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13 days ago
Project Update: Fiendish Forge: April 2025 Update
Hi everyone! Brett here with your monthly update on Fiendish Forge!
We continue to work on the book and make some progress. Unfortunately, I had a complete computer failure (discovered it was a bad CPU), which slowed things down a little bit. Fortunately, no work was lost, and we have since resumed work!
With that, I'm very excited to share our Progress Report!
We continue to work on the book and make some progress. Unfortunately, I had a complete computer failure (discovered it was a bad CPU), which slowed things down a little bit. Fortunately, no work was lost, and we have since resumed work!
With that, I'm very excited to share our Progress Report!
Progress Report:
Here is where we are at:
Writing: 84%
Design: 69%
Art: 77%
Total: 77%
Writing: 84%
Design: 69%
Art: 77%
Total: 77%
Creature Art COMPLETE
We have completed all of the Creature art! This means every creature's art piece is done! We're also 88% complete with all of our Quest Art, and are chipping away at Materials/Magic Items art, which will take a bit more time.
SRD 5.2 is now out on the Creative Commons!
One of our bigger roadblocks was the fate of SRD 5.2, which allows us to make content and support for 2024 5e. WotC has just released this out on the Creative Commons with the same terms as SRD 5.1 - so we can safely say that this book is both 2014 and 2024 5e Compatible!
Tariff Concerns and Future Production
We still have a while before we can begin the physical production of Fiendish Forge. We manufactured WSD:Fishing in China, so these new imposed tariffs (now at 145%) may cause some issues down the road.
Fortunately, we're working with our manufacturing partner to figure out the best course of action to produce and import our products into the country affordably, including working with different countries. Rest assured, we will find the most affordable way to make our products while maintaining a high level of quality.
We have no current announcements on how this will affect shipping rates since many changes are expected over the next few months. If this current climate persists, some options may include covering the increased costs ourselves and increasing shipping rates to our backers. While I hope it does not come to that, we will try to find an amicable solution to minimize the increased production costs and any increased costs to our backers. Right now, it's just too soon to tell, so stay tuned for future announcements.
Fortunately, we're working with our manufacturing partner to figure out the best course of action to produce and import our products into the country affordably, including working with different countries. Rest assured, we will find the most affordable way to make our products while maintaining a high level of quality.
We have no current announcements on how this will affect shipping rates since many changes are expected over the next few months. If this current climate persists, some options may include covering the increased costs ourselves and increasing shipping rates to our backers. While I hope it does not come to that, we will try to find an amicable solution to minimize the increased production costs and any increased costs to our backers. Right now, it's just too soon to tell, so stay tuned for future announcements.
Thank you!
Thank you for your continued support as we develop Fiendish Forge! We will have more to show off very soon!
Brett
Brett
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