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Great news, backers! 

The Fifth Season RPG has gone to print! That's the Standard Edition, Special Edition, and Game Master's Kit. Our order is also in for the dice, which ought to be in our warehouse before the books arrive. This process will take 6-8 weeks, after which we will begin shipping. Get ready to fire up those campaigns!

Chris Pramas
Green Ronin 

Hello backers,

At the Diamond bankruptcy hearing last week, there was a major development. When they declared bankruptcy back in January, they chose the restructuring kind (Chapter 11). They have zero employees anymore, however, so obviously no restructuring was going to happen. At the hearing, they announced their intention to convert into a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. That’s the liquidation kind, so we have entered a new phase. We are done dealing with Diamond’s lawyers (hooray!). Now the court will appoint a trustee to liquidate the assets, pay creditors (mostly JP Morgan Chase I’m guessing), and close it all down. There are now more hoops to jump through, but our lawyer believes that ultimately, we will get our stock back free and clear. There are ways this could go wrong, but she considers the odds of the trustee pursuing them to be low. We are waiting to see who the court appoints as the trustee.

Our current plan is to send the Fifth Season RPG to print next month. That’s an update I look forward to writing.

I hope you all enjoy the holidays.
Chris Pramas
Green Ronin

Hello, backers.

The Diamond bankruptcy case continues to drag out. The Ad Hoc Committee of Consigners (the group of thirteen companies we are part of in this case) has exchanged more proposed settlements with Diamond. The response was better than last month, but we have yet to achieve, as my sophomore English teacher would say, a meeting of the minds. Our next hearing with the judge is next week. I would like to see the result before deciding our next course of action. What we’d like to happen is that the judge makes a ruling one way or the other. He has proved reluctant to do so, obviously hoping that we’ll work it out among ourselves. Since we’ve yet to reach an agreement acceptable to the committee, maybe he’ll finally rule and we’ll get our property back and the money owed to us. If he kicks the case into next year, the committee is going to be angry. The longer this drags out, the more we will pay for our legal defense. I will let you know how things go.

Thanks.
Chris Pramas
Green Ronin

Hello, backers.

I’ve spent the last two days in a mediation trying to end the problems the Diamond bankruptcy thrust upon us. Since my last update, Diamond reached out about trying this approach. Based on previous offers they made to us, we weren’t confident a realistic deal would be forthcoming, but this was at least an effort with a  court-appointed mediator. I can’t get into details in public, but I will just say that Diamond’s positions were completely untenable for the Ad Hoc Committee of Consigners (the group of companies we are part of in this case) and another similar group. So, now it goes back to the judge.

The good news is that we are close to having new book trade distribution. That would help us a great deal. By my next update I should have news about our return to the book trade and hopefully the judge will rule in our favor as well. I really want to get the Fifth Season off to print before Xmas.

Thanks.
Chris Pramas
Green Ronin

Hello, backers.

The Diamond bankruptcy continues to be a huge headache for us. September wasn’t notable for what happened but what didn’t. The judge in the case pushed back ruling yet again. Even the parts we thought could be quickly resolved have not. At this point, I am not comfortable sending the Fifth Season to print until we at least have new book trade representation.

To print in the most cost-effective way possible, we need to do a single print run that will cover the fulfilment of this crowdfunder and further sales through the hobby and book trades. Doing a smaller run now and another one later is not practical. The more books you print at once, the more the cost per unit comes down. Two smaller print runs is always worse than one bigger one. We could just guess what we’ll need for the book trade, but that’s a dangerous game I’d rather not play right now.

I apologize for these turns of events. I am hoping something will turn our way in October.

~Chris Pramas