Hello friends!

Big update today so we'll give you the tl;dr up front:

All the physical print rewards have arrived at the warehouse - both books and the Investigator's Casebook. We are making steady progress on the Roll20 module. The final pieces we are waiting on are the Slayer's Dice and Hunter's Coins. We anticipate they will arrive in the next two weeks.

That means in early June we will lock down orders and begin to charge shipping. (Don't worry, we will post an update here to give you a chance to adjust your order and update your payment info before we do so.) 

Once the final pledges are locked in, we expect fulfillment to fire up in the second half of June. Our estimated delivery timeline was July, we have high confidence we'll be able to hit that.

This week we got our hands on the dedicated notebook we created and christened The Investigator's Casebook. This is set up to be a special ledger for you track mysteries, clues, relationships, and more. Fred Hicks put a ton of thought into the design and... well, we'll let the pictures speak for themselves:

And finally, Fred incorporated a little easter egg into the page layout so that when you look at the edge of the book that's opposite the spine...

We're super proud of how this turned out and we're confident you'll find it a stylish and useful part of your MotW game. If you haven't added The Investigator's Casebook to your pledge, keep in mind this is a limited edition reward and we only have ~100 copies available to claim.

If you're keen to secure yourself a copy, login to your Backerkit account and reserve yours today!

(Please note: This is a physical reward so if you've pledged at a tier that only has digital rewards, you won't see the casebook in the Add-ons.)

Creator John Harper returns to Blades in the Dark with new lore, new character options, and alternate rules options in Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts!

Next Tuesday, join us for the launch of the print edition for this official supplement to Blades in the Dark!

In addition to the stylish, high quality print treatment you've come to expect from Evil Hat, we'll have campaign-exclusive rewards like maps of Doskvol, a deck of iconic cards, and a notebook tailored to Blades that we're calling The Red Ledger.

Sign up here to get notified on launch!

We're in the final stages of completing production on the Hunter's Journal and Slayer's Survival Kit. While there's some slight overlap with Deep Cuts, we have full confidence the Deep Cuts campaign will not affect the timeline for delivery on this project.

That's the full update! Thanks again for your support and we'll check back in next month as we ramp up for fulfillment!

Hello Hunters and Keepers alike,

Michael, Marek, and Luke have been working away on the stretch goals and before we send them off for final edits and layout, we’d love to share them with you and get your thoughts. For the files in Google doc format you can leave comments in the docs themselves. For the PDFs (or if you just prefer feedback in a single list) you can put any suggestions here.

Here’s all the stretch goals in progress:

Elemental Playbook by Michael Sands - A transdimensional agent correcting cosmic errors—powerful, mysterious, and inhuman. Includes advice and hunter stories. Inspired by Sapphire & Steel. Advice and Stories for the Elemental Playbook here

Ensemble Teams by Marek Golonka - Rules for campaigns that use team playbooks. The players create two hunters each from the start and choose which one tackles a given mystery. Good for focusing on the team theme.

Passing the Torch Team Playbook by Marek Golonka -  A group of experienced but weary veterans and fresh young talents who learn from those veterans, with each player creating one of both. Pairs well with the Ensemble Team Rules.

Random Mystery Idea Tables by Michael Sands - A set of rollable tables for inspiring quick mystery ideas.

The Abandoned by Luke Green - A hunter who was left alone through tragedy, neglect, or other circumstance. Like Newt from Aliens or Little Orphan Annie. Link includes a folder with the playbook, advice, and stories

Zoomed in/Zoomed out Combat moves by Michael Sands -  A set of moves to change the focus of a combat scene. Zoomed-in combat moves provide more detailed back and forth action, for exciting duels or boss fights. Zoomed-out combat moves quickly resolve a fight or cope with hordes of monsters at once. 

Hope you enjoy getting an early look at these stretch goals. When you’ve had a chance to review them, please let us know what you think!

Hello folks,

Since the current administration seems intent on taking a flamethrower to a century of sensible economic policy, we feel we owe you a status update and explainer.

On tariffs:
Our books are manufactured in the USA and the price of this print run was locked in prior to the announcement of the tariffs. So in this instance we don’t expect to see cost impacts on the books themselves.

When it comes to whatever game we print next, we may be forced to raise the cover price - in return for zero additional value to you the consumer.

The only other possible exposure we have on this project in regard to tariffs are the “Hunter’s Coins” and “Slayer’s Dice”—they’re made in China. Our research suggests that will add roughly $3500 due to tariffs. At this time we have chosen eat that added cost on behalf of the backers who pledged for the coins or dice.

But let's be clear:  As a small company that's positioned in the leisure segment of the economy, these ruinous and outdated policies threaten our ability to keep taking risks on the innovative indie TTRPGs you've come to expect from Evil Hat.

We encourage you to contact your congressional reps and ask them to reassert their authority over taxes and tariffs. Congress could easily end all of this fiscal chaos with a couple of votes.

In terms of the current timeline for production:

Short version: We are still on track, if not ahead, of our July delivery date.

We'll get you another update in May as we receive deliveries from our printer and production of the rest of the rewards begins to firm up.

Finally, we wanted to end this fairly business-heavy update with some preliminary photos of the Hunter's Coins.

As we said earlier, we have asked for some minor tweaks but overall they're looking really great.

If you're getting physical copies of the books, there's still time to go into your BackerKit Survey and add the tokens and dice to your order for the same price we listed during the crowdfunding campaign.

Thank you again for your support, we'll have another update in May.