Kickstarter

Dear Kickstarters,

The subscription is now live and you all should have received an email to a free copy on RPGNow.com. If you didn't see it in your inbox early this week, check you spam folders just in case they ate it.

As of right now I've uploaded 3 characters to it:

- Danni Cipher
- Captain V
- Dart

We are going to try to add at least four more to it every week. (Updating the file on Mondays and Thursdays).

If you want to help spread the word about the individual issues or the subscription to others:

You can point them here: http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=4872_9896

Or here: http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/purpleDuckGames/mmSuperlink

Or here: http://shop.d20pfsrd.com/collections/mutants-masterminds

Thank you for your support. I'm going to get the next four characters in order.

- Mark Gedak, Purple Duck Games.

The subscription for Deus ex Historica as well as the first individual release in the subscription (Danni Cipher) have both received 5-star reviews over at RPGNow.com! Check it out!

Subscription review: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_reviews_info.php?&reviews_id=87425&products_id=111523

Danni Cipher review: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_reviews_info.php?&reviews_id=87424&products_id=111531

4 Winds Fantasy Gaming and Purple Duck Games is pleased to be able to bring this Super-Powered by M&M product to you via subscription. If you are a backer of Helpful Citizen level or above on this Kickstarter project, you will receive - or already have received - an email with a link to your free subscription. If you were not a backer but would like to subscribe, check out this link.

Deus ex Historica provides background material and adventure ideas for heroes and villains across all the ages of comics. From Golden Age through to the Modern Age, Deus ex Historica provides you the GM or player with a host of information to make your superheroic adventures come alive.

As of the writing of this letter, the subscription contains only the information on Danni Cipher, our intrepid time traveler and archeologist who has been gathering data files on the greatest heroes and villains throughout history. In the weeks, and months to follow we will be adding more characters to this subscription until all of the heroes and villains have been edited and put through layout out.

Taking any corrections and errata generated by our subscribers, we will compile the final document and update the subscription again so that everyone has access to the complete (300+ page) document.

Thank you for supporting us in this project and allowing us to bring this massive project to completion.

Super-Powered by M&M and its associated logo are Trademarks of Green Ronin Publishing and are used under the provisions of the Super-Powered by M&M Trademark License (see www.mutantsandmasterminds.com/licensing for details).

Sincerely,

Mark Gedak
4 Winds Fantasy Gaming/Purple Duck Games.

Dear Patrons,

First all I would like to thank each and every one of you for supporting 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming in their kickstarter campaign to bring the Mutants and Masterminds Roleplaying Game supplement Deus ex Historica to life. As you may or may not have heard yet, 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming has recently been acquired by Purple Duck Games. When 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming was acquired one of the products that we had acquired was the unfinished, overdue Deus ex Historica.

I would like to take a few moments to discuss my tentative plans for completing this kickstarter project with you. Here is what I am currently thinking:

First, Purple Duck Games plans to honour all of the terms set out by 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming and all the rewards that you agreed to when you decided to fund this campaign. I am sorry that this project is overdue, but I plan to work to get it back on track as quickly as possible.

- Second, mistakes were made when the project was first planned and its funding did not cover the costs incurred by the project. This is not an uncommon problem for first time kickstarter projects but is a cost that will be assumed by Purple Duck Games. At no point are we expecting you the backers to make up for a planning error. This does not affect you beyond bringing me to item three on this list.

- Thirdly, I would like to start releasing the finished project (in pieces) in PDF format through our vendor sites. We will make a subscription to the whole product available as well. You will receive a coupon code to access the subscription for free and can then access bits of the book at the same time. Non-kickstarters who purchase the subscription will do so at a higher price point than what the people at helpful citizen level paid.

- Fourth, I would like to start updating you more frequently about how this project is coming along. From the kickstater pages it doesn’t look like you have been updated very recently concerning this project, and hopefully Purple Duck Games can correct that.

By making these changes, Purple Duck Games should be able start getting you content sooner rather than later. We will be able to honour your rewards sooner, we will be able to make further payments to the authors for their work, and we can begin the planning stages necessary to evaluate the potential of a follow-up book in this series.

This is the approach I would like to take to help deliver this product in a timely manner. I am curious as to your thoughts on the matter. Please email me and let me know what you think of my revised plan. If there are no serious detractors, I would like to get the subscription up next week and maybe even start delivering content that same week in PDF through our vendors.

Please write me back and let me know at 4WFG@purpleduckgames.com.

Sincerely,

Mark Gedak

Purple Duck Games/4 Winds Fantasy Gaming

For Immediate Release

4 Winds Fantasy Gaming’s owner/publisher, Robert Thomson, announced today that 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming will be acquired by Purple Duck Games. The acquisition includes rights to all existing 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming products and over a dozen “in-the-works” projects (including the two successful crowdfunded projects), along with the rights to all names, logos, trademarks, and original artwork contained in the products.

“My wife Connie and I started 4 Winds in March 2009, and it’s been a fun, wild ride. But the time is right for us to divest ourselves of the company and move on to other things,” said Thomson. In the nearly four years of 4 Winds existence, the company released 48 different products, including several apps.

Mark Gedak, owner/publisher of Purple Duck Games stated that Purple Duck intends to keep the 4 Winds brand alive, and that all existing 4 Winds products will remain available for now. Any 4 Winds “in-the-works” projects that Purple Duck chooses to finish will probably carry dual Purple Duck/4 Winds branding.

“I want to keep the 4WFG brand intact and add it to Purple Duck’s, allowing us to continue to build on the great work done by both companies,” said Gedak.

The acquisition will be complete as of January 31, 2013. After the acquisition, Thomson will stay on with Purple Duck Games as developer of the 4 Winds “in-the-works” projects.

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What does this mean for this project?

Well, not much really. The project will still be completed, and about the only difference you'll see is that the final product will be dual branded as 4 Winds Fantasy Gaming and Purple Duck Games. Other than that, I will continue to work on the project as developer for Purple Duck Games, and you should see this one soon.