May the Fourth Be With You, Jumpers -

Today is our final manuscript preview day. With today's download link, the entire draft manuscript for the Curseborne Jumpstart is now available for you to read - before any pledges are processed or payments collected. From this point forward, you're on the inside and part of the community of this book right until it's in your hands (or on your screens) and being played at your table.

Before we jump into that, let's jump back a bit and go over a few things to make sure we're all on the same page.

Make sure you read last Friday's update post about Pledge Tiers and Add Ons. We've about 30 hours to go as I type this up, likely less when you read it, so make sure you're all set up before we get to the end. 

I'll have one more post tomorrow before we finish up, sort of a checklist to go over and some notes on what to expect after the campaign ends.

Overtime Mode

Overtime Mode extends the campaign past its original end time to give backers a final chance to make their pledge and adds an interesting twist to the end of the campaign. How long will it extend? That’s entirely up to backers: The campaign will keep going for an additional 10 minutes as long as pledges keep coming in – a chain of back-to-back pledges is called the Backer Train. The campaign will end only when the Backer Train stops after a period of 10 minutes passing without any pledges.

You’ll know we’re in Overtime Mode when the campaign’s Backer Train counter displays a bright rainbow border and a new countdown that resets to 10 minutes after each new backer joins that final Backer Train ride.

This book will be a little lighter than many of the big deluxe books that Onyx Path has been shipping recently, but shipping is still expensive, especially going out around the world from Onyx Path's home base in the USA. We've recently partnered with GMS Hobby Game Logistics out of the UK to handle fulfillment to UK and EU backers, and that will help with the costs and speed getting to backers.

The best we can do at this point is to plan carefully, advise everyone up front with our best shipping cost estimates (see our projections on the main page - I've already factored in the EU's upcoming low value parcel charge) and only charge what it costs us when the time comes. We’ll be charging for shipping in the Pledge Manager once the books are being printed and we can deal with the actual shipping charges rather than using our best-guesses this far out. If you aren't sure you want one of the softcover editions, you can pledge to the PDF tier now and upgrade your pledge in the Pledge Manager once we know the final shipping costs.

As noted, with these draft versions, you're able to share feedback directly with the Curseborne Crew as they walk the project through the final stages of development and production. There may be a few weird formatting things - this "draft manuscript" is actually the text pulled out of the layout in progress, so we may get a few repititions and weird artifacts. And any errata you submit may not show up corrected until after the first-round backer PDF goes out, but it's all being compiled, so your keen eyes are appreciated. Here's the Feedback Form for you to submit your errata:  https://forms.gle/24ghLqRxkxtoCJpP9

Remember, thanks to BackerKit sorcery, these download links are visible to Backers only - you must be logged in and reading this on the website to have access to the manuscript preview links. So, if you're reading this via e-mail, click that "Reply to this Update" or "Learn More" button on the bottom and I'll see you below this title treatment.