You heard that right! We want to start shipping, and we’re ready to move everything forward in the pledge manager so we can lock in your address and get your pledge ready to ship. Check out the picture that James snagged of the two books when they arrived in the warehouse! It’ll be more exciting when it’s in your hands, we promise.
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Our next step is to lock down orders in the pledge manager and begin charging cards for shipping, add-ons, and any taxes. We realize it’s been a number of months since you completed your pledge, and so things might’ve changed. We will ensure everyone has a 48-hour window to update their shipping address. This notice will arrive by email, so keep an eye out. Or, if you want to get ahead of that process, click here.
Backers set to receive a T-Shirt or the Character Deck & Die will receive these items in a second shipment at a later date. All other items are expected to ship together.
PDF Available in BackerKit Downloads
The Grand Guignol PDF is now available in your digital downloads locker within the pledge manager. When the time comes, we will issue another update that includes significant accessibility upgrades to the document. When those updates are complete, we will let you know how to download them.
hi gang, it's me the troublemaker here to have no excuses on why fulfillment is dragging on so long, but just know--it's me, all me, and I really apologize for the delay, I regret it and I hope I never leave anything this long again.
here's the problem....these books are historical horror and as a very obsessive layout artist I really want them to be historically accurate. fun fact, though: harvest, a layout which also took 1 million years longer to finish than anticipated, is set around 1790 where (here's the fun fact) pretty much all printed matter was typeset in caslon. now follow me to my type folder for grand guignol..........
and these aren't even the really craziest samples (that's these from bradley.) so you can see why i'm up late dragging my feet!! anyway we're in progress but these sample pages don't look even close to crazy enough for me. but they exist I promise, and I'm working on it, and truly the second the book looks good enough we're going to zoom it right to your hands.
Thank you all for your patience and concern while we've struggled to get the ship back on track. Possum Creek is now proudly an imprint of our newfound parent company Steve Jackson Games, and after eight or so months where it wasn't clear if Possum Creek would survive the turbulent financial waters, I'm excited to say we're back at it and we're getting Grand Guignol & Harvest out the door. The new goal list is as follows:
Ruby is hard at work doing the layout for both books (some teasers at the end of this update)
Then, we'll actually charge all of you for shipping via Backerkit (as we haven't done that yet, and we now have updated shipping rates from SJGames's fulfillment center, Warehouse 23.)
Then, we'll send out the PDFs of both games, and send the games to the printers. We anticipate that we'll be using a domestic printer, so tariffs won't have a major impact here.
Then, once the books arrive to our warehouse, we'll ship them out to all of you.
I would also like to take a moment to apologize for the lack of communication between ourselves and all of you. There was a chunk of time in 2024 in which we had no clue what the future was going to look like, in ways I couldn't comfortably talk about without putting any potential future in jeopardy. It left me in a frustrating double-bind, and it left all of you holding the bag. I apologize. I wish I had been clearer during the periods when I could've, and that I could've been clearer during the periods where I couldn't. Possum Creek having a parent company (with timelines, budgets, and dedicated administrative staff) means we now have a lot more safeguards against this kind of disaster occurring again, and it means we can get you your books as promptly as possible over the next few months.
Speaking of, here are Ruby's layouts-in-progress, to get a taste of what she's been up to!
Thank you all again, and I'll update you again next month.
hey everyone! grub here. Since this project funded, Possum Creek has been in our signature winter hibernation but we're now back in the swing of things and I wanted to share some brief progress updates with y'all.
Technically I am taking the lead on managing this project, but I will always be our art director first in my heart, so: art is finished! I'll drop final covers once I do the type treatment for them but for now, please appreciate the masterwork of line and texture and value (can you tell I have no idea how to work in black and white?) that Rowan and sarcoma have put together here for the interior art. Definitely added some of these to the mental folder I have for "possum creek art that would make amazing tattoos."
Setting Elements by Rowan MacColl
Playbooks by Rowan
The Powers that Be by doomed sarcoma
more powers by sarcoma
In January, in spite of a heroic fight again a bought of bronchitis, Luke finished the full updated text of both games, and they are now in the capable hands of our editor, Melody Watson. Editing will finish up in the next month or so and then move on to me for layout (an editing of another kind.)
In prep for laying out these historical games (and for funsies) I got a custom tour of Philly's own Rosenbach Rare Books Library from my dear friend Isabel for era-accurate books and illustrations. It's all specific to that collection so is definitely more US-based than Harvest or Grand Guignol but........still extremely cool I think. I've been meaning for a long time to write up a patreon post about it but it will maybe now wait until I tie all these references into layout. For now, just some cool old books:
Treatises on withcraft with original binding, circa 1684-1693. Harvest is technically set in the 1780s but Luke and I have talked about (especially with art briefs and costuming) how because it is set on a remote island, things will be behind the times.
A harvest-era (1743) pocket almanac with tide table, fold-out map, and important astrological dates.
Early (original?) printings of Dracula, with some of Stoker's research.
Folio of Aubrey Beardsley prints for Wilde's Salome
Really getting into the salacious queer eroticism & spiritualism of Grand Guignol's late 1800s here.
Deeply obsessed with these gilded decorations for an early House of Pomegranates.
Possum Creek is always working towards having this many little accompanying glyphs and ornaments. Warms my cold designer heart to see someone else who also painstakingly set text against an illustration.
Ok hope that is enough to sate y'all! Thanks for your support as always, see you next time :) xoxo grub
