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A Butterfly Dies Preorder Store

Created by Marco Serrano

All zines and merch connected to A Butterfly Dies, a hex-crawl adventure across the oyamel forest in a mythical prehistoric Michoacan. Compatible with Primal Quest.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

New From Spicy Tuna!
about 2 months ago – Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 11:14:58 AM

Hi, Everybody!

I hope you’ve had a great time with A Butterfly Dies! I’m so happy to have heard wonderful feedback about this setting so far. It is a space I have started returning to in a new house system, but took a hiatus as I got a bit caught up in how I wanted the world to intertwine with the mechanics.

I also got infatuated with an idea that became more clear to work with. That idea became Greenhorns: A Weird Space RPG. It’s now funding on Kickstarter and is both similar to things we’ve published in the past and its own kind of strangeness.

In Greenhorns your crew will create planets in a quest to fill the void, explore the chaos as it’s being created, survive the lethal anomalies, and collectively tell the tales of the planet's history once you stabilize it.

Your crew will also hunt lethal bounties threatening your home planet from afar and engage with factions vying for power at home that could cause crumbling from within.

Greenhorns is dangerously fast and offers players opportunities to be heroic while maintaining the lethality of many old school adventure games. It’s rules-light and marries classic adventure and narrative mechanics for a healthy dose of player-driven storytelling.

Here’s what you’ll find inside:

  • 8 Uncanny Classes including Light Witch, Void Magician, Force Flyer, Conjure Mage and more.
  • 6 Modular Planet Layers with 12 unique "dungeon" maps.
  • A Bounty Hunting Mini-Campaign written by Christian Sorrell.
  • Several Job Boards that combine planet layers to create dozens of planets, announce new bounties, and offer assignments on Kruxor.
  • Kruxor, the crew's home planet, is a sandbox location including 10+ locations with dozens of random tables.
  • 6 Significant factions complete with their own escalation tables that can forever change your home planet.
  • Expanded Material for Each Class including favored weapons & gear, clubs & gangs, hobbies & hangouts, and more.
  • Dozens of Random Tables that provide gear, weapons, encounters on Kruxor, expand the possibilities during character creation, and more.
  • 12 Full Page Illustrations by Diego Acevedo.
  • 60+ Threats, 19 !!Bosses!!, 35+ NPCs.
     

If you’re interested in more details about the game, please feel free to pick up the free Quickstart here https://spicytunarpg.itch.io/greenhorns-quickstart

Or you can go straight to the Kickstarter page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marcoserrano/greenhorns

Thank you again for making A Butterfly Dies a reality. I will be sure to update you when things progress with the extended world of alternative Mexican mythos.

Have a beautiful day,

Marco


 

Butterflies in the Sky!!
8 months ago – Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:37:05 AM

US + Rest of World Shipments are in the mail and on the way to backers!!!

UK + EU shipments also have an update. Mostly that timeline is staying the same as a week ago. Everything A Butterfly Dies is touching down in the UK today! Fulfillment partners told me that it will be mid-to-late August still from other obligations and new work partnerships, but we are on our way and everything is looking great.


Much Love! - Marco

July Fulfillment Udate
8 months ago – Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 01:13:55 PM

Hi, Everyone!!

I’m sorry for the drag in time, there was a series of happenings and obligations that kept the A Butterfly Dies packages from being sent from our distributor.

The update is that the UK shipment is being sent to Peregrine Coast Press here by Friday. It usually takes a week to get there and then PCP has to process the packages etc which I’m guessing will take an additional two or three weeks for all UK and EU shipments to go out.

US and Rest of World shipments will be sent out by the end of the month!!

I’m super happy this will finally make it to you! I’m sorry there’s been so much unintentional lag on delivery.

Have a beautiful day ahead!
Marco

PDFs Are Delivered!! Physical Fulfilment Around the Corner!
10 months ago – Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 12:11:23 PM

Quick Update to say -

PDFs should be in your email inboxes from DriveThruRPG !!

We're ecstatic to have this out in the world and finally over to you. Can't wait to hear back.


Physical Fulfilment Update

A Butterfly Dies and all other zines needed for fulfilment will be arriving by tomorrow to our US fulfilment partners, WOGD. They will forward the required inventory to Peregrine Coast Press in the UK shortly after.

US and ROW fulfilment shipments can be expected to be sent out in the next two weeks.

UK + EU fulfilment shipments can be expected to be sent out in two to four weeks.


Thank you again for embarking on this journey with us. We're proud to share it and ecstatic for you to experience A Butterfly Dies + Cocoxoca!


-Marco <3

A Butterfly Dies is in Production!!
10 months ago – Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:14:55 AM

Hi, Family!!

I’m sorry we’ve been so bad at calling timelines. The delays come from a combination of struggling through the maps, making illustrations coherent, and dealing with and switching prioritization on printing issues with a previous project.

There is good news!! We’ve paid the printers and the zines are in the production pipeline.

Our fulfillment partners, World of Game Design, in the States should receive them around June 9th and from there I’d assume about 2-3 weeks more to get to our fulfillment partners for EU and UK, Peregrine Coast Press.

Backerkit Surveys

Cards will be charged and addresses locked on Monday. Please look out for any declined charges as it may delay processing. I’m very thankful, there are only a few people who haven’t filled out their surveys. Reminders have been sent today and all packages can still be on the same timeline.

I’m stoked to get these to everybody, and ultimately, I’m stoked I took the time on the illustrations. The zine is much better for it at least! I’m proud of how full the book ended up and hope it was worth the wait for you all.

We’re extremely grateful for your patience and we’re ecstatic to finally get this beaut in your hands!

Till next time!! Have a beautiful day,

Marco


Sneak Peeks!!

Illustration before the hex crawl random encounter tables

Unmarked Hex Crawl Map