Greetings Backers!

This is an exciting day! With the main boxed set and supporting book files off to the printer, we are happy to share the pdf of the Advanced Advantage Playtest Packet #1 with you amazing backers. If you are here for the goods, scroll down to get your PDF.

But if you need a refresher on what Advanced Advantage is, continue reading below or check out this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MquSol10hR0&t=4s

Advanced Advantage is Goodman Games own set of "house rules" for 5E D&D. It doesn't replace the beloved game, it enhances and reimagines several of the core concepts. I'm sure you can guess from the title that Advantage is one of those rules.

We are still in the development stage of this rules system, but we've been tinkering with it for years. And now we are ready to share the first part with you, the backers of Terror from the UnderDeep. We are hoping the backers get a chance to check out a few of the rules in Packet #1, and tell us what you think. The packet includes instructions on how to provide feedback.

Wait, did you say Packet #1? That's correct! This is the first of 4 planned playtest packets. Packet #2 was available during our Dungeon Denizens 2 crowdfunding a few months ago. And Packet #3 is coming later this year, while Packet #4 will be released during our first crowdfunding campaign in 2026.

In a few weeks, Goodman Games entire team will be at Indy for GenCon, the Four Best Days of Gaming! We will be all over. In the main exhibit hall, we will have two booths: Booth #109 is our "prime" booth, while booth #2519 is a satellite booth. Part of our main booth (#109) will be dedicated to our expansive 5E product lines. Feel free to swing by our 5E booth, meet the team and let us know what you think about Advanced Advantage and Terror from the UnderDeep. And of course, track us down near the Wizard Van in Lucas Oil Stadium where we host all of our tournaments and games.

Hello everyone,

Just a very brief update to let you know that we have uploaded the files for this project to the printer!

Whew... it was a lot of pages.

In the coming months we will have photos of proofs as we work through the process.

The question we usually get right now is, "Well if the files are at the printer, why don't I have the e-book PDF yet?" Two reasons. First, through the print proofing process, we always catch mistakes. Better to burn the PDFs after all those are fixed. Second, the e-book PDF is a different workflow than the printer files. The screen-res PDFs have crops, different output specs, hyperlinks, bookmarks, etc. So, once we get through the proofing process, we'll start on the digital PDFs for you all.

That's all for now. More to come once we have some proofs to show off!

Hello everyone!

Here's the latest on Terror From The Underdeep.

So let's get the bad-news-that's-not-bad-news-anymore out of the way first. One word: "Tariffs." To be completely honest, we had to pause on this project for several weeks while we tried to navigate our way out of the tariff maze. We contacted domestic box printers here in the USA, looked into publishing this as a hardcover or another format that was more feasible to print domestically, and generally spent a lot of time on the phone trying to understand what our options were. It was a long couple weeks.

Then the tariff situation evolved and... poof... the original plan looks feasible again. So, a month later, we're back to Plan A and revving along. There are a few maps to finish up in order to complete layout, and then we're looking forward to getting this boxed set to the printer. I think in the next update we will likely have some layout preview pages to show you.

For this update, the big progress is the first miniature sculpt is complete and in our warehouse. This is what hundreds of unassembled cloud giants look like!

Next update we should have a lot more progress on the "main books" to share. Moe to come!