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 ====== The Whispering Road ======
-//The Whispering Road// is a **storytelling game of cooperation and exploration,** inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.
+//"Beautiful, smooth and challenging. It's ambitious and magical, with a sprinkle of moondust in its hair." -- Nathan Bredfeldt (DrNate)//
+//"...a beautiful book....It is exquisite. It's really captured the aspects that make a Miyazaki....You've captured and written a classic." -- Michael Cole//
+//"If you're into more Studio Ghibli-type role-playing, it is GM-less, [and] it is great fun." -- Jim White//
+//The Whispering Road// is a **storytelling game of cooperation and exploration,** inspired by the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.
 ===== Basic Rules =====
-The system uses d6's and d8's to tell a Hero's Journey about a people who are spirited away to a strange world, find allies and face antagonists, and at the end, may (or may not) return home. The mechanics explicitly reward cooperation and selflessness.
+The system uses d6's and d8's to tell a Hero's Journey about people who are spirited away to a strange world, find allies and face antagonists, and at the end, may (or may not) return home. The rules explicitly reward cooperation and selflessness.
 Your character is made of three things:
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 ===== Releases =====
-I've released //The Whispering Road// to my patrons on [[http://www.patreon.com/BrentNewhall|Patreon]].
+**[[http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/793436|Buy it now on MagCloud]]**. USD $9.99 for paperback and PDF; $4.99 for just the PDF.
-[[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brentnewhall/the-whispering-road-a-miyazaki-inspired-tabletop-r|The Kickstarter]] funded art, editing, and extras for the public release. The game will ship to backers in April of 2014, with a public release after that.
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+**[[http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/137996/The-Whispering-Road|Download now from DriveThruRPG]]** for USD $4.99
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+//The Whispering Road// was released to my patrons on [[http://www.patreon.com/BrentNewhall|Patreon]] in early 2014.
+[[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brentnewhall/the-whispering-road-a-miyazaki-inspired-tabletop-r|The Kickstarter]] reached its goal in 5 hours and successfully funded in February 2014, providing art, editing, and extras for the public release. The game shipped to backers in September of 2014.
 ===== Demos =====
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 This was the first playtest of the game, using an early version of the rules in which each hero had 7 traits instead of 5.
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 ==== Second Playtest ====
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 This is a single, two-hour session where we tested the 3-act rules.
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 ==== First Game ====
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 This is another single, two-hour session where we used the 3-act rules, using the rules as they were released to my patrons on [[http://www.patreon.com/BrentNewhall|Patreon]].
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 ===== Play Sample =====
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 If you have questions about //The Whispering Road//, please post them to [[https://plus.google.com/communities/104787672504300358431|the Google+ Community]].
+===== Thanks =====
+Thanks to these amazing Kickstarter supporters:
+Thanks: Chris Knorr, Clay Gardner, Jim White, Michael Tree, Miguel, Thomas Haymes, and Tim Hall
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