Not much new to report. Still waiting on CYST to get printed and ship. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm gonna have to eat my hat in tariffs (oof), but fortunately we were prepared for that.
Anywho, once it's closer I'll give an update. Everything else is here and ready to go. Just waiting on it.
Just got the final sample of CYST. Printing is good to go. I don't want to give an exact timeline as the tariff situation is shaking a lot of stuff up, but the printers quoted 25 days last week. The wild card is how long it sticks in customs.
Everything else is in-house and ready. Arcade, cards, screens, and all the VHS versions should be ready by then, too, as they're being printed stateside. Curiously, our stateside printer has reduced its printing costs. How? Who knows. Either way, win-win.
The book is still in shrink, but the UV coating looks phenomenal, and the tail band is super sexy. I had a couple of last-minute edits (you can proofread a million times and still find errors), but otherwise, it's perfect, with a new ending and all.
Some good news: the tariffs are paused, so that means it won't affect what we've got coming in. I'm waiting on a sample for the main book but I've already given them the greenlight to produce is. So we're about 25 days out from getting it. Arcade will be ready by then, too. And then Xanthophobia probably later this year.
That's all we got for you now!
I'll post pics of the final final version (quadruple proofed, rewritten, and UV spot and stuff) once we get it via FedEx (probably early next week).
Our pal Tom Cartos, the guy who made the maps for the Horror RPG, has just launched his own Kickstarter featuring a book of modern maps. These not only offer you physical maps to use with the Horror RPG, but you can use them for, well... practically anything.
Check out the images:
TC Modern is a collection of fully customisable Battlemap Books for your favourite Modern, Near Future or Cyberpunk TTRPG. The Modern City series comprises of City Streets & City Buildings, providing you with every location you could need for an urban setting.
The battlemaps come in two variations, a fully-furnished highly-detailedversion with props and assets already placed for an extra level of immersion and story telling, and a second unfurnished version for you to customise however you need with the included re-usable asset stickers or your trusty dry-erase marker.
I'm just giving an update to keep you in the loop. Not much has changed since the last one since all I'm really waiting on is CYST to get done printing. I'm checking out the final copy next week at GAMA (the owner of the printing company is bringing it) and then will give the green light. From there, it's just a quick print and ship to us. The only other odds and ends are printed here in the US, so those will be finished at the same time.
Here are all the other goodies, patiently waiting for CYST to finalize.
Some of you have asked about Xanthophobia. Fear not (or do fear), as it will be the best thing I've ever written.
Or worst.
You be the judge.
But I hope to use it to explore some of my feelings about the things going on in the world, along with a big healthy injection of Lynchian absurdity.
