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Project Update: December update: full RPG text and miniatures progress

Good day! Welcome to another monthly update. The big news here is that we are ready to share with you a full preview PDF of the RPG text, which is 345 pages of material for you to peruse. I want to get to that without too much ado, but we’ve also got some miniatures updates to share with you, so let’s start with that.

Miniatures

We are down to just a handful of outstanding efforts on the larger products in the miniatures line, and are continuing to put as many resources as we can to get pre-production for all these miniatures across the finish line. At this point we are awaiting 10 remaining digital modifications from our factory. These are primarily several multi-piece models that have taken more back-and-forth to achieve the right balance of detail and structural integrity. Mostly a couple bosses, some algox/inox, and lurkers. In addition to those 10 models we're waiting on final draft digital modifications we have 8 digital revisions that have been approved and for which we are waiting on physical red wax samples (making 18 in total). To make absolutely sure we're responding quickly to our factory partners, and assisting them directly in the modification process, we've contracted some additional help internally on our end. We are putting daily pressure on our factory and communicating with them about our expectations about being pencils down with pre-production efforts and heading into molds ASAP. This is the main priority for those who are working on it, and we expect to continue making this level of progress over the next month as we head into the mold-making process.

RPG

And here we are! Before I provide a link to the PDF, let’s talk about a couple things.

First, let me explain what this actually is—the full text of the RPG in the intended layout of the book, but with most art elements removed. A lot of the art integration is still in progress, but we wanted to get the text for you as soon as we could, so this is the solution we settled on. The intention of this as presented is that you can use it to actually try out the system, and to that end, you’ll also find a blank character sheet at the back of the book as well as a full art-filled version of the pre-written adventure chapter so that you should have no trouble running it.
Why did we want to get this in front of you? Well, you’ve been waiting a long time for this, and we also wanted to demonstrate where we’ve come with the project. But the other reason is that we want feedback! Now that the text layout is completed, we’ll be going through everything again in a final editing pass, but we’ve already been looking at this text for years, and sometimes it’s good to get fresh eyes on things—a lot of fresh eyes. So if you find something out of place as you’re looking through the book—a typo, a confusing bit of text, a layout error—please let us know by filling out this feedback form.
What’s still missing? The art, of course, as discussed above. But you’ll also see a lot of page references with “p.XX”, and that’s normal at this stage as well. Only once we are sure that no more text will be moving (i.e. all other text edits finished) will we go through and fill out the page references. That is also when we will do the table of contents and indexing, which are also still missing at this stage. Everything else should be there, so have at it and let us know what you think!

With all that said, here’s the link:

FULL RPG TEXT PDF

(It's a big boy—you may have to download it.)

What happens next? The goal is to complete all outstanding layout and editing efforts over the next month, which is when we can start engaging with the factory and figure out timelines regarding production and fulfillment.

Community spotlight

This month for the community spotlight, I wanted to shout out AmDirt—a Youtube channel that does live-plays as well as podcasts that discuss their sessions with more analysis. Detty and Gaz just recently started a playthrough of the new edition of Gloomhaven (which is a great place to pick up the series) after playing through Frosthaven and Crimson Scales (so there’s a lot of back content if you want to deep-dive, including 122 podcast episodes). They are an entertaining and incredibly positive part of the community, and I wish them success in their continued adventures (and for Gaz’s luck to turn around at some point)!

EU Mercenary Pack Fulfillment

I wanted to address this as well, as we expected to ship these out on Dec. 1, and that hasn’t happened yet. When it was clear that the shipping hadn’t begun, we began reaching out to the fulfillment company, but haven’t yet received a clear response. We will be meeting with them this week to resolve whatever is needed and will be updating the webpage when we know more.

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And finally, I just wanted to let you know I was the Storytime speaker at PAX Unplugged last month! If you want to learn more about the early days of Gloomhaven and my design career, you can check the presentation below.

That will do it for the update, then. I hope you enjoy the RPG text, and please use the feedback form if you have any input. Thanks, and I’ll catch you next month, January 6!

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