Evil Hat Productions
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Project Update: Delivery Timeline, Investigator's Casebook pics, and our next project!

Hello friends!

Big update today so we'll give you the tl;dr up front:
  • Production finishing up end of May, orders locking in June, delivery should ramp up back half of June
  • We've got our copies of the Investigator's Casebook in, it looks cool as hell! (photos below)
  • Next week we're launching a new BackerKit project to print Deep Cuts, an official expansion for Blades in the Dark by creator John Harper.

Production Timeline

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.

Investigator's Casebook Preview!

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:

A copy of the Investigator's Casebook, a 6"x9" notebook with a smooth black faux leather cover adorned with a silver embossing featuring skulls, runes, and magic circles.

The title page featuring the same design of a demon skull, magic circles, and magic runes. Credits: Artwork by Fernando Salvaterra and Cris Viana. Layout by Fred Hicks.

A look at the spread of Mystery organizer template that features sections for The Situation, Clues and Evidence, Persons of Interest, Locations of Note, and a big section for Monster or Phenomena with sub sections for Powers, Abilities, & Effects, and Theories & How To Stop It.

A photo of the book open to a Reference page near the back of the book showing bullet points for The Hunter Agenda, Harm, Recovery, and Luck. In addition you can see the notebook sports a nice ribbon bookmark.


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...

The edge of the notebook opposite the spine which shows that small, almost imperceptible black strips on each page combine together to spell out "MONSTER OF THE WEEK".


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.)

Our Next Project, Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts

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!

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