We're officially in the slow, oozy middle bit of the crowdfunder, but you're all still here and that's pretty amazing. And, despite the apparent quiet, quite a lot's happening behind the scenes.
SHIPPING'S SORTED, FOLKS
We've been talking to a possible US fulfilment partner, and it's good news: we now have a way to fulfil US and Canada orders from the US. This is, for obvious reasons, a hell of a lot cheaper than shipping every individual book from the UK.
The important bit: shipping The Mimic pledge (just the hardback book) is going to cost £7 (about $US10) and The Colossus (the whole bundle) will be £11 (about $US14-15 ). That's a reduction of 40-50% on what I thought we'd have to charge.
Look at those sweet savings! You could buy another pack of character sheets for that money, or pick up some dice. Or buy something that's not a TTRPG, I suppose, but why would you?
NEXT STOP: EUROPE
Seems like getting GPSR registered would be a benefit, eh? I've started talking to some possible services, so before the end of the campaign we might be able to take European orders. Fingers crossed...
LUXURY BITS
We've got quotes in for some absolutely wild luxury touches for the book, but I have to sit with them for a while so I don't just add everything with no regard for sound financial strategy or good taste. Anyway, more on that over the weekend, I think.
HAVE SOME ART
"Can you draw The Beast?" I asked. "What's the Beast?" Lore replied, with the tone of weary resignation my art 'briefs' sometimes provoke. "Big monster. Grrrrr. Very scare." "...Sure."
And that's how we came to have this humongous rodent the width of a city street, dragging itself towards you by the strength of its gnarled claws. Is it too big to reach you? Definitely. Will that stop it? Absolutely not.
The point, here, is that while the Monsters in Meatbags are archetypical - we have concepts like The Beast, which has a buffet of powers you can swap in and out for werecreatures, prehistoric things, or a gorilla big enough to swat a helicopter from the sky - but they're not stereotypical. You can create classic movie monsters very easily, but you can also pick and (re)mix to make this urban wildlife nightmare.
Thank you for making it to the end of quite a long update. I hope the shipping's good news, and I hope you like Lore's two-headed possum (see the babies on her back? Cute!).
