The PDF will of course require Adobe Acrobat to read. While the project is being laid out using InDesign, I will be in touch with my layout editor to make sure the AI features Adobe has foisted on program users (which clumsily add alt text to any images in the file) are disabled. No AI at all has been used for the writing or the illustrations and images in the book. The physical copy of the book will be an 8.5"x11" edition in full color. Although we are still adding images, and though we have not yet added the front matter (the table of contents, copyright page, etc.) or the end matter (the appendices, the index, etc.), we anticipate producing a volume of between 150 and 200 pages. The book will feature several chapters devoted primarily to player information, several chapters devoted to GM guidance, and closing chapters that include an initial adventure, The First Chance, as well as an open-ended mega-dungeon concept called The Curious Contraption of Inkleton True.

We'll be using Backerkit to collect shipping costs closer to fulfillment, send out surveys, and manage fulfillment after the campaign has ended. Most books of about the same size weigh in at two pounds; I'll double-check rates when the time to mail, but the media mail rate currently stands at less than $6 in the US for that weight. We don't anticipate scads of international interest, but we're game to ship overseas; we do not have a fulfillment partner for worldwide orders. We do, however, know several folks who have worked out the logistics of international shipping before, and we'll lean on them liberally. Much will depend on the commitments of the layout editor, but we hope to have hard copies back from the printer in mid- to late August of this year, which should put us on target to ship by September.

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