Hello friends, just a quick update here as we enter the New Year.

1) The project remains on track. Proofing of all four books is done. We're doing another editing pass to collate the notes from proofing and those will then get filtered to our designer to flow them into the layout. This is a massive project - over 450,000 words across all four books - so we're happy to say we're still working to plan.

2) Today we launched a "smoke test" to a small portion of backers. Basically we send out fulfillment surveys to a random cross section of backers and then check the results as they fill them out. This allows us to shakedown the configuration of the surveys to make sure things are set up properly. Assuming that goes fine, next week we'll send out surveys to all backers next week. Don't worry you will have plenty of time to upgrade/adjust your pledge or change your address, we are still several months away from fulfillment. Mostly this step allows us to enable another feature of the BackerKit page, which is...

3) Pre-orders are now open! If you have a friend who missed the project they can head to https://designers-dragons-origins.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders and join the campaign. Pre-orders have access to the same reward tiers we offered during the campaign and we send out their books and PDFs in the same wave as the crowdfunding pledges. If someone you know missed the crowdfunding window, let them know this is the best way to get locked in on this treasure trove of D&D history.

That's the latest! We'll have another update the next time we hit a big milestone.

Thanks for your support.