Box will open (example from our printer)
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Our Kickstarter ends on Tuesday May 8th at 2.05PM US Eastern. We're looking forward to everyone graduating with honors!
As always thank you for supporting our Kickstarter
End of Semester Field Trip! Thank you to our 3000 Backers so far!
almost 8 years ago
– Tue, May 08, 2018 at 03:38:01 PM
Dear MU Scholars,
We're delighted enrolment at Miskatonic University has passed 3000 backers! And by way of saying thanks, we'd like to offer everyone supporting our Kickstarter a special Field Trip to celebrate the end of the semester.
3000 Backer Reward—Field Trip
When the Kickstarter campaign ends we're sending all backers a 10% discount coupon for any one-time purchase when they visit our website, Chaosium.com.
