Hi friends,

We had a great time talking Thirsty Sword Lesbians with Lily, Alexis, and Nomo this weekend. For those of you who missed it, we have a link below.

If you're a Backstage Pass/VIP backer, you can head over to Moonbeam to find a link to the post-panel campfire chat. Lots on insightful commentary all around.

Next up: Mark your calendars for 9am Pacific, Saturday January 25th!

Apollo Pierce, Brandon "Rev" Wentz, and Sarah Harrison join us to share their sharpest tips on GMing Monster of the Week!

Hi friends, our first GMing panel is THIS Saturday at 9am Pacific time. We'll be streaming live on Moonbeam so if you have not registered, please do so now. The invite link is in your BackerKit rewards.

If you wait until the last minute, we won't have time to troubleshoot any tech issues if one pop ups creating your account.

As an added bonus you can preview some of the agenda for Saturday's Thirsty Sword Lesbians panel in the General Admission channel as well as get a State of the Hat project update from Sean Nittner on the main page of our Realm.

So get registered for our Moonbeam Realm and we'll see you Saturday!

Hey friends,

All the surveys for Dice Pool have been sent out. If you haven't received yours, head to https://dice-pool.backerkit.com/ to retrieve the link and activate your Moonbeam account.

This is where we're hosting the streams so you need to create your account and join the Evil Hat Realm in order to take part in our panels. Instructions for that are in your BackerKit survey.

Our first panel is one week from tomorrow! Lily Eisner, Anthony Nomo, and Alexis Sara will share their insights on running Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Topics we currently have on the agenda include:

And more!

Our Thirsty Sword Lesbians panel will be Saturday, January 11th at 9am PDT. We hope you're as excited as we are. 

We'll see you over on Moonbeam!

Hi, friends. Several important items in this update so please take a moment to read through it.

1) We're sending out the smoke test today. This is an initial launch that only goes to a small percentage of backers. We use it to test the configuration of our BackerKit fulfillment pages. If you are part of the test, you will  get a very brief survey to fill out and once you complete it you'll receive your personal link to join our Moonbeam community. If you're a VIP backer you'll also get your selected PDF/Roll20 rewards. If the smoke test is successful we will send everyone their fulfillment survey next week.

2) Moonbeam is our new community space to help support and celebrate playing the games we publish at Evil Hat.  There are channels for discussion, dedicated space just for all our Dice Pool backers, and we'll be using the space to livestream the Dice Pool GM panels. You will get a link to join when you complete your BackerKit survey. Moonbeam is a new initiative and it's currently in alpha so some features you may expect from other community platforms might not be there yet. For what we're looking to do with Dice Pool, we're confident Moonbeam will work and we have a tight relationship with the developers if bugs do pop up. We're looking forward to meeting you all there!

3) Our GM Panels are scheduled! In order to accommodate the widest number of participants across a variety of timezones, we've set our GM panels for Saturday mornings starting at 9 am Pacific Time. Specifically, the four panels will be:

Jan. 11, 2025 - Thirsty Sword Lesbians GM panel
Jan. 25, 2025 - Monster of the Week Keeper panel
Feb. 8, 2025 - Blades in the Dark GM panel
Feb. 22, 2025 - Fate GM panel

For our Backstage Pass & VIP backers, the "campfire chat" portion of the panel will happen a few minutes after the main panel wraps up.

If you have a conflict and can't attend the live stream of a given panel, don't panic. We will be posting links to the VOD in the Dice Pool channel on Moonbeam so you can catch up with them at your leisure.

That's the buzz! Thanks again for your support. We really appreciate your patience and look forward to kicking this all off in the new year!